Patrick Webb
b. 1955
Patrick Webb is an American artist who has portrayed contemporary queer experience through representational narrative paintings. He is best known for his "Punchinello"… (Wikipedia)
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Record prices
Punchinello Works Out: Hammer StrengthBonhams · $2,550≈ £2,042≈ €2,392Sign up to see
Punchinello Works Out: Now and ThenBonhams · $1,913≈ £1,531≈ €1,794Sign up to see
Patrick Webb’s highest prices recorded at auction, ranked in US dollars at each sale-date exchange rate and shown in the currency of the sale (with the buyer’s premium where the house publishes it).
ArtSell has recorded 2 auction results for Patrick Webb in 2022, of which 2 sold (100%). A further 1 lot was offered at auction without a published result. Recorded sale prices range from $1.9kSign up free to see to $2.5kSign up free to see. The highest price recorded is $2.5kSign up free to see for Punchinello Works Out: Hammer Strength at Bonhams in June 2022. The most common medium is oil paintings (2 lots). Most results come from Bonhams (2) and Sheafer King Modern (1).
2 results
- $2,550≈ £2,042≈ €2,392Sign up free to see
- Punchinello Works Out: Now and Then, 1996-97$1,913≈ £1,531≈ €1,794Sign up free to see
Also offered, result not published (1)
Lots by Patrick Webb that were offered at auction where the house did not publish whether they sold. Not counted in any statistics.
Patrick Webb: quick facts
What is the highest price paid for a work by Patrick Webb at auction?
$2,550Sign up free to see, for Punchinello Works Out: Hammer Strength at Bonhams (June 2022) — the highest price in ArtSell’s records.
What is a typical auction price for Patrick Webb?
The median sale price is $2.2kSign up free to see across 2 priced sales. Prices vary by medium, size and date — see the price chart & statistics.
How many works by Patrick Webb have sold at auction?
2 of 2 recorded lots sold in 2022. 1 further lot was offered with no published result and is not counted.
Which auction houses sell Patrick Webb?
Bonhams and Sheafer King Modern account for the most recorded results. Bonhams · Sheafer King Modern
About Patrick Webb
Patrick Webb is an American artist who has portrayed contemporary queer experience through representational narrative paintings. He is best known for his "Punchinello" paintings, begun in the early 1990s, which feature a gay "everyman" based on the Italian commedia dell'arte stock character, Pulcinella. Art historians Jonathan D. Katz and Jonathan Weinberg place Webb among artists who that gave voice to the loss and grief associated with the AIDS epidemic by looking beyond the message-heavy activist art and anti-expressive postmodernism of the 1980s to reinvigorated art-historical narrative traditions. Writers note his work for its classically influenced technique and pathos in fleshing out fears, fantasies, experiences and social dichotomies between self and Other, individual and collective, personal and sociocultural. He draws on pictorial strategies from old masters as well as modern artists such as Balthus, Jacob Lawrence, Philip Guston and the magic realist Jared French, building scenarios out of architecturally structured compositions, carefully placed elements and precise gestures.
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