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The Art Market’s Feminine Mystique

Achieving something close to gender parity in the art market has been an excruciatingly slow process. But as new data from our friends at ARTDAI reveals, female artists of the past 100 years are slowly but surely closing the gap.

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Georgia O’Keeffe sold $479 million for a 9 percent share of the total, with a top price of $44 million. Photo: Tony Vaccaro/Getty Images
Marion Maneker
April 8, 2026

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At long last, female representation in the art market seems to be approaching the gender composition of the world itself. Economist Clare McAndrew illustrated that progress when she pointed out in her recent report that primary art galleries are now approaching gender parity: Women account for 45 percent of artists represented, up from 35 percent in 2018. Unfortunately, sales value has to catch up. The work of female artists made up only 37 percent of the sales value last year, up from 28 percent in 2018.

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