- Damien Hirst
Net Worth: $500 million
Damien Hirst is one of the famous English artist, art collector, and business tycoon. He is considered as the most renowned member of the Young British Artists(YBA) in the 1990s. He is reportedly the United Kingdom’s richest living artist, with his wealth valued at £215m in the 2010 Sunday Times Rich List.
- Jasper Johns
Net Worth: $300 million
Jasper Johns is an American painter, sculptor and printmaker whose work is associated with abstract expressionism and pop art. He is well known for his sketch of the American flag and other US-related topics.Jasper won many awards including Grand Prize for Painting at the Venice Biennial Artist of the year in 1988.
- Jeff Koons
Net Worth $200 million
Jeffrey Koons is an American artist known for working with popular culture subjects and his reproductions of banal objects, such as balloon animals produced in stainless steel with mirror-finish surfaces.Jeff Koons studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore. He is best known for his famous painting Balloon Dog(orange) which was sold for $58.4 million.
- David Choe
Net Worth: $200 Million
David Choe is an American figure painter, muralist and graphic novelist of Korean descent.Choe was commissioned by Mark Zuckerberg to paint murals on the walls of Facebook’s office in 2007 and opted to be paid in Facebook stock rather than cash. He also hosts a lifestyle and entertainment podcast with his co-host Asa Akira.
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Andrew Vicari
Net Worth: $142 million
Andrew Vicari was Britain’s richest living painter in 2004.In 2001, he sold 125 paintings to Prince Khaled for about $27 million which made a great increase in his assets. He also owns three museums in the Middle East that are completely dedicated to representing his work.
- Takashi Murakami
Net Worth: $92 million
Takashi Murakami is an internationally renowned painter from Japan.His paintings reflect Japanese culture — he coined the term “SuperFlat” which describes both the aesthetic characteristics of the Japanese artistic traditions and post-war Japanese culture and society.
- Anish Kapoor
Net Worth: $85 million
Anish Kapoor is a British sculptor. Kapoor has lived and worked in London since the early 1970s when he moved to study art, first at the Hornsey College of Art and later at the Chelsea School of Art and Design.Recently Anish Kapoor’s Brexit artwork exposed a bottomless void at the heart of Britain.
- Antony Gormley
Net Worth: $50 million
Antony Gormley is a British sculptor. His best known works include the Angel of the North, a public sculpture in Gateshead in the North of England, commissioned in 1994 and erected in February 1998. In 2008, The Daily Telegraph ranked Gormley number 4 in their list of the “100 most powerful people in British culture”.
- Gerhard Richter
Net Worth: $40 million
Gerhard Richter is a German visual artist. Richter has produced abstract as well as photorealistic paintings, and also photographs and glass pieces. He is widely regarded as one of the most important contemporary German artists and several of his works have set record prices at auction. His fortune also led him to sell a 1987 painting in 2001 for about $783,106.
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David Hockney
Net Worth: $40 million
David Hockney is an English artist, draughtsman, stage designer, and photographer.He owns an office in Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood. He is considered as one of the most influential British artists of the twentieth century. David also contributed greatly in the 1960s for the Pop art movement.
- Cindy Sherman
Net Worth: $35 Million
Cynthia Morris Sherman is an American photographer best known for her iconic portraits that depict women as imagined characters from film and other media. She is best known for “Complete Untitled Film Stills”. In the 1980s, Sherman used color film and large prints, and focused more on lighting and facial expression.
- Richard Prince
Net Worth: $30 Million
Richard Prince is an American painter and photographer. Prince made drawings and painterly collages that he has since disowned. His image, Untitled (Cowboy), a rephotographing of a photograph by Sam Abell and appropriated from a cigarette advertisement, was the first rephotograph to be sold for more than $1 million at auction at Christie’s New York in 2005.
- Andreas Gursky
Net Worth: $30 Million
Andreas Gursky is a German photographer and professor. He is known for his large format architecture and landscape colour photographs, often employing a high point of view.He attended the Gesamthochschule University Essen, where he studied visual communication. Gursky’s print Rhein II sold for US$4,338,500 at Christie’s, New York on 8 November 2011.
- Chuck Close
Net Worth: $25 Million
Chuck Close is an American painter, artist and photographer. He makes massive-scale photorealist portraits. Close often paints abstract portraits, which hang in collections internationally. Close also creates photo portraits using a very large format camera. In 2011, Close and several other artists sued the New York outlets of Christie’s and Sotheby’s, two of the art world’s biggest auction houses for systematic royalties fraud.
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Georg Baselitz
Net Worth: $20 Million
Georg Baselitzis a German painter, sculptor and graphic artist. In the 1960s he became well known for his skillful, expressive paintings. In 1969 he began painting his subjects upside down in an effort to overcome the representational, content-driven character of his earlier work and stress the artifice of painting.
- EL Greco
Net Worth: $17.2 Million
El Greco was a Greek painter, sculptor and architect of the Spanish Renaissance. El Greco was a nickname, a reference to his Greek origin, and the artist normally signed his paintings with his full birth name in Greek. He trained and became a master within that tradition before traveling at age 26 to Venice.
- Willem De Kooning
Net Worth: $13.5 Million
Willem de Kooning was a Dutch American abstract expressionist artist. He was born in Rotterdam and moved to the United States in 1926, becoming an American citizen in 1962.In 1943, he married painter Elaine Fried.In the years after World War II, de Kooning painted in a style that came to be referred to as abstract expressionism.
- Paul Gauguin
Net Worth: $4.3 Million
Paul Gauguin was a French post-Impressionist artist. He was unappreciated until after his death, Gauguin is now recognized for his experimental use of color style that were distinctly different from Impressionism. Toward the end of his life, he spent ten years in French Polynesia, and most of his paintings from this time depict people or landscapes from that region.
- Wang Meng
Net Worth: $4.1 Million
Wang Meng was a Chinese painter. Wang Meng is considered to be one of the Four Masters of the Yuan Dynasty. They exclusively painted landscapes, which they believed to be the visible key to the invisible reality.
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