Joan Mitchell. Retrospective. Her Life and Paintings. [Photo: Henning Kaiser/Picture Alliance via Getty Images]
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Four! This is the percentage of art sold at major art auctions worldwide that was created by women.
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A team of researchers from the Netherlands, Australia, and the United States studied over 2.6 million artworks sold at auction from 2000-2017 at 1,800 top auction houses, and found that
women are entirely absent from the top strata of art sales, where 42 male artists enjoy 40% of sale values. Just one female artist, Joan Mitchell, cracks the top 50.
These numbers are particularly damning given that roughly even numbers of men and women pursue degrees in fine arts.
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