Simone Leigh Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Simone Leigh Art Value Price Guide

Nov. 26, 2024
SIMONE LEIGH (1967 - ) Untitled.
Est: $30,000 - $40,000
SIMONE LEIGH (1967 - ) Untitled. Glazed terracotta, circa 1990s. Approximately 584x355 mm; 23x14 inches. Provenance Acquired directly from the artist by private collection, Philadelphia, 2020.
Swann Auction Galleries
Nov. 26, 2024
SIMONE LEIGH (1967 - ) Untitled.
Est: $30,000 - $40,000
SIMONE LEIGH (1967 - ) Untitled. Glazed terracotta, circa 1990s. Approximately 558x330 mm; 22x13 inches. Provenance Acquired directly from the artist by private collection, Philadelphia, 2020.
Swann Auction Galleries
Oct. 01, 2024
SIMONE LEIGH (B. 1967). Meridian. terracotta, porcelain, epoxy and India in
Est: $250,000 - $350,000
SIMONE LEIGH (B. 1967). Meridian. terracotta, porcelain, epoxy and India ink.
Christie's
Sep. 14, 2024
Simone Leigh, b. 1967, Premye
Est: $600 - $800
Simone Leigh b. 1967 Premye 2011 Color photograph made with archival pigments on fine art rag paper 16 x 20 inches signed and numbered 12/75 verso COA
Black Art Auction
May. 05, 2024
SIMONE LEIGH (JAMAICAN/AMERICAN, b. 1967).
Est: $300 - $500
'Premye', 2011. Colored photograph with archival pigments on fine rag paper. Signed on verso. Edition: '14/75'. Verso: Label with signature and edition. With a Certificate of Authenticity from Artspace. From a Spring Valley, NY collection. Dimensions: 16" h x 20" w. (unframed).
Clarke Auction Gallery
Apr. 04, 2024
SIMONE LEIGH (1967 - ) Untitled.
Est: $50,000 - $75,000
SIMONE LEIGH (1967 - ) Untitled. Glazed terracotta, circa 1990s. Approximately 584x355 mm; 23x14 inches. Provenance: acquired directly from the artist; private collection (2020).
Swann Auction Galleries
Apr. 04, 2024
SIMONE LEIGH (1967 - ) Untitled.
Est: $50,000 - $75,000
SIMONE LEIGH (1967 - ) Untitled. Glazed terracotta, circa 1990s. Approximately 558x330 mm; 22x13 inches. Provenance: acquired directly from the artist; private collection, Philadelphia (2020). This large terracotta vessel and the following lot are early sculptures made by Simone Leigh in the 1990s. Simone Leigh's water pot sculptures reference traditional forms from Africa and the Diaspora. In a 2017 artist's statement, Leigh explained how she "came to [her] artistic practice via the study of philosophy, cultural studies, and a strong interest in African and African American art, which has imbued [her] object and performance-based work with a concern for the ethnographic, especially the way it records and describes objects." These robust vessels show how these interests were manifest in her sculpture 30 years ago. This early period of Simone Leigh's life and career was chronicled recently by Calvin Tomkins in his March 21, 2022 profile "The Monumental Success of Simone Leigh" in The New Yorker. Tomkins describes the critical development of Leigh as a young artist. Leigh majored in visual art with a minor in philosophy at Earlham, a Quaker liberal art college in Richmond, Indiana. Tomkins retells the beginning of her work in ceramics in college under the guidance of her professor Michael Thiedeman, a well know potter, and how Leigh embraced the medium of clay. After a summer internship at the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art and earning her degree in 1990, she began her career as an artist in New York. Tompkins reveals how Leigh found a job working in a ceramics-supply store with a studio in the basement; "in the evenings she as able to continue working of the large terra-cotta water pots that she had been making at Earlham." Leigh's early practice was focused on these traditional forms. Leigh told Tomkins: "For ten years, I was obsessed with these water pots. It was a kind of a perfect form, and it was something women had been making all over the world for centuries, this anonymous labor of women". Despite struggling to get the attention of either the pottery or art world in the 1990s, Leigh continued this practice; revealing to Tomkins, "It's strange, because I had a kind of confidence that I was making important work." Leigh's practice now spans sculpture, installations, video, performance, and social practice projects while centered on Black female subjectivity. Her work was included in the 2012 and 2019 Biennial exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and she was the first artist to be commissioned for the High Line Plinth with her monumental sculpture Brick House, unveiled in 2019. Leigh represented the United States at the 59th Venice Biennale in 2022 with her exhibition, Simone Leigh: Sovereignty. Her work The Milk of Dreams was also included in the Biennale's central exhibition for which she was awarded the Golden Lion for Best Participant. Her first major retrospective Simone Leigh organized by the ICA Boston is presently on a national tour.
Swann Auction Galleries
Dec. 12, 2023
Blue/Black
Est: $500,000 - $700,000
Simone Leigh b. 1967 Blue/Black terracotta, porcelain, epoxy and India ink 15¾ x 8½ x 9½ in. (40 x 21.6 x 24.1 cm) Executed in 2014.
Sotheby's
Dec. 02, 2023
Simone Leigh, b. 1967, Premeye
Est: $800 - $1,000
Simone Leigh b. 1967 Premeye 2011 color photograph made with archival pigments on fine art rag paper 16 x 20 inches label verso (Artspace), signed and numbered 32/75 Provenance: private collection, Philadelphia, PA
Black Art Auction
Nov. 16, 2023
Head Piece (Black)
Est: $250,000 - $350,000
Simone Leigh b. 1967 Head Piece (Black) porcelain, terracotta, epoxy and graphite 13½ by 12 by 10½ in. 34.3 by 30.5 by 26.7 cm. Executed in 2010.
Sotheby's
Oct. 19, 2023
SIMONE LEIGH (1967 - ) Untitled.
Est: $60,000 - $90,000
SIMONE LEIGH (1967 - ) Untitled. Glazed terra cotta stoneware, circa 2011-12. 216x457x178 mm; 8 1/2x18x7 inches. Provenance: acquired directly from the artist; private collection, Philadelphia. Simone Leigh's cowrie shell is an excellent example of one of her signature sculptural forms. Each is unique - this work is covered in raised black dots of glaze with a beautiful bluish gray glaze. The tactile surface is only disrupted by the jagged opening to the interior of this evocative form. Simone Leigh began making these cowrie shells in 2011. They have been both exhibited as individual works and part of larger sculptures and installations. The forms were first publicly exhibited at the Studio Museum in Harlem during Simone Leigh's 2010-11 residency, then again in her 2012 solo exhibition You Don't Know Where Her Mouth Has Been at the Kitchen, New York. The exhibition featured the same-titled installation of 65 cowrie shells hanging by wire as a chandelier.
Swann Auction Galleries
Sep. 28, 2023
Untitled
Est: $40,000 - $60,000
Simone Leigh b. 1967 Untitled terracotta and porcelain 7 by 17 by 9 in. 17.8 by 43.2 by 22.9 cm. Executed in 2015.
Sotheby's
Jun. 27, 2023
Mandeville
Est: £300,000 - £400,000
Simone Leigh b. 1967 Mandeville terracotta, porcelain, cobalt and epoxy 53.5 by 27 by 25 cm. 20⅞ by 10⅝ by 9⅞ in. Executed in 2015. --------------------------------------------------- 西蒙尼・雷伊生於1967年《曼德維爾》赤陶、瓷、鈷藍顏料及環氧樹脂 53.5 x 27 x 25 公分；20⅞ x 10⅝ x 9⅞ 英寸 2015年作
Sotheby's
May. 18, 2023
Las Meninas II
Est: $2,500,000 - $3,500,000
Simone Leigh b. 1967 Las Meninas II terracotta, steel, raffia and porcelain 71 ½ by 77 ½ by 62 in. 181.6 by 196.9 by 157.5 cm. Executed in 2019.
Sotheby's
May. 17, 2023
SIMONE LEIGH (b. 1967) 109 (Face Jug Series) salt-fired porcelain 17 1/2 x
Est: $300,000 - $500,000
SIMONE LEIGH (b. 1967) 109 (Face Jug Series) salt-fired porcelain 17 1/2 x 6 x 8 1/2 in. (44.5 x 15.2 x 21.6 cm.)
Christie's
May. 15, 2023
SIMONE LEIGH (B. 1967) Stickronze 85 x 63 x 63 in. (215.9 x 160 x 160 cm.
Est: $2,000,000 - $3,000,000
SIMONE LEIGH (B. 1967) Stickronze 85 x 63 x 63 in. (215.9 x 160 x 160 cm.)
Christie's
Nov. 18, 2022
SIMONE LEIGH (B. 1967) Untitled VI (Anatomy of Architecture Series) terraco
Est: $300,000 - $500,000
SIMONE LEIGH (B. 1967) Untitled VI (Anatomy of Architecture Series) terracotta and glaze
Christie's
Jun. 28, 2022
SIMONE LEIGH (B. 1967) Untitled V (Anatomy of Architecture series) terracot
Est: £300,000 - £500,000
SIMONE LEIGH (B. 1967) Untitled V (Anatomy of Architecture series) terracotta, porcelain, manganese, 14k gold luster, raffia, india ink and epoxy 25 x 20 1/2 x 19in. (63.5 x 52.1 x 48.3cm.)
Christie's
Jun. 04, 2022
Simone Leigh, b. 1967, Premye
Est: $800 - $1,200
Simone Leigh b. 1967 Premye 2011 color photograph made with archival pigments on fine art rag paper 16 x 20 inches Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity, signed and numbered 20/75
Black Art Auction
Dec. 04, 2021
Simone Leigh, b. 1967, Premye
Est: $800 - $1,200
Simone Leigh b. 1967 Premye 2011 color photograph made with archival pigments on fine art rag paper 16 x 20 inches Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity, signed and numbered 20/75
Black Art Auction
Oct. 07, 2021
SIMONE LEIGH (1967 - ) Untitled.
Est: $30,000 - $40,000
SIMONE LEIGH (1967 - ) Untitled. Glazed terra cotta stoneware, circa 2011-12. 216x381x178 mm; 8 1/2x15x7 inches. Provenance: acquired directly from the artist; private collection, New York. Simone Leigh's cowrie shell is an excellent example of one of her signature sculptural forms. Each of her cowrie shells is unique - this work is covered in raised black dots of glaze with a golden iridescent glaze from the salt added to the kiln. The tactile surface is only disrupted by the jagged opening to the interior of this evocative form. Simone Leigh began making these cowrie shells in 2011. They have been both exhibited as individual works and part of larger sculptures and installations. These forms were first publicly exhibited at the Studio Museum in Harlem during Simone Leigh's 2010-11 residency, then again in her 2011 solo exhibition You Don't Know Where Her Mouth Has Been at the Kitchen, New York. The exhibition featured the same-titled installation of 65 cowrie shells hanging by wire as a chandelier.
Swann Auction Galleries
Oct. 07, 2021
SIMONE LEIGH (1967 - ) Untitled (Vessel).
Est: $75,000 - $100,000
SIMONE LEIGH (1967 - ) Untitled (Vessel). Glazed terra cotta stoneware, circa 2004. Approximately 483x558x558 mm; 19x22x22 inches. Provenance: acquired directly from the artist; private collection. This vessel is an excellent, early example of the Leigh's work in salt-fired stoneware in which she explores the imagery of the black female body, the romanticization of primitivism and fertility. Leigh has often explored the experiences and social histories of black women through ceramics for over 25 years. Her work in ceramic makes multi-layered references to African traditions, feminism, ethnographic research, postcolonial theory and racial politics. Simone Leigh created a related vessel in black, entitled Pitch, pictured in the data base of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum. A similar vessel in white was sold at Sotheby's New York on September 26, 2019.
Swann Auction Galleries
Dec. 10, 2020
SIMONE LEIGH (1967 - ) Head.
Est: $75,000 - $100,000
SIMONE LEIGH (1967 - ) Head. Glazed and painted fired stoneware, 2004. Approximately 305x508x457 mm; 12x20x18 inches. Provenance: acquired directly from the artist; private collection, Pennsylvania. Exhibited: Momenta Art, Brooklyn, 2004. This was the artist's first solo exhibiton. Illustrated: online image in the artist's file, the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum. Head is an excellent, early example of the Leigh's work in salt-fired stoneware in which she explores the imagery of the black female body, the romanticization of primitivism and fertility. Here, the artist contrasts the rich textures of mutliples glazed forms with an earthenware base in which she made a footprint of her Dr. Marten's boot. Leigh has often explored the experiences and social histories of black women through ceramics for over 25 years. Her work in ceramic makes multi-layered references to African traditions, feminism, ethnographic research, postcolonial theory and often times, racial politics. Born to Jamaican parents in 1967, Simone Leigh grew up in Chicago and is currently based in Brooklyn, New York. She received her BA in Art and Philosophy from Earlham College in 1990 and taught ceramics at the Rhode Island School of Design. Her body of work includes sculpture, installations, video, performance, and social practice projects that often focus on black female subjectivity. Through her investigations, her work overlaps cultures, time periods, and geographies, in what Leigh refers to a "collapsing of time," where she examines ideas of the female body, race, beauty and community. Simone Leigh is a recipient of the Hugo Boss Prize (2018), the Foundation for Contemporary Art Grant (2018), Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize (2017), John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship (2016) and Anonymous Was a Woman Award (2016). Her work has been exhibited at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, Tate Modern, London, the Studio Museum in Harlem and the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. Her sculpture was most recently featured in the 2019 Whitney Biennial, and her 2019 Hugo Boss Prize solo exhibition Loophole of Retreatwas held at the Guggenheim Museum. Leigh was also the first artist commissioned in 2019 for the Plinth, the first space on the High Line dedicated solely to monumental contemporary art commissions, where she presented her sculpture Brick House. Leigh was recently selected as the first African American woman artist to represent the United States at the Venice Biennale in 2021.
Swann Auction Galleries
Jul. 16, 2020
SIMONE LEIGH (B. 1967) - Untitled VI (Anatomy of Architecture series)
Est: £100,000 - £150,000
SIMONE LEIGH (B. 1967) Untitled VI (Anatomy of Architecture series) terracotta and glaze 23 x 125⁄8 x 125⁄8in. (58.5 x 32 x 32cm.) Executed in 2016 Provenance Tilton Gallery, New York. Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2016.
Christie's
Jun. 04, 2020
SIMONE LEIGH (1967 - ) Untitled.
Est: $60,000 - $90,000
SIMONE LEIGH (1967 - ) Untitled. Salt fired stoneware, 2001. Approximately 625 mm high; 25 inches high. Provenance: acquired directly from the artist; private collection, North Carolina (2002). Exhibited: Eros Negras: Encountering the Black Female Body, Afro-American Cultural Center, Charlotte, NC, September 6 - November 30, 2002; 40 and Counting, Harvey B. Gantt Center, Charlotte, NC, July, 2014. Untitledis an excellent and early example of the Leigh's work in salt-fired stoneware in which she explores the imagery of the black female body, the romanticization of primitivism and fertility. Leigh created at least three of these vessels in this series - intended for what was to be her first solo exhibition at Rush Galleries, New York in 2001. But the September 13th exhibition was cancelled after the September 11th terrorist attacks. Leigh also created a similar version of this vessel in black, entitled Pitch, which is included in the data base of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum. Leigh has often explored the experiences and social histories of black women through ceramics for over 25 years. Her work in ceramic makes multi-layered references to African traditions, feminism, ethnographic research, postcolonial theory and often times, racial politics. Born to Jamaican parents in 1967, Simone Leigh grew up in Chicago and is currently based in Brooklyn, New York. She received her BA in Art and Philosophy from Earlham College in 1990 and taught ceramics at the Rhode Island School of Design. Her body of work includes sculpture, installations, video, performance, and social practice projects that often focus on black female subjectivity. Through her investigations, her work overlaps cultures, time periods, and geographies, in what Leigh refers to a "collapsing of time," where she examines ideas of the female body, race, beauty and community. Simone Leigh is a recipient of the Hugo Boss Prize (2018), the Foundation for Contemporary Art Grant (2018), Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize (2017), John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship (2016) and Anonymous Was a Woman Award (2016). Her work has been exhibited at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, Tate Modern, London, the Studio Museum in Harlem and the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. Her sculpture was most recently featured in the 2019 Whitney Biennial, and her 2019 Hugo Boss Prize solo exhibition Loophole of Retreatwas held at the Guggenheim Museum. Leigh was also the first artist commissioned in 2019 for the Plinth, the first space on the High Line dedicated solely to monumental contemporary art commissions, where she presented her sculpture Brick House.
Swann Auction Galleries
Mar. 06, 2020
SIMONE LEIGH | Decatur (Cobalt)
Est: $60,000 - $80,000
terracotta, porcelain, cobalt and epoxy
Sotheby's
Nov. 15, 2019
SIMONE LEIGH | Rose Covered Cowrie Shell II
Est: $50,000 - $70,000
stoneware, porcelain and epoxy
Sotheby's
Nov. 14, 2019
Simone Leigh (b. 1967) - Cowrie (Candomble)
Est: $50,000 - $70,000
Simone Leigh (b. 1967) Cowrie (Candomble) salt-fired ceramic and steel 56 x 53 x 32 ½ in. (142.2 x 134.6 x 82.6 cm.)
Christie's
Sep. 26, 2019
SIMONE LEIGH | Untitled
Est: $40,000 - $60,000
salt fired stoneware and wicker base
Sotheby's
May. 17, 2019
SIMONE LEIGH | Untitled
Est: $40,000 - $60,000
painted ceramic with base
Sotheby's
Apr. 04, 2019
SIMONE LEIGH (1967 - ) Untitled.
Est: $40,000 - $60,000
SIMONE LEIGH (1967 - ) Untitled. Salt fired stoneware, 2006. Approximately 625 mm high; 25 inches high. Provenance: acquired directly from the artist; private collection, Philadelphia (2006). Untitled is an excellent example of the Leigh's work in salt-fired stoneware in which she explores the imagery of the black female body, the romanticization of primitivism and fertility. Leigh created another version of this vessel in black, entitled Pitch, pictured in the data base of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum. Leigh has often explored the experiences and social histories of black women through ceramics for over 25 years. Her work in ceramic makes multi-layered references to African traditions, feminism, ethnographic research, postcolonial theory and often times, racial politics. Born to Jamaican parents in 1967, Simone Leigh grew up in Chicago and is currently based in Brooklyn, New York. She received her BA in Art and Philosophy from Earlham College in 1990 and taught ceramics at the Rhode Island School of Design. Her works span sculpture, installations, video, performance, and social practice projects that often focus on black female subjectivity. Through her investigations, her work overlaps cultures, time periods, and geographies, in what Leigh refers to a "collapsing of time," where she examines ideas of the female body, race, beauty and community. Simone Leigh is a recipient of the Hugo Boss Prize (2018), the Foundation for Contemporary Art Grant (2018), Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize (2017), John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship (2016) and Anonymous Was a Woman Award (2016). Her work has been exhibited at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, Tate Modern, London, the Studio Museum in Harlem and the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. Leigh was the first artist to be commissioned for the Plinth, the first space on the High Line dedicated solely to monumental contemporary art commissions, where she will present her new sculpture Brick House in April of 2019.
Swann Auction Galleries
Mar. 01, 2019
SIMONE LEIGH | Untitled
Est: $15,000 - $20,000
salt-fired stoneware and metal base
Sotheby's
Nov. 17, 2017
SIMONE LEIGH | Overburdened With Significance
Est: $20,000 - $30,000
porcelain, Egyptian paste, terracotta, graphite and steel base
Sotheby's

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