Judith Shea Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Judith Shea Art Value Price Guide

Sep. 27, 2024
Judith Shea, Reciprocity
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
Judith Shea Reciprocity 1982 oil and wax on canvas 17.5 h x 9 w x 3.5 d in (44 x 23 x 9 cm) Signed to verso 'Shea'. Provenance: The Artist | Willard Gallery, New York | Private Collection Exhibited: Judith Shea, 27 April - 21 May 1983, Willard Gallery, New York This work will ship from Lambertville, New Jersey.
Rago Arts and Auction Center
Jul. 10, 2024
Judith Shea, American (b.1948), Male Persona-Study, 1990, graphite on paper, 19"H x 26"W (sight), 27"H x 34"W (frame)
Est: $200 - $400
Judith Shea American, (b.1948) Male Persona-Study, 1990 graphite on paper Pencil signed, titled and dated lower left. Provenance: Max Protech, New York, NY. Biography from the Archives of AskArt: Judith Shea (born 1948, in Philadelphia, PA) is an American-born sculptor best known for her series of works in bronze in which she creates empty clothing forms suggesting figures that are not present; some of her more recent work incorporates figures as well. Judith Shea has been a notable presence in the New York art world since the 1970s. Trained as a designer at Parsons, she soon found the fashion industry too restrictive and abandoned it in favor of making art. For her first solo show, at The Clocktower in 1976, Shea made a work based on color theory, using transparent silks in a spectrum of colors, worn by a live model. Other early work referenced clothing and its construction, first as flat, minimalist pattern and later as molded draping over implied, absent figures. In the 1981 Whitney Biennial, Shea showed three simple forms that evoked iconic clothes of the 1950s and 60s—the overcoat and the simple sheath dress—which hung from the wall as if on hangers. Five related works were included in the Hirshhorn's "Directions 83" survey. All of these works evoke human presence, felt as absence, as if the clothes were placeholders for missing persons. Thinking about her earlier clothes-based works, Shea has said that she "was looking for characters, for personae, really, to occupy them. I used clothes as stand-ins for people." With the support of NEA grants, Shea began to learn bronze casting, and she was able to also spend time in Paris studying the statuary of its parks and gardens. This research led to several hollow-figure compositions from the 1980s that were designed to be sited in public spaces, such as Eden (John Hancock Tower, Chicago), Shepherd's Muse (Oliver Ranch), Shield (Sheldon Museum of Art), and Without Words (Walker Art Center). In the 1990s, after a residency at Chesterwood—the site of Daniel Chester French's studio in Stockbridge—Shea began to use woodcarving to make monumental public sculpture. The first of these full-scale wooden figures were shown in 1992 at the Whitney Museum at Phillip Morris in New York. In 1994 her wooden equestrian statue The Other Monument, a monumental image of a black man on a black horse, was installed at Doris Freedman Plaza in New York, in the same plaza as the William Tecumseh Sherman Monument, Augustus Saint-Gaudens's golden equestrian figure. Following several periods abroad, including in Bellagio as a Rockefeller Foundation Resident, in Rome as a Fellow at the American Academy, and in Oaxaca as a winner of the Lila Wallace–Reader's Digest Artist's Award, Shea began a group of works in 2000 that deal with the figure imagined as character and icon. This work set the stage for the evolution of her next major body of work, which she titled Judith Shea: Legacy Collection. The direct source of the Legacy Collection was the artist's experience of 9/11: Shea's home was, and still is, near Ground Zero. In this very personal response, Shea fashioned a group of mannequin-like figures looking skyward, elegant in gray felt, dusted by debris. Several works from the Legacy Collection series have been acquired by the Yale University Art Gallery, where they are now on view. In addition to the Yale Art Gallery, Shea's work is included in many public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Walker Art Center, and Whitney Museum of American Art. She is the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards; recent honors include the Anonymous Was a Woman Award, in 2011, and the Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, in 2012. In 2012, Shea curated an exhibition in the National Academy Museum, titled "HER OWN STYLE: An Artist's Eye With Judith Shea." The show consisted of self-portraits and portraits of or by the women artist members of the Academy from 1858 to 1971. Shea made and contributed three sculptural portraits to the show. As part of the exhibition, Judith Shea was interviewed with the sculptural portraits she contributed. Shea studied art at the Parsons School of Design and graduated with a BFA in 1969. In 1994 she was granted a fellowship which allowed her to work at the American Academy in Rome and study the work of Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Michelangelo, among others. Her work may be found in numerous museums, including the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
Ripley Auctions
Apr. 17, 2024
JUDITH SHEA (B. 1948) Red Curve, 1991
Est: $400 - $600
JUDITH SHEA (B. 1948) Red Curve, 1991 titled 'RED CURVE' (lower center) casein, colored pencil and graphite on paper 26 x 19 in. 66 x 48.2 cm.
Bonhams
Jan. 23, 2024
Judith Shea Torso Print 1992
Est: $200 - $400
Judith Shea (American, b. 1948). Lithograph on paper print titled "Up to the Light" depicting a nude female torso in white opposed by an upside-down sculpted torso in black, 1992. Pencil signed and dated along the lower right; titled along the lower center; numbered 8/35 along the lower left.
Revere Auctions
Dec. 06, 2023
Judith Shea
Est: $8,000 - $12,000
American, b. 1948 The Christening, 1987 Bronze and cast stone 48 x 8 x 36 inches (121.9 x 20.3 x 91.4 cm)
DOYLE Auctioneers & Appraisers
Jul. 01, 2023
Judith Shea, American (b.1948), Male Persona-Study, 1990, graphite on paper, 19"H x 26"W (sight), 27"H x 34"W (frame)
Est: $600 - $800
Judith Shea American, (b.1948) Male Persona-Study, 1990 graphite on paper Pencil signed, titled and dated lower left. Provenance: Max Protech, New York, NY. Biography from the Archives of AskArt: Judith Shea (born 1948, in Philadelphia, PA) is an American-born sculptor best known for her series of works in bronze in which she creates empty clothing forms suggesting figures that are not present; some of her more recent work incorporates figures as well. Judith Shea has been a notable presence in the New York art world since the 1970s. Trained as a designer at Parsons, she soon found the fashion industry too restrictive and abandoned it in favor of making art. For her first solo show, at The Clocktower in 1976, Shea made a work based on color theory, using transparent silks in a spectrum of colors, worn by a live model. Other early work referenced clothing and its construction, first as flat, minimalist pattern and later as molded draping over implied, absent figures. In the 1981 Whitney Biennial, Shea showed three simple forms that evoked iconic clothes of the 1950s and 60s—the overcoat and the simple sheath dress—which hung from the wall as if on hangers. Five related works were included in the Hirshhorn's "Directions 83" survey. All of these works evoke human presence, felt as absence, as if the clothes were placeholders for missing persons. Thinking about her earlier clothes-based works, Shea has said that she "was looking for characters, for personae, really, to occupy them. I used clothes as stand-ins for people." With the support of NEA grants, Shea began to learn bronze casting, and she was able to also spend time in Paris studying the statuary of its parks and gardens. This research led to several hollow-figure compositions from the 1980s that were designed to be sited in public spaces, such as Eden (John Hancock Tower, Chicago), Shepherd's Muse (Oliver Ranch), Shield (Sheldon Museum of Art), and Without Words (Walker Art Center). In the 1990s, after a residency at Chesterwood—the site of Daniel Chester French's studio in Stockbridge—Shea began to use woodcarving to make monumental public sculpture. The first of these full-scale wooden figures were shown in 1992 at the Whitney Museum at Phillip Morris in New York. In 1994 her wooden equestrian statue The Other Monument, a monumental image of a black man on a black horse, was installed at Doris Freedman Plaza in New York, in the same plaza as the William Tecumseh Sherman Monument, Augustus Saint-Gaudens's golden equestrian figure. Following several periods abroad, including in Bellagio as a Rockefeller Foundation Resident, in Rome as a Fellow at the American Academy, and in Oaxaca as a winner of the Lila Wallace–Reader's Digest Artist's Award, Shea began a group of works in 2000 that deal with the figure imagined as character and icon. This work set the stage for the evolution of her next major body of work, which she titled Judith Shea: Legacy Collection. The direct source of the Legacy Collection was the artist's experience of 9/11: Shea's home was, and still is, near Ground Zero. In this very personal response, Shea fashioned a group of mannequin-like figures looking skyward, elegant in gray felt, dusted by debris. Several works from the Legacy Collection series have been acquired by the Yale University Art Gallery, where they are now on view. In addition to the Yale Art Gallery, Shea's work is included in many public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Walker Art Center, and Whitney Museum of American Art. She is the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards; recent honors include the Anonymous Was a Woman Award, in 2011, and the Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, in 2012. In 2012, Shea curated an exhibition in the National Academy Museum, titled "HER OWN STYLE: An Artist's Eye With Judith Shea." The show consisted of self-portraits and portraits of or by the women artist members of the Academy from 1858 to 1971. Shea made and contributed three sculptural portraits to the show. As part of the exhibition, Judith Shea was interviewed with the sculptural portraits she contributed. Shea studied art at the Parsons School of Design and graduated with a BFA in 1969. In 1994 she was granted a fellowship which allowed her to work at the American Academy in Rome and study the work of Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Michelangelo, among others. Her work may be found in numerous museums, including the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
Ripley Auctions
Feb. 25, 2023
Judith Shea, American (b.1948), Male Persona-Study, 1990, graphite on paper, 19"H x 26"W (sight), 27"H x 34"W (frame)
Est: $800 - $1,200
Judith Shea American, (b.1948) Male Persona-Study, 1990 graphite on paper pencil signed, titled and dated lower. Provenance: Max Protech, New York, NY. Biography from the Archives of AskArt: Judith Shea (born 1948, in Philadelphia, PA) is an American-born sculptor best known for her series of works in bronze in which she creates empty clothing forms suggesting figures that are not present; some of her more recent work incorporates figures as well. Judith Shea has been a notable presence in the New York art world since the 1970s. Trained as a designer at Parsons, she soon found the fashion industry too restrictive and abandoned it in favor of making art. For her first solo show, at The Clocktower in 1976, Shea made a work based on color theory, using transparent silks in a spectrum of colors, worn by a live model. Other early work referenced clothing and its construction, first as flat, minimalist pattern and later as molded draping over implied, absent figures. In the 1981 Whitney Biennial, Shea showed three simple forms that evoked iconic clothes of the 1950s and 60s—the overcoat and the simple sheath dress—which hung from the wall as if on hangers. Five related works were included in the Hirshhorn's "Directions 83" survey. All of these works evoke human presence, felt as absence, as if the clothes were placeholders for missing persons. Thinking about her earlier clothes-based works, Shea has said that she "was looking for characters, for personae, really, to occupy them. I used clothes as stand-ins for people." With the support of NEA grants, Shea began to learn bronze casting, and she was able to also spend time in Paris studying the statuary of its parks and gardens. This research led to several hollow-figure compositions from the 1980s that were designed to be sited in public spaces, such as Eden (John Hancock Tower, Chicago), Shepherd's Muse (Oliver Ranch), Shield (Sheldon Museum of Art), and Without Words (Walker Art Center). In the 1990s, after a residency at Chesterwood—the site of Daniel Chester French's studio in Stockbridge—Shea began to use woodcarving to make monumental public sculpture. The first of these full-scale wooden figures were shown in 1992 at the Whitney Museum at Phillip Morris in New York. In 1994 her wooden equestrian statue The Other Monument, a monumental image of a black man on a black horse, was installed at Doris Freedman Plaza in New York, in the same plaza as the William Tecumseh Sherman Monument, Augustus Saint-Gaudens's golden equestrian figure. Following several periods abroad, including in Bellagio as a Rockefeller Foundation Resident, in Rome as a Fellow at the American Academy, and in Oaxaca as a winner of the Lila Wallace–Reader's Digest Artist's Award, Shea began a group of works in 2000 that deal with the figure imagined as character and icon. This work set the stage for the evolution of her next major body of work, which she titled Judith Shea: Legacy Collection. The direct source of the Legacy Collection was the artist's experience of 9/11: Shea's home was, and still is, near Ground Zero. In this very personal response, Shea fashioned a group of mannequin-like figures looking skyward, elegant in gray felt, dusted by debris. Several works from the Legacy Collection series have been acquired by the Yale University Art Gallery, where they are now on view. In addition to the Yale Art Gallery, Shea's work is included in many public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Walker Art Center, and Whitney Museum of American Art. She is the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards; recent honors include the Anonymous Was a Woman Award, in 2011, and the Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, in 2012. In 2012, Shea curated an exhibition in the National Academy Museum, titled "HER OWN STYLE: An Artist's Eye With Judith Shea." The show consisted of self-portraits and portraits of or by the women artist members of the Academy from 1858 to 1971. Shea made and contributed three sculptural portraits to the show. As part of the exhibition, Judith Shea was interviewed with the sculptural portraits she contributed. Shea studied art at the Parsons School of Design and graduated with a BFA in 1969. In 1994 she was granted a fellowship which allowed her to work at the American Academy in Rome and study the work of Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Michelangelo, among others. Her work may be found in numerous museums, including the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
Ripley Auctions
Feb. 09, 2023
Judith Shea (b. 1948): Red Dress
Est: $800 - $1,200
Molded wax, unmarked, with label from The Granary. 7 in. (height). The Collection of Melva Bucksbaum. Sold to Benefit Art for Access, Bennington College.
STAIR
Jan. 28, 2023
Judith Shea (b. 1948), cast stone sculpture, "Venus", nude woman, edition #3/3, 1989, total height 68 inches, base 15" x 15". Proven...
Est: $1,000 - $2,000
Judith Shea (b. 1948), cast stone sculpture, "Venus", nude woman, edition #3/3, 1989, total height 68 inches, base 15" x 15". Provenance" Max Protetch 560 Broadway, New York, NY, receipt September 22, 1994, $36,000.
Nadeau's Auction Gallery
Nov. 17, 2022
Judith Shea (b. 1948): Red Dress
Est: $800 - $1,200
Molded wax, unmarked, with label from The Granary. 7 in. (height). Sold to Benefit Art for Access, Bennington College.
STAIR
Oct. 18, 2022
Judith Shea (American b. 1948), Untitled, Black and White Photograph, Apparently Unsigned, Frame: 24 x 19 in. (60.96 x 48.26 cm.)
Est: $100 - $200
Judith Shea (American b. 1948), Untitled, Black and White Photograph, Apparently Unsigned,
Weschler's
Sep. 24, 2022
Judith Shea, American (b.1948), Male Persona-Study, 1990, graphite on paper, 19"H x 26"W (sight), 27"H x 34"W (frame)
Est: $800 - $1,200
Judith Shea American, (b.1948) Male Persona-Study, 1990 graphite on paper pencil signed, titled and dated lower. Provenance: Max Protech, New York, NY. Biography from the Archives of AskArt: Judith Shea (born 1948, in Philadelphia, PA) is an American-born sculptor best known for her series of works in bronze in which she creates empty clothing forms suggesting figures that are not present; some of her more recent work incorporates figures as well. Judith Shea has been a notable presence in the New York art world since the 1970s. Trained as a designer at Parsons, she soon found the fashion industry too restrictive and abandoned it in favor of making art. For her first solo show, at The Clocktower in 1976, Shea made a work based on color theory, using transparent silks in a spectrum of colors, worn by a live model. Other early work referenced clothing and its construction, first as flat, minimalist pattern and later as molded draping over implied, absent figures. In the 1981 Whitney Biennial, Shea showed three simple forms that evoked iconic clothes of the 1950s and 60s—the overcoat and the simple sheath dress—which hung from the wall as if on hangers. Five related works were included in the Hirshhorn's "Directions 83" survey. All of these works evoke human presence, felt as absence, as if the clothes were placeholders for missing persons. Thinking about her earlier clothes-based works, Shea has said that she "was looking for characters, for personae, really, to occupy them. I used clothes as stand-ins for people." With the support of NEA grants, Shea began to learn bronze casting, and she was able to also spend time in Paris studying the statuary of its parks and gardens. This research led to several hollow-figure compositions from the 1980s that were designed to be sited in public spaces, such as Eden (John Hancock Tower, Chicago), Shepherd's Muse (Oliver Ranch), Shield (Sheldon Museum of Art), and Without Words (Walker Art Center). In the 1990s, after a residency at Chesterwood—the site of Daniel Chester French's studio in Stockbridge—Shea began to use woodcarving to make monumental public sculpture. The first of these full-scale wooden figures were shown in 1992 at the Whitney Museum at Phillip Morris in New York. In 1994 her wooden equestrian statue The Other Monument, a monumental image of a black man on a black horse, was installed at Doris Freedman Plaza in New York, in the same plaza as the William Tecumseh Sherman Monument, Augustus Saint-Gaudens's golden equestrian figure. Following several periods abroad, including in Bellagio as a Rockefeller Foundation Resident, in Rome as a Fellow at the American Academy, and in Oaxaca as a winner of the Lila Wallace–Reader's Digest Artist's Award, Shea began a group of works in 2000 that deal with the figure imagined as character and icon. This work set the stage for the evolution of her next major body of work, which she titled Judith Shea: Legacy Collection. The direct source of the Legacy Collection was the artist's experience of 9/11: Shea's home was, and still is, near Ground Zero. In this very personal response, Shea fashioned a group of mannequin-like figures looking skyward, elegant in gray felt, dusted by debris. Several works from the Legacy Collection series have been acquired by the Yale University Art Gallery, where they are now on view. In addition to the Yale Art Gallery, Shea's work is included in many public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Walker Art Center, and Whitney Museum of American Art. She is the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards; recent honors include the Anonymous Was a Woman Award, in 2011, and the Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, in 2012. In 2012, Shea curated an exhibition in the National Academy Museum, titled "HER OWN STYLE: An Artist's Eye With Judith Shea." The show consisted of self-portraits and portraits of or by the women artist members of the Academy from 1858 to 1971. Shea made and contributed three sculptural portraits to the show. As part of the exhibition, Judith Shea was interviewed with the sculptural portraits she contributed. Shea studied art at the Parsons School of Design and graduated with a BFA in 1969. In 1994 she was granted a fellowship which allowed her to work at the American Academy in Rome and study the work of Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Michelangelo, among others. Her work may be found in numerous museums, including the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
Ripley Auctions
Mar. 01, 2018
Judith Shea (B. 1948) - Louise Monument: Portrait of Louise Bourgeois
Est: $10,000 - $15,000
Judith Shea (B. 1948) Louise Monument: Portrait of Louise Bourgeois carved polystyrene foam, carved balsa wood, felt, paper clay, paint, cotton and horsehair 74 ¾ x 18 ¼ x 18 ¼ in. (187.3 x 46.4 x 46.4 cm.)
Christie's
Oct. 25, 2017
Judith Shea, (American, b. 1948), Head, carved wood, 12"h x 6"w x 6"d
Est: $500 - $700
Judith Shea (American, b. 1948) Head carved wood signed 12"h x 6"w x 6"d Provenance: Property from the Estate of Emily Nixon, Chicago, Illinois
Toomey & Co. Auctioneers
Oct. 18, 2017
Judith Shea The Doll Human Sculpture from BASS MUSEUM
Est: $100 - $400
Judith Shea (born 1948) empty human form sculpture. The Doll. Mixed media human sculpture with applied hair. 20th Century. Good condition with custom stand. White color with original finish. Measures 16 1/2" x 5 1/2" x 4". 2002.011.012 Deaccessioned from Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL. In house USA continental shipping $45 plus insurance.
Hill Auction Gallery
Dec. 03, 2016
Judith Shea, (American, b. 1948), Head, carved wood, 12"h x 6"w x 6"d
Est: $1,000 - $2,000
Judith Shea (American, b. 1948) Head carved wood signed 12"h x 6"w x 6"d Provenance: Property from the Estate of Emily Nixon, Chicago, Illinois
Toomey & Co. Auctioneers
May. 01, 2011
JUDITH SHEA (b. 1948): MALE PERSONA STUDY
Est: $400 - $600
Graphite and pencil on paper, 19 x 26 in., signed, titled and dated '90.
STAIR