Artnet : These Were the 300 Most-Searched Artists on Artnet’s Price Database in 2023

Market These Were the 300 Most-Searched Artists on Artnet's Price Database in 2023

Henry Taylor, Cecily Brown, and Park Seo-Bo are newcomers to this year's list.

Annie Armstrong, December 28, 2023

Cecily Brown, Lobsters, oysters, cherries and pearls (2020). Courtesy of the artist and Paula Cooper Gallery.

It's been said before and we'll say it again: 2023 was not a great year for the auction houses. The ongoing soft market was most visible at this Fall's auctions, which crept along, and there was a noticeable lack of energy during many of the art fairs this year. Don't let the numbers get you too down, though: the art market never comes to a full standstill.

Below you'll find listed the 300 most searched artists from the year 2023, according to data from Artnet's Price Database. The top five have not changed since 2022, but the more intriguing shifts come at the bottom of the list, with newcomers such as Vija Celmins, Mike Kelley, Katherine Bradford, David Hammons, Miriam Cahn, Park Seo-Bo, and Henry Taylor making their first appearance, likely indicating a boost in their markets.

Other artists saw a large shift in how often they were searched for. Cecily Brown moved up ten spots in the ranking this year on the heels of her knockout show at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Peter Doig moved up 37 slots after departing Michael Werner earlier this year and his major exhibition at the Courtauld, and similarly, Tracey Emin moved up by 32 spaces, as her current show at White Cube in New York draws hefty crowds.

Take a look below at who made this year's list, and who did not.

The 300 Most-Searched Artists in the Artnet Price Database

Last Name	First Name	Nationality	Gender	Birth Year	Death Year	Total Searches	Total Unique Searches
Picasso	Pablo	Spanish	Male	1881	1973	64375	59923
Warhol	Andy	American	Male	1928	1987	47735	43829
Kusama	Yayoi	Japanese	Female	1929	22035	19777
Chagall	Marc	Belarusian/French	Male	1887	1985	19456	17875
Hockney	David	British	Male	1937	18113	17350
Richter	Gerhard	German	Male	1932	16526	15593
Miró	Joan	Spanish	Male	1893	1983	15746	14765
Basquiat	Jean-Michel	American	Male	1960	1988	13481	12374
Hirst	Damien	British	Male	1965	12834	11777
Calder	Alexander	American	Male	1898	1976	12552	11350
Lichtenstein	Roy	American	Male	1923	1997	12069	11564
Matisse	Henri	French	Male	1869	1954	11612	10629
Haring	Keith	American	Male	1958	1990	11375	10459
Ruscha	Ed	American	Male	1937	10813	10358
Condo	George	American	Male	1957	9578	8998
Fontana	Lucio	Argentine/Italian	Male	1899	1968	9181	8074
Renoir	Pierre-Auguste	French	Male	1841	1919	9059	8066
Dalí	Salvador	Spanish	Male	1904	1989	8945	8410
Nara	Yoshitomo	Japanese	Male	1959	8305	7831
Banksy	British	Male	1974	8262	7939
Dubuffet	Jean	French	Male	1901	1985	7855	7567
Katz	Alex	American	Male	1927	7691	7379
Magritte	René	Belgian	Male	1898	1967	7651	7266
Monet	Claude	French	Male	1840	1926	7317	6972
Moore	Henry	British	Male	1898	1986	7198	6888
Kooning	Willem de	American/Dutch	Male	1904	1997	6722	6431
Giacometti	Alberto	Swiss	Male	1901	1966	6680	6234
Mitchell	Joan	American	Female	1925	1992	6635	6462
Prince	Richard	American	Male	1949	6448	6096
Francis	Sam	American	Male	1923	1994	6250	5738
Rembrandt van Rijn	Dutch	Male	1606	1669	6223	5988
Rauschenberg	Robert	American	Male	1925	2008	5821	5614
Boetti	Alighiero	Italian	Male	1940	1994	5820	5467
KAWS	American	Male	1974	5745	5269
Léger	Fernand	French	Male	1881	1955	5655	5252
Stella	Frank	American	Male	1936	5643	5440
Twombly	Cy	American	Male	1928	2011	5429	5234
Wesselmann	Tom	American	Male	1931	2004	5404	5169
Degas	Edgar	French	Male	1834	1917	5306	4832
Frankenthaler	Helen	American	Female	1928	2011	5301	5107
Johns	Jasper	American	Male	1930	5291	5081
Zao Wou-Ki	Chinese/French	Male	1920	2013	5204	4968
Man Ray	American	Male	1890	1976	5163	4781
Botero	Fernando	Colombian	Male	1932	2023	5144	4758
Lalanne	François-Xavier	French	Male	1927	2008	5124	4935
Brown	Cecily	British	Female	1969	5046	4944
Buffet	Bernard	French	Male	1928	1999	4934	4363
Baselitz	Georg	German	Male	1938	4929	4770
Thiebaud	Wayne	American	Male	1920	2021	4750	4545
Albers	Josef	American/German	Male	1888	1976	4518	4374
Murakami	Takashi	Japanese	Male	1962	4501	4233
Koons	Jeff	American	Male	1955	4395	4154
LeWitt	Sol	American	Male	1928	2007	4345	4098
Judd	Donald	American	Male	1928	1994	4295	3996
Rodin	Auguste	French	Male	1840	1917	4294	4087
Soulages	Pierre	French	Male	1919	2022	4181	4024
Ernst	Max	German	Male	1891	1976	4122	3874
Motherwell	Robert	American	Male	1915	1991	4106	3880
Bourgeois	Louise	American/French	Female	1911	2010	4069	3906
Sherman	Cindy	American	Female	1954	3918	3511
Gormley	Antony	British	Male	1950	3913	3770
Bacon	Francis	British	Male	1909	1992	3822	3657
Dufy	Raoul	French	Male	1877	1953	3665	3190
Förg	Günther	German	Male	1952	2013	3582	3370
Pissarro	Camille	Danish/French	Male	1830	1903	3568	3319
Emin	Tracey	British	Female	1963	3538	3435
Picabia	Francis	French	Male	1879	1953	3519	3228
Kelly	Ellsworth	American	Male	1923	2015	3511	3432
Dürer	Albrecht	German	Male	1471	1528	3502	3477
Indiana	Robert	American	Male	1928	2018	3488	3342
Kandinsky	Wassily	Russian	Male	1866	1944	3476	3273
Wood	Jonas	American	Male	1977	3471	3357
Bonnard	Pierre	French	Male	1867	1947	3468	3234
Foujita	Léonard Tsuguharu	French/Japanese	Male	1886	1968	3427	2956
Wool	Christopher	American	Male	1955	3406	3282
Toulouse-Lautrec	Henri de	French	Male	1864	1901	3386	3204
Diebenkorn	Richard	American	Male	1922	1993	3376	3315
Braque	Georges	French	Male	1882	1963	3374	3160
Lee Ufan	Korean	Male	1936	3351	3030
Dine	Jim	American	Male	1935	3251	3145
Polke	Sigmar	German	Male	1941	2010	3179	3031
Rothko	Mark	American	Male	1903	1970	3177	3099
Riley	Bridget	British	Female	1931	3114	3039
Klein	Yves	French	Male	1928	1962	3094	2968
Hepworth	Barbara	British	Female	1903	1975	3071	2988
Johnson	Rashid	American	Male	1977	3058	2998
Doig	Peter	Scottish	Male	1959	3046	2961
Party	Nicolas	Swiss	Male	1980	3042	2973
Gilliam	Sam	American	Male	1933	2022	2996	2869
Mapplethorpe	Robert	American	Male	1946	1989	2954	2703
Salvo	Italian	Male	1947	2015	2946	2806
Freud	Lucian	British	Male	1922	2011	2933	2847
Schiele	Egon	Austrian	Male	1890	1918	2913	2628
Auerbach	Frank	British/German	Male	1931	2885	2809
Vasarely	Victor	French/Hungarian	Male	1906	1997	2851	2613
Tàpies	Antoni	Spanish	Male	1923	2012	2848	2634
Appel	Karel	Dutch	Male	1921	2006	2845	2705
Gogh	Vincent van	Dutch	Male	1853	1890	2820	2697
Modigliani	Amedeo	Italian	Male	1884	1920	2806	2644
Chirico	Giorgio de	Italian	Male	1888	1978	2712	2471
Kirchner	Ernst Ludwig	German	Male	1880	1938	2699	2412
Oehlen	Albert	German	Male	1954	2696	2616
Longo	Robert	American	Male	1953	2688	2578
Kiefer	Anselm	German	Male	1945	2653	2583
Guston	Philip	American	Male	1913	1980	2642	2599
Tillmans	Wolfgang	German	Male	1968	2639	2500
Arp	Jean (Hans)	French/German	Male	1886	1966	2624	2435
Klee	Paul	German	Male	1879	1940	2583	2387
Lalanne	Claude	French	Female	1924	2019	2553	2456
Giacometti	Diego	Swiss	Male	1902	1985	2544	2447
Martin	Agnes	American/Canadian	Female	1912	2004	2523	2498
Chu Teh-Chun	Chinese/French	Male	1920	2014	2512	2326
Cézanne	Paul	French	Male	1839	1906	2510	2434
Gauguin	Paul	French	Male	1848	1903	2503	2386
Arman	American/French	Male	1928	2005	2503	2346
Vlaminck	Maurice de	French	Male	1876	1958	2487	2150
Dongen	Kees van	Dutch/French	Male	1877	1968	2473	2218
Tiffany Studios	American	Unknown	1878	1938	2448	2277
Munch	Edvard	Norwegian	Male	1863	1944	2424	2355
Kapoor	Anish	British/Indian	Male	1954	2413	2269
Chadwick	Lynn	British	Male	1914	2003	2412	2303
Adams	Ansel	American	Male	1902	1984	2397	2310
Sugimoto	Hiroshi	Japanese	Male	1948	2393	2278
Nolde	Emil	German	Male	1867	1956	2383	2212
Rosenquist	James	American	Male	1933	2017	2354	2305
Drexler	Lynne	American	Unknown	1928	1999	2352	2334
Christo and Jeanne-Claude	American	Both	2324	2154
Scully	Sean	American/Irish	Male	1945	2322	2286
Boudin	Eugène	French	Male	1824	1898	2318	2082
Peyton	Elizabeth	American	Female	1965	2307	2252
Whitney	Stanley	American	Male	1946	2296	2269
Chamberlain	John	American	Male	1927	2011	2284	2194
Serra	Richard	American	Male	1938	2274	2215
Klimt	Gustav	Austrian	Male	1862	1918	2246	2020
Oldenburg	Claes	American	Male	1929	2022	2231	2171
Matta	Roberto	Chilean	Male	1911	2002	2228	1987
Goya	Francisco	Spanish	Male	1746	1828	2226	2191
Penck	A.R.	German	Male	1939	2017	2206	2036
Uecker	Günther	German	Male	1930	2205	2076
Hartung	Hans	French/German	Male	1904	1989	2195	2083
Saint Phalle	Niki de	French	Female	1930	2002	2180	2040
Hodgkin	Howard	British	Male	1932	2017	2174	2144
Lowry	L.S.	British	Male	1887	1976	2167	2025
Avedon	Richard	American	Male	1923	2004	2124	2032
Nevelson	Louise	American	Female	1899	1988	2120	2043
Marden	Brice	American	Male	1938	2023	2112	2060
Opie	Julian	British	Male	1958	2108	2018
Bradford	Mark	American	Male	1961	2104	2088
Vuillard	Édouard	French	Male	1868	1940	2101	1890
Rokkaku	Ayako	Japanese	Female	1982	2098	1977
Noland	Kenneth	American	Male	1924	2010	2077	1985
Utrillo	Maurice	French	Male	1883	1955	2071	1887
Le Pho	French/Vietnamese	Male	1907	2001	2038	1720
Lam	Wifredo	Cuban	Male	1902	1982	2037	1931
Baldessari	John	American	Male	1931	2020	2035	1968
Walker	Caroline	Scottish	Unknown	1982	2032	2028
Riopelle	Jean-Paul	Canadian	Male	1923	2002	2022	1966
Penn	Irving	American	Male	1917	2009	2003	1923
Muniz	Vik	Brazilian	Male	1961	2001	1936
Kruger	Barbara	American	Female	1945	1996	1945
Poliakoff	Serge	Russian	Male	1906	1969	1968	1800
Hughes	Shara	American	Female	1981	1946	1901
Mehretu	Julie	American	Female	1970	1942	1916
Lalique	René	French	Male	1860	1945	1942	1890
Beckmann	Max	German	Male	1884	1950	1940	1889
Shiraga	Kazuo	Japanese	Male	1924	2008	1935	1873
Signac	Paul	French	Male	1863	1935	1913	1803
Avery	Milton	American	Male	1885	1965	1881	1788
Tamayo	Rufino	Mexican	Male	1899	1991	1879	1759
Stingel	Rudolf	Italian	Male	1956	1863	1785
O'Keeffe	Georgia	American	Female	1887	1986	1854	1786
Grotjahn	Mark	American	Male	1968	1848	1784
Yiadom-Boakye	Lynette	British	Female	1977	1848	1846
Beard	Peter	American	Male	1938	2020	1842	1743
Christo	Bulgarian	Male	1935	2020	1828	1755
Liu Ye	Chinese	Male	1964	1810	1721
Hofmann	Hans	American/German	Male	1880	1966	1806	1751
Dumas	Marlene	South African	Female	1953	1795	1763
Pettibon	Raymond	American	Male	1957	1758	1644
Kippenberger	Martin	German	Male	1953	1997	1752	1642
Ai Weiwei	Chinese	Male	1957	1749	1644
Fini	Leonor	Argentine/Italian	Female	1907	1996	1742	1555
Masson	André	French	Male	1896	1987	1735	1576
Kentridge	William	South African	Male	1955	1731	1646
Marini	Marino	Italian	Male	1901	1980	1719	1605
Grosz	George	German	Male	1893	1959	1716	1450
Feininger	Lyonel	American/German	Male	1871	1956	1701	1657
Ryman	Robert	American	Male	1930	2019	1698	1688
Nicholson	Ben	British	Male	1894	1982	1692	1641
Adnan	Etel	Lebanese	Female	1925	2021	1676	1650
Morandi	Giorgio	Italian	Male	1890	1964	1668	1604
Schifano	Mario	Italian	Male	1934	1998	1667	1529
Delaunay	Sonia	French/Ukrainian	Female	1885	1979	1660	1474
Maillol	Aristide	French	Male	1861	1944	1657	1554
Scharf	Kenny	American	Male	1958	1652	1587
West	Franz	Austrian	Male	1947	2012	1651	1492
Derain	André	French	Male	1880	1954	1611	1455
Shrigley	David	British	Unknown	1968	1609	1555
Rivera	Diego	Mexican	Male	1886	1957	1608	1462
Schnabel	Julian	American	Male	1951	1603	1525
Duchamp	Marcel	French	Male	1887	1968	1586	1543
Calleja	Javier	Spanish	Male	1971	1582	1549
Goldin	Nan	American	Female	1953	1579	1527
Neel	Alice	American	Female	1900	1984	1579	1557
Ghenie	Adrian	Romanian	Male	1977	1574	1533
Beuys	Joseph	German	Male	1921	1986	1560	1480
Gursky	Andreas	German	Male	1955	1553	1519
Carrington	Leonora	British/Mexican	Female	1917	2011	1551	1473
Cragg	Tony	British	Male	1949	1541	1472
Invader	French	Unknown	1969	1539	1465
César	French	Male	1921	1998	1528	1482
Fadojutimi	Jadé	British	Unknown	1993	1514	1509
Cassatt	Mary	American	Female	1844	1926	1504	1418
Cartier-Bresson	Henri	French	Male	1908	2004	1502	1448
Soto	Jesús Rafael	Venezuelan	Male	1923	2005	1485	1375
Chillida	Eduardo	Spanish	Male	1924	2002	1478	1416
Sisley	Alfred	French	Male	1839	1899	1467	1411
Mathieu	Georges	French	Male	1921	2012	1466	1377
Newton	Helmut	Australian/German	Male	1920	2004	1461	1397
Royère	Jean	French	Male	1902	1981	1459	1356
Eggleston	William	American	Male	1939	1459	1299
Valtat	Louis	French	Male	1869	1952	1446	1260
Luce	Maximilien	French	Male	1858	1941	1441	1297
Holzer	Jenny	American	Female	1950	1440	1395
Wong	Matthew	Canadian	Male	1984	2019	1438	1420
Heckel	Erich	German	Male	1883	1970	1427	1284
Zeng Fanzhi	Chinese	Male	1964	1415	1339
Staël	Nicolas de	French/Russian	Male	1914	1955	1413	1365
Close	Chuck	American	Male	1940	2021	1407	1389
Fairey	Shepard	American	Male	1970	1396	1355
Corot	Jean-Baptiste-Camille	French	Male	1796	1875	1395	1198
Raza	Sayed Haider	Indian	Male	1922	2016	1386	1195
Pollock	Jackson	American	Male	1912	1956	1385	1358
Prouvé	Jean	French	Male	1901	1984	1384	1295
Laurencin	Marie	French	Female	1883	1956	1382	1267
Mr. Brainwash	French	Male	1966	1379	1325
Arbus	Diane	American	Female	1923	1971	1378	1340
Rouault	Georges	French	Male	1871	1958	1371	1248
Rubens	Peter Paul	Flemish	Male	1577	1640	1370	1225
Hollowell	Loie	American	Female	1983	1365	1362
Steir	Pat	American	Female	1940	1361	1336
Ancart	Harold	Belgian	Male	1980	1355	1321
Mangold	Robert	American	Male	1937	1354	1323
Knoebel	Imi	German	Male	1940	1343	1226
Dorazio	Piero	Italian	Male	1927	2005	1339	1250
Pistoletto	Michelangelo	Italian	Male	1933	1318	1252
Jawlensky	Alexej von	Russian	Male	1864	1941	1317	1206
Lempicka	Tamara de	Polish	Female	1898	1980	1314	1234
Rivers	Larry	American	Male	1923	2002	1312	1261
Marquet	Albert	French	Male	1875	1947	1312	1182
Frank	Robert	American/Swiss	Male	1924	2019	1308	1226
Park Seo-Bo	Korean	Male	1931	2023	1307	1231
Martinez	Eddie	American	Male	1977	1306	1274
Miller	Harland	British	Male	1964	1303	1285
Barnes	Ernie	American	Male	1938	2009	1301	1276
Ligon	Glenn	American	Male	1960	1301	1283
Rondinone	Ugo	Swiss	Male	1964	1288	1236
Ruby	Sterling	American	Male	1972	1286	1258
Kline	Franz	American	Male	1910	1962	1285	1224
Pechstein	Max	German	Male	1881	1955	1278	1221
Schütte	Thomas	German	Male	1954	1264	1232
Bearden	Romare	American	Male	1911	1988	1242	1208
Husain	M.F	Indian	Male	1913	2011	1236	1025
Ruff	Thomas	German	Male	1958	1234	1152
Valdés	Manolo	Spanish	Male	1942	1233	1188
Cahn	Miriam	Swiss	Unknown	1949	1231	1217
Kollwitz	Käthe	German	Female	1867	1945	1228	1064
Clemente	Francesco	Italian	Male	1952	1227	1167
Fautrier	Jean	French	Male	1898	1964	1220	1176
Boafo	Amoako	Ghanaian	Male	1984	1215	1212
Krasner	Lee	American	Female	1908	1984	1213	1185
Kisling	Moïse	French/Polish	Male	1891	1953	1212	971
Burri	Alberto	Italian	Male	1915	1995	1208	1163
Liebermann	Max	German	Male	1847	1935	1198	1083
Archipenko	Alexander	American/Ukrainian	Male	1887	1964	1198	1138
Gottlieb	Adolph	American	Male	1903	1974	1194	1172
Gilbert & George	British	Male	1192	1159
Lipchitz	Jacques	American/French	Male	1891	1973	1187	1122
Pomodoro	Arnaldo	Italian	Male	1926	1185	1090
Venet	Bernar	French	Male	1941	1180	1147
Wu Guanzhong	Chinese	Male	1919	2010	1180	1011
Nauman	Bruce	American	Male	1941	1174	1144
Mondrian	Piet	Dutch	Male	1872	1944	1173	1125
Kelley	Mike	American	Male	1954	2012	1173	1143
Nitsch	Hermann	Austrian	Male	1938	2022	1172	1099
Bas	Hernan	American	Male	1978	1172	1149
Andre	Carl	American	Male	1935	1170	1141
Weston	Edward	American	Male	1886	1958	1170	1059
Castellani	Enrico	Italian	Male	1930	2017	1170	1126
Noguchi	Isamu	American	Male	1904	1988	1165	1127
Bochner	Mel	American	Male	1940	1163	1137
Celmins	Vija	American/Latvian	Female	1938	1163	1154
Delvaux	Paul	Belgian	Male	1897	1994	1156	1118
Guyton	Wade	American	Male	1972	1155	1111
Hammons	David	American	Male	1943	1151	1139
Plans	Edgar	Spanish	Unknown	1977	1127	1091
Nakashima	George	American	Male	1905	1990	1123	1048
Whistler	James Abbott McNeill	American	Male	1834	1903	1121	1070
Bernhardt	Katherine	American	Female	1975	1120	1077
Perry	Grayson	British	Male	1960	1120	1059

*data as of December 20, 2023

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