Allan Kaprow

American | 1927 - 2006

Allan Kaprow was an American Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1927.

How much does an Allan Kaprow cost?

Allan Kaprow's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 111 USD to 214,127 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork.

What is Allan Kaprow's most expensive painting?

Since 2007 the record price for this artist at auction is 214,127 USD for Hysteria, sold at Christie's South Kensington in 2015.

Where can I see Allan Kaprow's works?

Their work is currently being shown at Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin. Numerous key galleries and museums such as MACRO, Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome have featured Allan Kaprow's work in the past.

Allan Kaprow in the news

Allan Kaprow has been featured in articles for , and . The most recent article is written for MOUSSE Magazine in September 2024. The artist died in 2006.

At Auction

Notable Lots

Hysteria ,1956

By Allan Kaprow

+2241%

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Rates of exchange ,1975

By Allan Kaprow

+139%

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Tires Totem ,1994

By Allan Kaprow

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Recent Auction Results

Rates of exchange ,1975

By Allan Kaprow

+139%

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"Calling (Self Portrait)

By Allan Kaprow

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Calling (Self Portrait),

By Allan Kaprow

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Current Exhibitions

Extreme Tension: Art Between Politics And Society 1945鈥�1990

Neue Nationalgalerie

Mitte | Berlin | Germany

Nov 18,2023 - Sep 28,2025

Past Exhibitions

Post Scriptum. A museum forgotten by heart

MACRO, Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome

Rome | Italy

Oct 04,2024 - Feb 16,2025

Allan Kaprow: Yard

MACRO, Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome

Rome | Italy

Sep 05,2024 - Feb 16,2025

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Articles

MOUSSE Magazine 09/04/2025

鈥淒ancing in the Streets (On Power)鈥� focuses on temporary art forms鈥攑erformances, happenings, situations, and manifestations.

MOUSSE Magazine 27/09/2024

Yard was originally made in 1961 for the group exhibition 鈥淓nvironments, Situations, Spaces鈥� at the Martha Jackson Gallery in New York.

ARTnews 30/08/2024

Periodically, a close-up image of a smiling Ed Sheeran will pop into my head, jolting me into consciousness.

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Coverage

鈥� .. YARD has since been re-invented over 20 times, during Kaprow's lifetime and since his death in 2006... 鈥�
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The Hepworth Wakefield

鈥� ..Kaprow鈥檚 origins as an artist can be traced to a deep-rooted interest in space, subjectivity, and the act of painting... 鈥�
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Hauser & Wirth, New York, 69th Street

鈥� ..Giving birth to what we now broadly describe as installation art, Kaprow challenged the commodification of art and the institution through these time-based, temporary works that encouraged the participation... 鈥�
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The Hepworth Wakefield

鈥� ..Believing that 'the line between art and life should be kept as fluid, and perhaps indistinct, as possible', Kaprow sought to disrupt the conventions by which we engage with works of art and the institutions... 鈥�
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The Hepworth Wakefield

鈥� ..Kaprow conceived many of his environments and 鈥榟appenings鈥� as works that could be repeated, describing subsequent manifestations as 're-inventions' with an emphasis on reinterpreting and transforming the... 鈥�
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The Hepworth Wakefield