Ellen Altfest

American | 1971

Ellen Altfest is an American Postwar & Contemporary painter who was born in 1971. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens have featured Ellen Altfest's work in the past.Ellen Altfest's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 3,810 USD to 80,500 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2012 the record price for this artist at auction is 80,500 USD for The Tree, sold at Christie's New York in 2012. Ellen Altfest has been featured in articles for , and . The most recent article is written for ArtDaily in February 2025.

At Auction

Notable Lots

Tumbleweed ,2005

By Ellen Altfest

Green Rock ,2004

By Ellen Altfest

Ear ,2011

By Ellen Altfest

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Recent Auction Results

Ear ,2011

By Ellen Altfest

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Side Face ,2011

By Ellen Altfest

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Sleeping Man ,2007

By Ellen Altfest

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Past Exhibitions

Spotlight: Ellen Altfest

The FLAG Art Foundation

Chelsea | New York | USA

Feb 27,2025 - Apr 05,2025

Suppose You Are Not

ARTER

Beyoglu | Istanbul | Turkey

Jan 19,2024 - Dec 29,2024

9th Biennial of Painting: Stories from the Ground

Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens

Deurle | Belgium

Jun 30,2024 - Oct 06,2024

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Articles

ArtDaily 27/02/2025

The Spotlight series includes a new or never-before-exhibited artwork paired with a commissioned piece of writing, creating focused and thoughtful conversations between the visual arts and authors, critics, poets, scholars, and beyond.

e-flux 10/12/2024

St. John鈥檚 College is pleased to announce the January opening of Nature鈥檚 Readymades, an exhibition of gongshi (scholars鈥� rocks or viewing stones) drawn from the National Bonsai & Penjing Museum in Washington.

Two Coats of Paint 07/05/2019

Contributed by Sharon Butler / This year the 17 artists who get free studio space in DUMBO were selected by jurors Ellen Altfest, Phong Bui, Deborah Kass, Philip Pearlstein, and Daniel Turner from (gasp) 1700 applicants.

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鈥� ..Titled after a painting that portrays a voyeuristic glance of a penis through a bent leg, Altfest often surprises the viewer and interweaves candid humour into her work... 鈥�
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White Cube, London (Hoxton Square)

鈥� ..By choosing to focus on body parts that are rarely observed at length or in detail, Altfest renders them in isolation so they appear seemingly unfamiliar and disconnected... 鈥�
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White Cube, London (Hoxton Square)

鈥� ..Masculine in their features, Altfest selects her models carefully, some more hirsute than others, though they are not necessarily statuesque in an idealized way... 鈥�
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White Cube, London (Hoxton Square)

鈥� ..Altfest is a figurative painter whose intimately scaled works convey a distinct approach to realism and a sustained commitment to looking... 鈥�
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New Museum, New York

鈥� ..Eschewing traditional compositional formats in favor of unexpected cropping and juxtapositions, Altfest creates a compelling friction in the picture plane... 鈥�
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New Museum, New York