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Franz West was an Austrian Postwar & Contemporary sculptor who was born in 1947. His work is currently being shown at multiple venues like Kunstmuseum Bern. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Museum der Moderne Salzburg, M枚nchsberg have featured Franz West's work in the past.Franz West's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 11 USD to 871,500 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 1998 the record price for this artist at auction is 871,500 USD for Untitled, sold at Christie's New York in 2017. In the past 12 months, his installation art have averaged 160,679 USD, while his architecture & design have sold for an average of 71,740 USD.Franz West has been featured in articles for , and . The most recent article is written for ArtDaily in September 2025. The artist died in 2012.
The Line is omnipresent in art: it defines form, structures surfaces, creates contours, separates and connects, traces time and space, and captures the imaginary.
The Line is omnipresent in art: it defines form, structures surfaces, creates contours, separates and connects, traces time and space, and captures the imaginary.
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..Considered one of Europe鈥檚 most influential living artists, West is known for work that has played a critical role in redefining the possibilities of sculpture and the ways that art is experienced...
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..These two principles 鈥 the combination of works and the viewer's participation 鈥 can be attributed to West's principle that the meaning of a pictorial-linguistic element can never be conclusively and unequivocally...
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