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Genieve Figgis is an Irish Postwar & Contemporary painter who was born in 1972. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Harper's East Hampton have featured Genieve Figgis's work in the past.Genieve Figgis's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 525 USD to 638,691 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2018 the record price for this artist at auction is 638,691 USD for Debutants Ball, sold at Christie's Shanghai in 2022. In the past 12 months, her artworks have averaged 13,925 USD.Genieve Figgis has been featured in articles for , and . The most recent article is written for Wallpaper
in August 2025.
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..Like Vel谩zquez鈥檚 artist at the easel, Figgis engages with the histories of the power dynamics at play within figurative painting and the latently subversive potential of her medium of choice...
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..If the original portrait was designed to commemorate the subjects鈥 expanded properties through their recent marriage, Figgis relocates the couple to a landscape of endless dissolution, the beauty of her...
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..Despite this lack of naturalistic detail, Figgis鈥檚 paintings are exceedingly elaborate and textural, layered with brilliantly hued patterns of marbleized acrylic that appear at once highly controlled and...
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