Jonas Mekas

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Lithuanian | 1922 - 2019

Jonas Mekas was a Lithuanian photographer who was born in 1922. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Carr茅 d'Art, Mus茅e d'art contemporain de N卯mes have featured Jonas Mekas's work in the past.Jonas Mekas's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 211 USD to 3,543 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2004 the record price for this artist at auction is 3,543 USD for Cassis Summer, sold at Christie's Paris in 2007. Jonas Mekas has been featured in articles for , and . The most recent article is written for HYPEBEAST in October 2025. The artist died in 2019.

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Holy Fools (John Lennon ,2012

By Jonas Mekas

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Oona, Central Park, New York City - Jonas Mekas

Oona, Central Park, New York City ,1977

By Jonas Mekas

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Untitled, 1994 ,1994

By Jonas Mekas

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Kyoko, Yoko Ono's daughter on her 7th Birthday - Jonas Mekas

Kyoko, Yoko Ono's daughter on her 7th Birthday ,1969

By Jonas Mekas

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Holy Fools (John Lennon ,2012

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Artists' Book ,2003

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Past Exhibitions

Jonas Mekas: A small table with a bottle of wine, garlic, sausage, bread

Microscope Gallery

Chelsea | New York | USA

08 Dec, 2022 - 21 Jan, 2023

Jonas Mekas: The Camera Was Always Running

The Jewish Museum New York

Upper East Side | New York | USA

18 Feb, 2022 - 05 Jun, 2022

ONLINE: Jonas Mekas: My Two Families

James Fuentes, New York (Delancey Str)

Lower East Side | New York | USA

17 Feb, 2022 - 15 Mar, 2022

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Articles

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鈥� ..Mekas developed his diaristic film style in the 1960s and is best known for his 'film diaries' in which he recorded, with great sensitivity, his day-to-day activities as well as those of many of his peers... 鈥�
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Serpentine Gallery

鈥� ..Mekas's remarkable work in film and video brings a poet's sensibility to the documentary style... 鈥�
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Serpentine Gallery

鈥� ..Jonas Mekas鈥檚 oeuvre is an ode to the vitality of daily life... 鈥�
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National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea, Seoul

鈥� ..Through non-narrative, kaleidoscopic editing, Mekas assembles these moments into lyrical films that evince the language of poetry... 鈥�
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National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea, Seoul

鈥� ..Through this correlation, we see how Mekas ingeniously uses his cinema of joy to respond to the ubiquitous enigma of violence... 鈥�
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National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea, Seoul

黑料不打烊

Jonas Mekas

Featured for Sale

Holy Fools (John Lennon ,2012

At Auction

Notable Lots

Oona, Central Park, New York City ,1977

Untitled, 1994 ,1994

Kyoko, Yoko Ono's daughter on her 7th Birthday ,1969

Upcoming Lots

Holy Fools (John Lennon ,2012

Recent Auction Results

MPG 112-IV

Holy Fools (John Lennon ,2012

Artists' Book ,2003

Past Exhibitions

Jonas Mekas: A small table with a bottle of wine, garlic, sausage, bread

Jonas Mekas: The Camera Was Always Running

ONLINE: Jonas Mekas: My Two Families

Articles

'Magma No. 3' to Launch in Paris with Bottega Veneta

J. Hoberman鈥檚 New Book About 1960s NYC Brims with Downtown Delights

Group Exhibition 'Origin of the Stone' Features Artists from Central Europe Now at Gandy Gallery

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