Walter De Maria

American | 1935 - 2013

Walter De Maria was an American Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1935. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Kroller-Muller Museum have featured Walter De Maria's work in the past.Walter De Maria's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 125 USD to 577,000 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 1998 the record price for this artist at auction is 577,000 USD for Circle/Rectangle 7 (Large Rod Series), sold at Sotheby's New York in 2007. In the past 12 months, their artworks have averaged 5,544 USD.Walter De Maria has been featured in articles for , and . The most recent article is written for Christie's Daily in May 2025. The artist died in 2013.

At Auction

Notable Lots

Large Rod Series: Circle/Rectangle 5, 7, 9, 11, 13 - Walter De Maria

Large Rod Series: Circle/Rectangle 5, 7, 9, 11, 13 ,1985

By Walter De Maria

-20%

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High Energy Bar ,1966

By Walter De Maria

+83%

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Circle/Rectangle 7 (Large Rod Series)

By Walter De Maria

+38%

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Recent Auction Results

'PICASSO - AFRICA' ,1974

By Walter De Maria

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Loaves of bed / There in a Bed - Better rest your head / Pun Machine / Smoke - Walter De Maria

Loaves of bed / There in a Bed - Better rest your head / Pun Machine / Smoke ,1961

By Walter De Maria

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Grey Mountains with Jet Plane - Walter De Maria

Grey Mountains with Jet Plane ,1962

By Walter De Maria

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Past Exhibitions

Now on view

Kroller-Muller Museum

Otterlo | Netherlands

Nov 16,2024 - Jun 01,2025

Difference and Repetition

Gagosian, Paris (rue de Ponthieu)

8e | Paris | France

Apr 02,2025 - May 31,2025

How to Go On?

+MSUM - Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova

Ljubljana | Slovenia

Feb 20,2024 - Feb 20,2025

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Articles

Christie's Daily 14/05/2025

Edzard Reuter was a trailblazer in industry, and he and his wife were equally visionary in their approach to collecting, with a focus on radical 20th-century artists including Heinz Mack, Yves Klein and Lucio Fontana.

Art Review 06/05/2025

The latest edition in Coachella Valley frames its largescale artistic commissions as social and emotional 鈥榮ervice stations.鈥�

ArtLyst 26/02/2025

To what extent is the famous Italian art movement Arte Povera a 鈥榩oor art鈥� rebellion or a rich man鈥檚 game? After a major survey in Paris, we look at the history of the Faustian pact Germano Celant made with the market in service of Italian art.

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Coverage

鈥� ..The hundred-unit list is made up of pictograms, tidbits of advice, questions, and keywords: a task-oriented puzzle that relies upon the viewer's instinct... 鈥�
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Gagosian Gallery, London (Britannia Street)

鈥� .. While he considered each sixteen-foot long car as a beautiful object in itself, the artist has intervened with a component familiar within his work: a highly polished metal rod... 鈥�
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The Menil Collection

鈥� .. Each rod has a distinct geometric shape: again the primary forms of a square, a circle, and a triangle... 鈥�
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The Menil Collection

鈥� ..Each pair consists of two arrangements of four rods upon granite bases: one composition is a chevron pattern and the other resembles an "X." Each base has "TRUTH" and "BEAUTY" engraved on opposite sides... 鈥�
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Gagosian Gallery, London (Britannia Street)

鈥� ..Archival materials document MoMA's relationship with and involvement in the momentous events of the time... 鈥�
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