Art Market Monitor

Global Coverage ~ Unique Analysis

  • AMMpro
  • AMM Fantasy Collecting Game
  • Podcast
  • Contact Us

Vanity Fair Asks Artists to Rank the World’s Artists

November 4, 2013 by Marion Maneker

greatest-living-artists-poll-survey.sw.16.artist-ballots-greatest-living-ss12

Vanity Fair polled 100 artists to get their top six living artists. Fifty four of those contacted responded, a number that surprised Mark Stevens, deKooning’s biographer and an astute critic (read his accompanying essay here.) To see who voted, click here.

The Most-Voted-for Artists

Gerhard Richter: 24 votes
Jasper Johns: 20 votes
Richard Serra: 19 votes
Bruce Nauman: 17 votes
Cindy Sherman: 12 votes
Ellsworth Kelly: 10 votes

Other Artists Nominated

Artists Who Received Five Votes
David Hammons, Brice Marden, Ed Ruscha, James Turrell, Kara Walker

Artists Who Received Four Votes
John Baldessari, William Kentridge, Jeff Koons, Ai Weiwei

Artists Who Received Three Votes
Marina Abramovic, Robert Adams, Chris Burden, Chuck Close, Walter De Maria, William Eggleston, Robert Gober, Damien Hirst, David Hockney, Anish Kapoor, Alex Katz, Anselm Kiefer, Claes Oldenburg, Philippe Parreno, Sarah Sze, Lawrence Weiner

Artists Who Received Two Votes
Richard Artschwager (died February 9, 2013), Matthew Barney, Georg Baselitz, Mark Bradford, Vija Celmins, Tacita Dean, Marlene Dumas, Gilbert and George, Robert Irwin, Antonio Lopez Garcia, Christian Marclay, Steve McQueen, Julie Mehretu, Cildo Meireles, Takashi Murakami, Shirin Neshat, Yoko Ono, Bridget Riley, Dana Schutz, Rosemarie Trockel, Richard Tuttle, Luc Tuymans, Jeff Wall

Paint By Numbers (Vanity Fair)

The Full List of Participants and Nominees in Our Greatest-Living-Artist Survey (Vanity Fair)

More from Art Market Monitor

  • Samuel Goldwyn’s Art Collection On Offer at Sotheby’sSamuel Goldwyn’s Art Collection On Offer at Sotheby’s
  • Christie’s Milan Contemporary = $18.1mChristie’s Milan Contemporary = $18.1m
  • ArtHK12 Photos
  • Hoffman Claims Chinese Want to Borrow to Buy ArtHoffman Claims Chinese Want to Borrow to Buy Art
  • Basel Booths on InstagramBasel Booths on Instagram
  • Turkish Contemporary Makes for ChinaTurkish Contemporary Makes for China

Filed Under: Artists

About Marion Maneker

Want to get Art Market Monitor‘s posts sent to you in our email? Sign up below by clicking on the Subscribe button.

Top Posts

  • Keith Haring’s 1989 Retrospect Comes to Sotheby’s London Prints Sale
  • Restituted Van Gogh Portrait from London Collection to Sell at Christie’s
  • Tony Podesta's Secret Art Buying
  • Four of Picasso's Women Valued at $28m Come to Christie's from Rose-Walters Collection
  • Norman Rockwell's Not Gay. But Is He a Great Artist?
  • Roy Lichtenstein’s Top Ten Auction Prices
  • Christie’s to Sell Its First Fully Digital Work of Art in Test of Emerging Market
  • How to Chant Like an Auctioneer
  • Podcast
  • Basquiat's Last Girlfriend
  • About Us/ Contact
  • Podcast
  • AMMpro
  • Newsletter
  • FAQ

twitterfacebooksoundcloud
Privacy Policy
Terms & Conditions
California Privacy Rights
Do Not Sell My Personal Information
Advertise on Art Market Monitor