Public auction records show that paintings by American artist Kehinde Wiley have sold for prices between $4,375 (2008) and $846,194 (2024). The latter is Wiley’s auction record, which was achieved for Christian Martyr Tarcisius (2008), an oil on canvas depicting a young Black man whose recumbent posture references French artist Alexandre Falguière’s 1868 sculpture Tarcisius, martyr chrétien. Wiley’s works in other media, such as sculpture, have sold for prices from $3,000 (2018) to $403,200 (2021).
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