Kate Breakey Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Kate Breakey Art Value Price Guide

Nov. 23, 2024
Photograph, Kate Breakey
Est: $150 - $250
Kate Breakey (Australian, b. 1957), "African Daisy," hand-colored digital pigment print, pencil signed lower right, edition 34/60, image: 24"h x 24"w, sheet: 34"h x 29.5"w, overall (with frame): 40"h x 35.25"w
Clars Auctions
Nov. 08, 2024
KATE BREAKEY (AUSTRALIA, 1957-)
Est: $600 - $800
KATE BREAKEY (AUSTRALIA, 1957- ) "Big Tree, Birmingham", from Breakey's "Golden Stardust" series, archival black and white pigment print on art glass backed with 24K gold leaf, signed, titled and marked #4/20 on label affixed verso, in a dark stained wooden frame, OS: 13" x 15 1/2", SS: 8" x 10 1/2".
Thomaston Place Auction Galleries
Nov. 08, 2024
KATE BREAKEY (AUSTRALIA, 1957-)
Est: $600 - $800
KATE BREAKEY (AUSTRALIA, 1957- ) "Bent Tree, Mexico", from Breakey's "Golden Stardust" series, archival black and white pigment print on art glass backed with 24K gold leaf, signed, titled and marked #2/20 on label affixed verso, in a dark stained wooden frame with gold leaf inner lip, OS: 12 1/2" x 15", SS: 8" x 10 1/2".
Thomaston Place Auction Galleries
Oct. 18, 2024
Photograph, Kate Breakey
Est: $300 - $500
Kate Breakey (Australian, b. 1957), "African Daisy," hand-colored digital pigment print, pencil signed lower right, edition 34/60, image: 24"h x 24"w, sheet: 34"h x 29.5"w, overall (with frame): 40"h x 35.25"w
Clars Auctions
Sep. 19, 2024
Photograph, Kate Breakey
Est: $500 - $700
Kate Breakey (Australian, b. 1957), "African Daisy," hand-colored digital pigment print, pencil signed lower right, edition 34/60, image: 24"h x 24"w, sheet: 34"h x 29.5"w, overall (with frame): 40"h x 35.25"w
Clars Auctions
Aug. 23, 2024
KATE BREAKEY (MAINE, 1957 -)
Est: $300 - $400
KATE BREAKEY (MAINE, 1957 - ) "Golden Stardust" (Leopard Moth), reverse glass painting with 24k gold, signed verso and numbered 5/20, with mystical history of gold. In deep tracery frame, 6" x 5" overall.
Thomaston Place Auction Galleries
Oct. 14, 2022
Kate Breakey
Est: $500 - $700
(Australian, b. 1957) Feather, signed indistinctly, gelatin silver print with oil paint and colored pencil, signed lower right, sight 8-1/2 x 8-1/2 in.; fine wood frame, 21-1/2 x 21-1/2 in. Provenance: Private Collection, Wisconsin
Brunk Auctions
Oct. 14, 2022
Kate Breakey
Est: $800 - $1,200
(Australian, b. 1957) Woodpecker on a Tablecloth, 2008, signed lower right recto, editioned 3/10, gelatin silver print with oil paint on paper, on artist?s original working mount, image 15-1/4 x 15-1/2 in., with mount 19 x 20 in.; unframed Provenance: Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, 2010. This lot is accompanied by a copy of an original receipt for $2,000; Private Collection, Wisconsin
Brunk Auctions
Oct. 14, 2022
Kate Breakey
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
(Australian, b. 1957) Cardinalis cardinalis, Northern Cardinal III, 1998/2000, signed and inscribed image recto, editioned 4/10, gelatin silver print with oil paint and colored pencils, matted and framed, sight 32-1/4 x 31-1/4 in.; dark wood frame 44 x 43 in. Provenance: Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, 2004. This lot is accompanied by copy of original sales receipt for $3,925; Private Collection, Wisconsin
Brunk Auctions
Mar. 26, 2022
Kate Breakey (b. 1957), toned gelatin silver print photogram, Seven Finches in a Yucca, in contemporary frame, 14" x 8".
Est: $100 - $300
Kate Breakey (b. 1957), toned gelatin silver print photogram, Seven Finches in a Yucca, in contemporary frame, 14" x 8".
Nadeau's Auction Gallery
Mar. 26, 2022
Kate Breakey (b. 1957), set of 10 lithographs in color, each pencil signed lower right Kate Breakey, in contemporary frames, from Ca...
Est: $100 - $200
Kate Breakey (b. 1957), set of 10 lithographs in color, each pencil signed lower right Kate Breakey, in contemporary frames, from Cactus Breakey portfolio.
Nadeau's Auction Gallery
Sep. 30, 2020
KATE BREAKEY Wren
Est: $300 - $500
1. KATE BREAKEY Wren's Nest, Arizona, 2006, 12x12" Archival Pigment Print on 16.5x13" paper. Signed, titled, dated and numbered 8/20 pencil margin below print. Etherton Gallery Label Verso with note that this edition was created to support the publication of the Slow Light catalog listed next. ASG# KB5/1 2. KATE BREAKEY Slow Light, Etherton Gallery, 2011. Hard Back, dust jacket signed by the artist. Accompanied by Etherton Gallery envelope with 4 card invitation for the book signing and exhibition 2012. Kate Breakey (b.1957, Australia) has been widely exhibited and collected for 30 years. She lived and worked in Austin, Texas for many years and now lives in Tucson, Arizona. The softness of a cardinal's feather; the arc of a quail's head; the stoic glance of a lifeless bird; the position of a wilted petal; the explosive color of a flower after it blooms. Extinction never looked more beautiful than through the eyes of Kate Breakey, whose large-scale painted photographs of decaying flowers and lifeless birds pay homage to death and the remaining spirits that persist. Credit: Catherine Edelman GalleryOf her photographs she tells of her desire to, "tenderly record the beautiful bodies now in transition towards decomposition and disintegration." Credit: Joseph Bellows Gallery
Andrew Smith Gallery Photography Auctions, LLC
Mar. 30, 2020
Kate Breakey Skipper Framed Art
Est: -
25.5 x 25.25
Aether Auctions
Dec. 12, 2019
Kate Breakey (1957) Helianthus annuus, Sunflower, de la série Flowers, 2001, tirage argentique sur gélatine, rehauts de couleurs à la main, édition de 10, 81x81 cm
Est: CHF3,000 - CHF5,000
Kate Breakey (1957) Helianthus annuus, Sunflower, de la série Flowers, 2001, tirage argentique sur gélatine, rehauts de couleurs à la main, édition de 10, 81x81 cm
Geneve Encheres
Dec. 04, 2018
KATE BREAKEY
Est: CHF6,000 - CHF9,000
KATE BREAKEY (1957) "Helianthus annuus, Sunflower", 2001. From the series "Flowers". Gelatin silver print, hand-coloured with oil and colored pencil. 81.3 x 81.3 cm. Below in the image fully signed and titled. From an edition of 10 prints. Under passepartout, framed. Literature: - Kate Breakey. Small Deaths. Photographs. Austin, 2001 (ill. p. 27). - Kate Breakey. Flowers/ Birds. Ringwood, 2002. - Artist's website, http://www.katebreakey.com/small-deaths-birds-flowers/45np3y57l49mmasy8u0b31iikc2idy (21.10.2018). Provenance: - Swiss private collection. Sold out edition, currently not available. Kate Breakey was born in Adelaide, South Australia and moved to the United States in 1988. Her work is part of numerous private and public collections including the Museum of Fine Arts (Houston, TX), Museum of Photographic Arts (San Diego, CA) and Austin Museum of Art (Austin, TX). This is her first solo show in Chicago. Kate Breakey first conceived of this project in 1995 as a visiting lecturer at the University of Texas, when she tried to rescue a sparrow from the claws of a cat. As she said in a 1999 interview, "I realized I couldn't help the circumstances of its death, but I could memorialize it in a photograph." This realization gave birth to a project which has spanned more than nine years and can be seen in two books, Small Deaths (1997) and Flowers/Birds, her recent 2003 monograph. Like the early practitioners of nature morte or mementos mori paintings and photographs, Breakey embraces death as part of life, understanding their parallels. She is careful to present these small deaths as they appeared in reality, photographing her subjects and then painstakingly painting each feather and stamen its true natural color. Enlarging them to 32 x 32", Breakey paints back the colors death has absorbed, using oil paint and colored pencils. These larger-than-life portraits act as memorials to the small creatures found within the desert of Tucson (where she now lives) and in packages sent from friends all over the country. The resulting images are both startlingly beautiful and arresting, as small creatures and objects gain a heroic status. Through Breakey's art, we confront our own mortality and the fears or solace it elicits. --------------- KATE BREAKEY (1957) "Helianthus annuus, Sunflower", 2001. Aus der Serie "Flowers". Silbergelatine-Abzug, mit Öl und Farbstift handkoloriert. 81,3 x 81,3 cm. Unten im Bild voll signiert und betitelt. Aus einer Edition von 10 Exemplaren. Unter Passepartout, gerahmt. Literatur: - Kate Breakey. Small Deaths. Photographs. Austin, 2001 (Abb. S. 27). - Kate Breakey. Flowers/ Birds. Ringwood, 2002. - Homepage der Künstlerin, http://www.katebreakey.com/small-deaths-birds-flowers/45np3y57l49mmasy8u0b31iikc2idy (21.10.2018). Provenienz: - Schweizer Privatbesitz. Im Handel ausverkaufte und zurzeit nicht greifbare Edition.
Koller Auctions
Dec. 04, 2018
KATE BREAKEY
Est: CHF6,000 - CHF9,000
KATE BREAKEY (1957) "Rosa grandiflora, White Rose.", 2006. From the series "Flowers". Gelatin silver print, hand-coloured with oil and colored pencil. 81.3 x 81.3 cm. Below in the image fully signed and titled. From an edition of 10 prints. Under passepartout, framed. Literature: - Kate Breakey. Flowers/ Birds. Ringwood, 2002. - Artist's website, http://www.katebreakey.com/small-deaths-birds-flowers/esvc6n4duhc3fn3ecokcyx5q05wlre (21.10.2018). Provenance: - Swiss private collection. Sold out edition, currently not available. "I begin with a photograph — a highly convincing illusion, a map of reality, a piece of evidence rendered in silver-grey tones. This I smear and coat with oil paint in many transparent layers — the layers of emotional subjectivity — lies, dreams, delusions, exaggerations and embellishments. If I am lucky the media combine, become enmeshed and inseparable, a curious marriage of what might be real and what is imagined or desired. They now collude to play with my perceptions about what truth is, my favourite game. I am a sensualist. I admit to my seduction by texture, colour, light and form. It is my deepest pleasure, my lovely addiction." (Kate Breakey zit. nach Homepage der Galerie Catherine Edelman,http://www.edelmangallery.com/artists/artists/a-f/kate-breakey.html#?id=4822 (21.10.2018). --------------- KATE BREAKEY (1957) "Rosa grandiflora, White Rose.", 2006. Aus der Serie "Flowers". Silbergelatine-Abzug, mit Öl und Farbstift handkoloriert. 81,3 x 81,3 cm. Unten im Bild voll signiert und betitelt. Aus einer Edition von 10 Exemplaren. Unter Passepartout, gerahmt. Literatur: - Kate Breakey. Flowers/ Birds. Ringwood, 2002. - Homepage der Künstlerin, http://www.katebreakey.com/small-deaths-birds-flowers/esvc6n4duhc3fn3ecokcyx5q05wlre (21.10.2018). Provenienz: - Schweizer Privatbesitz. Im Handel ausverkaufte und zurzeit nicht greifbare Edition. "I begin with a photograph - a highly convincing illusion, a map of reality, a piece of evidence rendered in silver-grey tones. This I smear and coat with oil paint in many transparent layers - the layers of emotional subjectivity - lies, dreams, delusions, exaggerations and embellishments. If I am lucky the media combine, become enmeshed and inseparable, a curious marriage of what might be real and what is imagined or desired. They now collude to play with my perceptions about what truth is, my favourite game. I am a sensualist. I admit to my seduction by texture, colour, light and form. It is my deepest pleasure, my lovely addiction." (Kate Breakey zit. nach Homepage der Galerie Catherine Edelman, http://www.edelmangallery.com/artists/artists/a-f/kate-breakey.html#?id=4822 (21.10.2018).
Koller Auctions
May. 29, 2015
"Small Deathes" by Kate Breakey, signed by the photographer, Kate Breakey, copyright 2001, 168 pages, excellent condition
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"Small Deathes" by Kate Breakey, signed by the photographer, Kate Breakey, copyright 2001, 168 pages, excellent condition
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