The youngest artist to be internationally represented by Gagosian Gallery, is amidst a meteoric rise for her figurative tableaux that are simultaneously infused with playful humor and somber tragedy. Her signature oil paintings illustrate young women undergoing the common experience of striving to maintain appearances while negotiating the inner self-described “low-stakes trauma of girlhood”.

Weyant was born in Calgary, Canada, in 1995. After earning a BFA in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design, she relocated to New York, then studied painting at the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou. Moving back to New York, she worked as a studio assistant while pursuing her own practice. Among her first exhibited works is a sequence of darkly cinematic canvases depicting a dollhouse—modeled after one that she owned as a child—and its young female inhabitants. A later series deconstructs the appearance of American suburbia in Lifetime’s made-for-television movies, casting it as a surreal realm in which violence and disaster lurk just beneath the surface. In her still lifes, Weyant depicts fruit, flowers, and other items in a similarly unsettling light; Lily (2021), for example, juxtaposes the titular bloom with a revolver bound in gold ribbon.

 

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Practical Information

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Anna Weyant
Canada (Born 1995)
Category: Ultra-Contemporary

 

 

Gallery Representation

Gagosian

Anna Weyant | Gagosian

Artist Website

www.annaweyant.com

 

 

PART I: SUMMARY

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Auction Market Overview

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2025 AUCTION STATISTICS
Turnover: USD 117,475
-93% vs. 2024
# Lots sold: 5
Sell-Through Rate: 100%

Highest Price Achieved at Auction:
USD 1,623,000
(17 May 2022)

Anna Weyant made her auction debut at Sotheby’s in Hong-Kong in April 2022 where one of her paintings sold for over USD 500,000. The market has totally dried up in 2025 with no work offered at auction.

 

Auction Summary

2025 Auction Highlights

5 lots sold at auction in 2025 for a total turnover of USD 117,475. With no lot failing to sell, the sell-through rate is 100%. The market for Anna Weyant works has completely dried up in 2025. Only one painting sold at Phillips, in New-York, on 28 February 2025, for USD 63,500. This was a repeat sale, it had last sold at Phillips, in Hong-Kong, on 21 June 2022, for HKD 1,184,400 (USD 150,880).

2025 Top 3 Lots

Furthermore, 4 Works on Paper sold at auction in 2025, at an average price of USD 13,495.

2024 Auction Highlights

9 lots sold at auction in 2024 for a total turnover of USD 1,674,040. With no lot failing to sell, the sell-through rate is 100%. The highest price has been achieved by Buffet II, a painting dated 2021 that sold at Sotheby’s in Hong-Kong on 11 November 2024 for HKD 3,600,000 (USD 463,005). This was a repeat sale, this painting had sold at Phillips in New-York on 18 May 2022 for USD 730,800.

2024 Top 3 Lots

5 lots sold for more than USD 100,000, generating a cumulative turnover of USD 1,553,760, representing 94.9% of the total turnover for 2024.

Furthermore, 2 Works on Paper sold at auction in 2024, at an average price of USD 18,360.

2023 Auction Highlights

11 lots sold at auction in 2023 for a total turnover of USD 2,127,876. With 1 lot failing to sell, the sell-through rate is 92%. The highest price has been achieved by Unconditional Love, a painting dated 2021, sold at Phillips in New-York on 17 May 2023 for USD 609,600.

2023 Top 3 Lots

Furthermore, 3 Works on Paper sold at auction in 2023, at an average price of USD 38,100.

2022 Auction Highlights

19 lots sold at auction in 2022 for a total turnover of USD 9,689,911. The highest price was achieved at Sotheby’s in New-York for Falling Woman, a painting dated 2020, that sold on 19 May 2022 for USD 1,623,000.

2022 Top 3 Lots

3 lots sold for more than USD 1 million, generating a cumulative turnover of USD 4,623,000, representing 48.3% of the total turnover for 2022. Furthermore, 4 Works on Paper sold at auction in 2022, at an average price of USD 32,025.

 

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Top Lots

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#1. Falling Woman, 2020

Sotheby’s New-York: 17 May 2022
Estimated: USD 150,000 – 200,000
USD 1,623,000

Falling Woman | The Now Evening Auction | 2022 | Sotheby’s (sothebys.com)

ANNA WEYANT
Falling Woman, 2020
Oil on canvas
48×36 inches (121.9×91.4 cm)

#2. Summertime, 2020

Christie’s New-York: 9 May 2022
Estimated: USD 200,000 – 300,000
USD 1,500,000

ANNA WEYANT (B. 1995) (christies.com)

ANNA WEYANT
Summertime, 2020
Oil on canvas
30×40 inches (76.2 x 101.6 cm)

#3. Loose Screw, 2020

Christie’s New-York: 16 November 2022
Estimated: USD 300,000 – 500,000
USD 1,500,000

ANNA WEYANT (B. 1995) (christies.com)

ANNA WEYANT (B. 1995)
Loose Screw, 2020
Oil on canvas
48 1/8 x 36 inches (122.2 x 91.4 cm)
Signed and dated ‘Anna Weyant 2020’ (on the reverse)

 

 

PART II: AUCTION RESULTS

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2025 Auction Results

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5 lots sold at auction in 2025 for a total turnover of USD 117,475. With no lot failing to sell, the sell-through rate is 100%. The market for Anna Weyant works has completely dried up in 2025. Only one painting sold at Phillips, in New-York, on 28 February 2025, for USD 63,500. This was a repeat sale, it had last sold at Phillips, in Hong-Kong, on 21 June 2022, for HKD 1,184,400 (USD 150,880).

Furthermore, 4 Works on Paper sold at auction in 2025, at an average price of USD 13,495.

2025 Top 3 Lots

 

#1. Untitled, 2019

Phillips New-York: 28 February 2025
Estimated: USD 50,000 – 70,000
USD 63,500

Anna Weyant – New Now: Modern & Contemporary Art, New York Friday, February 28, 2025 at EST | Phillips

REPEAT SALE

Phillips Hong-Kong: 21 June 2022
Estimated: HKD 200,000 – 300,000
HKD 1,184,400 / USD 150,880

Anna Weyant – 20th Century & Contempor… Lot 101 June 2022 | Phillips

#2. Drawing for “Reposing V”, 2018-2021

Phillips New-York: 28 February 2025
Estimated: USD 18,000 – 22,000
USD 20,320
WORK ON PAPER

Anna Weyant – New Now: Modern & Contemporary Art, New York Friday, February 28, 2025 at EST | Phillips

#3. Untitled, 2019

Phillips New-York: 14 May 2025
Estimated: USD 15,000 – 20,000
USD 17,780
WORK ON PAPER

Anna Weyant Modern & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Afternoon Session

ANNA WEYANT
Untitled, 2019
Pencil crayon on paper
11×15 inches (27.9 x 38.1 cm)

#4. Untitled, 2019

Phillips New-York: 28 February 2025
Estimated: USD 7,000 – 10,000
USD 8,890
WORK ON PAPER

Anna Weyant New Now: Modern & Contemporary Art

ANNA WEYANT
Untitled, 2019
Colored pencil on paper
11×15 inches (27.9 x 38.1 cm)
Signed and dated “Anna Weyant 2019” on the reverse

#5. Untitled, 2019

Phillips New-York: 28 February 2025
Estimated: USD 7,000 – 10,000
USD 6,985
WORK ON PAPER

Anna Weyant New Now: Modern & Contemporary Art

ANNA WEYANT
Untitled, 2019
Colored pencil on paper
11 1/8 x 15 inches (28.3 x 38.1 cm)
Signed and dated “Anna Weyant 2019” on the reverse

 

 

 

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2024 Auction Results

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7 lots sold at auction in 2024 for a total turnover of USD 1,637,320. With no lot failing to sell, the sell-through rate is 100%. The highest price has been achieved by Buffet II, a painting dated 2021 that sold at Sotheby’s in Hong-Kong on 11 November 2024 for HKD 3,600,000 (USD 463,005). This was a repeat sale, this painting had sold at Phillips in New-York on 18 May 2022 for USD 730,800.

5 lots sold for more than USD 100,000, generating a cumulative turnover of USD 1,553,760, representing 94.9% of the total turnover for 2024.

2024 Top 3 Lots

 

#1. Buffet II, 2021

Sotheby’s Hong-Kong: 11 November 2024
Estimated: HKD 3,000,000 – 5,000,000
HKD 3,600,000 / USD 463,005

Anna Weyant 安娜・維揚特 | Buffet II 大餐二號 | Modern & Contemporary Evening Auction | 2024 | Sotheby’s

REPEAT SALE

Phillips New-York: 18 May 2022
Estimated: USD 100,000 – 150,000
USD 730,800

Anna Weyant – 20th Century & Contemporary… Lot 1 May 2022 | Phillips

ANNA WEYANT (1995 – )
Buffet II, 2021
Oil on canvas
48 1/4 x 60 1/8 inches (122.4 x 152.8 cm)
Signed and dated 2021 (on the reverse)

#2. Riverside Drive, 2020

Christie’s New-York: 13 March 2024
Estimated: USD 150,000 – 200,000
USD 378,000

https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-6471938

ANNA WEYANT (B. 1995)
Riverside Drive, 2020
Oil on canvas
28×20 inches (71.1 x 50.8 cm)
Signed and dated ‘Anna Weyant 2020’ (on the reverse)

#3. So Bored, 2019

Phillips London: 10 October 2024
Estimated: GBP 120,000 – 180,000
GBP 266,700 / USD 348,480

Anna Weyant – Modern & Contemporary … Lot 30 October 2024 | Phillips

#4. Bath Time, 2019

Sotheby’s London: 10 October 2024
Estimated: GBP 80,000 – 120,000
GBP 192,000 / USD 250,875

Bath Time | Contemporary Day Auction | 2024 | Sotheby’s

REPEAT SALE

Phillips London: 30 June 2022
Estimated: GBP 80,000 – 120,000
GBP 226,800 / USD 275,778

Anna Weyant – 20th Century & Contempora… Lot 32 June 2022 | Phillips

ANNA WEYANT (B. 1995)
Pear, 2019
Oil on panel
8×8 inches (20.3 x 20.3 cm)
Signed and dated ‘Anna Weyant 2019’ (on the reverse)

#6. The Tale of the Tub, 2019

Sotheby’s New-York: 4 March 2024
Estimated: USD 80,000 – 120,000
USD 50,800

https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2024/contemporary-discoveries-4/the-tale-of-the-tub

REPEAT SALE

Sotheby’s New-York: 9 March 2023
Estimated: USD 150,000 – 200,000
USD 177,800

The Tale of the Tub | Contemporary Curated | 2023 | Sotheby’s (sothebys.com)

ANNA WEYANT (b. 1995)
The Tale of the Tub, 2019
Oil on panel
24×36 inches (61 x 91.4 cm)
Signed Anna Weyant and dated 2019 (on the reverse)

#7. Untitled (Student Work), 2017

Christie’s New-York: 17 July 2024
Estimated: USD 30,000 – 50,000
USD 32,760

ANNA WEYANT (B. 1995), Untitled (Student Work) | Christie’s

ANNA WEYANT (B. 1995)
Untitled (Student Work), 2017
Oil on panel
16×20 inches (40.6 x 50.8 cm)
Signed and dated ‘Anna Weyant 2017’ (on the reverse)

#8. Drawing for Uh Huh Honey, 2019

Phillips New-York: 25 September 2024
Estimated: USD 25,000 – 35,000
USD 22,860
WORK ON PAPER

Anna Weyant – New Now: Modern & Contemporary Art, New York Wednesday, September 25, 2024 at EDT | Phillips

#9. Drawing for Venus, 2022

Christie’s New-York: 22 November 2024
Estimated: USD 12,000 – 18,000
USD 13,860

ANNA WEYANT (B. 1995), Drawing for Venus | Christie’s

ANNA WEYANT (B. 1995)
Drawing for Venus, 2022
Graphite on paper
Image: 9 5/8 x 12 1/4 inches (24.4 x 31.1 cm)
Sheet: 14 x 16 1/2 inches (35.6 x 41.9 cm)
Signed and dated ‘Anna Weyant 2022’ (on the reverse)

 

 

 

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2023 Auction Results

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8 lots sold at auction in 2023 for a total turnover of USD 2,013,573. With 1 lot failing to sell, the sell-through rate is 88%. The highest price has been achieved by Unconditional Love, a painting dated 2021 that sold at Phillips in New-York on 17 May 2023 for USD 609,600.

2023 Top 3 Lots

#1. Unconditional Love, 2021

Phillips New-York: 17 May 2023
Estimated: USD 400,000 – 600,000
USD 609,600

Anna Weyant – 20th Century & Contemporar… Lot 22 May 2023 | Phillips

#2. Untitled, 2019

Christie’s New-York: 10 March 2023
Estimated: USD 200,000 – 300,000
USD 403,200

ANNA WEYANT (B. 1995) (christies.com)

ANNA WEYANT (B. 1995)
Untitled, 2019
Oil on panel
48×36 inches (122 x 91.4 cm)
Signed and dated ‘Anna Weyant 2019’ (on the reverse)

#3. Cloud Hill, 2020

Phillips London: 30 June 2023
Estimated: GBP 250,000 – 350,000
GBP 285,750 / USD 363,133

Anna Weyant – 20th Century to Now London Lot 9 June 2023 | Phillips

#4. The Tale of the Tub, 2019

Sotheby’s New-York: 9 March 2023
Estimated: USD 150,000 – 200,000
USD 177,800

The Tale of the Tub | Contemporary Curated | 2023 | Sotheby’s (sothebys.com)

ANNA WEYANT (b. 1995)
The Tale of the Tub, 2019
Oil on panel
24×36 inches (61 x 91.4 cm)
Signed Anna Weyant and dated 2019 (on the reverse)

#5. Cut Flowers, 2020

Sotheby’s New-York: 19 May 2023
Estimated: USD 120,000 – 180,000
USD 139,700

Cut Flowers | Contemporary Day Auction | 2023 | Sotheby’s (sothebys.com)

ANNA WEYANT (b. 1995)
Cut Flowers, 2020
Oil on linen
24 x 20 1/8 inches (61×51 cm)
Signed and dated 2020 (on the reverse)

#6. Albert, 2019

Phillips Hong-Kong: 31 March 2023
Estimated: HKD 500,000 – 800,000
HKD 1,079,500 / USD 137,515

Anna Weyant – 20th Century & Contempo… Lot 221 March 2023 | Phillips

#7. Charlotte, 2019

Sotheby’s Hong-Kong: 6 April 2023
Estimated: HKD 600,000 – 950,000
HKD 952,500 / USD 121,336

Anna Weyant 安娜・維揚特 | Charlotte 夏洛特 | Contemporary Day Auction | 2023 | Sotheby’s (sothebys.com)

ANNA WEYANT (b. 1995)
Charlotte, 2019
Oil on panel
18×18 inches (45.7 x45.7 cm)
Signed and dated 2019 on the reverse

#8. Untitled, 2021

Bonhams New-York: 16 November 2023
Estimated: USD 50,000 – 70,000
USD 64,000

Bonhams : ANNA WEYANT (B. 1995) Untitled 2021

Drawing for Lily (Gun Study), 2021

Sotheby’s New-York: 16 November 2023
Estimated: USD 10,000 – 15,000
USD 53,340
WORK ON PAPER

Drawing for Lily (Gun Study) | Contemporary Day Auction | 2023 | Sotheby’s (sothebys.com)

ANNA WEYANT (b. 1995)
Drawing for Lily (Gun Study), 2021
Graphite and charcoal on paper
Image: 7 1/4 x 10 inches (18.4 x 25.4 cm)
Sheet: 11×15 inches (27.9 x 38.1 cm)
Signed and dated 2021 (on the verso)

Untitled, 2019

Phillips New-York: 8 March 2023
Estimated: USD 25,000 – 35,000
USD 48,260
WORK ON PAPER

Anna Weyant – New Now New York Lot 91 March 2023 | Phillips

Egg Basket, 2020

Sotheby’s New-York: 28 September 2023
Estimated: USD 10,000 – 15,000
USD 12,700
WORK ON PAPER

Egg Basket | Contemporary Curated | 2023 | Sotheby’s

ANNA WEYANT (b. 1995)
Egg Basket, 2020
Graphite on paper
11×15 inches (27.9 x 38.1 cm)

 

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Lots Passed

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Untitled (Student Work), 2017

Christie’s New-York: 18 July 2023
Estimated: USD 50,000 – 70,000
PASSED

ANNA WEYANT (B. 1995), Untitled (Student Work) | Christie’s

ANNA WEYANT (B. 1995)
Untitled (Student Work), 2017
Oil on panel
16×20 inches (40.6 x 50.8 cm)
Signed and dated ‘Anna Weyant 2017’ (on the reverse)

 

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2022 Auction Results

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15 lots sold at auction in 2022 for a total turnover of USD 9,561,816. The highest price was achieved at Sotheby’s in New-York for Falling Woman, a painting dated 2020, that sold on 19 May 2022 for USD 1,623,000. 3 lots sold above USD 1 million, generating a cumulative turnover of USD 4,623,000, representing 48.3% of the total turnover for 2022.

2022 Top 3 Lots

#1. Falling Woman, 2020

Sotheby’s New-York: 17 May 2022
Estimated: USD 150,000 – 200,000
USD 1,623,000

Falling Woman | The Now Evening Auction | 2022 | Sotheby’s (sothebys.com)

ANNA WEYANT
Falling Woman, 2020
Oil on canvas
48×36 inches (121.9 x 91.4 cm)

#2. Loose Screw, 2020

Christie’s New-York: 16 November 2022
Estimated: USD 300,000 – 500,000
USD 1,500,000

ANNA WEYANT (B. 1995) (christies.com)

ANNA WEYANT (B. 1995)
Loose Screw, 2020
Oil on canvas
48 1/8 x 36 inches (122.2 x 91.4 cm)
Signed and dated ‘Anna Weyant 2020’ (on the reverse)

#3. Summertime, 2020

Christie’s New-York: 9 May 2022
Estimated: USD 200,000 – 300,000
USD 1,500,000

ANNA WEYANT (B. 1995) (christies.com)

ANNA WEYANT
Summertime, 2020
Oil on canvas
30×40 inches (76.2 x 101.6 cm)

#4. Buffet II, 2021

Phillips New-York: 18 May 2022
Estimated: USD 100,000 – 150,000
USD 730,800

Anna Weyant – 20th Century & Contemporary… Lot 1 May 2022 | Phillips

#5. Buffet, 2020

Sotheby’s London: 29 June 2022
Estimated: GBP 100,000 – 150,000
GBP 466,200 / USD 566,257

Buffet | Modern & Contemporary Evening Auction | 2022 | Sotheby’s (sothebys.com)

ANNA WEYANT (b. 1995)
Buffet, 2020
Oil on linen
36×48 inches (91.2 x 122 cm)
Signed Anna Weyant and dated 2020 (on the reverse)

#6. Chest, 2020

Phillips Hong-Kong: 22 June 2022
Estimated: HKD 500,000 – 700,000
HKD 4,158,000 / USD 529,701

Anna Weyant – 20th Century & Contemporar… Lot 8 June 2022 | Phillips

ANNA WEYANT
Chest, 2020
Oil on canvas
18×24 inches (45.7 x 60.6 cm)
Signed and dated ‘Anna Weyant 2020’ on the reverse

#7. Josephine, 2020

Sotheby’s Hong-Kong: 27 April 2022
Estimated: HKD 250,000 – 450,000
HKD 4,032,000 / USD 513,840

Anna Weyant 安娜・維揚特 | Josephine 約瑟芬 | Contemporary Evening Auction | 2022 | Sotheby’s (sothebys.com)

ANNA WEYANT (b. 1995)
Josephine, 2020
Oil on linen
36×24 inches (91.4 x 61 cm)
Signed and dated 2020 on the reverse

#8. Girl Crying at a Party, 2021

Sotheby’s New-York: 16 November 2022
Estimated: USD 250,000 – 350,000
USD 504,000

Girl Crying at a Party | The Now Evening Auction | 2022 | Sotheby’s (sothebys.com)

ANNA WEYANT (B. 1995)
Girl Crying at a Party, 2021
Oil on canvas
48×36 inches (121.9 x 91.4 cm)
Signed Anna Weyant and dated 2021 (on the reverse)

#9. Ingrid with Flowers, 2020

Christie’s London: 27 June 2022
Estimated: GBP 150,000 – 250,000
GBP 403,200 / USD 494,581

ANNA WEYANT (B. 1995) (christies.com)

ANNA WEYANT
Ingrid with Flowers, 2020
Oil on canvas
40×30 inches (101.6 x 76.2 cm)

#10. Bum, 2020

Phillips New-York: 15 November 2022
Estimated: USD 200,000 – 300,000
USD 390,600

Anna Weyant – 20th Century & Contem… Lot 14 November 2022 | Phillips

#11. Cynthia, 2019

Phillips London: 14 October 2022
Estimated: GBP 100,000 – 150,000
GBP 302,400 / USD 339,103

Anna Weyant – 20th Century & Contempo… Lot 8 October 2022 | Phillips

#12. Bath Time, 2019

Phillips London: 30 June 2022
Estimated: GBP 80,000 – 120,000
GBP 226,800 / USD 275,778

Anna Weyant – 20th Century & Contempora… Lot 32 June 2022 | Phillips

#13. Untitled (Flowers), 2019

Sotheby’s Hong-Kong: 6 October 2022
Estimated: HKD 1,200,000 – 1,600,000
HKD 2,016,000 / USD 256,818

Anna Weyant 安娜・維揚特 | Untitled (Flowers) 無題（花） | Contemporary Day Auction | 2022 | Sotheby’s (sothebys.com)

ANNA WEYANT (b. 1995)
Untitled (Flowers), 2019
Oil on canvas
24×20 inches (61 x 50.8 cm)
Signed and dated 2019 on the reverse

#14. Two Tight Buns, 2018

Christie’s New-York: 18 November 2022
Estimated: USD 50,000 – 70,000
USD 189,000

ANNA WEYANT (B. 1995), Two Tight Buns | Christie’s (christies.com)

ANNA WEYANT (B. 1995)
Two Tight Buns, 2018
Oil on panel
19×20 inches (48.3 x 50.8 cm)
Signed and dated ‘Anna Weyant 2018’ (on the reverse)

#15. Untitled, 2019

Phillips Hong-Kong: 21 June 2022
Estimated: HKD 200,000 – 300,000
HKD 1,184,400 / USD 150,882

Anna Weyant – 20th Century & Contempor… Lot 101 June 2022 | Phillips

#16. Egg Basket, 2020

Sotheby’s New-York: 20 May 2022
Estimated: USD 10,000 – 15,000
USD 52,920
WORK ON PAPER

Egg Basket | Contemporary Day Auction | 2022 | Sotheby’s (sothebys.com)

ANNA WEYANT (b. 1995)
Egg Basket, 2020
Graphite on paper
11×15 inches (27.9 x 38.1 cm)

#17. Untitled, 2019

Sotheby’s New-York: 30 September 2022
Estimated: USD 25,000 – 35,000
USD 35,280
WORK ON PAPER

Untitled | Contemporary Curated | 2022 | Sotheby’s (sothebys.com)

ANNA WEYANT (b. 1995)
Untitled, 2019
Pencil and crayon on paper
11×15 inches (27.9 x 38.1 cm)

#18. Untitled, 2019

Phillips Hong-Kong: 21 June 2022
Estimated: HKD 75,000 – 110,000
HKD 163,800 / USD 20,995
WORK ON PAPER

Anna Weyant – 20th Century & Contempor… Lot 125 June 2022 | Phillips

#19. Bananas, 2019

Christie’s New-York: 29 September 2022
Estimated: USD 15,000 – 20,000
USD 18,900
WORK ON PAPER

ANNA WEYANT (B. 1995), Bananas | Christie’s (christies.com)

ANNA WEYANT (B. 1995)
Bananas, 2019
Colored pencil on paper
11×15 inches (27.9 x 38.1 cm)
Signed and dated ‘Anna Weyant 2019’ (on the reverse)

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2021 Auction Results

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Untitled, 2019

Phillips New-York: 18 November 2021
Estimated: USD 6,000 – 8,000
USD 37,800
WORK ON PAPER

Anna Weyant – 20th Century & Conte… Lot 404 November 2021 | Phillips

 

 

 

 

PART III: FOCUS

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Women

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So Bored, 2019

Phillips London: 10 October 2024
Estimated: GBP 120,000 – 180,000
GBP 266,700 / USD 348,480

Anna Weyant – Modern & Contemporary … Lot 30 October 2024 | Phillips

Taking variations in light and tone to their natural extremities – a mise en scène that as true-to-life as uncanny – Anna Weyant through her impossibly smooth, glossed surfaces re-invigorates the tradition of portrait painting to create modern masters of the present day. Bathing the sitter in dramatic lighting with concise, elegant movements of the brush, Weyant handles paint with a tenebrist virtuosity, creating a composition in So Bored shrouded with intrigue and mystery. Painted in 2019, the same year of her first, breakthrough solo exhibition Welcome to the Dollhouse at 56 Henry in New York, Weyant’s sitters are sculptural, doll-like and static. Set in an interior yet removed from place, it is within these midnight spaces that Weyant plays with the unseen and seen, capturing the subtly of human expression through her muted tones and dramatic chiaroscuro: what lies beyond the picture frame that captures the sitter’s gaze?

Gerrit van Honthorst, Old Woman Examining a Coin by a Lantern, 1623, The Kremer Collection, Amsterdam 

Maintaining robust dialogues with Dutch Golden Age and Baroque painters such as Gerrit van Honthorst, Frans Hals and Caravaggio, Weyant through her artificially lit, unsettling scenes captures the theatricality and atmospheres of liminal moments. It is between the lines of these untold narratives – the before and after – that the viewer observes and feels observed in a world that remains just out of reach.

Cloud Hill, 2020

Phillips London: 30 June 2023
Estimated: GBP 250,000 – 350,000
GBP 285,750 / USD 363,133

Anna Weyant – 20th Century to Now London Lot 9 June 2023 | Phillips

Painted in 2020, Cloud Hill testifies to Weyant’s studied engagement with portraiture as a genre, especially evident in her exquisite handling of light and signatory muted palette which, in the artist’s own words, allows her not to become ‘distracted by colour’.ⁱ Although the work is almost monochromatic in its creamy, flesh-toned hues and the black, velvety expanse of her dress, Weyant distinguishes the central figure from the lightly patterned background through a deft, painterly touch that reproduces the soft sensation of flesh through barely perceptible gradations in tone. Subtle modulations of light and shadow highlight Weyant’s painterly skill with regards to modelling and texture while also introducing an air of drama and contradiction as the women seems at once delicate and strident, coy and self-confident.

Unconditional Love, 2021

Phillips New-York: 17 May 2023
Estimated: USD 400,000 – 600,000
USD 609,600

Anna Weyant – 20th Century & Contemporar… Lot 22 May 2023 | Phillips

Girl Crying at a Party, 2021

Sotheby’s New-York: 16 November 2022
Estimated: USD 250,000 – 350,000
USD 504,000

Girl Crying at a Party | The Now Evening Auction | 2022 | Sotheby’s (sothebys.com)

ANNA WEYANT (B. 1995)
Girl Crying at a Party, 2021
Oil on canvas
48×36 inches (121.9 x 91.4 cm)
Signed Anna Weyant and dated 2021 (on the reverse)

A damsel in quiet distress, the young woman in Girl Crying at a Party rears her head back, as if discomforted by the delicate party ribbons that dangle above her. She stares forlornly to the side, tears streaming down her face. The title of the painting describes this cinematic moment with narrative objectivity but leaves the scene ambiguous, begging the immediate question: at such a festive moment, what could have happened to cause such grief? The somber mystique of the work perfectly captures Anna Weyant’s ability to create relatable tragicomic portraits that distill the fraught emotional precarity of young womanhood. Born in 1995, Weyant is the youngest artist on the international roster of Gagosian Gallery, which she joined in May this year. Girl Crying at a Party was a highlight of Splinter, Weyant’s solo exhibition at Blum & Poe in Tokyo, which ran from January to March 2022 to present extravagant scenes from parties and celebrations in her signature melancholic fashion. With Girl Crying at a Party, Weyant unveils in the nervous grimace of her weeping protagonist the bitter fiasco of cold reality, countering romanticized visions of femininity replete in American popular culture with an ironic acuity that distinguishes the painter as one of the most alluring contemporary artists working today.

The dramatic image of Girl Crying at a Party references a broad literature of cultural symbols of American girlhood, from a widely circulated photograph of model Anna Nicole Smith to Lesley Gore’s 1963 pop hit single, “It’s My Party,” where she sings: “It’s my party, and I’ll cry if I want to.” Weyant invokes a woman expected to uphold a specific set of Western beauty standards, but here, she bursts in exasperated tears, faltering under a seemingly insurmountable weight. No longer able to maintain her poise, the girl’s savoir faire succumbs to the burden of such pervasive expectations instead.

Bum, 2020

Phillips New-York: 15 November 2022
Estimated: USD 200,000 – 300,000
USD 390,600

Anna Weyant – 20th Century & Contem… Lot 14 November 2022 | Phillips

In this cheeky work by Anna Weyant, a woman leans over, exposing her backside to the viewer. While her upper body extends out of the painting, the bottom of her titular bum curves out from below a provocatively short white miniskirt. The painting’s light source, shining in from the upper right, creates a chiaroscuro effect that further illuminates her backside, and exposes the shape of her hips underneath the front of the skirt. Sensual and surreal, Weyant brings art history and 2010s internet culture together with a dark sense of humor in Bum, 2020.

Details from Hieronymous Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights, c. 1490-1500. Museo del Prado, Madrid. Images: © Museo Nacional del Prado / Art Resource, NY.

With its reserved color palette and smooth, rounded forms, 17^th century Dutch art is a natural reference point for Weyant’s œuvre. But unlike the stereotypically straightforward and dour Dutch, Weyant’s work has a sense of mystery—“a little creepiness,” as she puts it—and so, a more medieval sensibility provides the tonal cue for Bum. Hieronymous Bosch’s creepy and chaotic The Garden of Earthly Delights, c. 1490-1500, Museo del Prado, Madrid, is a strong art historical touchpoint for Weyant’s darkly humorous nudity.

For anyone who, like Weyant, was a teenage girl in the early 2010s, the white miniskirt in Bum is instantly recognizable as a coveted Tumblr fashion staple: the American Apparel tennis skirt. American Apparel, a clothing brand popular in the 2000s and 2010s, was known for its provocative advertising, which featured young, barely-clothed women photographed in a casual, flashbulb style in bedroom settings.

In 2014, an ad campaign for the very tennis skirt style Weyant evokes in Bum was banned for being “gratuitous and sexist.” In the photos, the faceless model bends over, exposing her underwear to the viewer, while the mini skirt, ostensibly the subject of the advertisement, is barely visible, hitched up around her waist. The visual parallels to Weyant’s Bum are striking.

The banned American Apparel campaign image, 2014.

In Bum, Weyant takes on the “creepiness” of American Apparel’s imagery in tandem with a respect for the “traumatic, dramatic, devastating and hilarious” teenage experience of being online. Where American Apparel was criticized for indulging pedophilic schoolgirl fantasies with their tennis skirt ads, Weyant cites her school uniform skirt’s colors as inspiration for her signature muted color palette. While American Apparel had a male CEO, Weyant relates personally to being a girl and “craving the power of womanhood;” desiring the sensuality of an American Apparel ad and the “level of agency and confidence” that must come with it.

Cynthia, 2019

Phillips London: 14 October 2022
Estimated: GBP 100,000 – 150,000
GBP 302,400 / USD 339,103

Anna Weyant – 20th Century & Contempo… Lot 8 October 2022 | Phillips

Enigmatic and alluring, the young Cynthia looks out at us with an inscrutable and disarmingly knowing gaze characteristic of Anna Weyant’s beguiling studies of adolescent girlhood. Richly painted in creamy porcelain tones touched with blushes of rose and peach, the portrait demonstrates the young artist’s remarkable painterly skill, and the careful balance struck by her precisely rendered works between Old Master luxuriance and Surreal disquiet. Intensely luminous, Cynthia’s smooth, softened contours and muted palette of ‘subdued liquid chartreuse, embellished with unexpected twists’ are all highly evocative of the technical perfection and compositional clarity sought by Early Netherlandish painters such as Rogier van der Weyden, whose translucent surface textures and dramatic manipulation of light heightened the sense of devotional restraint advocated by his exquisitely modelled figures.

Chest, 2020

Phillips Hong-Kong: 22 June 2022
Estimated: HKD 500,000 – 700,000
HKD 4,158,000 / USD 529,701

Anna Weyant – 20th Century & Contemporar… Lot 8 June 2022 | Phillips

ANNA WEYANT
Chest, 2020
Oil on canvas
18×24 inches (45.7 x 60.6 cm)
Signed and dated ‘Anna Weyant 2020’ on the reverse

A timeless capsule of female sensuality, a vignette set against a cinematic sombre setting, Chest eternalises femininity with charm, elegance and grace. Breath-takingly sensual yet tantalisingly voyeuristic, an undressed, porcelain female torso is presented before us in Chest: a work which encapsulates Canadian artist Anna Weyant’s most celebrated painterly fantasies – a gem of her popular figurative women paintings imbued with psychological decadence. Painted with a muted palette of neutral hues, the female body glows with skilled application of chiaroscuro in shades of sepia. The smoothly painted brushstrokes portray the light tinges of purple and blue on human flesh realistically. The position of the woman hints at her full awareness of being naked and observed, yet she shies and leans away to cover her breasts with her arm. We are met with a quiet sight simultaneously coy yet undeniably vulnerable: by veiling herself the torso accentuates her chest, her bosom constricting and heightening her femininity. The presentation of a realistically painted female body, anonymity, and self-conscious reaction to the spectator’s gaze on her nudity charge the painting with fantasy and imagination.

Falling Woman, 2020

Sotheby’s New-York: 17 May 2022
Estimated: USD 150,000 – 200,000
USD 1,623,000

Falling Woman | The Now Evening Auction | 2022 | Sotheby’s (sothebys.com)

ANNA WEYANT
Falling Woman, 2020
Oil on canvas
48×36 inches (121.9×91.4 cm)

Her mouth agape, hair flowing, and eyes wide with alarm, Anna Weyant’s titular Falling Woman dominates the canvas with visceral fear as she tumbles down a flight of stairs. With an extreme close-up of her upside-down head and breasts emerging from her décolletage, however, the composition is imbued with a surprising, irreverent humor. Successfully eliciting the disparate emotions of disquietude and beguilement in equal measure, Falling Woman from 2020 is an exceptional work from one of the most intriguing and engaging artistic outputs in contemporary art.

Falling Woman equally embodies the jocular amalgam of art historical influences that infuse her contemporary narrative scenes. Replete with softly rendered edges and muted warm tones that emanate an internal luminosity, the present work immediately evokes the works of Dutch Masters. Weyant’s subject is further modeled in an intense chiaroscuro that accentuates the ruffles of her dress and the contours of her form against the stairs’ deep sepia. Conveying a facial expression strikingly reminiscent of Caravaggio’s Medusa, the woman comically flips the overexaggerated facial expression of the Baroque icon of feminine rage on its head to comic effect. Falling Woman embodies the eclectic aesthetic vernacular the artist wields to masterfully articulate the multivalent emotions intrinsic to the experiences of young womanhood.

 

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Still-Lifes

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Buffet II, 2021

Sotheby’s Hong-Kong: 11 November 2024
Estimated: HKD 3,000,000 – 5,000,000
HKD 3,600,000 / USD 463,005

Anna Weyant 安娜・維揚特 | Buffet II 大餐二號 | Modern & Contemporary Evening Auction | 2024 | Sotheby’s

REPEAT SALE

Phillips New-York: 18 May 2022
Estimated: USD 100,000 – 150,000
USD 730,800

Anna Weyant – 20th Century & Contemporary… Lot 1 May 2022 | Phillips

ANNA WEYANT (1995 – )
Buffet II, 2021
Oil on canvas
48 1/4 x 60 1/8 inches (122.4 x 152.8 cm)
Signed and dated 2021 (on the reverse)

Executed in 2021, Buffet II is a beguiling example of Anna Weyant’s acclaimed series of still lifes. Steeped in the wit and irony central to Weyant’s painterly practice, Buffet II presents a table laid with a white tablecloth, atop which sits a basket of grapes, a glass of wine, a bundle of leeks and eggs. Despite the suggestion of plenty that the work’s title evokes, this eerie scene is sparse and strangely uncanny.

“I like it when there’s something that’s not quite right in the image, something that doesn’t fit” 

Recalling the somber elegance of the Dutch Golden Age masters, the present work exemplifies Weyant’s highly technical approach to memento mori, which she began exploring at the Rhode Island School of Design and subsequently at the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou. Weyant’s exquisite rendering of light is on full display in the present work, with her use of atmospheric tones and shadow recalling the exquisite seventeenth-century still life paintings of Pieter Claesz, Clara Peeter or Rachel Ruysch. Charming and kitsch, seductive and mysterious, Weyant’s wry style of figuration and continued gallery success with Gagosian has seen the artist become one of the most in demand contemporary painters working today.

Pieter Claesz. and Roelof Koets, Still Life with Fruit, Bread and Roemer, 1644, Szépművészeti Múzeum, Budapest

Calling still lifes her “happy place,” Weyant’s work in the genre of portraiture and still life is cinematic and simultaneously infused with playful humour and sombre tragedy.

“Figures and still lifes—they’re like dinner and dessert for me. They’re so different, and I enjoy them both separately,” 

Alongside her wry portraits of the “low-stakes trauma of girlhood,” Buffet II underscores a visual language that embraces both ambiguity and disjunction and reveals an exceedingly meticulous, elegant style of figuration. The tragicomic elements of her work reveal a fascination with the macabre which the artist has described;

“Humor can be a way to control discomfort. Mark Twain said something about humour being “tragedy plus time.” If there’s humor in my work, it probably goes hand in hand with some sort of weird misery.”

Carravaggio, Basket of Fruit, circa 1597-1600, oil on canvas, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan

In the present work, surrealist humor is found in the “peek-a-boo” unveiling of the table cloth by a singular grape and the anthropomorphic envelopes which sit atop the table, mitigating the ominous reverb of the red liquid which pours from the ceiling and the leek shaped like a pistol. Through this ominously violent imagery, Weyant masterfully translates the theme of vanitas or memento mori—again harkening back to her Dutch still-life predecessors—in Buffet II through her singular sensibility of weaving the sinister with the charming, menacing with the enchanting, dark with the light. In her treatment of light Weyant employs extreme chiaroscuro, as the white tablecloth and eggs, partly in shadow, are juxtaposed against a stark black background. While Weyant’s muted color palette and treatment of light draws heavily upon European art historical sources, she also cites contemporary artists John Currin, Lisa Yuskavage, Ellen Berkenbilt and Jennifer Packer as influences central to her style of representation. Her portraits and still lifes are staged in the same fantastical, eerie world, with each scene depicted from a young and decidedly feminine perspective.

Untitled, 2019

Christie’s New-York: 10 March 2023
Estimated: USD 200,000 – 300,000
USD 403,200

ANNA WEYANT (B. 1995) (christies.com)

ANNA WEYANT (B. 1995)
Untitled, 2019
Oil on panel
48×36 inches (122 x 91.4 cm)
Signed and dated ‘Anna Weyant 2019’ (on the reverse)

An enigmatic expression rests on the face of the doll-like figure at the center of Anna Weyant’s 2019 Untitled painting. The painting captures a static moment in time, as the young girl stares to someone or something beyond the composition. On the wooden table in front of her lies a spilled vase, once filled with water. The figure is seemingly unphased by the spilled vase in front of her as its liquid flows over the edge of the table. Next to this vase sits another with a single, pale rose emerging from its squared opening. The vase is curiously held by a mysterious hand that interjects the space from under the table. While the young girl is seemingly alone, this hand speaks to someone else’s presence. Behind her, on a dark brown floral wallpapered wall hangs a wooden picture frame. Within this frame is an image of the spilled pitcher, but it is standing upright, almost as if we are seeing a reflection of past time, or perhaps insight into a more idealized time and place.

Buffet, 2020

Sotheby’s London: 29 June 2022
Estimated: GBP 100,000 – 150,000
GBP 466,200 / USD 566,257

Buffet | Modern & Contemporary Evening Auction | 2022 | Sotheby’s (sothebys.com)

ANNA WEYANT (b. 1995)
Buffet, 2020
Oil on linen
36×48 inches (91.2 x 122 cm)
Signed Anna Weyant and dated 2020 (on the reverse)

Executed in 2020, Buffet evokes the uncanny darkness integral to Anna Weyant’s recent investigations into portraiture and still life painting. Recalling the sombre elegance of the Dutch Golden Age masters, the present work exemplifies Weyant’s highly technical approach to momento mori which she began exploring at the Rhode Island School of Design and subsequently at the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou. Born in 1995, the young artist now lives and works in New York, painting from the living room of her Upper West Side apartment.

PIETER CLAESZ, STILL LIFE, 1625-30 / THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO, CHICAGO
IMAGE: © SIMEON B. WILLIAMS FUND / BRIDGEMAN IMAGES

Buffet is steeped with a wit and irony central to Weyant’s painterly practice. In this still life, a table is laid with a white tablecloth, atop which sits a single bread roll, a basket of eggs and two fish that lie on a silver platter, mouths gaping open. In contrast to the suggestion of extravagance that the work’s title readily evokes, the table here is sparse and unwelcoming. A silver knife juts violently out of the bread, as if the crust has been stabbed with a dagger. Weyant herself explains of her still life images, “I like it when there’s something that’s not quite right in the image, something that doesn’t fit” (Anna Weyant quoted in: Sasha Bogojev, “Anna Weyant: Welcome to the Dollhouse,” Juxtapoz, 13 July 2020 (online)). In her treatment of light Weyant employs extreme chiaroscuro, as the white tablecloth and eggs, partly in shadow, are juxtaposed against a stark black background. This use of atmospheric light and shadow recalls the exquisite seventeenth-century still life paintings of Pieter Claesz, Clara Peeter or Rachel Ruysch. The quiet violence and subtle eeriness of Buffet also recalls the trope of foreboding death integral to the momento mori works of the same period, such as those by Claesz, Frans Hals, and Maria van Oosterwijck. Of the works in this series, Weyant notes, “They are very meditative and pleasant to make. I can make them alone. I set them up in my apartment, and I light them, and it’s very dark and very comfortable. I’d say these are my favourites, I’m very attached and fond of them” (Anna Weyant quoted in: Rae Niwa, “Anna Weyant: That Sliver is Painful,” Flaunt, 4 March 2022 (online)).

Weyant’s work in the genre of portraiture and still life is cinematic and simultaneously infused with playful humor sombre tragedy. Alongside her wry portraits of the “low-stakes trauma of girlhood,” Buffet underscores a visual language that embraces both ambiguity and disjunction and reveals an exceedingly meticulous, elegant style of figuration. While Weyant’s muted color palette and treatment of light draws heavily upon European art historical sources, she also cites contemporary artists John Currin, Lisa Yuskavage, Ellen Berkenbilt and Jennifer Packer as influences central to her style of representation. Her portraits and still lifes are staged in the same fantastical, eerie world, each scene depicted from a young and decidedly feminine perspective. The present work debuted at Blum & Poe as part of the sold out solo exhibition Loose Screw between March and May 2021.

Summertime, 2020

Christie’s New-York: 9 May 2022
Estimated: USD 200,000 – 300,000
USD 1,500,000

ANNA WEYANT (B. 1995) (christies.com)

ANNA WEYANT
Summertime, 2020
Oil on canvas
30×40 inches (76.2 x 101.6 cm)

Anna Weyant has boldly envisioned a new kind of figurative painting that is inspired by both art history and contemporary imagery. With three sold out solo shows under her belt, the twenty-seven-year-old artist has already made her mark on the art world, charming audiences with her engrossing, technically rigorous canvases that find inspiration from Instagram, the imperiled children of Edward Gorey, New Yorker cartoons, and the artist’s autobiography. Summertime is exemplary of Weyant’s reinvention of figurative painting. Accessible in scale, Summertime could be a window onto a world like our own. Weyant’s worlds envision women who are both relatable and ethereal, and they are oftentimes based on the artist’s friends. She creates a community of characters who we might see ourselves in, complete with all our foibles and failures, thereby creating a new realism for the social media era. Earlier this year, Weyant worked with Interscope Records to reimagine the cover of Gwen Stefani’s iconic album The Sweet Escape, and she has been a part of important group shows at the Flag Art Foundation, New York, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas.

Summertime, evocative of blithe joy and the outdoors, is conversely for Weyant a moment of introspection within a dark interior. Her deft marks in Summertime converge into a nearly photographic image, pristinely rendered with utmost skill. The colors are dramatic, yet reserved and earthy, not unlike the dramatic quality of Baroque artists like Caravaggio. Of this choice, Weyant reveals, “I don’t want to be distracted by color. I prefer a more muted palette,” which allows her to delve even more forcefully into her chosen narrative. Summertime is a surreal still life featuring the bust of a beautiful woman draped upon a table like a place setting, her skin luminous in contrast to her surroundings. Her auburn hair tumbles out of the frame, uniting our space with hers and drawing us in with sensual details. A simple arrangement of flora in olive tones emerges from a studded vase, which casts a deep shadow symbolic of the protagonist’s state of mind. She is lost in thought about something we cannot access and filled with glamorous ennui. However, the verdant arrangement beside her symbolizes optimism. While summer at this moment may feel like winter, the sunlight will surely break through soon.

Ingrid with Flowers, 2020

Christie’s London: 27 June 2022
Estimated: GBP 150,000 – 250,000
GBP 403,200 / USD 494,581

ANNA WEYANT (B. 1995) (christies.com)

ANNA WEYANT
Ingrid with Flowers, 2020
Oil on canvas
40×30 inches (101.6 x 76.2 cm)

Weyant populates her art historical remixes with friends, and offers us tragi-comic exercises in empathy, “I definitely have a complicated relationship with these girls who are non-existent, but I spend most of my time with them, so they’ve certainly become real. I would love for my audience to share a relationship with this pathetic and sympathetic character. I think there’s humor in that, and I hope people can feel it. Humor is so important to me as a way of healing and just living through bad things” (A. Weyant, quoted in S. Bogojev, “Anna Weyant: Welcome to the Dollhouse,” Juxtapoz, n.d.). Summertime reminds us that we have all felt alone as we long for intimacy and friendship. Weyant is thus a documentarian of sorts, chronicling our most intimate moments with elegance and truthfulness. She never shys away from uncomfortable emotions and narratives that are reflective of our lived experiences.

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Bath

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Bath Time, 2019

Sotheby’s London: 10 October 2024
Estimated: GBP 80,000 – 120,000
GBP 192,000 / USD 250,875

Bath Time | Contemporary Day Auction | 2024 | Sotheby’s

REPEAT SALE

Phillips London: 30 June 2022
Estimated: GBP 80,000 – 120,000
GBP 226,800 / USD 275,778

Anna Weyant – 20th Century & Contempora… Lot 32 June 2022 | Phillips

Filtering oblique references to the Freudian uncanny and the Surreal through a rich painterly vernacular of muted tones, smooth, softened edges and intense luminosity borrowed from Dutch Old Master paintings, Anna Weyant’s irreverent and darkly humorous paintings delight in their ability to disturb. Focused primarily on a cast of young yet knowing female characters set in dark, denuded spaces, Weyant’s paintings dramatize something of the passage of girlhood and its strangeness. Amplifying the tension in these static dramas, Weyant’s dramatic chiaroscuro and careful attention to contour and form nods to Caravaggio in its intense luminosity.

The subject of growing critical attention since her 2019 debut solo exhibition Welcome to the Dollhouse with taste-maker gallery 56 Henry in New York, Weyant has recently joined the ranks of Gagosian, the youngest artist to be internationally represented by the gallery. Taking its title from Todd Solondz’s 1995 film of teenage angst and ritual humiliation, Welcome to the Dollhouse used the children’s toy as a device to explore what Weyant has described as the ‘low-stakes trauma’ of girlhood, her paintings like compartmentalized vignettes staged using her cast of doll-like characters serving as actors and avatars in her tragicomic narratives. Executed in the same year as this breakthrough exhibition, Bath Time shares in these themes, developing the rich, dark palette offset by luminous porcelain tones that have become associated with the Canadian artist’s precisely rendered scenes of narrative disquiet.

Like Paula Rego, who mines a similarly rich vein of adolescent uncertainty, Weyant makes use of stage-set dolls in preparing her compositions, recorded here in the static pose, smooth porcelain skin, and the exaggerated articulation of the child’s limbs in Bath Time. This distinctive quality introduces a note of strangeness to the figure, moving the painting from Old Master luxuriance into more overtly surreal territory, touching as it does on Sigmund Freud’s notion of the doll as an uncanny double of the child itself. An ambiguous object, the doll combines the child’s ambivalent fears and desires, continuing to function as a repository of lost innocence long after the child has grown out of it.

The Tale of the Tub, 2019

Sotheby’s New-York: 9 March 2023
Estimated: USD 150,000 – 200,000
USD 177,800

The Tale of the Tub | Contemporary Curated | 2023 | Sotheby’s (sothebys.com)

ANNA WEYANT (b. 1995)
The Tale of the Tub, 2019
Oil on panel
24×36 inches (61 x 91.4 cm)
Signed Anna Weyant and dated 2019 (on the reverse)

In The Tale of the Tub, Weyant combines a variety of frequent preoccupations into one compelling composition of a young woman reclining in an overflowing bathtub eerily locking eyes with the viewer. A vanity table with a mirror stands against the wall in the background, and an open window illuminates the room. Rather than appearing sensual, water pooling on the floor, long shadows, and deliberate inconsistencies including a slightly off-center mirror, create a compounding and palpable sense of thrilling unease. In the present work, Weyant further explores the art historical trope of bathing women, drawing on the likes of Edgar Degas and Pierre Bonnard. Weyant’s vision for a new kind of figurative painting incorporating art historical references and contemporary imagery and combining both relatable and ethereal scenes, has propelled her to the forefront of a burgeoning crop of young artists that are reclaiming the medium of painting as their own by creating a new realism for the social media era.

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Other Paintings

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Untitled, 2019

Phillips Hong-Kong: 21 June 2022
Estimated: HKD 200,000 – 300,000
HKD 1,184,400 / USD 150,882

Anna Weyant – 20th Century & Contempor… Lot 101 June 2022 | Phillips