Focus on Spider (Bourgeois) and discuss the Art market.
In 2006, Bourgeois became the highest-paid living woman artist after a Spider sold for $4 million at Christie's in London; which was surpassed in 2008, when another Spider sold for $4.5 million.  A new record price for the artist was achieved when Spider number two, acquired from Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, was auctioned by a private collector with an estimate of $4 million to $6 million.  The price realized at Christie's on 8 November 2011 was $10,722,500. This is the highest price paid for an artwork by a woman artist at the time.  This was surpassed in 2015 by a Spider auctioned by Christie's for $28.2 million. Christie's was then estimated to sell the sculpture for anywhere up to $35 million at a contemporary art sale in New York in May 2019.
Gallery Paule Anglim Christie's