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Boston-born artist Christopher Wool explores post-conceptual ideas of the overlap between text and ‘high-art’, cementing his place as one of the leading painters of the contemporary era. If you are looking to buy or sell a Wool original print or edition, browse artwork available from our network and enquire to speak to the team. We offer free and confidential valuations and market advice on any Wool print, with zero obligation to sell.

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Hypnotist Unsigned Print

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My House I Signed Print

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Untitled Kölnischer Kunstverein Signed Print

Christopher Wool

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Sexismen Signed Print

Christopher Wool

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The Show Is Over Unsigned Print

Christopher Wool

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Christopher Wool Signed Print

Christopher Wool

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Untitled For Henry Street Settlement Signed Print

Christopher Wool

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Untitled (2008) Signed Print

Christopher Wool

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Untitled (2005) Signed Print

Christopher Wool

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Four Short Stories Signed Print

Christopher Wool

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Assassin Unsigned Print

Christopher Wool

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Adversary Unsigned Print

Christopher Wool

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Extremist Unsigned Print

Christopher Wool

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Insomniac Unsigned Print

Christopher Wool

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My House II Signed Print

Christopher Wool

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My House III Signed Print

Christopher Wool

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Paranoiac Unsigned Print

Christopher Wool

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Persuader Unsigned Print

Christopher Wool

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Spokesman Unsigned Print

Christopher Wool

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Pessimist Signed Print

Christopher Wool

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Three Women (Light I) Signed Print

Christopher Wool

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Untitled (2002) Signed Print

Christopher Wool

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Prankster Signed Print

Christopher Wool

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Untitled (2014) Signed Print

Christopher Wool

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Untitled (2007) Signed Print

Christopher Wool

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Untitled Sonic Youth Signed Print

Christopher Wool

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Assistant Unsigned Print

Christopher Wool

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Untitled (1998) Signed Print

Christopher Wool

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Authority Unsigned Print

Christopher Wool

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Biography

Christopher Wool’s art blurs the boundaries between the visual, text and the conceptual. Inspired by the vibrant and ground-breaking graffiti scene of 1980s New York, Wool began to experiment with text during the late 1980s and has since become well-known for both his typographic and abstract works.

Born in Chicago in 1955, Wool moved to New York City at the age of 17, attending Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville. Dropping out before the year had ended, Wool went on to attend the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture: an educational institution in Greenwich Village known for its fresh, anti-academic stance towards artistic education. There, Wool received instruction from Jack Tworkov and Harry Kramer – two leading Abstract Expressionist painters whose work was inspired by the deconstructive approaches of Cézanne and Matisse.

Wool’s popularity and success have been shaped by his now-iconic word paintings, which he began to create in the late 1980s. Inspired by the stark contrast between the white body panels of trucks and the bold, hard-edged graffiti with which they were often daubed during this period, these works arranged shortened words in a sequence that would have to be read out loud to make sense.

Part of this series, the 1988 painting Apocalypse Now is undoubtedly Wool’s most important work. Referencing Francis Ford Coppola’s eponymous film, and the contents of a letter sent home by an American soldier fighting in the Vietnam War, Wool’s work referenced the catastrophic events of the 1987 stock market crash, Black Monday.

Commenting on the piece, Chief Curator of New York’s New Museum Richard Flood once defined it as "the painting of the year ...a kind of late-eighties mantra."

Similarly, works such as Persuader (1989) and Extremist (1989) see Wool arrange singular yet hard-hitting words onto a single page. ‘Stencilled’ onto the print surface, these works are testament to the influence of Street Art and recall the processes of other artists, such as Banksy or STIK.

In a rare 2014 interview, Wool recalled that exhibiting at the Guggenheim and designing an album cover for American band Sonic Youth had always been at the top of the most meaningful things that could have happened to his career. In 2006, Wool produced the cover design for the band’s 2006 album, 'Rather Ripped'. In 2013, Wool was the subject of a major retrospective exhibition held at the Guggenheim Museum, New York, where he was compared to the likes of Warhol and Basquiat.

Wool himself is loath to reference his early artistic influences. Whilst at Sarah Lawrence College, he had been dissuaded from pursuing painting by his tutor, the American abstract expressionist artist and alleged founder of the ‘New York School’ of painting, Richard Pousette-Dart. Pousette-Dart himself was inspired by the likes of Henri Gaudier-Brzeska; yet his influence on Wool should be limited to informing his decision to move to the all-the-more liberal and experimental New York Studio School to pursue a career in art.
Under the guidance of Tworkov and Kramer, Wool came to be influenced by the ‘godfathers’ of abstract expressionism: Mark Rothko and Willem de Kooning. Upon leaving, New York’s underground scene became his most important influence, however; pulsating with the sounds of punk rock, New York’s East Village quickly catalysed a thriving arts scene characterised by performance, graffiti, and mixed-media practice.
Later, in the 1980s, radical German artists Albert Oehlen and Martin Kippenberger – both famed for their emphasis on provocation and fiercely conceptual, ‘post-non-representational’ art – became major influences for Wool.
Whilst Wool is predominantly known for his painterly works, he is also a keen photographer.
As early as the late 1980s, a period in which the artist began crafting his Word Paintings, Wool began experimenting with photography, exploring how it could both inform and expand his artistic process.
Making photographs of paintings, and using photography to question his paintings’ representational and qualities reproducible, Wool’s photographic process, along with his fondness for the Polaroid, recall the photographic experimentations of much loved British artist, David Hockney.
During the 1990s and 2000s, Wool would often take photographs at night. His 2003 photobook East Broadway Breakdown evidences his imprecise, rough-and-ready approach to photography; many of its images make use of the camera’s flash function to illuminate the similarly untended urban environments of New York City’s East Broadway.

Record prices

All Christopher Wool's record prices

1. £19.3M for Christopher Wool's Untitled (Riot)

The most expensive painting by Wool at auction, Untitled (Riot) sold for US$29.9 million at Sotheby’s in New York on 12 May 2015, over double its US$12 million low estimate. Wool was first inspired to make his word painting in 1987. He was walking in New York’s Lower East Side when he saw a white truck with ‘SEX’ and ‘LUV’ graffitied on its side. The contrast between the words and the white background was a lightbulb moment for the artist, who created his own painted version after returning to his studio. These word paintings are now Wool’s most famous and recognisable artworks.

2. £16.6M for Christopher Wool's Apocalypse Now

Created in 1988, Apocalypse Now was one of Wool’s earliest word paintings and the first that he publicly exhibited. The text was inspired by a scene from Francis Ford Coppola’s movie Apocalypse Now, as well as the famous Black Monday Wall Street crash a year earlier. “It was an experiment,” Wool said of making and exhibiting Apocalypse Now. “Previously, I had been making abstract paintings, so it was certainly a departure. I was still young and extremely insecure.” His worries stopped when the gallerist Paula Cooper saw the painting and said it reflected her sentiments exactly. “I immediately relaxed,” recalled Wool.

Apocalypse Now sold at Christie’s in New York on 12 November 2013 for US$26.5 million, soaring past its estimate of US$15-20 million.

3. £14.0M for Christopher Wool's If You

The sale of Wool’s If You at Christie’s in New York on 13 May 2014 followed a very successful year for the artist. In 2013, Wool’s major retrospective exhibition opened at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, establishing him as one of America’s most notable living artists. The sale of Apocalypse Now at Christie’s in November 2013 (no. 2 on this list) also set a new auction record price for Wool. If You, a similarly bold and gritty work, sold for US$23.7 million against a low estimate of US$20 million. Another version of the same phrase sold for a top auction price in 2016.

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1. £19.3M for Christopher Wool's Untitled (Riot)