This article is part of the Artnet Intelligence Report Year Ahead 2024. Through in-depth analysis of last year’s market performance, the new edition paints a data-driven picture of the art world today, from the latest auction results to the artists and artworks leading the conversation.

The Artnet Price Database began keeping track of the most frequently searched artists in 2005. Eighteen years later, the cast of characters remains somewhat consistent. Nevertheless, the market’s growing hunger for work by contemporary artists—including Yayoi Kusama, Gerhard Richter, and George Condo—is evident, as is dwindling interest in and supply of work by Imp-Mod mainstays like Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Edgar Degas.

Source: Artnet Price Database and Artnet Analytics.