Louise Bourgeois on Cheim and Read stand at Art Basel. Though Bourgeois was included on several stands, she was nowhere near making the top 40 list.

Is Art Basel a manfest? Seems so.

One of the stories I wrote this past week for The Art Newspaper examined the gender stats on artists included in the big Swiss art fair. The results weren’t pretty. A tabulation of the fair’s top forty most exhibited artists revealed some rather discouraging news: all forty were men. Not a single female artist made the list.

You can link to my Art Newspaper story here.

List of  top forty most exhibited artists at 2010 Art Basel:

Name              Number of Galleries

1. Andy Warhol                  28

2. Pablo Picasso                   23

3.  Alexander Calder         20

4.  Sol LeWitt                  19

Joan Miró                  19

5.  Jean Dubuffet        16

Donald Judd                  16

6.  Henri Matisse            14

Robert Rauschenberg       14

Frank Stella                  14

Lawrence Weiner         14

7.  Cy Twombly                  13

8.  Josef Albers                  12

Daniel Buren                  12

John Chamberlain         12

Willem De Kooning         12

Sam Francis                  12

Fernand Léger                  12

Albert Oehlen                  12

Ed Ruscha                  12

Richard Tuttle          12

9. John Baldessari                  11

Georg Baselitz                  11

Max Ernst                  11

Robert Mangold         11

László Moholy-Nagy         11

Francis Picablia         11

Richard Prince         11

Gerhard Richter         11

Christopher Wool         11

10. Carl Andre                  10

Lucio Fontana         10

Liam Gillick                  10

Anish Kapoor                  10

Alex Katz                  10

Roy Lichtenstein         10

Jonathan Monk         10

Matt Mullican                  10

Sigmar Polke                  10

Thomas Schütte         10