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Alicia Keys & Swizz Beatz

Inside Alicia Keys & Swizz Beatz’s Fine Art collection

Fine Art

The Dean Collection — assembled by Alicia Keys and Kasseem “Swizz Beatz” Dean — is one of the most significant private holdings of contemporary art by Black artists, touring museums as the exhibition “Giants.” These works are held, not sold: the figures below are estimates drawn from comparable auction results for each artist, not realized prices or an appraisal.

Estimated holdingsestimated
Estimated value~$9.7M
Estimate range$6.5M – $12.9M
Works held6
StatusHeld · not sold
Allocation by artist (held)
Amy Sherald46.3% · $4.5M
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye30.9% · $3M
Kehinde Wiley9.8% · $950K
Tschabalala Self5.7% · $550K
Toyin Ojih Odutola5.1% · $500K
Nick Cave2.2% · $215K

The works held are estimates drawn from comparable auction results for each artist, shown as a range — a modeled market reference, not a realized price, not an appraisal, and not investment advice.

Works in the collection

Amy Sherald, “Deliverance” (2022)Estimated
Estimated from Amy Sherald’s auction record: The Bathers (2015) sold for $4.27m at Phillips, Dec 2020. A large, recent work.
Estimated$3m–$6m (est.)
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, “Stone Arabesque” (2018)Estimated
Estimated from Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s auction record: Six Birds in the Bush sold for ~$3.6m at Sotheby’s London, Oct 2023. A multi-panel work.
Estimated$2m–$4m (est.)
Kehinde Wiley, “Femme piquée par un serpent” (2008)Estimated
Estimated from Kehinde Wiley’s auction record: Christian Martyr Tarcisius (2008), his largest work at auction, sold for ~$846k at Phillips London, Mar 2024. A monumental, wall-sized painting.
Estimated$700k–$1.2m (est.)
Tschabalala Self, “Father” (2019)Estimated
Estimated from Tschabalala Self’s auction record: Princess (2017) sold for ~$567k at Phillips London, Feb 2020.
Estimated$400k–$700k (est.)
Toyin Ojih Odutola, “Paris Apartment” (2016–17)Estimated
Estimated from Toyin Ojih Odutola comparables: Selective Histories (2016) sold for ~$329k at Sotheby’s, 2019; her market has since reached ~$2.2m.
Estimated$300k–$700k (est.)
Nick Cave, “Soundsuit” (2016)Estimated
Estimated from Nick Cave’s Soundsuit auction record: a 2008 Soundsuit sold for ~$229k at Christie’s New York, Feb 2026.
Estimated$150k–$280k (est.)

“Estimated today” is a modeled figure, not an appraisal: each realized price is adjusted by the change in ALT/FNDATA’s trophy-tier price level for its category (the median of comparable high-value lots, from the sale year to the present). Lots in categories without enough comparable high-value data are carried forward unchanged, and a collection with no comparable data at all is shown as insufficient to estimate. It is a market-level estimate; individual pieces vary.

The works held are estimates drawn from comparable auction results for each artist, shown as ranges — a modeled market reference, not realized prices, not a live valuation or appraisal, and not investment advice.
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Portrait: Philip Romano / CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.