Price databaseBrowseSell your artwork
Watchlist

Ai Weiwei

Chinese · b. 1957 · Painter, Sculptor

Ai Weiwei is a Chinese contemporary artist, documentarian and activist. Ai grew up in the far northwest of China, where he lived under harsh conditions due to his father's… (Wikipedia)

Own a work by Ai Weiwei? Get a free auction estimate →

238lots offered2013–2026years recorded86%sold (204)$6.3kSign up free to seemedian price

2 works by Ai Weiwei with an auction history (offered more than once) →

2 works by Ai Weiwei coming up at auction · bid with the house ↓

Record prices

  1. Ai Weiwei, Circle of Animals / Zodiac Heads, 2010, bronzeCircle of Animals / Zodiac HeadsPhillips · £3,442,500≈ $5,409,200≈ €4,858,709Sign up to see
  2. Ai Weiwei, Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads, 2010, gold-plated bronzeCircle of Animals/Zodiac HeadsPhillips · £2,882,500≈ $4,426,944≈ €3,907,966Sign up to see
  3. Ai Weiwei, Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads, 2010, gilded bronze on artist's huanghuali veneered wood basesCircle of Animals/Zodiac HeadsPhillips · $3,370,000≈ £2,584,951≈ €3,028,125Sign up to see

Ai Weiwei’s highest prices recorded at auction, ranked in US dollars at each sale-date exchange rate and shown in the currency of the sale (with the buyer’s premium where the house publishes it).

Coming up at auction

2 in forthcoming sales · bid with the house

Listed from the auction houses’ own websites; estimates are the houses’ own, not results.

All filters
Longest side–Reset

9 results match these filters

Sign up free to see all prices. You’ve seen the free realized prices for this month. Artist, title, date, house, medium, size and estimates stay visible to everyone. Create a free account · Sign in
  1. Ai Weiwei, $2,000 REWARD (Deluxe Wanted Poster), 2014, pigment print in colors on Canson Rag Photographique
    $2,000 REWARD (Deluxe Wanted Poster), 2014
    Photograph
    8 h x 6⅜ w in (20 x 16 cm)
    Wright · · Lot 293
    $6,400≈ £4,752≈ €5,545Price realizedSign up free to seeEst. $6,000–View at Wright ↗
  2. Ai Weiwei, Wo ist die Revolution?, 2019, Pigment print
    Wo ist die Revolution?, 2019
    Photograph
    190 x 100.4 cm
    Lempertz · · Lot 425
    €3,528≈ $3,718≈ £3,029Price realizedSign up free to seeEst. €3,000–4,000View at Lempertz ↗
  3. Ai Weiwei, Wo ist die Revolution?, 2019, Pigment print
    Wo ist die Revolution?, 2019
    Photograph · ed. AP
    190 x 100 cm
    Lempertz · · Lot 708
    €4,375≈ $5,298≈ £3,938Price realizedSign up free to seeEst. €4,000–View at Lempertz ↗
  4. Ai Weiwei, Deluxe Wanted Poster, 2014, Pigment print in colors, on Canson Rag Photographique paper, with full margins
    Deluxe Wanted Poster, 2014
    Photograph · Paper · ed. 36/40
    I. 23 x 19 in. (58.4 x 48.3 cm) S. 23 7/8 x 20 in. (60.6 x 50.8 cm)
    Phillips · · Lot 211
    $10,625≈ £8,328≈ €9,153Price realizedSign up free to seeEst. $5,000–7,000View at Phillips ↗
  5. Ai Weiwei, Untitled (from Becoming), 2009, Offset printed facsimile photograph
    Untitled (from Becoming), 2009
    Photograph
    Los Angeles Modern Auctions (LAMA) · · Lot 366
    $625≈ £371≈ €456Price realizedSign up free to seeEst. $3,000–View at Los Angeles Modern Auctions (LAMA) ↗
  6. Ai Weiwei, Untitled (from Becoming), 2009, Offset printed facsimile photograph
    Untitled (from Becoming), 2009
    Photograph
    Los Angeles Modern Auctions (LAMA) · · Lot 368
    $625≈ £371≈ €456Price realizedSign up free to seeEst. $3,000–View at Los Angeles Modern Auctions (LAMA) ↗
  7. Ai Weiwei, Untitled (from Becoming), 2009, Offset printed facsimile photograph
    Untitled (from Becoming), 2009
    Photograph
    Los Angeles Modern Auctions (LAMA) · · Lot 369
    $625≈ £371≈ €456Price realizedSign up free to seeEst. $3,000–View at Los Angeles Modern Auctions (LAMA) ↗
  8. Ai Weiwei, To Fight with Crossed-Arms, in collaboration with MAP OFFICE [Gutierrez + Portefaix], 2007, chromogenic print, in 4 parts
    To Fight with Crossed-Arms, in collaboration with MAP OFFICE [Gutierrez + Portefaix], 2007
    Photograph · ed. 4/18
    each image 19 5/8 x 9 3/4 in. (49.8 x 24.8 cm.) each sheet 25 3/8 x 11 3/4 in. (64.5 x 29.8 cm.)
    Phillips · · Lot 126
    $27,500≈ £17,095≈ €20,303Price realizedSign up free to seeEst. $25,000–35,000View at Phillips ↗
  9. Ai Weiwei, $2,000 REWARD (Deluxe Wanted Poster), 2014, Pigment print in colors, on Canson Rag Photographique paper, with full margins
    $2,000 REWARD (Deluxe Wanted Poster), 2014
    Photograph · Paper · ed. 38/40
    I. 23 x 19 in. (58.4 x 48.3 cm) S. 23 3/4 x 19 3/4 in. (60.3 x 50.2 cm)
    Phillips · · Lot 501
    Unsold / did not meet reserveEst. $8,000–12,000View at Phillips ↗
Also offered, result not published (2)

Lots by Ai Weiwei that were offered at auction where the house did not publish whether they sold. Not counted in any statistics.

Ai Weiwei paintings (20)Ai Weiwei acrylic paintings (8)Ai Weiwei works on paper (3)Ai Weiwei prints (97)Ai Weiwei lithographs (22)Ai Weiwei screenprints (30)Ai Weiwei multiples (39)Ai Weiwei photographs (9)Ai Weiwei sculpture (60)

Related artists — Chinese, born 1932–1982

More Chinese artists of the same period