Dan Flavin
American · 1933–1996 · Painter, Printmaker
Daniel Nicholas Flavin Jr. was an American minimalist artist famous for creating sculptural objects and installations from commercially available fluorescent light fixtures. (Wikipedia)
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Record prices
"monument" for V. TatlinPhillips · $2,165,000≈ £1,370,947≈ €1,895,963Sign up to see
Untitled (to Barnett Newman) onePhillips · $461,000≈ £292,829≈ €370,103Sign up to see
untitled (to Ileana and Michael Sonnabend)Phillips · $346,000≈ £266,872≈ €311,235Sign up to see
Dan Flavin’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).
Price trend
1 lot(s) catalogued with a qualifier (e.g. “attributed to”, “after”, “circle of”) are listed in the results but excluded from these statistics.
2 lot(s) offered at auction whose result the house did not publish are listed under “Also offered” on the results tab and excluded from these statistics.
By medium
| Medium | Offered | Sold | Sell-through | Average | Median | High |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Works on paper | 1 | 1 | 100% | $32.5kSign up | $32.5kSign up | $32.5kSign up |
| Drawing | 1 | 1 | 100% | $32.5kSign up | $32.5kSign up | $32.5kSign up |
| Prints & multiples | 60 | 54 | 90% | $8.3kSign up | $3.8kSign up | $107kSign up |
| Etching | 4 | 3 | 75% | $6.9kSign up | $3.1kSign up | $15.9kSign up |
| Engraving | 17 | 14 | 82% | $3.8kSign up | $3.7kSign up | $7.4kSign up |
| Aquatint | 10 | 9 | 90% | $14.9kSign up | $5.3kSign up | $52.5kSign up |
| Drypoint | 1 | 1 | 100% | $819Sign up | $819Sign up | $819Sign up |
| Lithograph | 22 | 21 | 95% | $8.3kSign up | $3.3kSign up | $107kSign up |
| Screenprint | 3 | 3 | 100% | $17kSign up | $6.9kSign up | $37.5kSign up |
| Woodcut / linocut | 1 | 1 | 100% | $6.9kSign up | $6.9kSign up | $6.9kSign up |
| Print (other) | 1 | 1 | 100% | $736Sign up | $736Sign up | $736Sign up |
| Multiple | 1 | 1 | 100% | $8.4kSign up | $8.4kSign up | $8.4kSign up |
| Other | 23 | 17 | 74% | $347kSign up | $219kSign up | $2.2MSign up |
Medium classes are derived from the medium text as published by each house; “Other” includes lots whose medium wasn’t stated.
By year
| Year | Offered | Sold | Median |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 2 | 1 | $4.5kSign up |
| 2025 | 3 | 3 | $5.3kSign up |
| 2024 | 9 | 9 | $3.3kSign up |
| 2023 | 4 | 4 | $76.8kSign up |
| 2022 | 11 | 11 | $3.2kSign up |
| 2021 | 6 | 5 | $3.5kSign up |
| 2020 | 2 | 2 | $2.4kSign up |
| 2019 | 10 | 10 | $10.8kSign up |
| 2018 | 6 | 3 | $3.9kSign up |
| 2017 | 4 | 3 | $200kSign up |
| 2016 | 4 | 2 | $237kSign up |
| 2015 | 5 | 3 | $6.9kSign up |
| 2014 | 10 | 9 | $6.9kSign up |
| 2013 | 5 | 4 | $5kSign up |
| 2011 | 1 | 1 | $8.4kSign up |
| 2010 | 1 | 1 | $3.7kSign up |
| 2007 | 1 | 1 | $3.5kSign up |