Price databaseBrowseWhat’s it worth?Sell your artworkAppraisals
Watchlist

Enrique Martinez Celaya

Cuban · b. 1964 · Painter, Sculptor

Enrique Martínez Celaya is a Cuban-born American painter, sculptor, and author whose work examines the conditions of individual experience, particularly the nature of memory,… (Wikipedia)

$13,750≈ £9,495≈ €12,256Sign uprecord price · incl. premiumBoyLos Angeles Modern Auctions (LAMA)45auction results2010–2024years recorded96%sold (43)$2.3kSign up free to seemedian price

1 work by Enrique Martinez Celaya with an auction history (offered more than once) →

Record prices

  1. Boy by Enrique Martinez Celaya, 2003, Bronze, sold May 2016BoyLos Angeles Modern Auctions (LAMA) · $13,750≈ £9,495≈ €12,256Sign up to see
  2. Untitled by Enrique Martinez Celaya, Mixed Media Work, sold Feb 2019UntitledPalm Beach Modern Auctions · $9,100≈ £7,012≈ €8,035Sign up to see
  3. Head with Hand and Flowers by Enrique Martinez Celaya, 1996, Oil on canvas, sold May 2017Head with Hand and FlowersLos Angeles Modern Auctions (LAMA) · $8,750≈ £6,720≈ €7,827Sign up to see

Enrique Martinez Celaya’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).

All filters
Longest side–Reset

45 results · page 2 of 2

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. Boy by Enrique Martinez Celaya, 2003, Bronze, sold May 2016
    Boy, 2003
    Sculpture
    Los Angeles Modern Auctions (LAMA) · · Lot 159
    $13,750≈ £9,495≈ €12,256Price realizedSign up free to seeEst. $5,000–View at Los Angeles Modern Auctions (LAMA) ↗
  2. All the Games Start Here by Enrique Martinez Celaya, 1990, oil on canvas, sold Jul 2015
    All the Games Start Here, 1990
    Oil · Canvas
    36 x 36in
    Bonhams · · Lot 3088
    $2,500≈ £1,606≈ €2,304Price realizedSign up free to seeEst. $4,000–6,000View at Bonhams ↗
  3. I Underestimated the Size of the Tears by Enrique Martinez Celaya, 1989, Oil on canvas diptych, sold Mar 2015
    I Underestimated the Size of the Tears, 1989
    Oil · Canvas
    Los Angeles Modern Auctions (LAMA) · · Lot 284
    $7,500≈ £4,873≈ €6,680Price realizedSign up free to seeEst. $8,000–View at Los Angeles Modern Auctions (LAMA) ↗
  4. Untitled by Enrique Martinez Celaya, c. 1998, mixed media on paper, offered Dec 2022
    Untitled, c. 1998
    Mixed media · Paper
    4⅛ h x 4⅛ w in (10 x 10 cm)
    Los Angeles Modern Auctions (LAMA) · · Lot 300
    Unsold / did not meet reserveEst. $1,000–View at Los Angeles Modern Auctions (LAMA) ↗
  5. Lips (Drawings for the Jeanne Exhibit) by Enrique Martinez Celaya, 1996, oil and pencil on paper, offered May 2010
    Lips (Drawings for the Jeanne Exhibit), 1996
    Oil · Paper
    19 x 19in (48.2 x 48.2cm)
    Bonhams · · Lot 1199
    Unsold / did not meet reserveEst. $4,000–6,000View at Bonhams ↗

Enrique Martinez Celaya paintings (9)Enrique Martinez Celaya oil paintings (7)Enrique Martinez Celaya works on paper (23)Enrique Martinez Celaya watercolors (7)Enrique Martinez Celaya prints (6)Enrique Martinez Celaya aquatints (5)Enrique Martinez Celaya photographs (5)

About Enrique Martinez Celaya

Enrique Martínez Celaya is a Cuban-born American painter, sculptor, and author whose work examines the conditions of individual experience, particularly the nature of memory, exile, and the relationship between consciousness and the passage of time. Working across painting, sculpture, immersive installation, and writing, his practice resists the boundaries between disciplines, posing questions of authenticity, attachment, and loss without proposing answers. Before devoting himself to art, Martinez Celaya trained as a laser physicist at Cornell University and the University of California, Berkeley, and patented several devices before leaving science to pursue painting full-time. His work is held in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the State Hermitage Museum, and more than sixty institutions worldwide.

From Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Auction houses that have sold Enrique Martinez Celaya

Related artists — Cuban, born 1939–1989

More Cuban artists of the same period