Joseph Beuys

German · 1921–1986 · Painter, Printmaker

Joseph Heinrich Beuys was a German artist, teacher, performance artist, and art theorist whose work reflected concepts of humanism and sociology. With Heinrich Böll, Johannes… (Wikipedia)

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1,311lots offered2001–2026years recorded90%sold (1,155)$2kSign up free to seemedian price

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Unbetitelt (Feld)Phillips · Oct 2018£465,000≈ $606,872≈ €527,439Sign up to see
ErdtelephonGrisebach · Dec 2017€450,000≈ $534,825≈ £396,519Sign up to see
Entwurf für PlastikGrisebach · Jun 2015€450,000≈ $504,810≈ £329,274Sign up to see

Joseph Beuys’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).

Average price

$12.9kSign up free to see

median $2kfree account

High

$607kSign up free to see

auction record in database

Lots sold

1,155

of 1,283 offered · 2001–2026

Sell-through

90%

sold ÷ offered

Price trend

Each dot is a sold lot (price realized incl. premium where published, converted to USD at the sale-date rate; log scale). Dashed line: yearly median.

Showing 579 of 1,155 priced sales (evenly sampled; every year’s high and low included). Medians use all sales.

28 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
Paintings	68	57	84%	$21.5kSign up	$11.9kSign up	$187kSign up
Oil	41	33	80%	$20.1kSign up	$14.7kSign up	$187kSign up
Acrylic	1	1	100%	$114kSign up	$114kSign up	$114kSign up
Mixed media	12	11	92%	$24.5kSign up	$11.5kSign up	$130kSign up
Works on paper	245	216	88%	$26.3kSign up	$8.2kSign up	$607kSign up
Watercolor	9	8	89%	$64.5kSign up	$34.3kSign up	$178kSign up
Gouache	4	3	75%	$246kSign up	$152kSign up	$505kSign up
Drawing	158	140	89%	$25.8kSign up	$10kSign up	$607kSign up
Prints & multiples	664	630	95%	$4.2kSign up	$1.4kSign up	$131kSign up
Etching	61	59	97%	$2.8kSign up	$1.3kSign up	$28.4kSign up
Aquatint	22	21	95%	$2.9kSign up	$1.6kSign up	$25.6kSign up
Lithograph	176	163	93%	$4kSign up	$2.4kSign up	$74.2kSign up
Screenprint	159	151	95%	$2.6kSign up	$1.1kSign up	$24.7kSign up
Woodcut / linocut	11	11	100%	$12.4kSign up	$10kSign up	$46.4kSign up
Print (other)	193	185	96%	$3.2kSign up	$638Sign up	$96.9kSign up
Multiple	42	40	95%	$16.6kSign up	$5.2kSign up	$131kSign up
Photography	61	48	79%	$11kSign up	$2.3kSign up	$177kSign up
Photograph	61	48	79%	$11kSign up	$2.3kSign up	$177kSign up
Sculpture	29	26	90%	$107kSign up	$16.7kSign up	$443kSign up
Other	216	178	82%	$11.4kSign up	$1.4kSign up	$203kSign 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	21	8	$2.3kSign up
2025	44	37	$1.3kSign up
2024	81	79	$944Sign up
2023	78	71	$1kSign up
2022	55	50	$991Sign up
2021	180	167	$2.3kSign up
2020	48	36	$1.5kSign up
2019	147	143	$891Sign up
2018	65	58	$2.3kSign up
2017	48	40	$2.9kSign up
2016	117	107	$1.3kSign up
2015	72	59	$6.9kSign up
2014	33	27	$21.3kSign up
2013	35	27	$14.9kSign up
2012	29	18	$3.2kSign up
2011	13	13	$15.7kSign up
2010	43	43	$9.6kSign up
2009	20	20	$7.8kSign up
2008	33	31	$7kSign up
2007	27	27	$7.8kSign up
2006	17	17	$4.9kSign up
2005	21	21	$1.9kSign up
2004	24	24	$2.1kSign up
2003	14	14	$3.7kSign up
2002	14	14	$784Sign up
2001	4	4	$316Sign up