Red Grooms
American · b. 1937 · Painter, Printmaker
Red Grooms is an American multimedia artist best known for his colorful pop-art constructions depicting frenetic scenes of modern urban life. Grooms was given the nickname… (Wikipedia)
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Record prices
(American b.1937)Bonhams · $19,120≈ £10,587≈ €15,251Sign up to see
Aspen SnowbunnyBonhams · $8,320≈ £6,674≈ €7,752Sign up to see
Mimi ReadingRago Auctions · $8,125≈ £6,131≈ €7,215Sign up to see
Red Grooms’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
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Listed from the auction houses’ own websites; estimates are the houses’ own, not results.
Price trend
4 lot(s) catalogued with a qualifier (e.g. “attributed to”, “after”, “circle of”) are listed in the results but excluded from these statistics.
12 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 | 10 | 10 | 100% | $5.1kSign up | $4.5kSign up | $19.1kSign up |
| Oil | 2 | 2 | 100% | $2.7kSign up | $2.7kSign up | $4.4kSign up |
| Acrylic | 2 | 2 | 100% | $6.2kSign up | $6.2kSign up | $7.6kSign up |
| Mixed media | 3 | 3 | 100% | $6.7kSign up | $650Sign up | $19.1kSign up |
| Works on paper | 24 | 22 | 92% | $2.1kSign up | $1.6kSign up | $8.3kSign up |
| Watercolor | 11 | 10 | 91% | $3.3kSign up | $2.6kSign up | $8.3kSign up |
| Gouache | 1 | 1 | 100% | $1.9kSign up | $1.9kSign up | $1.9kSign up |
| Drawing | 8 | 7 | 88% | $1.3kSign up | $999Sign up | $4.1kSign up |
| Prints & multiples | 92 | 81 | 88% | $1.5kSign up | $938Sign up | $7.1kSign up |
| Etching | 6 | 6 | 100% | $391Sign up | $346Sign up | $756Sign up |
| Aquatint | 1 | 1 | 100% | $756Sign up | $756Sign up | $756Sign up |
| Lithograph | 68 | 60 | 88% | $1.7kSign up | $1.1kSign up | $7.1kSign up |
| Screenprint | 8 | 7 | 88% | $1kSign up | $550Sign up | $2.5kSign up |
| Woodcut / linocut | 2 | 1 | 50% | $64Sign up | $64Sign up | $64Sign up |
| Print (other) | 4 | 3 | 75% | $979Sign up | $1.1kSign up | $1.6kSign up |
| Multiple | 3 | 3 | 100% | $2.3kSign up | $2.2kSign up | $2.8kSign up |
| Sculpture | 3 | 3 | 100% | $3.4kSign up | $3.3kSign up | $5.4kSign up |
| Other | 19 | 18 | 95% | $3.1kSign up | $2.4kSign up | $7.5kSign 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 | 26 | 24 | $928Sign up |
| 2025 | 12 | 11 | $635Sign up |
| 2024 | 22 | 21 | $550Sign up |
| 2023 | 26 | 23 | $1kSign up |
| 2022 | 9 | 8 | $2.1kSign up |
| 2021 | 16 | 16 | $1.3kSign up |
| 2020 | 1 | 1 | $3kSign up |
| 2019 | 5 | 5 | $2.2kSign up |
| 2018 | 3 | 3 | $2.8kSign up |
| 2017 | 12 | 10 | $1.8kSign up |
| 2016 | 3 | 2 | $3kSign up |
| 2014 | 2 | 1 | $2.5kSign up |
| 2013 | 3 | 3 | $3.9kSign up |
| 2012 | 2 | 1 | $3.1kSign up |
| 2011 | 1 | 1 | $1.5kSign up |
| 2008 | 2 | 1 | $1kSign up |
| 2006 | 1 | 1 | $19.1kSign up |
| 2005 | 1 | 1 | $999Sign up |
| 2002 | 1 | 1 | $2.8kSign up |