Richard Estes
American · b. 1932 · Painter, Printmaker
Richard Estes is an American artist, best known for his photorealist paintings. The paintings generally consist of reflective, clean, and inanimate city and geometric… (Wikipedia)
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Record prices
MayflowerLempertz · €321,300≈ $427,329≈ £221,724Sign up to see
Car ReflectionPhillips · $250,000≈ £189,840≈ €211,149Sign up to see
DowntownVan Ham · €99,000≈ $107,564≈ £84,238Sign up to see
Richard Estes’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
1 in forthcoming sales · bid with the house
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Price trend
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paintings | 10 | 8 | 80% | $133kSign up | $82.5kSign up | $427kSign up |
| Oil | 10 | 8 | 80% | $133kSign up | $82.5kSign up | $427kSign up |
| Works on paper | 15 | 15 | 100% | $7.6kSign up | $1.4kSign up | $88.9kSign up |
| Watercolor | 3 | 3 | 100% | $2.5kSign up | $1.2kSign up | $5.6kSign up |
| Gouache | 8 | 8 | 100% | $1.1kSign up | $1.3kSign up | $1.6kSign up |
| Drawing | 1 | 1 | 100% | $4.7kSign up | $4.7kSign up | $4.7kSign up |
| Prints & multiples | 155 | 149 | 96% | $4.9kSign up | $2.1kSign up | $62.5kSign up |
| Lithograph | 5 | 5 | 100% | $3.6kSign up | $4.4kSign up | $6.3kSign up |
| Screenprint | 139 | 133 | 96% | $5.1kSign up | $2.1kSign up | $62.5kSign up |
| Woodcut / linocut | 10 | 10 | 100% | $2.6kSign up | $2.2kSign up | $4.6kSign up |
| Print (other) | 1 | 1 | 100% | $50Sign up | $50Sign up | $50Sign up |
| Other | 29 | 29 | 100% | $2.7kSign up | $1.8kSign up | $12.5kSign 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 | 26 | $2.8kSign up |
| 2025 | 20 | 20 | $2.1kSign up |
| 2024 | 22 | 21 | $1.8kSign up |
| 2023 | 23 | 23 | $1.6kSign up |
| 2022 | 17 | 17 | $2.4kSign up |
| 2021 | 13 | 13 | $2.1kSign up |
| 2020 | 18 | 18 | $1.8kSign up |
| 2019 | 23 | 21 | $1.3kSign up |
| 2018 | 8 | 7 | $8.8kSign up |
| 2017 | 25 | 23 | $2.1kSign up |
| 2016 | 2 | 2 | $12.6kSign up |
| 2014 | 1 | 1 | $15kSign up |
| 2013 | 1 | 1 | $21.3kSign up |
| 2012 | 1 | 1 | $2kSign up |
| 2011 | 1 | 1 | $1.9kSign up |
| 2008 | 3 | 1 | $800Sign up |
| 2007 | 1 | 1 | $25.6kSign up |
| 2004 | 1 | 1 | $427kSign up |
| 2003 | 2 | 2 | $1.3kSign up |
| 2002 | 1 | 1 | $1.4kSign up |