Robert Indiana

American · 1928–2018 · Painter, Printmaker

Robert Indiana was an American painter, sculptor and printmaker, associated with the pop art movement. (Wikipedia)

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1,003lots offered2001–2026years recorded70%sold (638)$3.5kSign up free to seemedian price

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PicassoPhillips · May 2022$1,058,500≈ £852,117≈ €1,005,701Sign up to see
NUMBERS ONE through ZEROPhillips · Apr 2018$915,000≈ £655,303≈ €749,202Sign up to see
LOVE (Blue Outside Red Inside)Phillips · Nov 2019$890,000≈ £693,525≈ €808,650Sign up to see

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Average price

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median $3.5kfree account

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Lots sold

638

of 910 offered · 2001–2026

Sell-through

70%

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 559 of 638 priced sales (evenly sampled; every year’s high and low included). Medians use all sales.

2 lot(s) catalogued with a qualifier (e.g. “attributed to”, “after”, “circle of”) are listed in the results but excluded from these statistics.

93 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	22	11	50%	$236kSign up	$178kSign up	$1.1MSign up
Oil	7	4	57%	$500kSign up	$382kSign up	$1.1MSign up
Mixed media	1	1	100%	$945Sign up	$945Sign up	$945Sign up
Works on paper	17	15	88%	$5.4kSign up	$4.5kSign up	$21.6kSign up
Drawing	13	11	85%	$6.4kSign up	$5.7kSign up	$21.6kSign up
Prints & multiples	578	508	88%	$7.5kSign up	$2.5kSign up	$198kSign up
Etching	9	9	100%	$3kSign up	$945Sign up	$14kSign up
Aquatint	8	7	88%	$3.8kSign up	$2kSign up	$8.3kSign up
Lithograph	33	32	97%	$1.3kSign up	$628Sign up	$5.9kSign up
Screenprint	477	437	92%	$8.5kSign up	$3.5kSign up	$198kSign up
Print (other)	23	22	96%	$808Sign up	$396Sign up	$3kSign up
Multiple	28	1	4%	$2kSign up	$2kSign up	$2kSign up
Photography	4	4	100%	$12.1kSign up	$12.2kSign up	$16.2kSign up
Photograph	4	4	100%	$12.1kSign up	$12.2kSign up	$16.2kSign up
Sculpture	53	42	79%	$57kSign up	$10.6kSign up	$915kSign up
Other	236	58	25%	$94.5kSign up	$6.8kSign up	$890kSign 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	116	96	$1.7kSign up
2025	128	100	$2.3kSign up
2024	97	68	$1.8kSign up
2023	132	85	$1.9kSign up
2022	76	42	$4.1kSign up
2021	94	52	$5.1kSign up
2020	55	19	$9.8kSign up
2019	26	21	$6.5kSign up
2018	26	16	$9kSign up
2017	30	26	$6.9kSign up
2016	23	16	$6.6kSign up
2015	29	24	$10.3kSign up
2014	16	14	$9.4kSign up
2013	18	18	$3.8kSign up
2012	9	9	$2.5kSign up
2011	6	5	$3.2kSign up
2010	5	3	$669Sign up
2009	4	4	$531Sign up
2008	1	1	$335Sign up
2007	4	4	$4.4kSign up
2006	3	3	$589Sign up
2005	3	3	$3.9kSign up
2003	1	1	$400Sign up
2002	2	2	$8.6kSign up
2001	6	6	$834Sign up