Tom Wesselmann

American · 1931–2004 · Painter, Printmaker

Thomas K. Wesselmann was an American artist associated with the pop art movement who worked in painting, collage and sculpture. (Wikipedia)

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719lots offered2002–2026years recorded90%sold (637)$9.7kSign up free to seemedian price

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Mouth #14 (Marilyn)Phillips · Nov 2022$3,236,500≈ £2,720,662≈ €3,110,823Sign up to see
Smoker #17Phillips · Sep 2025HK$13,945,000≈ $1,792,211≈ £1,341,978≈ €1,535,479Sign up to see
Still Life with Blue Jar and Smoking Cigarette (flat)Phillips · May 2015$1,385,000≈ £877,026≈ €1,212,891Sign up to see

Tom Wesselmann’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).

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Average price

$38.8kSign up free to see

median $9.7kfree account

High

$3.2MSign up free to see

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Lots sold

637

of 706 offered · 2002–2026

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 560 of 634 priced sales (evenly sampled; every year’s high and low included). Medians use all sales.

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

13 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	76	67	88%	$206kSign up	$65.9kSign up	$3.2MSign up
Oil	45	39	87%	$303kSign up	$69.3kSign up	$3.2MSign up
Acrylic	21	21	100%	$74.6kSign up	$69.3kSign up	$227kSign up
Mixed media	6	4	67%	$8.2kSign up	$7.8kSign up	$11.6kSign up
Works on paper	115	88	77%	$53.6kSign up	$25.2kSign up	$489kSign up
Watercolor	3	2	67%	$68kSign up	$68kSign up	$108kSign up
Gouache	3	1	33%	$39.1kSign up	$39.1kSign up	$39.1kSign up
Pastel	1	1	100%	$489kSign up	$489kSign up	$489kSign up
Drawing	90	69	77%	$48.4kSign up	$28.8kSign up	$348kSign up
Prints & multiples	443	421	95%	$9.5kSign up	$8.1kSign up	$47.5kSign up
Etching	6	6	100%	$5.8kSign up	$4.9kSign up	$12kSign up
Aquatint	16	16	100%	$7.8kSign up	$7.2kSign up	$17.9kSign up
Lithograph	63	49	78%	$5.8kSign up	$5.5kSign up	$16.2kSign up
Screenprint	323	317	98%	$10kSign up	$8.8kSign up	$35kSign up
Woodcut / linocut	3	3	100%	$7.3kSign up	$6.9kSign up	$8.8kSign up
Print (other)	12	10	83%	$8.5kSign up	$4.3kSign up	$37.8kSign up
Multiple	20	20	100%	$13.6kSign up	$7.5kSign up	$47.5kSign up
Sculpture	32	25	78%	$50.2kSign up	$30.2kSign up	$292kSign up
Other	40	36	90%	$25kSign up	$6.3kSign up	$250kSign 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	44	40	$10.4kSign up
2025	69	66	$8.8kSign up
2024	55	43	$7.9kSign up
2023	61	53	$9.4kSign up
2022	48	40	$8.1kSign up
2021	41	39	$7.5kSign up
2020	25	23	$22.5kSign up
2019	38	33	$11.9kSign up
2018	40	39	$8.3kSign up
2017	28	28	$8.1kSign up
2016	30	26	$10kSign up
2015	33	25	$15.5kSign up
2014	28	26	$14kSign up
2013	41	36	$10.5kSign up
2012	14	14	$7.2kSign up
2011	19	19	$8.8kSign up
2010	12	12	$8.5kSign up
2009	21	18	$9.4kSign up
2008	18	16	$7.9kSign up
2007	19	19	$16kSign up
2006	8	8	$20.1kSign up
2005	1	1	$5.8kSign up
2004	4	4	$4.2kSign up
2003	2	2	$3.2kSign up
2002	7	7	$5.2kSign up