Various Artists

1853–1934

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312lots offered2005–2026years recorded80%sold (245)$2.1kSign up free to seemedian price

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Record prices

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Treasure of Lima: Chest & MapPhillips · Nov 2014$185,000≈ £117,513≈ €148,523Sign up to see
Hommage à Picasso (Homage to Picasso)Phillips · Jun 2014£52,500≈ $88,347≈ €65,307Sign up to see
Ten from Leo CastelliPhillips · Jan 2018£50,000≈ $71,275≈ €57,447Sign up to see

Various Artists’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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3 in forthcoming sales · bid with the house

Listed from the auction houses’ own websites; estimates are the houses’ own, not results.

Average price

$7.6kSign up free to see

median $2.1kfree account

High

$185kSign up free to see

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Lots sold

245

of 307 offered · 2005–2026

Sell-through

80%

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.

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

5 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	16	14	88%	$4.1kSign up	$1kSign up	$31.2kSign up
Oil	16	14	88%	$4.1kSign up	$1kSign up	$31.2kSign up
Works on paper	30	22	73%	$3.7kSign up	$2.2kSign up	$27.5kSign up
Watercolor	4	2	50%	$254Sign up	$254Sign up	$320Sign up
Gouache	3	2	67%	$1.7kSign up	$1.7kSign up	$2.2kSign up
Pastel	2	1	50%	$125Sign up	$125Sign up	$125Sign up
Drawing	10	8	80%	$2.1kSign up	$2.2kSign up	$5.1kSign up
Prints & multiples	193	160	83%	$9kSign up	$2.4kSign up	$185kSign up
Etching	35	22	63%	$3.2kSign up	$1.1kSign up	$18.9kSign up
Engraving	3	3	100%	$9.6kSign up	$3.8kSign up	$25kSign up
Aquatint	3	3	100%	$1.2kSign up	$384Sign up	$3kSign up
Lithograph	34	30	88%	$13.3kSign up	$4.9kSign up	$88.3kSign up
Screenprint	40	29	73%	$16.5kSign up	$7.7kSign up	$71.3kSign up
Woodcut / linocut	5	4	80%	$2.7kSign up	$3kSign up	$4.7kSign up
Print (other)	62	60	97%	$6.6kSign up	$680Sign up	$185kSign up
Multiple	11	9	82%	$5.6kSign up	$1.9kSign up	$29.2kSign up
Photography	21	9	43%	$8.8kSign up	$3.8kSign up	$42.8kSign up
Photograph	21	9	43%	$8.8kSign up	$3.8kSign up	$42.8kSign up
Sculpture	2	2	100%	$1.7kSign up	$1.7kSign up	$2.8kSign up
Other	45	38	84%	$5.4kSign up	$2kSign up	$25.6kSign 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	24	22	$1.2kSign up
2025	20	13	$1.3kSign up
2024	19	16	$2.8kSign up
2023	29	24	$1.8kSign up
2022	7	7	$693Sign up
2021	10	9	$1.6kSign up
2020	12	10	$15.7kSign up
2019	16	13	$3.8kSign up
2018	19	15	$9.4kSign up
2017	17	12	$2.1kSign up
2016	37	27	$2.3kSign up
2015	25	18	$2.6kSign up
2014	17	16	$3.3kSign up
2013	23	15	$2.3kSign up
2012	14	10	$206Sign up
2011	3	3	$737Sign up
2010	5	5	$1kSign up
2009	5	5	$885Sign up
2008	1	1	$380Sign up
2006	2	2	$1.3kSign up
2005	2	2	$189Sign up