# Allen Ruppersberg - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-28T17:53:50.116Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 79
- Lots with prices: 56
- First auction date: 2004-02-12
- Latest auction date: 2025-12-07
- Median realised price: $1,600
- Price range: $60 to $25,000

## Market Takeaway
Allen Ruppersberg shows solid auction liquidity with 79 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $1,600. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 16 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-12-07.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($1,600\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $400 and $3,750.
- Auction totals can include buyer premiums or fees depending on reporting, so compare like\-for\-like when possible.
- Condition, size, medium, provenance, and attribution confidence can move value materially versus median comps.

## Price Bands
- Under $1,000: 39.3% (22 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 48.2% (27 sales)
- $10,000\+: 12.5% (7 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 16
- Previous 12 months sales: 7
- Recent 12 months median: $462
- Previous 12 months median: $264
- Median shift: 75%
- Latest sale date: 2025-12-07
- Days since latest sale: 73
- Market velocity: moderate

## Top Auction Houses
- Christie's: 15 lots
- Bonhams: 10 lots
- Hughes Auctions: 7 lots
- Los Angeles Modern Auctions: 6 lots
- Palm Beach Modern Auctions: 5 lots
- Phillips: 5 lots
- John Moran Auctioneers: 4 lots
- Rago Arts and Auction Center: 3 lots
- STAIR: 3 lots
- Sotheby's: 3 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-12-07 | Allen Ruppersberg \(b. 1944\) Signed Poster, The Sky Above The Mud Below Exhibition, 1988 | Hughes Auctions | $130
2. 2025-11-02 | Allen Ruppersberg \(b. 1944\) Signed Poster, The Sky Above The Mud Below Exhibition, 1988 | Hughes Auctions | N/A
3. 2025-10-07 | Allen Ruppersberg \(b. 1944\), "23 Pieces," 1969 | John Moran Auctioneers | $462
4. 2025-09-28 | Allen Ruppersberg \(b. 1944\) Signed Poster, The Sky Above The Mud Below Exhibition, 1988 | Hughes Auctions | N/A
5. 2025-09-28 | Allen Ruppersberg \(b. 1944\) Mixed Media Pencil Signed 1982 | Hughes Auctions | $600
6. 2025-09-28 | Allen Ruppersberg \(b. 1944\) Silkscreen on Cardstock, Why Is Everything the Same?, Colby Printing | Hughes Auctions | $170
7. 2025-09-28 | Allen Ruppersberg \(b. 1944\) Silkscreen on Glass, True or False, For or Against, Colby Printing | Hughes Auctions | $400
8. 2025-09-28 | Allen Ruppersberg \(b. 1944\) Silkscreen on Glass, True or False, For or Against, Colby Printing | Hughes Auctions | $400
9. 2025-09-18 | ALLEN RUPPERSBERG \(B. 1944\) Head, circa 1982 \(This lot is accompanied by Allen Ruppersberg, Screamed from Life, 1982, color screenprint on paper, signed, dated and numbered 16/30.\) | Bonhams | $1,600
10. 2025-09-18 | ALLEN RUPPERSBERG \(B. 1944\) Group of Two Works from Illustration for Progress not Adventure/Adventure not Progress, 1981 | Bonhams | $20,000
11. 2025-09-18 | ALLEN RUPPERSBERG \(B. 1944\) Autobiography, 1980 | Bonhams | $18,000
12. 2025-07-01 | Allen Ruppersberg \(American 1944\). Suicide and the hundred yard dash. | Adams Amsterdam Auctions | N/A
13. 2025-05-20 | Allen Ruppersberg \(b. 1944\), "23 Pieces," 1969 | John Moran Auctioneers | N/A
14. 2025-05-17 | Allen Ruppersberg \(1944 Cleveland – lebt in Los Angeles und New York\) | AaG Auktionshaus am Grunewald | €380
15. 2025-02-28 | ALLEN RUPPERSBERG \(B. 1944\) Poster Object \(What Should I Do?\) ALLEN RUPPE | Christie's | $1,134
16. 2025-02-19 | Allen Ruppersberg \(born 1944\) Honey, I rearranged the collection and the collection rearranged me, 2002 | Piasa | €2,200
17. 2024-11-19 | Allen Ruppersberg \(b. 1944\), "23 Pieces," 1969 | John Moran Auctioneers | N/A
18. 2024-10-30 | Allen Ruppersberg, Carl Barks | Los Angeles Modern Auctions | N/A
19. 2024-10-30 | Allen Ruppersberg \(b. 1944\), "Illustration for the Novel That Writes Itself," 1983 | John Moran Auctioneers | $264
20. 2024-10-13 | Allen Ruppersberg \(American, b.1944\) 'The Ten Historical...' Landfall Press Lithograph Portfolio | Leonard Auction | $1,000 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-allen-ruppersberg-american-b-1944-the-ten-historical-landfall-press-lithograph-portfolio-53-c-35943329ec
21. 2024-08-18 | Allen Ruppersberg \(American, b.1944\) 'The Ten Historical...' Landfall Press Lithograph Portfolio | Leonard Auction | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-allen-ruppersberg-american-b-1944-the-ten-historical-landfall-press-lithograph-portfolio-30-c-3ef4b2fa0b
22. 2024-07-31 | Allen Ruppersberg, American 1944, Untitled, Screenprint | Nye & Company | $100
23. 2024-04-24 | Allen Ruppersberg, Play On Words/A Collection of Rare Books—Charles Dickens | Los Angeles Modern Auctions | $1,000
24. 2024-02-14 | Allen Ruppersberg, Where's the Original | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $2,200

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