# Bill Viola - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-28T16:27:27.216Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 51
- Lots with prices: 37
- First auction date: 2002-06-27
- Latest auction date: 2025-07-01
- Median realised price: $80,500
- Price range: $20 to $601,000

## Market Takeaway
Bill Viola has 51 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $80,500. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 1 sales. These metrics reflect recorded public auction results and may not include private transactions or every premium outlier sale.

## How To Read This Data
- Use median \($80,500\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($1,600 to $145,250\) as the middle 50% of recorded sales.
- Auction prices can include buyer premiums or fees depending on house reporting, so compare on a like\-for\-like basis.
- Condition, provenance, size, and attribution confidence can move final value materially versus median comps.

## Price Bands
- Under $1,000: 16.2% (6 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 16.2% (6 sales)
- $10,000\+: 67.6% (25 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 1
- Previous 12 months sales: 1
- Recent 12 months median: $27,720
- Previous 12 months median: $126,000
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-07-01
- Days since latest sale: 301
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Christie's: 18 lots
- Sotheby's: 13 lots
- Bonhams: 4 lots
- Phillips: 3 lots
- Dreweatts 1759: 2 lots
- Subastas Segre: 2 lots
- Wright: 2 lots
- Artcurial: 1 lots
- Auctions at Showplace: 1 lots
- Cornette de Saint\-Cyr: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-07-01 | BILL VIOLA \(1951\-2024\). Dialogues. single channel video on LCD screen mount | Christie's | £27,720
2. 2024-10-01 | BILL VIOLA \(1951\-2024\). Surrender. color video diptych on two plasma displa | Christie's | $126,000
3. 2024-03-19 | BILL VIOLA \- Five Angels for the Millennium | Subastas Segre | N/A
4. 2024-03-07 | Bill Viola, Five Angels from the Millennium | Toomey & Co. Auctioneers | $1,100
5. 2023-06-06 | Dolorosa | Sotheby's | N/A
6. 2023-03-16 | BILL VIOLA \(B. 1951\) Ablutions 2005 | Bonhams | £65,000
7. 2022-11-30 | Bill Viola | Dorotheum | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-bill-viola-273-c-99b46b4aec
8. 2022-05-20 | Bill Viola \- Five Angels for the Millennium, 2001, 2006 / '07 | Finarte | €1,200
9. 2021-11-26 | Bill VIOLA \(Né en 1951\) \- ALLEMAGNE, 2003 | Cornette de Saint\-Cyr | €20
10. 2021-09-21 | BILL VIOLA \- Five Angels for the Millennium | Subastas Segre | €750
11. 2021-07-15 | Bill Viola, Five Angels for the Millennium portfolio | Wright | $1,600
12. 2020-07-30 | Bill Viola, Five Angels for the Millenium portfolio | Wright | $2,600
13. 2019-10-06 | Bill Viola 'Ocean Without a Shore' Photograph | Auctions at Showplace | $650
14. 2019-10-04 | BILL VIOLA \| Mater | Sotheby's | £15,000
15. 2019-05-15 | BILL VIOLA \- Study for the Path | Phillips | $150,000
16. 2018-12-13 | Bill Viola \(New York 1951\) | Finarte Roma | N/A
17. 2018-10-04 | BILL VIOLA \- Catherine's Dream | Phillips | N/A
18. 2018-05-29 | BILL VIOLA \(B. 1951\) \| 'Hatsu Yume, First Dream', 2002 \[Five parts\] | Sotheby's | N/A
19. 2017-10-06 | BILL VIOLA \| Mater | Sotheby's | N/A
20. 2017-04-12 | BILL VIOLA \| Man of Sorrows | Sotheby's | £37,500
21. 2016-11-16 | Bill Viola \(b. 1951\) Ablutions | Christie's | N/A
22. 2015-11-12 | BILL VIOLA \| Remembrance | Sotheby's | N/A
23. 2015-07-16 | Bill Viola \(b.1951\) \- Gasometer Oberhausen | Dreweatts 1759 | £496
24. 2015-03-10 | BILL VIOLA \| Man of Sorrows  | Sotheby's | N/A

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