# Bruce Nauman - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-28T17:35:04.475Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 612
- Lots with prices: 450
- First auction date: 2000-12-12
- Latest auction date: 2025-12-16
- Median realised price: $3,750
- Price range: $40 to $4,197,000

## Market Takeaway
Bruce Nauman shows very deep auction liquidity with 612 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $3,750. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 31 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-12-16.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($3,750\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $1,645 and $16,250.
- 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: 12.2% (55 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 57.3% (258 sales)
- $10,000\+: 30.4% (137 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 31
- Previous 12 months sales: 39
- Recent 12 months median: $1,700
- Previous 12 months median: $1,890
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-12-16
- Days since latest sale: 64
- Market velocity: high

## Top Auction Houses
- Christie's: 257 lots
- Sotheby's: 55 lots
- Phillips: 51 lots
- DUMBO Auctions: 40 lots
- Bernaerts Auctioneers: 35 lots
- Rago Arts and Auction Center: 28 lots
- Bonhams: 21 lots
- STAIR: 15 lots
- Piasa: 11 lots
- Los Angeles Modern Auctions: 10 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2024-06-21 | BRUCE NAUMAN, LA AIR | Zwiggelaar Auctions | N/A
2. 2025-12-16 | Bruce Nauman, Suck Cuts | Wright | N/A
3. 2025-12-16 | Bruce Nauman, Pearl Masque | Wright | $1,700
4. 2025-12-05 | Bruce Nauman \(1941 Fort Wayne – lebt in New Mexico\) R | AaG Auktionshaus am Grunewald | €2,000
5. 2025-11-26 | Bruce Nauman, 1941, Underground Passage | Germann Auction House Ltd | CHF 2,800
6. 2025-10-24 | BRUCE NAUMAN \(B. 1941\). Raw\-War. Sheet: 22 3/8 x 28 ¼ in. \(568 x 720 mm.\). | Christie's | N/A
7. 2025-10-22 | BRUCE NAUMAN \(B. 1941\). Extremely Bright Colored Light. coloured chalk and | Christie's | N/A
8. 2025-10-14 | BRUCE NAUMAN \(AMERICAN 1941\-\) | Lyon & Turnbull | £950
9. 2025-09-30 | BRUCE NAUMAN \(B. 1941\). Setting a Good Corner \(Allegory & Metaphor\). single | Christie's | $12,700
10. 2025-09-30 | BRUCE NAUMAN \(B. 1941\). Life Fly Lifes Flies, from: The Leo Castelli 90th B | Christie's | £1,397
11. 2025-09-03 | Bruce Nauman, Raw\-War | Los Angeles Modern Auctions | $11,000
12. 2025-07-17 | BRUCE NAUMAN \(B. 1941\). House Divided. Image: 23 ¾ x 32 5/8 in. \(603 x 828 | Christie's | N/A
13. 2025-07-17 | BRUCE NAUMAN \(B. 1941\). Life Mask. Image: 25 3/8 x 34 7/8 in. \(644 x 886 mm | Christie's | $2,520
14. 2025-07-17 | BRUCE NAUMAN \(B. 1941\). Sugar/Ragus. Image: 25 7/8 x 34 ½ in. \(701 x 876 mm | Christie's | $2,772
15. 2025-07-16 | BRUCE NAUMAN \(B. 1941\). Raw\-War. Sheet: 22 3/8 x 28 ¼ in. \(568 x 720 mm.\).75 | Christie's | N/A
16. 2025-07-06 | Bruce Nauman | Tiroche Auction House | $5,000
17. 2025-07-03 | Bruce Nauman \(American b.1941\) | Chiswick Auctions | £650
18. 2025-07-01 | BRUCE NAUMAN \(B. 1941\). Untitled \(Cross Beams\). cast iron with grit blast f | Christie's | N/A
19. 2025-06-25 | Bruce Nauman, 1941, Untitled | Germann Auction House Ltd | CHF 700
20. 2025-06-24 | 25 Bruce Nauman 1980 Smoke Rings Posters | DUMBO Auctions | N/A
21. 2025-06-24 | 50 Bruce Nauman 1978 Installation at Leo Castelli's Posters | DUMBO Auctions | N/A
22. 2025-06-24 | 40 Bruce Nauman 1996 Fifteen Pairs of Hands Posters | DUMBO Auctions | N/A
23. 2025-06-19 | BRUCE NAUMAN \(°1941\) | Bernaerts Auctioneers | €140
24. 2025-06-18 | Bruce Nauman \(born 1941\) Use Me, 1988 | Piasa | €3,200

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