# Carsten Nicolai - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-28T17:35:11.496Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 42
- Lots with prices: 25
- First auction date: 2004-05-14
- Latest auction date: 2025-12-06
- Median realised price: $832
- Price range: $50 to $18,000

## Market Takeaway
Carsten Nicolai has 42 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $832. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 4 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 \($832\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($400 to $3,072\) 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: 56% (14 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 36% (9 sales)
- $10,000\+: 8% (2 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 4
- Previous 12 months sales: 1
- Recent 12 months median: $500
- Previous 12 months median: $0
- Median shift: N/A
- Latest sale date: 2025-12-06
- Days since latest sale: 143
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Christie's: 8 lots
- Dr. Irene Lehr Kunstauktionen GmbH: 7 lots
- Doebele Kunstauktionen: 3 lots
- Kunstauktionshaus Leipzig: 3 lots
- Auktionshaus Mehlis GmbH: 2 lots
- Finarte: 2 lots
- Hampel Fine Art Auctions: 2 lots
- Karl & Faber \- Timed: 2 lots
- Kunstauktionshaus Schloss Ahlden: 2 lots
- AaG Auktionshaus am Grunewald: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-12-06 | Carsten Nicolai \(1965 Karl\-Marx\-Stadt – lebt in Berlin\) | AaG Auktionshaus am Grunewald | €400
2. 2025-08-30 | Carsten Nicolai, Komposition | Auktionshaus Mehlis GmbH | €500
3. 2025-08-21 | Carsten Nicolai, Portrait Inver | Los Angeles Modern Auctions | $2,000
4. 2025-05-24 | Carsten Nicolai, Komposition | Auktionshaus Mehlis GmbH | N/A
5. 2024-10-12 | Carsten Nicolai \- Traum frißt mit den Zähnen, 1988 | Kunstauktionshaus Leipzig | N/A
6. 2024-03-08 | Carsten Nicolai, "Im Inneren frißt das Helle das Dunkle", signierter Holzschnitt von 1991 | K&K – Auktionen in Heidelberg | €50
7. 2023-10-07 | Carsten Nicolai \- o.T., 1991 | Kunstauktionshaus Leipzig | N/A
8. 2023-10-07 | Carsten Nicolai \- Transformer, 1997 | Kunstauktionshaus Leipzig | N/A
9. 2023-03-01 | Carsten Nicolai – „Zwischen den Linien“ | Karl & Faber \- Timed | €500
10. 2023-03-01 | Carsten Nicolai – Mit Kopf auf Rot | Karl & Faber \- Timed | N/A
11. 2022-12-14 | CARSTEN NICOLAI \(B. 1965\) tired light c6 pigment print on aluminum dibond, | Christie's | $5,040
12. 2022-10-29 | Carsten Nicolai \(Karl\-Marx\-Stadt 1965 \- lebt in Berlin u. Chemnitz\) \- u. Olaf Nicolai. \+/\-. | Dr. Irene Lehr Kunstauktionen GmbH | €2,560
13. 2022-10-29 | Carsten Nicolai \(Karl\-Marx\-Stadt 1965 \- lebt in Berlin u. Chemnitz\) \- Zunge und Strand. | Dr. Irene Lehr Kunstauktionen GmbH | €3,072
14. 2022-07-03 | CARSTEN NICOLAI \(1965 KARL\-MARX\-STADT\) | Auktionshaus Rotherbaum OHG | €160
15. 2022-06-30 | Carsten Nicolai, geb. 1965 | Hampel Fine Art Auctions | N/A
16. 2022-06-03 | ”PROTOTYPE G.2.1” | Grisebach | €12,500
17. 2022-04-30 | Carsten Nicolai \(Karl\-Marx\-Stadt 1965 \- lebt in Berlin u. Chemnitz\) \- Labyrinthkopf \(aus der Serie "Corpus"\). | Dr. Irene Lehr Kunstauktionen GmbH | €832
18. 2022-04-30 | Carsten Nicolai \(Karl\-Marx\-Stadt 1965 \- lebt in Berlin u. Chemnitz\) \- Tanz \(aus der Serie "Corpus"\). | Dr. Irene Lehr Kunstauktionen GmbH | €832
19. 2022-04-30 | Carsten Nicolai \(Karl\-Marx\-Stadt 1965 \- lebt in Berlin u. Chemnitz\) \- Pflanze u. Paar \(aus der Serie "Corpus"\). | Dr. Irene Lehr Kunstauktionen GmbH | €768
20. 2022-04-30 | Carsten Nicolai \(Karl\-Marx\-Stadt 1965 \- lebt in Berlin u. Chemnitz\) \- Stein \(aus der Serie "Corpus"\). | Dr. Irene Lehr Kunstauktionen GmbH | €614
21. 2022-04-30 | Carsten Nicolai \(Karl\-Marx\-Stadt 1965 \- lebt in Berlin u. Chemnitz\) \- S. | Dr. Irene Lehr Kunstauktionen GmbH | €512
22. 2022-03-31 | Carsten Nicolai, geb. 1965 | Hampel Fine Art Auctions | N/A
23. 2021-01-27 | CARSTEN NICOLAI \(né en 1965\) \- Known Pulsar. \- Sérigraphie. \- Signée, titrée et \- n | Cornette de Saint\-Cyr\-Bruxelles | €234
24. 2019-11-26 | Carsten Nicolai \(b. 1965\) \- Anti Static | Christie's | €7,500

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