# Charles Ray - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-28T21:04:37.180Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 45
- Lots with prices: 36
- First auction date: 2001-05-15
- Latest auction date: 2025-11-20
- Median realised price: $153,600
- Price range: $200 to $3,106,500

## Market Takeaway
Charles Ray shows developing auction liquidity with 44 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $158,500. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 3 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-11-20.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($158,500\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $35,000 and $284,800.
- 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: 5.7% (2 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 8.6% (3 sales)
- $10,000\+: 85.7% (30 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 3
- Previous 12 months sales: 3
- Recent 12 months median: $254,000
- Previous 12 months median: $700
- Median shift: 100%
- Latest sale date: 2025-11-20
- Days since latest sale: 90
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Christie's: 28 lots
- Phillips: 6 lots
- Sotheby's: 6 lots
- Dallas Auction Gallery: 2 lots
- AaG Auktionshaus am Grunewald: 1 lots
- Fine Estate Inc.: 1 lots
- Gros\-Delettrez: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-11-15 | Charles RAY | Gros\-Delettrez | €420 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-charles-ray-1096-c-1918f9a482
2. 2025-11-20 | CHARLES RAY \(B. 1953\). All My Clothes. sixteen Kodachrome photographs mount | Christie's | N/A
3. 2025-11-20 | CHARLES RAY \(B. 1953\). Study for Sleeping Mime. aluminum4 ¼ x 12 ½ x 7 in. | Christie's | $254,000
4. 2025-05-15 | CHARLES RAY \(B. 1953\). Hand Holding Egg. porcelain3 ¼ x 8 x 3 ½ in. \(8.3 x | Christie's | $340,200
5. 2024-11-21 | Untitled | Sotheby's | $114,000
6. 2024-09-20 | Charles Ray \(1953 Chicago – lebt in Los Angeles\) | AaG Auktionshaus am Grunewald | €200
7. 2024-05-22 | CHARLES RAY SIGNED INKJET PRINT ON PAPER | Dallas Auction Gallery | $700
8. 2023-11-19 | Charles Ray \(American b. 1953\) 'The Most Beautiful Woman in the World\-1993 | Fine Estate Inc. | N/A
9. 2023-11-18 | Charles Ray \- Untitled | Dallas Auction Gallery | N/A
10. 2022-11-17 | CHARLES RAY \(B. 1953\) Revolution Counter Revolution carved wood, steel, fab | Christie's | $2,100,000
11. 2021-05-26 | Charles Ray \(né en 1953\) Before and after, 2001 signé, daté et numéroté '7/12' au crayon \( | Christie's | N/A
12. 2017-06-30 | CHARLES RAY \- Before & After | Phillips | N/A
13. 2016-11-17 | CHARLES RAY \- All My Clothes | Phillips | $150,000
14. 2015-05-13 | CHARLES RAY \| Untitled | Sotheby's | $150,000
15. 2014-11-13 | Charles Ray \(B. 1953\) All My Clothes sixteen elements\-\-color polaroid each: | Christie's | $197,000
16. 2014-05-14 | Charles Ray \(b. 1953\) | Christie's | $371,000
17. 2013-07-17 | Charles Ray \(b. 1953\) | Christie's | $3,500
18. 2012-05-10 | CHARLES  RAY | Sotheby's | $182,500
19. 2011-11-09 | Charles Ray \(b. 1953\) | Christie's | $206,500
20. 2011-11-08 | CHARLES RAY \(B. 1953\) | Christie's | $506,500
21. 2011-11-08 | Charles Ray \(b. 1953\) | Christie's | $3,106,500
22. 2011-11-08 | CHARLES RAY | Phillips | $47,500
23. 2011-05-11 | CHARLES RAY | Sotheby's | $242,500
24. 2011-03-10 | CHARLES RAY \(B. 1953\) | Christie's | $25,000

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