# Doug Aitken - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-28T20:19:36.530Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 79
- Lots with prices: 41
- First auction date: 2002-11-14
- Latest auction date: 2025-12-16
- Median realised price: $18,000
- Price range: $400 to $612,800

## Market Takeaway
Doug Aitken shows solid auction liquidity with 79 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $18,000. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 3 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-12-16.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($18,000\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $5,625 and $49,250.
- 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: 4.9% (2 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 29.3% (12 sales)
- $10,000\+: 65.9% (27 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 3
- Previous 12 months sales: 0
- Recent 12 months median: $750
- Previous 12 months median: $0
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-12-16
- Days since latest sale: 64
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Christie's: 25 lots
- Phillips: 25 lots
- Sotheby's: 21 lots
- Aste Bolaffi: 2 lots
- Auctionata Paddle8 AG: 1 lots
- Auctions at Showplace: 1 lots
- Finarte: 1 lots
- Grisebach: 1 lots
- Los Angeles Modern Auctions: 1 lots
- Rago Arts and Auction Center: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-12-16 | DOUG AITKEN \(B. 1968\). Last Blast. aluminum lightbox, LED lights, chromogen | Christie's | N/A
2. 2025-10-01 | RIOT | Sotheby's | N/A
3. 2025-08-22 | Doug Aitken, Untitled | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $750
4. 2024-01-21 | Doug Aitken "New Opposition" Digital C\-Print | Auctions at Showplace | $400
5. 2023-07-04 | Doug Aitken \(Redondo Beach, California 1968\) \- Tools for Warmth and Departure, 2003 | Finarte | N/A
6. 2023-03-09 | DOUG AITKEN \(B. 1968\) new opposition II chromogenic mounted on Plexiglas, | Christie's | £4,032
7. 2022-12-14 | DOUG AITKEN \(B. 1968\) Vision high\-density foam, resin and mirror 58 x 87 x | Christie's | N/A
8. 2021-03-11 | Doug Aitken \(B. 1968\) Untitled \(Santa Barbara offshore Platforms\) II signed | Christie's | $3,250
9. 2020-05-01 | DOUG AITKEN \| HEIGHTENED | Sotheby's | N/A
10. 2020-03-06 | DOUG AITKEN \| Flesh | Sotheby's | $48,000
11. 2019-12-06 | DOUG AITKEN 1968 Tools for warmth and departure 2004 | Aste Bolaffi | N/A
12. 2019-11-06 | DOUG AITKEN 1968 Tools for warmth and departure 2004 | Aste Bolaffi | N/A
13. 2019-03-01 | DOUG AITKEN \| Plateau | Sotheby's | N/A
14. 2019-02-27 | DOUG AITKEN \- the handle comes up, the hammer comes down | Phillips | $70,000
15. 2018-12-05 | DOUG AITKEN \- island | Phillips | £1,500
16. 2018-10-06 | DOUG AITKEN \| Wilderness | Sotheby's | N/A
17. 2018-05-16 | DOUG AITKEN \- 2 second separation | Phillips | $20,000
18. 2018-04-11 | DOUG AITKEN \- ultraviolet | Phillips | £5,500
19. 2017-12-07 | DOUG AITKEN \- Island | Phillips | N/A
20. 2017-10-05 | DOUG AITKEN \- Connecting | Phillips | £6,500
21. 2017-09-14 | DOUG AITKEN \| Glass Barrier | Sotheby's | N/A
22. 2017-05-17 | DOUG AITKEN \- over the ocean | Phillips | N/A
23. 2017-04-06 | DOUG AITKEN \- green sun | Phillips | £1,750
24. 2017-04-06 | DOUG AITKEN \- ultraviolet | Phillips | N/A

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