# Edward Kienholz - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-30T14:56:00.280Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 137
- Lots with prices: 112
- First auction date: 2000-12-12
- Latest auction date: 2025-12-16
- Median realised price: $3,000
- Price range: $50 to $141,900

## Market Takeaway
Edward Kienholz shows solid auction liquidity with 137 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $3,000. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 13 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-12-16.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($3,000\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $1,195 and $7,500.
- 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: 19.6% (22 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 62.5% (70 sales)
- $10,000\+: 17.9% (20 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 13
- Previous 12 months sales: 12
- Recent 12 months median: $1,500
- Previous 12 months median: $1,400
- Median shift: 7.1%
- Latest sale date: 2025-12-16
- Days since latest sale: 64
- Market velocity: moderate

## Top Auction Houses
- Bonhams: 29 lots
- Christie's: 23 lots
- Sotheby's: 10 lots
- Los Angeles Modern Auctions: 8 lots
- Abell Auction: 5 lots
- Piasa: 5 lots
- Dr. Irene Lehr Kunstauktionen GmbH: 4 lots
- Rago Arts and Auction Center: 4 lots
- STAIR: 4 lots
- AaG Auktionshaus am Grunewald: 3 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-12-16 | EDWARD KIENHOLZ \(1927\-1994\) AND NANCY REDDIN KIENHOLZ \(1943\-2019\). All Have | Christie's | $53,340
2. 2023-10-19 | Edward Kienholz, The Marriage Icon | Los Angeles Modern Auctions | $1,900
3. 2022-09-29 | EDWARD KIENHOLZ \(1927\-1994\) Jane Doe paint and resin on wooden sewing chest | Christie's | $94,500
4. 2025-12-10 | Edward Kienholz, Dome Edition Dusseldorf | Rago Arts and Auction Center | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-edward-kienholz-dome-edition-dusseldorf-166-c-57d0a1e0a1
5. 2025-12-06 | Edward Kienholz \(1927 Fairfield \- Hope, Idaho 1994\) R | AaG Auktionshaus am Grunewald | €6,000
6. 2025-12-06 | Edward Kienholz \(1927 Fairfield \- Hope, Idaho 1994\) R | AaG Auktionshaus am Grunewald | €3,400
7. 2025-10-21 | Edward Kienholz, For the Secret S.S.S.R. | Los Angeles Modern Auctions | N/A
8. 2025-09-25 | Edward Kienholz \(American, 1927\-1994\) For 54 WIN. 9MM., 1969 | Freeman’s \| Hindman | $1,500
9. 2025-09-25 | Edward Kienholz \(American, 1927\-1994\) For $130.00, 1969 | Freeman’s \| Hindman | $3,000
10. 2025-08-07 | Edward Kienholz \(1927\-1994\): The Marriage Icon | STAIR | $1,300
11. 2025-07-17 | EDWARD KIENHOLZ \(1927\-1994\) AND NANCY REDDIN KIENHOLZ \(1943\-2019\). The Eco | Christie's | $630
12. 2025-06-05 | Edward Kienholz, The Marriage Icon | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $850
13. 2025-06-04 | Edward Kienholz \(1927\-1994\) The Mariage icon, 1972 | Piasa | €1,500
14. 2025-05-16 | Edward Kienholz \(1927 Fairfield \- Hope, Idaho 1994\) | AaG Auktionshaus am Grunewald | €1,200
15. 2025-02-26 | EDWARD KIENHOLZ \(1927\-1994\) and NANCY REDDIN KIENHOLZ \(1943\-2019\). The Opti | Christie's | $3,276
16. 2025-02-08 | EDWARD KIENHOLZ \(American 1927\-1994\) and NANCY KIENHOLZ \(American 1943\-2019\) “Yip Monoseries \#23," 1991 | Simpson Galleries, LLC | $2,750
17. 2025-01-23 | EDWARD KIENHOLZ, IL SENSO DEGLI AFFARI | Art\-Rite | €60
18. 2024-11-30 | Edward Kienholz \(Fairfield 1927 \- Sandpoint 1994\) | Bozner Kunstauktionen | €500
19. 2024-10-15 | Edward Kienholz \(1927\-1994\), "Souvenir from Dokumenta 5 Kassel," 1973 | John Moran Auctioneers | $858
20. 2024-07-17 | Edward Kienholz \(American, 1927–1994\), Assemblage, circa 1956, mixed media wood assemblage in artist's frame, 28 x 35 1/2in \(71 x 90cm\) | Andrew Jones Auctions | $3,400
21. 2024-06-06 | Edward Kienholz \(1927\-1994\): Untitled \(For $171.00\) | STAIR | $6,000
22. 2024-06-05 | Edward Kienholz \(1927\-1994\): Documenta 5 | STAIR | $1,400
23. 2024-04-17 | EDWARD KIENHOLZ \(1927\-1994\) A Gift for a Baby, 1962 | Bonhams | $8,000
24. 2024-04-04 | EDWARD KIENHOLZ, IL SENSO DEGLI AFFARI | Art\-Rite | €50

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