# Francis Alÿs - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-28T23:21:43.173Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 200
- Lots with prices: 153
- First auction date: 2003-09-23
- Latest auction date: 2025-11-20
- Median realised price: $27,000
- Price range: $40 to $632,000

## Market Takeaway
Francis Alÿs shows deep auction liquidity with 200 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $27,000. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 7 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-11-20.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($27,000\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $11,250 and $60,500.
- 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: 2.6% (4 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 18.3% (28 sales)
- $10,000\+: 79.1% (121 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 7
- Previous 12 months sales: 7
- Recent 12 months median: $52,920
- Previous 12 months median: $10,080
- Median shift: 100%
- Latest sale date: 2025-11-20
- Days since latest sale: 90
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Christie's: 79 lots
- Sotheby's: 50 lots
- Phillips: 20 lots
- Art\-Rite: 8 lots
- Bonhams: 6 lots
- Cornette de Saint\-Cyr\-Bruxelles: 6 lots
- Koller Auctions: 5 lots
- Bernaerts Auctioneers: 3 lots
- DUMBO Auctions: 3 lots
- Rago Arts and Auction Center: 3 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-11-20 | FRANCIS ALŸS \(B. 1959\) Song for Lupita installation dimensions variable \(Executed in 1998\) | Bonhams | N/A
2. 2025-11-19 | FRANCIS ALŸS \(B. 1959\) Untitled \(Sign Painting Project\) I: 29 1/8 x 39 3/8 in \(74 x 100 cm\)II: 5 1/4 x 6 3/4 in \(13.1 x 17 cm\) \(Executed in 1996\) | Bonhams | N/A
3. 2025-10-16 | Francis Alys \(1959\) \- Untitled \(Hyde Park\), 1999 | Finarte | €2,400
4. 2025-06-30 | Francis Alÿs \(Belgian 1959\). Lada Kopeika Project, 2014. | Adams Amsterdam Auctions | N/A
5. 2025-03-06 | FRANCIS ALŸS \(B. 1959\). Phares, voiture \(Headlights, car\). encaustic on mas | Christie's | £52,920
6. 2025-03-05 | Untitled | Sotheby's | £114,300
7. 2025-03-05 | Untitled | Sotheby's | £120,650
8. 2024-12-09 | FRANCIS ALYS \(born 1959\) Sans titre \(Stitched Donkey\) | Bonhams | €18,000
9. 2024-12-05 | Untitled | Sotheby's | N/A
10. 2024-11-21 | Sin título | Sotheby's | N/A
11. 2024-04-23 | FRANCIS ALŸS \(B. 1959\) Ghetto Collector tin, magnets, plastic string and ru | Christie's | €2,268
12. 2024-04-23 | FRANCIS ALŸS \(B. 1959\) Mexico D. F. printed paper collage on colour photogr | Christie's | €10,080
13. 2024-04-23 | FRANCIS ALŸS \(B. 1959\) Untitled \(Nude\) encaustic on wood, in artist’s frame | Christie's | €32,760
14. 2024-02-27 | FRANCIS ALYS, LOT OF THREE CATALOGUES | Art\-Rite | €40
15. 2024-01-30 | Francis Alys \- Reel\-Unreel \- 2013 Offset Lithograph 36" x 24" | DUMBO Auctions | N/A
16. 2023-12-06 | FRANCIS ALYS \(°1959\) | Bernaerts Auctioneers | €15,000
17. 2023-11-30 | FRANCIS ALŸS | Koller Auctions | CHF 2,100
18. 2023-10-17 | FRANCIS ALŸS \(B. 1959\) Untitled graphite and acrylic on paper 14 x 7 7/8in. | Christie's | N/A
19. 2023-07-20 | FRANCIS ALYS, CLOSED CIRCUIT | Art\-Rite | €3,500
20. 2023-07-20 | FRANCIS ALYS, UNTITLED | Art\-Rite | €7,500
21. 2023-06-30 | Francis Alÿs \(1959 Antwerpen\) – „Study for the 'the Prophet'“ \(“Study for the 'the Prophet'”\) | Karl & Faber | €17,780
22. 2023-06-22 | FRANCIS ALŸS | Koller Auctions | CHF 9,000
23. 2023-05-30 | Francis Alys \- Reel\-Unreel \- 2013 Offset Lithograph 36" x 24" | DUMBO Auctions | N/A
24. 2023-04-27 | FRANCIS ALYS \(°1959\) | Bernaerts Auctioneers | €100

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