# Glenn Ligon - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-29T06:17:28.904Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 219
- Lots with prices: 175
- First auction date: 2001-05-16
- Latest auction date: 2025-11-19
- Median realised price: $32,500
- Price range: $350 to $3,125,000

## Market Takeaway
Glenn Ligon shows deep auction liquidity with 219 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $32,500. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 15 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-11-19.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($32,500\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $7,500 and $151,200.
- 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: 2.9% (5 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 25.1% (44 sales)
- $10,000\+: 72% (126 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 15
- Previous 12 months sales: 19
- Recent 12 months median: $35,560
- Previous 12 months median: $32,760
- Median shift: 8.5%
- Latest sale date: 2025-11-19
- Days since latest sale: 91
- Market velocity: moderate

## Top Auction Houses
- Christie's: 83 lots
- Sotheby's: 58 lots
- Phillips: 20 lots
- Swann Auction Galleries: 19 lots
- Bonhams: 12 lots
- Forum Auctions \- UK: 5 lots
- DUMBO Auctions: 4 lots
- Tate Ward Auctions: 3 lots
- Rago Arts and Auction Center: 2 lots
- Roseberys: 2 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2024-11-26 | GLENN LIGON \(1960 \- \) Detail. | Swann Auction Galleries | $2,400
2. 2025-11-19 | GLENN LIGON \(B. 1960\). Double America 2. neon and paint48 x 145 x 3 in. \(12 | Christie's | $3,125,000
3. 2025-10-24 | GLENN LIGON \(B. 1960\). Untitled \(Four Etchings\). Each Image: 23 ½ x 15 7/8 | Christie's | $30,480
4. 2025-10-07 | Glenn Ligon \(1960\-\), Skin Tight \(Muhammad Ali Text\), 1995. | Swann Auction Galleries | N/A
5. 2025-10-07 | Glenn Ligon \(1960\-\), Runaways, 1993. | Swann Auction Galleries | $35,560 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-glenn-ligon-1960-runaways-1993-159-c-4c44f1c9fa
6. 2025-10-07 | Glenn Ligon \(1960\-\), Untitled: Four Etchings, 1992. | Swann Auction Galleries | $35,560
7. 2025-07-18 | GLENN LIGON \(B. 1960\). Study for Negro Sunshine \#81. oil stick, coal dust a | Christie's | N/A
8. 2025-07-16 | GLENN LIGON \(B. 1960\). Untitled \(Four Etchings\). Each Image: 23 ½ x 15 7/8 in. \(597 x 403 mm.\)Each Sheet: 25 1/8 x 17 ½ in. \(638 x 445 mm.\)\(4\).75 | Christie's | N/A
9. 2025-07-15 | Excerpt | Sotheby's | $48,260
10. 2025-06-14 | Glenn Ligon, b. 1960, Study for Negro Sunshine \#70 | Black Art Auction | $20,000
11. 2025-05-12 | GLENN LIGON \(B. 1960\) Untitled \(I Feel Most Colored When I Am Thrown Agains | Christie's | $2,833,000
12. 2025-04-03 | GLENN LIGON \(1960 \- \) Detail. | Swann Auction Galleries | $1,375
13. 2025-02-27 | GLENN LIGON \(B. 1960\). No Room \(Gold\) \#19. oil and acrylic on canvas32 x 32 | Christie's | $75,600
14. 2025-02-27 | GLENN LIGON \(b. 1960\). Figure \#44. acrylic, silkscreen ink and coal dust on | Christie's | $151,200
15. 2025-02-26 | Figure \#78 | Sotheby's | $165,100
16. 2025-02-26 | GLENN LIGON \(B. 1960\). Boy on Tire. Image: 34 x 25 ½ in. \(864 x 648 mm.\)She | Christie's | $2,142
17. 2024-11-26 | GLENN LIGON \(1960 \- \) Untitled \(Barbershop\). | Swann Auction Galleries | $2,000
18. 2024-11-22 | GLENN LIGON \(B. 1960\) \- Debris Field \(Red\) \#3 | Christie's | $327,600
19. 2024-11-14 | Glenn Ligon \(American, b. 1960\) Study for Negro Sunshine II \#13, 2011 | Freeman’s \| Hindman | $13,000
20. 2024-10-22 | Glenn Ligon, My Fear Is Your Fear | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $1,900
21. 2024-10-03 | GLENN LIGON \(1960 \- \) Boy on Tire. | Swann Auction Galleries | $3,750
22. 2024-10-01 | GLENN LIGON \(B. 1960\). Figure \#31. acrylic, silkscreen and coal dust on can | Christie's | $151,200
23. 2024-10-01 | GLENN LIGON \(B. 1960\). Debris Field \#2. silkscreen ink, etching ink, gesso | Christie's | $189,000
24. 2024-06-27 | GLENN LIGON \(B. 1960\). Debris Field \#5. etching ink on canvas 114 ¼ x 88 1⁄ | Christie's | £214,200

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