# John Coplans - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-29T19:42:41.664Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 87
- Lots with prices: 61
- First auction date: 2001-06-29
- Latest auction date: 2025-02-20
- Median realised price: $3,900
- Price range: $50 to $80,000

## Market Takeaway
John Coplans shows solid auction liquidity with 87 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $3,900. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 2 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-02-20.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($3,900\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $1,700 and $5,100.
- 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: 14.8% (9 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 75.4% (46 sales)
- $10,000\+: 9.8% (6 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 2
- Previous 12 months sales: 6
- Recent 12 months median: $550
- Previous 12 months median: $1,300
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-02-20
- Days since latest sale: 363
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Christie's: 27 lots
- Phillips: 9 lots
- Piasa: 9 lots
- Bonhams: 8 lots
- Artcurial: 7 lots
- Sotheby's: 7 lots
- Ahlers & Ogletree Inc.: 4 lots
- Swann Auction Galleries: 4 lots
- Hindman: 3 lots
- Bukowskis: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-02-20 | JOHN COPLANS 1980 'IRVING' B&W PHOTOGRAPH | Ahlers & Ogletree Inc. | $550
2. 2025-02-20 | JOHN COPLANS 1984 'TORSO' B&W PHOTOGRAPH | Ahlers & Ogletree Inc. | $750
3. 2025-02-13 | JOHN COPLANS \(1920\-2003\) Running. 1990. | Swann Auction Galleries | N/A
4. 2025-02-13 | JOHN COPLANS \(1920\-2003\) Self\-Portrait \(Legs and Hands, Thumbs Together\). 1985; printed 1986. | Swann Auction Galleries | $4,750
5. 2024-06-25 | John Coplans \(1920\-2003\) Self\-Portrait \(Standing side view\), SP 593 | Bonhams | €1,300
6. 2024-06-25 | John Coplans \(1920\-2003\) Selfportrait Upside Down N 7, SP 20/92 | Bonhams | N/A
7. 2024-06-20 | John Coplans \(1920\-2003\) Self\-Portrait \(Stepped Foot\), 1989 | Piasa | N/A
8. 2024-05-30 | John Coplans, Portrait of Tom Garver and Natasha Nicholson in the Bowery Studio, NYC | Wright | $50
9. 2024-02-15 | JOHN COPLANS \(1920\-2003\) Double Self\-Portrait. | Swann Auction Galleries | $1,125
10. 2023-09-27 | John Coplans \(1920\-2003\) Untitled, 1988 | Piasa | N/A
11. 2023-08-02 | John Coplans, Hands Holding Feet | Los Angeles Modern Auctions | $1,200
12. 2023-05-02 | John Coplans \(1920\-2003\) Hands Holding Feet, 1985 | Freeman’s \| Hindman | $1,600
13. 2022-06-13 | JOHN COPLANS \(1920\-2003\) \- Self\-Portrait \(Heel, Dark Sole\), 1989 | Cornette de Saint\-Cyr\-Bruxelles | €4,788
14. 2021-05-27 | JOHN COPLANS \(1920\-2003\) Self Portrait \(Hands spread on knees\). | Swann Auction Galleries | $3,750
15. 2021-04-20 | John COPLANS \(Anglais \- 1920 \- 2003\) Self Portrait \(Hands Holding Feet\) \- 1985 Tirage sur papier baryté au gélatino\-argentique | Artcurial | €3,900
16. 2021-04-08 | John Coplans \(1930\-2003\) Self\-Portrait \(Fragment, Foot and Hell, Two Panels\), 1989 | Piasa | N/A
17. 2020-05-21 | John Coplans \(American 1920 \- 2003\) | Vallot Auctioneers | $500
18. 2019-12-17 | John Coplans \(1920\-2003\) Self Portrait \(Toes on Foot Four Panels\), 1989 | Bonhams | N/A
19. 2019-12-17 | John Coplans \(1920\-2003\) Self Portrait \(Two Hands Together\), 1988 | Bonhams | N/A
20. 2019-09-26 | John Coplans \(British, 1920\-2003\) Sugar Please \(John Baldessari's hands\), ca. 1979 | Hindman | $4,000
21. 2019-09-26 | John Coplans \(British, 1920\-2003\) Self Portrait, Back of Hand, 1986 | Hindman | $1,875
22. 2019-09-26 | John Coplans \(British, 1920\-2003\) Marge in Office, Akron Art Museum, 1979 | Hindman | $688
23. 2018-05-30 | John Coplans \(1920\-2003\) Halloween Parade, Greenwich Village, New York, 1982 Tirage gélatino argentique Numéroté au dos "1/5" 73,7 x... | Piasa | N/A
24. 2018-05-30 | John Coplans \(1920\-2003\)Mardi Gras, New Orleans, 1982 | Piasa | N/A

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