# John Millei - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-30T14:00:19.568Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 25
- Lots with prices: 10
- First auction date: 2011-12-15
- Latest auction date: 2025-12-02
- Median realised price: $1,500
- Price range: $170 to $6,250

## Market Takeaway
John Millei has 25 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $1,500. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 12 sales. These metrics reflect recorded public auction results and may not include private transactions or every premium outlier sale.

## How To Read This Data
- Use median \($1,500\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($550 to $4,000\) as the middle 50% of recorded sales.
- Auction prices can include buyer premiums or fees depending on house reporting, so compare on a like\-for\-like basis.
- Condition, provenance, size, and attribution confidence can move final value materially versus median comps.

## Price Bands
- Under $1,000: 40% (4 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 60% (6 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 12
- Previous 12 months sales: 2
- Recent 12 months median: $170
- Previous 12 months median: $0
- Median shift: N/A
- Latest sale date: 2025-12-02
- Days since latest sale: 149
- Market velocity: moderate

## Top Auction Houses
- Abell Auction: 10 lots
- Los Angeles Modern Auctions: 3 lots
- RoGallery: 3 lots
- Bonhams: 2 lots
- Hindman: 2 lots
- Millea Bros Ltd: 2 lots
- Clark's Fine Art & Auctioneers Inc.: 1 lots
- Leonard Joel: 1 lots
- Simpson Galleries, LLC: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-12-02 | John Millei, B. 1958, Toward an Indirect Language | Abell Auction | N/A
2. 2025-12-02 | John Millei, B. 1958, The Problem with Originality | Abell Auction | N/A
3. 2025-12-02 | John Millei, B. 1958, Quicksilver Painting No. 5 | Abell Auction | N/A
4. 2025-12-02 | John Millei, B. 1958, Quicksilver Painting No. 4 | Abell Auction | N/A
5. 2025-12-02 | John Millei, B. 1958, Quicksilver Painting No. 3 | Abell Auction | N/A
6. 2025-12-02 | John Millei, B. 1958, Quicksilver Painting No. 2 | Abell Auction | N/A
7. 2025-12-02 | John Millei, B. 1958, Quicksilver Painting No. 1 | Abell Auction | N/A
8. 2025-12-02 | John Millei, B. 1958, Getting the Rhyme Wrong for W.C.W." | Abell Auction | N/A
9. 2025-12-02 | John Millei, B. 1958, Blue Lasso | Abell Auction | $2,750
10. 2025-12-02 | John Millei, B. 1958, Matador No. 1 | Abell Auction | N/A
11. 2025-08-19 | John Millei \(b. 1958\) California | Clark's Fine Art & Auctioneers Inc. | $170
12. 2025-07-30 | JOHN MILLEI, UNTITLED NO. 40, MIXED MEDIA ON SYNTHETIC VELLUM | RoGallery | N/A
13. 2024-12-04 | John Millei, oil on canvas, 1997 | Millea Bros Ltd | N/A
14. 2024-11-29 | John Millei, Untitled no. 40, Mixed media on synthetic vellum | RoGallery | N/A
15. 2023-11-30 | John Millei, Untitled | Los Angeles Modern Auctions | $400
16. 2023-03-23 | John Millei, Untitled Drawing \#141 | Los Angeles Modern Auctions | $600
17. 2022-12-15 | John Millei, Untitled Painting \#44 | Los Angeles Modern Auctions | $1,900
18. 2022-10-01 | JOHN MILLEI \(American b. 1958\) TWO DRAWINGS, "Untitled JMi8," and "Untitled JMi9," 2004, | Simpson Galleries, LLC | $550
19. 2019-09-26 | John Millei \(American, b. 1958\) Concerning a Drowning Girl, 1992 | Hindman | $4,375
20. 2019-09-26 | John Millei \(American, b. 1958\) Untitled, 1990 | Hindman | N/A
21. 2018-11-16 | John Millei, "Quicksilver \#6", 1991 | Millea Bros Ltd | $4,000
22. 2017-09-05 | JOHN MILLEI \(born 1958\) White Abstract 2006 mixed media on canvas | Leonard Joel | N/A
23. 2016-05-04 | JOHN MILLEI \(born 1958\) Death of a Martyr each part 120 x 60 in. \(304.8 x 152.4 cm\); overall dimensions 120 x 120 in. \(304.8 x 304.8 cm\) unframed | Bonhams | $6,250
24. 2012-05-21 | John Millei \(born 1958\) | Bonhams | $1,500

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