# John Waters - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-01T09:06:37.466Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 61
- Lots with prices: 50
- First auction date: 2004-02-12
- Latest auction date: 2025-07-18
- Median realised price: $1,920
- Price range: $10 to $23,750

## Market Takeaway
John Waters has 61 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $1,920. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 4 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 \($1,920\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($1,536 to $2,750\) 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: 20% (10 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 76% (38 sales)
- $10,000\+: 4% (2 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 4
- Previous 12 months sales: 6
- Recent 12 months median: $1,638
- Previous 12 months median: $400
- Median shift: 100%
- Latest sale date: 2025-07-18
- Days since latest sale: 286
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Christie's: 13 lots
- Sotheby's: 11 lots
- Wright: 4 lots
- Rago Arts and Auction Center: 3 lots
- Auctionata US: 2 lots
- Bonhams: 2 lots
- Chaucer Auctions: 2 lots
- Neal Auction Company: 2 lots
- New Orleans Auction Galleries: 2 lots
- Phillips: 2 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-02-21 | John Waters signed 10x8 inch colour photo. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of | Chaucer Auctions | £12
2. 2025-01-24 | John Waters signed 10x8inch colour photo. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate | Chaucer Auctions | £10
3. 2019-09-24 | JOHN WATERS \- Campaign Button | Phillips | $22,000
4. 2014-05-17 | Birmingham Scottish\-Style All Metal Flintlock Pistol By John Waters | Amoskeag Auction Co | $2,600 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-birmingham-scottish-style-all-metal-flintlock-pistol-by-john-waters-289-c-a3a0962880
5. 2025-07-18 | JOHN WATERS \(b. 1946\). Farrah. chromogenic print collageimage: 10 x 89 ½ in | Christie's | $2,772
6. 2025-07-18 | JOHN WATERS \(b. 1946\). Sophia Loren Decapitated. chromogenic print collagei | Christie's | $1,638
7. 2025-06-26 | John Waters 'Angel' from 'Visual Chemistry' | Akiba Galleries | $400
8. 2025-06-24 | John Waters \(b. 1946\) New York | Clark's Fine Art & Auctioneers Inc. | $1,800
9. 2024-11-12 | John Waters "Blue Plate Special" C\-Print 2011 | Revere Auctions | $400
10. 2024-08-22 | JOHN WATERS \(1946\-\) Signed scratch\-and\-sniff "Odorama" card from a screening of his film Polyester, with related flier. | Swann Auction Galleries | $875
11. 2024-05-21 | JOHN WATERS \(b. 1946\) Sophia Loren Decapitated chromogenic print collage im | Christie's | $2,016
12. 2024-05-18 | John Waters \(American, b. 1946\), "End Reel", 2003 | New Orleans Auction Galleries | $1,625
13. 2024-04-18 | John Waters \(American, b. 1946\), "Scene Missing" | New Orleans Auction Galleries | $1,820
14. 2024-04-05 | John Waters \(born 1946\); 'Condemned'; | Bonhams | $2,500
15. 2023-12-14 | JOHN WATERS \(b. 1946\) Farrah chromogenic print collage image: 10 x 89 ½ in | Christie's | N/A
16. 2023-12-14 | JOHN WATERS \(b. 1946\) Scene Missing chromogenic print 16 x 24 in. \(40.6 x | Christie's | $2,772
17. 2023-11-29 | John Waters, 1946, Taxi! | Germann Auction House Ltd | CHF 1,000
18. 2023-10-19 | John Waters \(born 1946\) I Accuse, 2006 | Hindman | $1,900
19. 2023-09-13 | John Waters "The Girls" Barbie Collector Plates | Revere Auctions | $1,300
20. 2023-05-06 | John Waters \(1946\) Don Knotts Self Portrait Series, 1994 | Santa Monica Auctions | $2,750
21. 2023-03-15 | John Waters, Christmas ornaments and ephemera | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $2,400
22. 2022-12-08 | John Waters \(American/Maryland, b. 1946\) | Neal Auction Company | $832
23. 2022-10-18 | John Waters \(AMERICAN, 1946\) Chromogenic print, "Shocked Divine", 4/8, signed on reverse, dated 1998, Albert Merola Gallery, approx. 15" x 3 1/4" photographs, 7 1/4" x 18 3/4" overall | Bill Hood & Sons Arts & Antiques Auctions | $1,600
24. 2022-04-27 | John Waters b.1946 2006 Film Series Poster SIGNED | Hill Auction Gallery | $125

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