# Julie Mehretu - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-01T02:03:18.215Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 174
- Lots with prices: 124
- First auction date: 2003-09-23
- Latest auction date: 2025-12-16
- Median realised price: $20,000
- Price range: $100 to $72,979,000

## Market Takeaway
Julie Mehretu shows deep auction liquidity with 174 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $20,000. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 12 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-12-16.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($20,000\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $6,000 and $118,750.
- 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: 2.4% (3 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 33.1% (41 sales)
- $10,000\+: 64.5% (80 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 12
- Previous 12 months sales: 16
- Recent 12 months median: $33,020
- Previous 12 months median: $6,500
- Median shift: 100%
- Latest sale date: 2025-12-16
- Days since latest sale: 64
- Market velocity: moderate

## Top Auction Houses
- Christie's: 62 lots
- Sotheby's: 37 lots
- Phillips: 15 lots
- DUMBO Auctions: 11 lots
- Bonhams: 10 lots
- Dreweatts 1759: 8 lots
- Swann Auction Galleries: 7 lots
- Forum Auctions \- UK: 6 lots
- Tate Ward Auctions: 3 lots
- Aguttes: 2 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-12-16 | JULIE MEHRETU \(B. 1970\). Hope and Homes Drawing \#2. ink on paper9 ½ x 13 3/ | Christie's | $33,020
2. 2025-12-16 | JULIE MEHRETU \(B. 1970\). Codex Monotypes \#58. oil based ink and acrylic on | Christie's | $22,860
3. 2025-12-06 | JULIE MEHRETU \(Ethiopian/American b. 1970\) “Archive Page,” 1997, 22 1/2 x 15 in. \(57.2 x 38.1 cm.\) | Simpson Galleries, LLC | $1,700
4. 2025-11-19 | JULIE MEHRETU \(B. 1970\). Ringside. acrylic, ink and graphite on canvas laid | Christie's | $2,637,000
5. 2025-10-16 | JULIE MEHRETU \(B. 1970\). Untitled. ink on vellum and Mylar18 7/8 x 22in. \(4 | Christie's | £57,150
6. 2025-10-01 | Untitled | Sotheby's | N/A
7. 2025-09-26 | Six Bardos: Transmutation | Sotheby's | N/A
8. 2025-08-14 | Julie Mehretu Print Among the Multitude III | Willow Auction House | $3,750 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-julie-mehretu-print-among-the-multitude-iii-76-c-5194969b8f
9. 2025-07-17 | JULIE MEHRETU \(B. 1970\). Paris Review. Image: 10 x 7 7/8 in. \(254 x 200 mm. | Christie's | N/A
10. 2025-05-17 | JULIE MEHRETU \(Ethiopian/American b. 1970\) “Archive Page,” 1997, 22 1/2 x 15 in. \(57.2 x 38.1 cm.\) | Simpson Galleries, LLC | N/A
11. 2025-05-15 | JULIE MEHRETU \(B. 1970\). Untitled. ink on vellum over paper19 x 22 in. \(48. | Christie's | $119,700
12. 2025-02-26 | JULIE MEHRETU \(B. 1970\). Corner of Lake and Minnehaha. Image: 47 3/8 x 37 i | Christie's | N/A
13. 2024-11-27 | Julie MEHRETU \(Né en 1970\) | Tajan | N/A
14. 2024-11-26 | JULIE MEHRETU \(1970 \- \) Untitled \(Grey Area\). | Swann Auction Galleries | $6,500
15. 2024-11-21 | Untitled | Sotheby's | $924,000
16. 2024-10-02 | Untitled | Sotheby's | N/A
17. 2024-07-23 | JULIE MEHRETU \(B. 1970\). Among the Multitude III. Image: 24 ¾ x 31 in. \(629 | Christie's | $3,024
18. 2024-07-18 | Julie Mehretu \- Easy Dark \- 2017 Offset Lithograph 55" x 35.25" | DUMBO Auctions | N/A
19. 2024-05-29 | JULIE MEHRETU \(B. 1970\) Untitled graphite on paper 53 x 77 cm. \(20 7⁄8 x 30 | Christie's | HK$478,800
20. 2024-05-14 | Untitled | Sotheby's | N/A
21. 2024-05-14 | JULIE MEHRETU \(B. 1970\) Fever graph \(algorithm for serendipity\) acrylic, in | Christie's | $4,890,000
22. 2024-05-14 | JULIE MEHRETU \(B. 1970\) Mumbaphilia \(J.E.\) acrylic and ink on canvas 96 x 7 | Christie's | $5,858,000
23. 2024-04-24 | Julie Mehretu \(b.1970\) Among the Multitude III | Forum Auctions \- UK | £6,000
24. 2024-04-11 | JULIE MEHRETU \(née en 1970\) Sapphic Strophes, 2011 | Aguttes | €5,500

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