# Lee Bontecou - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-01T15:26:20.924Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 132
- Lots with prices: 111
- First auction date: 2001-11-01
- Latest auction date: 2025-12-16
- Median realised price: $6,250
- Price range: $200 to $9,176,500

## Market Takeaway
Lee Bontecou shows solid auction liquidity with 132 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $6,250. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 3 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-12-16.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($6,250\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $1,400 and $150,000.
- 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: 10.8% (12 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 41.4% (46 sales)
- $10,000\+: 47.7% (53 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 3
- Previous 12 months sales: 6
- Recent 12 months median: $7,000
- Previous 12 months median: $1,386
- Median shift: 100%
- Latest sale date: 2025-12-16
- Days since latest sale: 64
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Christie's: 42 lots
- Sotheby's: 31 lots
- Bonhams: 11 lots
- RoGallery: 6 lots
- Phillips: 5 lots
- DOYLE Auctioneers & Appraisers: 4 lots
- Forum Auctions \- UK: 4 lots
- Rago Arts and Auction Center: 4 lots
- Freeman's \| Hindman: 3 lots
- Hindman: 3 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-12-16 | Lee Bontecou, Second Stone | Wright | $3,000
2. 2025-10-30 | Lee Bontecou \(1931\-2022\), FOURTH STONE, 1963 | Waddington's | CA$61,750
3. 2025-06-05 | Lee Bontecou, Second Stone | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $7,000
4. 2024-12-04 | Lee Bontecou \(attrib.\), pair of silkscreens, 1967 | Millea Bros Ltd | $1,000
5. 2024-11-19 | LEE BONTECOU \(1931\-2022\) \- Untitled, from Ten from Leo Castelli | Christie's | $1,386
6. 2024-10-31 | Lee Bontecou \(1931\-2022\) | DOYLE Auctioneers & Appraisers | N/A
7. 2024-05-23 | Lee Bontecou \(1931\-2022\) | Cheffins | £280
8. 2024-03-01 | Untitled | Sotheby's | $660,400
9. 2024-02-27 | Lee Bontecou \(American, 1931\-2022\) \- Untitled | Freeman's \| Hindman | $100,000
10. 2024-01-18 | Lee Bontecou \(American, 1931 \- 2022\) | Vallot Auctioneers | $2,400 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-lee-bontecou-american-1931-2022-87-c-9084fef81a
11. 2023-11-29 | Lee Bontecou \(1931 Providence, Rhode Island – Florida 2022\) – Ohne Titel aus: Ten from Leo Castelli | Karl & Faber \- Timed | €1,900
12. 2023-11-16 | Untitled | Sotheby's | $444,500
13. 2023-11-16 | Untitled | Sotheby's | $82,550
14. 2023-11-16 | Untitled | Sotheby's | $2,722,000
15. 2023-11-16 | Untitled | Sotheby's | $107,950
16. 2023-11-15 | Untitled | Sotheby's | $1,633,000
17. 2023-11-10 | LEE BONTECOU \(1931\-2022\) Untitled vacuum\-formed plastic 9 x 11 5⁄8 x 5 ¾ in | Christie's | $126,000
18. 2023-10-12 | Lee Bontecou, An Untitled Print | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $17,000
19. 2023-10-03 | Lee Bontecou \(born 1931\); Untitled; | Bonhams | $3,000
20. 2023-09-28 | Untitled | Sotheby's | $2,117,000
21. 2023-09-28 | Untitled | Sotheby's | $57,150
22. 2023-09-21 | Lee Bontecou \(American, 1931\-2022\) Seventh Stone, 1965\-68 | Hindman | $2,500
23. 2023-05-19 | Untitled | Sotheby's | $254,000
24. 2023-05-17 | LEE BONTECOU \(b. 1931\) Untitled graphite and soot on muslin 34 x 37 in. \(86 | Christie's | $478,800

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