# Mario Merz - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-01T10:30:41.560Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 249
- Lots with prices: 144
- First auction date: 1999-06-23
- Latest auction date: 2025-12-04
- Median realised price: $18,000
- Price range: $10 to $1,572,500

## Market Takeaway
Mario Merz shows deep auction liquidity with 249 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $18,750. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 12 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-12-04.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($18,750\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $2,600 and $56,250.
- 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: 15.4% (22 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 24.5% (35 sales)
- $10,000\+: 60.1% (86 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 12
- Previous 12 months sales: 29
- Recent 12 months median: $6,500
- Previous 12 months median: $400
- Median shift: 100%
- Latest sale date: 2025-12-04
- Days since latest sale: 76
- Market velocity: moderate

## Top Auction Houses
- Christie's: 99 lots
- Sotheby's: 31 lots
- Art Atelier: 18 lots
- Art\-Rite: 10 lots
- Bernaerts Auctioneers: 9 lots
- Finarte: 7 lots
- Cornette de Saint\-Cyr\-Bruxelles: 6 lots
- Phillips: 5 lots
- Piasa: 5 lots
- Bonhams: 4 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2024-12-05 | MARIO MERZ \(1925\-2003\) Sans titre 1977 | Bonhams | €42,000
2. 2024-10-19 | Mario Merz \(1925\-2003\). Sans titre. argile, pastel, marqueur, crayon et col | Christie's | N/A
3. 2025-12-04 | Mario Merz \(1925\-2003\). Sans titre. peinture aérosol, encre et graphite sur | Christie's | N/A
4. 2025-12-02 | Mario Merz \(Italian 1925 \- 2003\). Salamandra \[Salamander\], 1988. | Adams Amsterdam Auctions | N/A
5. 2025-11-19 | Mario Merz \* | Dorotheum | N/A
6. 2025-07-01 | MARIO MERZ \(1925\-2003\). Untitled. wax crayon, spray paint, leaves and seeds | Christie's | £15,120
7. 2025-05-28 | MARIO MERZ "Untitled" 1991 mixed media on paper cm 50x65 Signed and dated 91 bottom center Provenance Private collection This work is accompanied by a photo\-certificate of authenticity issued by the Archivio Merz, Turin, with No. 2335/199... | Il Ponte Auction House | €6,500
8. 2025-05-27 | A life of Collection: works from an important private collection Mario Merz | Christie's | N/A
9. 2025-05-27 | A life of Collection: works from an important private collection Mario Merz | Christie's | N/A
10. 2025-04-11 | Mario Merz \(1924\-2003\). Sans titre. encre, aquarelle et crayon gras sur pap | Christie's | €18,900
11. 2025-04-09 | Mario Merz \(1925\-2003\). Chiocciola. escargot, argile, craie, huile sur papi | Christie's | N/A
12. 2025-04-09 | Mario MERZ | Artcurial | €2,600
13. 2025-02-27 | MARIO MERZ, FIBONACCI 1202 | Art\-Rite | €220
14. 2025-01-23 | MARIO MERZ, MELPOMENE | Art\-Rite | €20
15. 2024-12-28 | Mario Merz \- Homage to Vincent van Gog | Art Atelier | N/A
16. 2024-12-17 | Mario Merz \(Milano, 1925 \- 2003\) Senza titolo 1977/1978 | Fabiani Arte | €100,000
17. 2024-12-12 | Mario Merz \(Milano 1925\-2003\) \- Exhibition poster Mario Merz Falkwang Museum, Essen, 1979 | Finarte | N/A
18. 2024-12-08 | Mario Merz \- Homage to Vincent van Gog \- original starting bid €90 | Art Atelier | N/A
19. 2024-11-30 | Mario Merz \(Milano 1925 \- Torino 2003\) | Bozner Kunstauktionen | N/A
20. 2024-11-26 | Mario Merz, 1925\-2003, Melpomene, from"Le nuove muse" | Germann Auction House Ltd | CHF 400
21. 2024-11-25 | Mario Merz, 1925\-2003, Untitled | Germann Auction House Ltd | N/A
22. 2024-11-23 | Mario Merz, 1925\-2003, Untitled | Germann Auction House Ltd | CHF 18,000
23. 2024-11-13 | Mario Merz \(Milano 1925\-2003\) \- Untitled, 1979 | Finarte | N/A
24. 2024-10-26 | Mario Merz \- Homage to Vincent van Gog | Art Atelier | N/A

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