# Mark Tansey - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-16T02:50:47.295Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 83
- Lots with prices: 68
- First auction date: 2001-05-16
- Latest auction date: 2025-06-26
- Median realised price: $215,000
- Price range: $225 to $5,626,000

## Market Takeaway
Mark Tansey has 83 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $215,000. 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 \($215,000\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($68,750 to $1,685,000\) 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: 1.5% (1 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 2.9% (2 sales)
- $10,000\+: 95.6% (65 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 4
- Previous 12 months sales: 5
- Recent 12 months median: $165,100
- Previous 12 months median: $100,800
- Median shift: 63.8%
- Latest sale date: 2025-06-26
- Days since latest sale: 321
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Christie's: 44 lots
- Sotheby's: 30 lots
- Phillips: 2 lots
- STAIR: 2 lots
- Swann Auction Galleries: 2 lots
- Barridoff Auctions: 1 lots
- Capsule Gallery Auction: 1 lots
- Thomaston Place Auction Galleries: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-06-26 | MARK TANSEY \(1949 \- \) "Waiting in Line to Look." | Swann Auction Galleries | $15,000
2. 2025-05-16 | Study for Interception | Sotheby's | $165,100
3. 2025-05-16 | Study for Valley of Doubt | Sotheby's | $279,400
4. 2025-05-15 | MARK TANSEY \(B. 1949\). Study for The Enunciation. oil on canvas36 x 26 in. | Christie's | $3,196,000
5. 2025-02-27 | MARK TANSEY \(B. 1949\). End of History Victory Party. graphite on paperimage | Christie's | $100,800
6. 2024-12-05 | Mark Tansey \(b. 1949\): Icarus | STAIR | $1,200
7. 2024-06-20 | MARK TANSEY \(1949\-\) "Waiting in Line to Look." | Swann Auction Galleries | N/A
8. 2024-05-17 | MARK TANSEY \(B. 1949\) Archive oil on canvas 77 x 54 ½ in. \(195.6 x 138.4 cm | Christie's | $1,889,200
9. 2024-05-14 | MARK TANSEY \(B. 1945\) Mont Sainte\-Victoire \#1 oil on canvas 68 x 106 in. \(1 | Christie's | N/A
10. 2023-11-08 | Installing the Lens | Sotheby's | $4,500,000
11. 2023-09-29 | MARK TANSEY \(B. 1949\) Conversants oil on canvas image: 12 x 13 ½ in. \(30.5 | Christie's | N/A
12. 2023-05-25 | MARK TANSEY \- ICARUS | Capsule Gallery Auction | $1,000
13. 2023-05-18 | MARK TANSEY \(b. 1949\) Study for End of History Victory Party oil on canvas | Christie's | $478,800
14. 2023-05-16 | Study for Action Painting II | Sotheby's | $2,526,000
15. 2023-05-12 | MARK TANSEY \(B. 1949\) Archive oil on canvas 77 x 54 1/2 in. \(195.6 x 138.4 | Christie's | N/A
16. 2023-03-14 | MARK TANSEY \(b. 1949\) Entrant \(Study II\) toner on paper image: 7 3/4 x 6 3/ | Christie's | $12,600
17. 2022-11-10 | MARK TANSEY \(B. 1949\) Intermission toner on paper Image: 7 3/4 x 7 1/2 in. | Christie's | $151,200
18. 2022-11-10 | MARK TANSEY \(B. 1949\) Literalists Discarding the Frame toner on paper Image | Christie's | $119,700
19. 2022-11-09 | MARK TANSEY \(B. 1949\) Bridge Over the Cartesian Gap oil on canvas 87 x 108 | Christie's | $3,660,000
20. 2022-05-13 | MARK TANSEY \(B. 1949\) Study on Installing the Lens oil and graphite on canv | Christie's | $882,000
21. 2022-05-13 | MARK TANSEY \(B. 1949\) Iconoclast \(Study for Triumph Over Mastery II\) oil on | Christie's | $428,400
22. 2022-03-10 | MARK TANSEY \(B. 1949\) Repairing the Wheel graphite on paper 20 1/2 x 16 1/4 | Christie's | $107,100
23. 2021-10-01 | MARK TANSEY \(B. 1949\) Masters en Plein Air ink on paperboard 6 ¼ x 11 ½ in | Christie's | N/A
24. 2021-05-14 | MARK TANSEY \(B. 1949\) Study for Valley of Doubt oil on canvas 14 x 44 in. \( | Christie's | N/A

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