# Martha Cooper - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-30T13:54:25.215Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 53
- Lots with prices: 33
- First auction date: 2007-06-06
- Latest auction date: 2025-10-23
- Median realised price: $840
- Price range: $162 to $2,794

## Market Takeaway
Martha Cooper has 53 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $840. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 1 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 \($840\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($500 to $1,859\) 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: 54.5% (18 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 45.5% (15 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 1
- Previous 12 months sales: 0
- Recent 12 months median: $2,200
- Previous 12 months median: $0
- Median shift: N/A
- Latest sale date: 2025-10-23
- Days since latest sale: 188
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Artcurial: 19 lots
- Leclere \- Maison de ventes: 7 lots
- Tajan: 6 lots
- Piasa: 5 lots
- Chiswick Auctions: 4 lots
- Dreweatts 1759: 4 lots
- Sotheby's: 3 lots
- Tate Ward Auctions: 2 lots
- Gonnelli Casa d'Aste: 1 lots
- Roseberys: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-10-23 | Martha Cooper \(geb. 1942\) | Veilinggebouw de Zwaan | €2,200
2. 2023-07-25 | Martha Cooper | Sotheby's | $2,794
3. 2023-07-25 | Martha Cooper | Sotheby's | $2,032
4. 2023-07-25 | Martha Cooper | Sotheby's | N/A
5. 2023-04-19 | MARTHA COOPER \(née en 1943\) GHETTO 4 LIFE, 2015 Digital C\-print sur papier Signé et numéroté 48/75 Digital C\-print on paper;... | Tajan | €485
6. 2022-11-30 | Martha Cooper, American b.1943\- Girl on a swing; archival pigment print on Hahnemuhle Baryta Fi | Roseberys | £360
7. 2022-06-10 | Martha Cooper, Listen to the sounds of people's disco. 2021. | Gonnelli Casa d'Aste | €360
8. 2022-04-28 | MARTHA COOPER \(née en 1943\) FAILE \(WITH BAST\), 2011 Digital C\-print sur papier Kodak Professional Endura Signé Contresigné... | Tajan | N/A
9. 2021-11-30 | Martha COOPER \(Américaine \- Née en 1943\) Keith Haring painting the Houston Bowery/Wall en 1982 \- 2013 Tirage photographique | Artcurial | N/A
10. 2021-11-30 | Martha COOPER \(Américaine \- Née en 1943\) Duro, Doze, Mare139, Sha147, Daze, Pink, Crash jumping from Amphiteater, Manhattan, 1982 \-... | Artcurial | €2,200
11. 2021-11-09 | MARTHA COOPER \(née en 1943\) OS GEMEOS, 2009 Digital C\-print sur papier Kodak Professional Endura Signé Contresigné des ini... | Tajan | €600
12. 2020-12-09 | Martha Cooper \(American 1942\-\), 'Ghetto For Life', 2015 | Tate Ward Auctions | £300
13. 2020-02-23 | Martha COOPER \(Américaine \- Née en 1943\) Boys in clubhouse with guns \- 1978 Tirage argentique | Artcurial | €2,080
14. 2020-01-21 | Martha Cooper \(American, b.1943\) 'Photograph of ROA' | Chiswick Auctions | £162
15. 2019-12-11 | Martha Cooper \(American b.1942\), 'Ghetto For Life', 2015 | Tate Ward Auctions | N/A
16. 2018-12-06 | Martha Cooper \(American b.1943\), 'Street Play' | Chiswick Auctions | £225
17. 2018-09-21 | Martha Cooper \(American b.1943\), 'Ghetto 4 Life' | Chiswick Auctions | £375
18. 2018-03-27 | MARTHA COOPER \(AMERICAN b.1943\), 'GHETTO FOR LIFE'  2015, C\-print in colours, signed and numbered from an edition of 75 in pen, with original envelope, \(sheet: 28 x 35.5cm\) With Certificate of Authenticity | Chiswick Auctions | £1,062
19. 2017-12-12 | Martha COOPER \(Américaine \- Née en 1943\) Tagged station Tirage numérique sur papier photographique Kodac | Artcurial | N/A
20. 2017-12-12 | Martha COOPER \(Américaine \- Née en 1943\) Boys in clubhouse with guns \- 1978 Tirage argentique | Artcurial | N/A
21. 2016-11-09 | MARTHA COOPER \(Née en 1943\) OBEY, 2015RC\-print; signed lower rightR9 7/8 x 14 1/8 in. | Tajan | N/A
22. 2016-11-09 | MARTHA COOPER \(Née en 1943\)RGHETTO FOR LIFERC\-print; signed and numbered 42/75 lower rightR11 x 14 1/8 in. | Tajan | €715
23. 2016-11-09 | MARTHA COOPER \(Née en 1943\)RMAYA HAYUK, 2015RC\-print; signed lower right R9 7/8 x 13 3/8 in. | Tajan | N/A
24. 2016-06-11 | MARTHA COOPER \(1943\) Shepard Fairey | Leclere \- Maison de ventes | N/A

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