# Matthew Barney - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-01T10:22:04.886Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 275
- Lots with prices: 156
- First auction date: 2001-05-16
- Latest auction date: 2025-12-16
- Median realised price: $14,000
- Price range: $140 to $1,205,000

## Market Takeaway
Matthew Barney shows deep auction liquidity with 275 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $14,000. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 14 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-12-16.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($14,000\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $3,750 and $52,500.
- 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: 12.8% (20 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 28.2% (44 sales)
- $10,000\+: 59% (92 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 14
- Previous 12 months sales: 17
- Recent 12 months median: $6,930
- Previous 12 months median: $2,000
- Median shift: 100%
- Latest sale date: 2025-12-16
- Days since latest sale: 64
- Market velocity: moderate

## Top Auction Houses
- Christie's: 90 lots
- Sotheby's: 64 lots
- DUMBO Auctions: 34 lots
- Phillips: 25 lots
- Bernaerts Auctioneers: 9 lots
- Bonhams: 8 lots
- AaG Auktionshaus am Grunewald: 6 lots
- Wright: 4 lots
- Cornette de Saint\-Cyr\-Bruxelles: 3 lots
- Kunsthaus Lempertz KG: 3 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-02-18 | Matthew Barney \- Drawing Restraint 9: New Sun \- 2010 Offset Lithograph \- SIGNED 22" x 14" | DUMBO Auctions | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-matthew-barney-drawing-restraint-9-new-sun-2010-offset-lithograph-signed-22-x-14-106-c-5ae4ece827
2. 2025-12-16 | MATTHEW BARNEY \(B. 1967\). DRAWING RESTRAINT 9: Shimenawa. chromogenic print | Christie's | $13,970
3. 2025-11-20 | MATTHEW BARNEY \(B. 1967\) Guardian of the Veil: Sons of Horus 12 3/4 x 10 3/4 in \(32.4 x 27.3 cm\) \(Executed in 2007\) | Bonhams | $8,000
4. 2025-11-20 | MATTHEW BARNEY \(B. 1967\). CREMASTER 2: The Royal Cell. triptych—chromogenic | Christie's | $48,260
5. 2025-11-20 | MATTHEW BARNEY \(B. 1967\). The Cabinet of Bessie Gilmore. acrylic, nylon, gl | Christie's | $101,600
6. 2025-10-09 | MATTHEW BARNEY \(°1967\) | Bernaerts Auctioneers | €180
7. 2025-10-01 | A pele da lâmina | Sotheby's | N/A
8. 2025-07-30 | Matthew Barney, T I : Irish Sea | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $6,500
9. 2025-07-18 | MATTHEW BARNEY \(B. 1967\). CREMASTER 3: Plumb Line. Cibachrome print in acry | Christie's | $6,930
10. 2025-06-25 | Matthew Barney, 1967, Cremaster 5 | Germann Auction House Ltd | N/A
11. 2025-05-27 | Matthew Barney "Cremaster 5: Her Giant" 1997 C\-print in acrylic frame cm 134x108.5 Signed and dated 97 and artist's stamp on reverse Edition 6/6 Provenance Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York \(1998\) Christie's Post\-War and Contemporary Art... | Il Ponte Auction House | €26,000 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-matthew-barney-cremaster-5-her-giant-1997-c-print-in-acrylic-frame-cm-134x108-5-signed-and-dated-97-and-artist-s-stamp-on-reverse-edition-6-6-provenance-barbara-gladstone-gallery-new-york-1998-christie-s-post-war-and-contemporary-art-146-c-7614df0b01
12. 2025-05-16 | Matthew Barney \(1967 San Francisco – lebt in New York\) | AaG Auktionshaus am Grunewald | €850
13. 2025-05-16 | Matthew Barney \(1967 San Francisco – lebt in New York\) | AaG Auktionshaus am Grunewald | €2,400
14. 2025-04-16 | Matthew Barney \- Cremaster 5 \- 1997 Serigraph \- SIGNED 33" x 23.25" | DUMBO Auctions | N/A
15. 2025-03-12 | MATTHEW BARNEY \(B. 1967\). Nisshin Maru. the complete portfolio of eight pho | Christie's | £2,142
16. 2025-02-18 | Matthew Barney \- OTTOshaft \- 2016 Offset Lithograph 33.5" x 24.25" | DUMBO Auctions | N/A
17. 2025-02-18 | Matthew Barney \- Cremaster 5 \- 1997 Offset Lithograph 33" x 23.5" | DUMBO Auctions | $250
18. 2025-01-07 | Matthew Barney \(1967\) | Venduehuis der Notarissen | N/A
19. 2024-12-10 | Matthew Barney \- Cremaster 5 \- 1997 Offset Lithograph 33" x 23.5" | DUMBO Auctions | N/A
20. 2024-11-30 | Matthew Barney, CREMASTER 3: Chrysler Imperial, 2001 | Kunsthaus Lempertz KG | N/A
21. 2024-11-21 | Matthew Barney \(b. 1967\): Cremaster 2: The Royal Cell Of Baby Fay | STAIR | $2,000
22. 2024-11-13 | Matthew Barney, T I : Irish Sea | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $8,000
23. 2024-10-22 | Matthew Barney \- Drawing Restraint 9: New Sun \- 2010 Offset Lithograph \- SIGNED 22" x 14" | DUMBO Auctions | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-matthew-barney-drawing-restraint-9-new-sun-2010-offset-lithograph-signed-22-x-14-64-c-13046a6a54
24. 2024-10-17 | Matthew Barney \(né en 1967\). Cremaster 4: The Loughton Candidate, 1994. ima | Christie's | €27,720

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