# Michael Craig\-Martin - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-01T11:12:39.320Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 145
- Lots with prices: 94
- First auction date: 2001-06-29
- Latest auction date: 2025-12-12
- Median realised price: $4,000
- Price range: $240 to $125,000

## Market Takeaway
Michael Craig-Martin shows solid auction liquidity with 145 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $4,000. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 12 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-12-12.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($4,000\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $900 and $15,000.
- 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: 25.5% (24 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 43.6% (41 sales)
- $10,000\+: 30.9% (29 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 12
- Previous 12 months sales: 13
- Recent 12 months median: $400
- Previous 12 months median: $1,200
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-12-12
- Days since latest sale: 68
- Market velocity: moderate

## Top Auction Houses
- Christie's: 47 lots
- Sotheby's: 22 lots
- Bonhams: 14 lots
- Forum Auctions \- UK: 13 lots
- Phillips: 11 lots
- Tate Ward Auctions: 9 lots
- Freeman’s: 3 lots
- Freeman’s \| Hindman: 3 lots
- Heritage Auctions: 3 lots
- Auktionshaus Demessieur: 2 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-02-05 | Michael Craig\-Martin \(b.1941\) Book | Forum Auctions \- UK | N/A
2. 2024-12-12 | Michael Craig\-Martin \(b.1941\) Book | Forum Auctions \- UK | N/A
3. 2024-05-04 | Michael Craig\-Martin \(1941 Dublin – lebt in London\) | AaG Auktionshaus am Grunewald | N/A
4. 2010-06-30 | Michael Craig\-Martin | Phillips | N/A
5. 2025-12-12 | Michael Craig\-Martin \(Irish, b. 1941\) Deconstructing Seurat \(blue\) 1, 2004 | Freeman’s | $400
6. 2025-12-12 | Michael Craig\-Martin \(Irish, b. 1941\) Deconstructing Seurat \(turquoise green\) 1, 2004 | Freeman’s | $400
7. 2025-12-12 | Michael Craig\-Martin \(Irish, b. 1941\) Deconstructing Seurat \(blue\) 2, 2004 | Freeman’s | $400
8. 2025-12-10 | Michael Craig\-Martin \(b.1941\) RCA | Forum Auctions \- UK | £900
9. 2025-09-03 | Michael Craig\-Martin, Fake | Los Angeles Modern Auctions | $450
10. 2025-08-19 | Michael Craig\-Martin \(Irish, b. 1941\) Untitled \(Matisse Book\) | Freeman’s \| Hindman | $2,250
11. 2025-06-25 | Michael Craig\-Martin \(British 1941\-\), 'Book', 1997 | Tate Ward Auctions | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-michael-craig-martin-british-1941-book-1997-142-c-0b24d4dade
12. 2025-05-15 | MICHAEL CRAIG\-MARTIN \(B. 1941\) Untitled \(LUST\) 78 1/2 x 90 3/8 in \(199.4 x 229.6 cm\) \(Painted in 2008\) | Bonhams | N/A
13. 2025-03-19 | Michael Craig\-Martin \(British 1941\-\), 'Signs Of Life', 2006 | Tate Ward Auctions | £1,300
14. 2025-03-17 | Michael Craig\-Martin \(1941\), steel sculpture, unsigned and unnumbered, Coat, dim. 48 x 31 cm \(with frame 70.5 x 50.5 cm\) | Venduehuis Dickhaut Maastricht | N/A
15. 2025-03-12 | MICHAEL CRAIG\-MARTIN \(B. 1941\). Bicycle. painted steel and oil on aluminum8 | Christie's | N/A
16. 2025-02-22 | MICHAEL CRAIG\-MARTIN \(b.1941\); 'Toaster' \(2015\), offset lithograph on thick card, signed in black ink, colour print produced by and added invitation from Alan Cristea Gallery to view and purchase the corresponding inkjet print, approx 20 x 14cm, fram | Adam Partridge Auctioneers | £260
17. 2024-12-11 | Michael Craig\-Martin \(British 1941\-\), 'Signs Of Life', 2006 | Tate Ward Auctions | N/A
18. 2024-12-09 | Michael Craig\-Martin \(1941\), steel sculpture, unsi… | Venduehuis Dickhaut Maastricht | N/A
19. 2024-10-31 | Michael Craig\-Martin \(b. 1941\), ASHTRAY, FROM ALAN CRISTEA GALLERY TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY PORTFOLIO, 2014 | Waddington's | N/A
20. 2024-10-10 | MICHAEL CRAIG\-MARTIN \(B. 1941\). Untitled \(green saxophone\). acrylic on alum | Christie's | N/A
21. 2024-09-18 | Michael Craig\-Martin \(British 1941\-\), 'Gerberas', 2020 | Tate Ward Auctions | £1,200
22. 2024-08-22 | Michael Craig\-Martin \(Irish, b. 1941\) Untitled \(from the Book series\), 1997 | Freeman’s \| Hindman | $350
23. 2024-08-22 | Michael Craig\-Martin \(Irish, b. 1941\) Untitled \(from the Book series\), 1997 | Freeman’s \| Hindman | $350
24. 2024-05-21 | Michael Craig\-Martin \(Irish, b. 1941\) \- Untitled \(Matisse Book\) | Freeman's \| Hindman | $5,000

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