# Michael Ray Charles - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-30T15:24:19.879Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 36
- Lots with prices: 28
- First auction date: 2003-05-15
- Latest auction date: 2024-11-28
- Median realised price: $6,325
- Price range: $125 to $93,750

## Market Takeaway
Michael Ray Charles has 36 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $6,325. Category concentration is still broad. Recent 12-month volume is still light. 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 \($6,325\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($800 to $16,250\) 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: 28.6% (8 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 32.1% (9 sales)
- $10,000\+: 39.3% (11 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 0
- Previous 12 months sales: 6
- Recent 12 months median: $0
- Previous 12 months median: $650
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2024-11-28
- Days since latest sale: 518
- Market velocity: inactive

## Top Auction Houses
- Christie's: 8 lots
- Old Kinderhook Auction Company: 5 lots
- Phillips: 5 lots
- Bonhams: 3 lots
- Artcurial: 2 lots
- Austin Auction Gallery: 2 lots
- Kunsthaus Lempertz KG: 2 lots
- Lewis & Maese Antiques & Auctions: 2 lots
- Andrew Jones Auctions: 1 lots
- Hindman: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2024-11-28 | Untitled lot | Koller Auctions | N/A
2. 2024-09-24 | Michael RAY CHARLES \(né en 1967\) | Maurice Auction | €13,000
3. 2024-07-12 | MICHAEL RAY CHARLES \(B.1967\) CUT & PASTE EXHIBITION CATALOG | Austin Auction Gallery | $125
4. 2024-07-12 | MICHAEL RAY CHARLES \(B.1967\) ETCHING, LITHOGRAPH & LINOCUT PRINT | Austin Auction Gallery | $650
5. 2024-06-05 | MICHAEL RAY CHARLES "CUT AND PASTE" SET UNOPENED | Lewis & Maese Antiques & Auctions | N/A
6. 2024-05-22 | Michael Ray Charles, Kissing Ass | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $6,000
7. 2024-02-10 | Michael Ray Charles \(American, 1967\- \) etching | Rachel Davis Fine Arts | $1,900
8. 2023-12-02 | Michael Ray Charles, Forever Free, 1995 | Kunsthaus Lempertz KG | N/A
9. 2023-11-15 | Michael Ray Charles \(American, b. 1967\), Cut and Paste 1989\-1997, silkscreen on hand sewn sack paper, 24 1/4 x 14 1/4in \(61.6 x 36.2cm\) | Andrew Jones Auctions | $300
10. 2022-12-03 | Michael Ray Charles, Forever Free, 1995 | Kunsthaus Lempertz KG | €3,000
11. 2022-11-29 | Michael Ray Charles, "Join the Band" | Old Kinderhook Auction Company | $975
12. 2022-11-29 | Michael Ray Charles, "Twenty\-Four\-Seven" | Old Kinderhook Auction Company | $775
13. 2022-11-29 | Michael Ray Charles, "Free As Always" | Old Kinderhook Auction Company | $625
14. 2022-11-29 | Michael Ray Charles, "You Only Live Once" | Old Kinderhook Auction Company | $800
15. 2022-11-29 | Michael Ray Charles, "BANG BANG" | Old Kinderhook Auction Company | $775
16. 2022-05-12 | Michael Ray Charles \(American, b. 1967\) A group of three prints from the Forever Free portfolio \(Join the Band; Forever Free; Now Playing\), 1995 | Hindman | $4,500
17. 2022-02-18 | MICHAEL RAY CHARLES \(B. 1967\) \(Forever Free\) Get Emerged, 1999 | Bonhams | $16,000
18. 2021-05-08 | Michael Ray Charles, Believe it or not | Kunst und Design Auktionshaus Schops Turowski | €15,500
19. 2020-02-23 | Michael RAY CHARLES \(Américain \- Né en 1967\) Forever Free \(The Greatest blow on earth\) \- 1997 Acrylique et pièce d'un penny sur cart.. | Artcurial | N/A
20. 2019-09-27 | Michael Ray Charles \(b. 1967\) \- \(Forever Free\) Big Mama's Hot Link Heaven | Christie's | $93,750
21. 2019-05-15 | Michael Ray Charles \(American, born 1967\) Pin the Hell on the Donkey, 1994 | Bonhams | $6,325
22. 2019-05-05 | Michael RAY CHARLES \(Américain \- Né en 1967\) If I can't you can't \(forever free\) \- 1999 Acrylique et latex sur bois découpé | Artcurial | €19,500
23. 2019-04-17 | MICHAEL RAY CHARLES "CUT AND PASTE" SILKSCREEN | Lewis & Maese Antiques & Auctions | N/A
24. 2018-05-22 | MICHAEL RAY CHARLES \(BORN 1967\) Forever Free, 1995 The complete portfoli | Bonhams | $4,375

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