# Mike Kelley - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-01T09:51:05.604Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 287
- Lots with prices: 185
- First auction date: 1998-05-14
- Latest auction date: 2025-12-16
- Median realised price: $31,250
- Price range: $160 to $3,070,000

## Market Takeaway
Mike Kelley shows deep auction liquidity with 287 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $31,250. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 11 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-12-16.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($31,250\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $10,800 and $88,900.
- 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: 4.3% (8 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 20.5% (38 sales)
- $10,000\+: 75.1% (139 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 11
- Previous 12 months sales: 11
- Recent 12 months median: $2,600
- Previous 12 months median: $1,000
- Median shift: 100%
- Latest sale date: 2025-12-16
- Days since latest sale: 64
- Market velocity: moderate

## Top Auction Houses
- Christie's: 123 lots
- Sotheby's: 64 lots
- Phillips: 52 lots
- Bonhams: 12 lots
- Los Angeles Modern Auctions: 5 lots
- Finarte: 3 lots
- Piasa: 3 lots
- Shapiro Auctions LLC: 3 lots
- Wright: 3 lots
- Adams Amsterdam Auctions: 2 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-12-03 | MIKE KELLEY \(American, 1954\-2012\) \#2 \(Sun Valley\) 1980\-1998 \(from the Three Valleys series\) c\-type photograph, ed. 1/5 39 x 59cm \(im... | Leonard Joel | A$2,600 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-mike-kelley-american-1954-2012-2-sun-valley-1980-1998-from-the-three-valleys-series-c-type-photograph-ed-1-5-39-x-59cm-im-24-c-1e424b605b
2. 2011-01-12 | Mike Kelley \(b. 1954\) and Tony Oursler \(b. 1957\) | Christie's | N/A
3. 2011-01-11 | Mike Kelley \(b. 1954\) and Tony Oursler \(b. 1957\) | Christie's | N/A
4. 2010-07-01 | Mike Kelley \(b. 1954\) | Christie's | £37,250 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-mike-kelley-b-1954-317-c-de2efcdc6e
5. 2025-12-16 | MIKE KELLEY \(1954\-2012\). Garbage Drawing \#16. acrylic on paper17 ¼ x 41 ½ i | Christie's | $40,640
6. 2025-07-18 | MIKE KELLEY \(1954\-2012\). Garbage Drawing \#38. acrylic on paper25 x 42 in. \( | Christie's | $18,900
7. 2025-06-25 | Mike Kelley, 1954\-2012, Toward a Coffee Table Book/Monograph on the Work of Peter Saul | Germann Auction House Ltd | N/A
8. 2025-06-12 | Mike Kelley, Little Friend | Los Angeles Modern Auctions | $1,000
9. 2025-05-27 | Mike Kelley \(1954\-2012\) Graphic Layout 2 Mike Kelley \(1954\-2012\) Graphic L | Christie's | €16,380
10. 2025-05-15 | MIKE KELLEY \(1954\-2012\). Asher Benjamin: Author of The Country Builder's As | Christie's | N/A
11. 2025-05-15 | MIKE KELLEY \(1954\-2012\). Study for Satan's Nostrils. acrylic on paper54 x 3 | Christie's | $252,000
12. 2025-04-29 | MIKE KELLEY \- THE UNCANNY. | Bernaerts Auctioneers | €300
13. 2025-03-18 | Mike Kelley, Little Friend | Los Angeles Modern Auctions | $800
14. 2025-03-09 | MIKE KELLEY \(1954 Wayne/Michigan \- 2012 South Pasadena\) | Auktionshaus Rotherbaum OHG | N/A
15. 2025-01-29 | Mike Kelley, Kappa Scalp | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $11,000 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-mike-kelley-kappa-scalp-126-c-6134e7a92a
16. 2024-10-15 | Mike Kelley \(1954\-2012\) \- Untitled \(1, 5, 6, 7, 10, 13\), 1994 | Finarte | N/A
17. 2024-09-25 | Mike Kelley \(American, 1954\-2012\) Youth Aspiring to Glory, c. 1988 | Freeman’s \| Hindman | N/A
18. 2024-09-24 | MIKE KELLEY \(1954\-2012\) Little Friend, 2007 Peluche parlante qui prononce 20 phrases différentes de manière aléatoire. 600 exemplaires pour le monde entier. Tous vendu. Vendue dans sa boîte d'originePratende pluche die wil... | Bonhams | €650
19. 2024-08-14 | Mike Kelley, Emerald Eyehole Tablecloth | Wright | $1,000
20. 2024-06-21 | MIKE KELLEY, THE UNCANNY | Zwiggelaar Auctions | €280
21. 2024-06-21 | MIKE KELLEY, FILM AND MONOGRAPH | Zwiggelaar Auctions | N/A
22. 2024-05-03 | Mike Kelley \(1954 Wayne \- Los Angeles 2012\) | AaG Auktionshaus am Grunewald | N/A
23. 2024-04-27 | Mike Kelley: offset lithograph | Morgan Auctions | N/A
24. 2024-02-22 | MIKE KELLEY \(1954–2012\) More Tragic! More Plangent! . . . More Purple! 1985 | Christie's | $75,600

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