# Parviz Tanavoli - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-16T05:06:35.333Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 87
- Lots with prices: 70
- First auction date: 2007-02-01
- Latest auction date: 2025-11-25
- Median realised price: $50,000
- Price range: $1,500 to $1,022,500

## Market Takeaway
Parviz Tanavoli shows solid auction liquidity with 87 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $50,000. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 2 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-11-25.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($50,000\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $17,500 and $134,500.
- 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: 0% (0 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 17.1% (12 sales)
- $10,000\+: 82.9% (58 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 2
- Previous 12 months sales: 5
- Recent 12 months median: $6,500
- Previous 12 months median: $30,000
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-11-25
- Days since latest sale: 85
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Christie's: 54 lots
- Bonhams: 13 lots
- Sotheby's: 8 lots
- Artcurial: 3 lots
- Millon & Associes: 3 lots
- Aguttes: 1 lots
- Auctionata Paddle8 AG: 1 lots
- Bradford's: 1 lots
- Los Angeles Modern Auctions: 1 lots
- Rago Arts and Auction Center: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-11-25 | Parviz Tanavoli \(Iran, born 1937\) Heech Lovers | Bonhams | £48,000 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-parviz-tanavoli-iran-born-1937-heech-lovers-63-c-87d2e5e248
2. 2025-09-03 | Parviz Tanavoli, Blue Bird | Los Angeles Modern Auctions | $6,500
3. 2024-12-05 | PARVIZ TANAVOLI \(né en 1937\) The Brick of Persepolis, 2017 | Aguttes | N/A
4. 2024-11-13 | Parviz Tanavoli \(Iran, born 1937\) Standing Heech | Bonhams | £30,000
5. 2024-05-31 | PARVIZ TANAVOLI \(B. 1937, TEHRAN\) Heech bronze 9 7⁄8 x 8 5⁄8 x 3 7⁄8in. \(25 | Christie's | $37,800
6. 2024-05-31 | PARVIZ TANAVOLI \(B. 1937, TEHRAN\) The Brick of Persepolis VI bronze 7 ¾ x 1 | Christie's | $40,320
7. 2024-04-14 | PARVIZ TANAVOLI "HEECH" BRONZE SCULPTURE | Bradford's | $7,100
8. 2023-11-09 | PARVIZ TANAVOLI \(B. 1937, TEHRAN\) Heech bronze 4 ¾ x 1 7⁄8 x 1 ¾in. \(12.1 x | Christie's | £9,450
9. 2023-11-09 | PARVIZ TANAVOLI \(B. 1937, TEHRAN\) The Wall and the Script bronze 25 3⁄8 x 1 | Christie's | £75,600
10. 2023-06-07 | PARVIZ TANAVOLI \(né en 1937\) | Tajan | €32,800
11. 2023-05-24 | Parviz Tanavoli \(Iran, born 1937\) Heech Lovers | Bonhams | £65,000
12. 2023-05-16 | PARVIZ TANAVOLI \(IRANIAN, B. 1937\) Heech and Chair III bronze 12 x 4 5/8 x | Christie's | $81,900
13. 2023-05-16 | PARVIZ TANAVOLI \(IRANIAN, B. 1937\) Heech fibreglass on metal base overall: | Christie's | $63,000
14. 2022-07-05 | Parviz TANAVOLI \(Iran, 1937\) Things and Nothings \(Book\) | Millon & Associes | €5,800
15. 2021-11-03 | Parviz Tanavoli \(Iranian, b. 1937\) Bird glazed earthenware and copper 5 ½ x | Christie's | N/A
16. 2021-11-03 | Parviz Tanavoli \(Iranian, b. 1937\) Bird and Tree glazed earthenware 9 7/8 x | Christie's | N/A
17. 2021-06-02 | Parviz Tanavoli \(b.1937\) Lovers XVI | Bonhams | £20,000
18. 2019-03-23 | Parviz Tanavoli \(Iranian, b. 1937\) \- Poet and Cage | Christie's | $200,000
19. 2018-10-24 | Parviz Tanavoli \(Iranian, b. 1937\) \- The Lovers \(Shirin and Farhad\) | Christie's | £50,000
20. 2018-10-24 | Parviz Tanavoli \(Iranian, b. 1937\) \- The Wall and the Script | Christie's | £150,000
21. 2018-10-24 | PARVIZ TANAVOLI \(IRAN, BORN 1937\) \- Adab | Bonhams | £1,875
22. 2018-04-18 | PARVIZ TANAVOLI \(IRAN, BORN 1937\) Red Heech fiberglass signed Parviz a | Bonhams | £14,175
23. 2018-04-18 | PARVIZ TANAVOLI \(IRAN, BORN 1937\) Heech on a Chair bronze signed Parvi | Bonhams | £12,500
24. 2018-03-22 | Parviz Tanavoli \(Iranian, b. 1937\) \- The Wall and the Heech | Christie's | $187,500

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