# Rick Griffin - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-06-16T14:19:37.408Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 66
- Lots with prices: 47
- First auction date: 2009-11-21
- Latest auction date: 2025-07-17
- Median realised price: $374
- Price range: $40 to $11,875

## Market Takeaway
Rick Griffin shows solid auction liquidity with 60 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $418. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 2 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-07-17.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($418\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $192 and $956.
- 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: 76.7% (33 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 20.9% (9 sales)
- $10,000\+: 2.3% (1 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 2
- Previous 12 months sales: 11
- Recent 12 months median: $280
- Previous 12 months median: $150
- Median shift: 86.7%
- Latest sale date: 2025-07-17
- Days since latest sale: 216
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Heritage Auctions: 27 lots
- Lawsons: 9 lots
- PBA Galleries Auctions & Appraisers: 6 lots
- Swann Auction Galleries: 3 lots
- Clars Auctions: 2 lots
- Material Culture: 2 lots
- Ted Owen & Co.: 2 lots
- Ansuini 1860 Auctions: 1 lots
- California Auctioneers: 1 lots
- Ewbank's: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-02-11 | Rick Griffin \(1944\-1991\) Group of Vintage Advertising Art \(10 Works\) | Material Culture | N/A
2. 2025-02-11 | Rick Griffin \(American, 1944\-1991\) 2 Works | Material Culture | $150
3. 2020-06-18 | RICK GRIFFIN \(1944\-1991\). JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE / JOHN MAYALL. 1968. 21x14 inches, 55x35 cm. Tea Lautrec Litho, San Francisco. | Swann Auction Galleries | $812
4. 2025-07-17 | Rick Griffin puffing Kief poster | PBA Galleries Auctions & Appraisers | N/A
5. 2025-06-24 | RICK GRIFFIN, Californian Poster | Gibson's | A$280
6. 2024-05-30 | Rick Griffin, The Doors, Family Dog Denver, 1967, Poster, 54 x 32 cm, frame 69 x 46 cm | Lawsons | A$325
7. 2024-03-21 | Rick Griffin 1967 Human Be\-In Pow\-Wow Poster | PBA Galleries Auctions & Appraisers | $300 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-rick-griffin-1967-human-be-in-pow-wow-poster-415-c-1d44c3ca7a
8. 2024-03-15 | Rick Griffin, Retrospectacle Bay Area Celebrates Psychedelia, 1987, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, Poster, 59 x 41 cm, frame 77.5 x 60 cm | Lawsons | A$40
9. 2024-03-15 | Rick Griffin, Presenting The New Improved Psychedlic Shop Featuring the 1st Anniversary Jook Savage Art Show, 1967, Poster, 46. 5 x 34 cm, frame 61 x 49 cm | Lawsons | A$150
10. 2024-03-15 | Rick Griffin, The Family Dog Quicksilver 1967 Avalon Ballroom, comic strip style, Poster, 51 x 33 cm, frame 63 x 47 cm | Lawsons | A$130
11. 2024-03-15 | Rick Griffin, Grateful Dead Sons of Champlin Initial Shock 1969, Avalon Ballroom, 67 x 54 cm, frame 82 x 69 cm | Lawsons | A$325
12. 2024-03-15 | Rick Griffin, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Kaleidoscope, Avalon Ballroom, 50 x 34 cm, frame 64 x 49 cm | Lawsons | A$160
13. 2024-03-15 | Rick Griffin, Pinnacle Presents AMA Jimi Hendrix Experience 1968 Shrine Auditorium, Poster, 54.5 x 34 cm, frame 69 x 49 cm | Lawsons | A$60
14. 2024-03-15 | Rick Griffin, Joint Show, A Rare Blend, Wes Wilson, Mouse, Kelly, 1967, Lithograph poster, 69 x 54 cm, frame 84 x 69 cm | Lawsons | A$260
15. 2024-03-15 | Rick Griffin, The Doors, Family Dog Denver, 1967, Poster, 54 x 32 cm, frame 69 x 46 cm | Lawsons | A$60
16. 2023-09-22 | Rick Griffin, "Human Be\-In Pow\-Wow" 1967, Poster. | Quinn's Auction Galleries | $600
17. 2023-07-13 | Rick Griffin puffing Kief | PBA Galleries Auctions & Appraisers | $110
18. 2023-05-04 | Rick Griffin ephemera | PBA Galleries Auctions & Appraisers | $160 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-rick-griffin-ephemera-429-c-1ed4d04b7c
19. 2022-11-27 | Rick Griffin \- Honk | California Auctioneers | $350
20. 2022-07-28 | Rick Griffin 1967 Human Be\-In Pow\-Wow Poster | PBA Galleries Auctions & Appraisers | $450 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-rick-griffin-1967-human-be-in-pow-wow-poster-392-c-cf34446b52
21. 2022-03-12 | Rick Griffin, Contact, Big Brother & the Holding Company Poster, 1967 | Santa Fe Art Auction | $360
22. 2020-12-17 | RICK GRIFFIN | Ansuini 1860 Auctions | N/A
23. 2020-11-14 | Rick Griffin, Vintage Concert Poster | Clars Auctions | N/A
24. 2020-10-11 | Rick Griffin, Vintage Concert Poster | Clars Auctions | N/A

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