# Tara Donovan - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-01T07:07:40.446Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 21
- Lots with prices: 15
- First auction date: 2006-10-11
- Latest auction date: 2025-10-15
- Median realised price: $12,500
- Price range: $1,900 to $51,000

## Market Takeaway
Tara Donovan has 21 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $12,500. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 2 sales. 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 \($12,500\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($5,500 to $22,500\) 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: 0% (0 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 40% (6 sales)
- $10,000\+: 60% (9 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 2
- Previous 12 months sales: 3
- Recent 12 months median: $4,500
- Previous 12 months median: $22,000
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-10-15
- Days since latest sale: 197
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Christie's: 7 lots
- Sotheby's: 5 lots
- Phillips: 2 lots
- Bonhams: 1 lots
- Capsule Gallery Auction: 1 lots
- Freeman’s \| Hindman: 1 lots
- Lawsons: 1 lots
- Palm Beach Modern Auctions: 1 lots
- Ripley Auctions: 1 lots
- Venduehuis der Notarissen: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-10-15 | Tara Donovan \(1969\) | Venduehuis der Notarissen | N/A
2. 2025-05-07 | Tara Donovan \(American, b. 1969\) Untitled 1\-V \(complete set of 5\), 2004 | Freeman’s \| Hindman | $4,500 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-tara-donovan-american-b-1969-untitled-1-v-complete-set-of-5-2004-5-c-94f477ba85
3. 2024-12-18 | TARA DONOVAN \(b. 1969\). Broken Glass. ink on paper 51 ½ x 42 in. \(130.8 x 1 | Christie's | N/A
4. 2024-12-18 | TARA DONOVAN \(B. 1969\). Composition \(Cards\). Styrene cards and glue 39 ¼ x | Christie's | $22,000
5. 2024-06-13 | Tara Donovan, The Institute of Contemporary Art Boston | Lawsons | N/A
6. 2023-07-18 | TARA DONOVAN \(B. 1969\) Untitled ink on Kozo\-shi paper from a rubber band m | Christie's | $12,600
7. 2023-04-12 | TARA DONOVAN \(B. 1969\) Untitled, 2000 | Bonhams | $5,500
8. 2021-02-11 | TARA DONOVAN \- UNTITLED | Capsule Gallery Auction | $1,900
9. 2017-05-19 | TARA DONOVAN \| Toothpicks | Sotheby's | $50,000
10. 2016-03-03 | TARA DONOVAN, UNTITLED \| Untitled | Sotheby's | N/A
11. 2013-04-29 | TARA DONOVAN | Phillips | $2,000
12. 2012-09-21 | Tara Donovan, Untitled, Ink on paper, 51 7/8" x 42 5/8" | Ripley Auctions | $13,500
13. 2012-05-19 | Rare Set of 3 Sculptures by Tara Donovan | Palm Beach Modern Auctions | N/A
14. 2011-03-10 | Tara Donovan \(b. 1969\) | Christie's | $22,500
15. 2010-11-21 | TARA DONOVAN | Phillips | $8,125
16. 2010-09-25 | TARA DONOVAN | Sotheby's | $5,625
17. 2010-09-25 | TARA DONOVAN | Sotheby's | $25,000
18. 2010-09-22 | Tara Donovan \(b. 1969\) | Christie's | $12,500
19. 2009-11-11 | Tara Donovan \(b. 1969\) | Christie's | $12,500
20. 2009-07-01 | Tara Donovan \(b. 1969\) | Christie's | N/A
21. 2006-10-11 | TARA DONOVAN | Sotheby's | $51,000

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