# Wolfgang Laib - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-01T02:37:36.657Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 34
- Lots with prices: 25
- First auction date: 2003-05-15
- Latest auction date: 2025-11-28
- Median realised price: $27,720
- Price range: $130 to $94,500

## Market Takeaway
Wolfgang Laib has 34 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $27,720. 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 \($27,720\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($3,000 to $37,500\) 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: 12% (3 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 24% (6 sales)
- $10,000\+: 64% (16 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 2
- Previous 12 months sales: 3
- Recent 12 months median: $1,400
- Previous 12 months median: $27,720
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-11-28
- Days since latest sale: 153
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Christie's: 11 lots
- Sotheby's: 8 lots
- Cornette de Saint\-Cyr\-Bruxelles: 3 lots
- Rago Arts and Auction Center: 3 lots
- Grisebach: 2 lots
- Phillips: 2 lots
- AaG Auktionshaus am Grunewald: 1 lots
- Artcurial Beurret Bailly Widmer: 1 lots
- Bonhams: 1 lots
- Koller Auctions: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-11-28 | Reishaus | Grisebach | N/A
2. 2025-09-19 | Wolfgang Laib \(1950 Metzingen – lebt bei Biberach, in New York und Südindien\) | AaG Auktionshaus am Grunewald | €1,400
3. 2024-11-22 | WOLFGANG LAIB \(B. 1950\) \- Milkstone | Christie's | $94,500
4. 2024-11-21 | Wolfgang Laib, Untitled Beeswax slab, 1990 | Roseberys | £600
5. 2024-10-01 | WOLFGANG LAIB \(B. 1950\). Reishaus. marble and rice. | Christie's | $27,720
6. 2024-03-27 | Wolfgang Laib, Untitled | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $4,800
7. 2024-03-27 | Wolfgang Laib, Untitled | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $3,000
8. 2023-10-03 | Milkstone | Sotheby's | $27,940
9. 2023-04-25 | WOLFGANG LAIB \(B. 1950\) Die neun Planeten oder wie die Zusammenhänge auch s | Christie's | $2,268
10. 2022-12-02 | Milchstein | Grisebach | €37,500
11. 2022-06-30 | WOLFGANG LAIB | Koller Auctions | N/A
12. 2021-09-29 | Wolfgang Laib \*1950 | Artcurial Beurret Bailly Widmer | CHF 30,000
13. 2021-02-07 | WOLFGANG LAIB \(né en 1950\) Milkstone, 1978. Marbre et lait. Sign | Cornette de Saint\-Cyr\-Bruxelles | €45,360
14. 2020-12-16 | WOLFGANG LAIB \(né en 1950\) \- Sans titre, 2010. | Cornette de Saint\-Cyr\-Bruxelles | €1,300
15. 2020-08-18 | WOLFGANG LAIB \| Untitled | Sotheby's | N/A
16. 2019-11-17 | WOLFGANG LAIB \(né en 1950\) Die Reismahlzeiten für die neun Planeten, 1984. Lithographie of | Cornette de Saint\-Cyr\-Bruxelles | €130
17. 2018-03-05 | WOLFGANG LAIB \| Rice House | Sotheby's | $8,500
18. 2017-11-17 | WOLFGANG LAIB \| Milkstone | Sotheby's | $93,750
19. 2017-09-15 | WOLFGANG LAIB \(B. 1950\) House shaped beeswax 9 x 5O x 21¬in. \(23 x 14.5 | Christie's | £32,500
20. 2015-10-16 | WOLFGANG LAIB \| Milkstone | Sotheby's | £68,750
21. 2013-03-08 | Wolfgang Laib \(b. 1950\) | Christie's | $12,500
22. 2013-02-13 | WOLFGANG  LAIB | Sotheby's | N/A
23. 2012-10-11 | WOLFGANG LAIB | Phillips | N/A
24. 2011-11-09 | Wolfgang Laib \(b. 1950\) | Christie's | N/A

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