Jannis Kounellis Auction Prices and Value Guide

Jannis Kounellis auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 785 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

Jannis Kounellis auction prices: quick answer

Jannis Kounellis auction prices depend on medium, size, date, condition, provenance, edition details, attribution confidence, and recent comparable auction sales.

Artist
Jannis Kounellis
Source records
785
Market update
2026-02-06

Jannis Kounellis market snapshot

Jannis Kounellis shows thin auction liquidity with 1 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $156,000. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 0 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2024-09-27.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (0.0% · 0 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (0.0% · 0 sales)
  • $10,000+ (100.0% · 1 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$0
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
0
Median shift vs prior year
0.0%
Latest recorded sale
2024-09-27

Artist context

About Jannis Kounellis

Jannis Kounellis portrait
Gabuchan · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Source

Born

1936

Died

2017

Nationality

Greek

Also known as

Yannis Kounellis

Jannis Kounellis (1936–2017) was a Greek artist who made his career in Italy and is widely associated with Arte Povera. Authority records describe him as a painter, sculptor, and arts professor, while museum catalogues provide stable institutional identifiers for his work. His practice is most safely understood across painting and sculpture rather than through a single object type. The available source pack does not substantiate a detailed list of materials, subjects, or named series, so this profile avoids assigning them without stronger catalogue evidence. Collectors encounter Kounellis through museum records, scholarly authority files, and a substantial public-auction footprint on Appraisily. Some authority data uses the alternate spelling “Yannis Kounellis,” which can matter when matching catalogue entries and bibliographic references. For appraisal and entity matching, the strongest established identifiers are his 1936–2017 lifespan, Greek identity, Italy-based career, and connection with Arte Povera. More granular claims about a particular work should be checked against the object and its documentation.

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Common works and media

Public identity sources classify Kounellis as both a painter and a sculptor, making paintings and sculptural works the safest broad categories for matching auction and appraisal records. The collected evidence is not detailed enough to assert recurring materials, subjects, edition practices, print categories, or named series. A work offered under his name should therefore be described from the object and its documentation, with medium, support, dimensions, inscriptions, date, edition information, and attribution wording recorded exactly rather than inferred from the artist’s general reputation.

Market and appraisal context

Kounellis’s market should be assessed through closely matched objects rather than his name alone. The source pack supports paintings and sculptures as broad work types, but it does not provide auction-house descriptions detailed enough to generalize about materials, editions, subjects, or named series. For an individual appraisal, the object’s stated medium, dimensions, date, attribution wording, provenance, condition, and documentation should be recorded before comparisons are selected. Relevant public sales should be reviewed with their sale dates, lot descriptions, attribution language, and realized-price context intact. Appraisily’s auction records can provide comparison points when available, but record count alone does not demonstrate value, scarcity, or a market trend. The absence of lot-level evidence in this source pack makes unsupported price predictions inappropriate.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

  • Paintings
  • Sculptures

Value drivers

  1. Whether the object is a painting or a sculptural work
  2. Identity matching across the names Jannis Kounellis and Yannis Kounellis
  3. Comparable public auction records, including their sale dates and realized prices, when available

Appraisal caveats

  • The source pack contains an Appraisily auction-record count signal but no fetched lot-level descriptions or major-auction-house market commentary.
  • Record count alone does not establish value, price direction, scarcity, or category premiums.
  • The collected evidence is insufficient to generalize about materials, editions, subjects, named series, provenance patterns, or condition sensitivities.

Evidence

Sources for artist context

This source-grounded artist context is based on collected public records: medium confidence, adequate source quality.

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Recent sale records

Selected public auction records currently in the Appraisily lot index. Use them as market context, then request a formal appraisal before you sell, insure, or donate.

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Data basis

This page is built from Appraisily's public auction market index. Private transactions, incomplete sale feeds, and attribution changes may not be fully represented.

LLM-readable Markdown summary for Jannis Kounellis

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Artist value FAQ

How much is Jannis Kounellis worth?

Comparable public auction sales are the best starting point, but final value depends on the specific artwork, condition, size, medium, provenance, and attribution confidence.

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