Marc Quinn Auction Prices and Value Guide
Marc Quinn auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 805 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.
Marc Quinn auction prices: quick answer
Marc Quinn auction prices depend on medium, size, date, condition, provenance, edition details, attribution confidence, and recent comparable auction sales.
- Artist
- Marc Quinn
- Source records
- 805
- Market update
- 2026-02-16
Marc Quinn market snapshot
Marc Quinn shows very deep auction liquidity with 559 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $9,500. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 30 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-12-10.
Realized price distribution
- Under $1,000 (17.4% · 56 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000 (32.7% · 105 sales)
- $10,000+ (49.8% · 160 sales)
- Median sale (last 12 months)
- $889
- Sales recorded (last 12 months)
- 30
- Median shift vs prior year
- +4.6%
- Latest recorded sale
- 2025-12-10
Artist context
About Marc Quinn
Marc Quinn (born 8 January 1964, London) is a British contemporary artist best known for sculpture, installation, painting, and photography. A prominent member of the Young British Artists generation, Quinn has spent three decades examining what it means to be human, working across subjects that include the body, genetics, identity, ecology, and the boundary between nature and artifice. He is recognized for his materially inventive practice — employing frozen blood, bread, preserved flowers, marble, bronze, and stainless steel — to question perception, mortality, and self-image. Rather than attending art school, Quinn studied history and art history at the University of Cambridge, an academic grounding that shapes the conceptual depth of his output. His work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Tate, the National Portrait Gallery in London, Fondation Beyeler, Fondazione Prada, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. In 2024 he presented Light into Life, a large-scale outdoor sculpture installation at Kew Gardens. His art is held in major public and private collections worldwide.
Young British Artists (YBA)sculptureinstallationpaintingphotographythe human bodygenetics and identityflowers and botanyportraiture
Common works and media
Quinn's output spans bronze and stainless-steel sculpture, carved marble portraiture, oil and acrylic painting, iris-print and pigment-print photography, and mixed-media installations. Recurring subjects include life-size and enlarged flower forms (especially orchids), figurative and portrait heads, body-part sculptures, and abstract canvases from his History Paintings series. Editioned prints, multiples, and limited-edition photographs also circulate regularly on the secondary market.
Market and appraisal context
Marc Quinn maintains a deep and liquid secondary market spanning more than two decades of auction activity. The Appraisily auction-record index traces 564 catalogued lots from February 2001 through April 2026, of which 327 carry a recorded realized price. His work sells at the highest tier of the contemporary art market — Christie's, Sotheby's, Phillips, and Bonhams handle the top end — while mid-tier houses such as Roseberys, Forum Auctions, Dreweatts 1759, Chiswick Auctions, and Artcurial provide regular liquidity for prints, multiples, and works on paper. Price dispersion is wide: the recorded minimum is $12 and the maximum is $1,600,000, with an interquartile range of $1,440–$50,000 and a median of $8,750. This spread reflects the breadth of Quinn's output — from small editioned prints that trade in the hundreds to large-scale unique sculptures that command six and seven figures. Liquidity dipped modestly in the most recent 12-month window (22 priced lots versus 30 in the prior 12 months), but the overall volume and house diversity indicate a healthy, ongoing market with no single auction channel dominating.
Auction categories and appraisal factors
Common auction categories
- Post-War and Contemporary Art
- Prints and Multiples
- Works on Paper
- Contemporary Sculpture
- Photography
Value drivers
- Series or body of work (Self, flower sculptures, marble portraits, History Paintings)
- Material (bronze, marble, stainless steel, mixed media, blood)
- Scale and edition number for multiples
- Provenance and exhibition history
- Condition, especially for unconventional materials (frozen organic media)
- Series identity: works from the Self (frozen blood head) series and large-scale flower sculptures consistently achieve the highest prices; prints from Eye of History, Winter Garden, and At the Far Edges of the Universe series trade in the mid-hundreds to low thousands.
Appraisal caveats
- Quinn uses unconventional materials including frozen blood and preserved organic matter, which can create unique conservation requirements that affect long-term value.
- No specific price data is available from the collected source pack; collectors should consult recent auction records for comparable lots.
- The Appraisily auction-record index aggregates public auction feeds and may not capture private sales, gallery primary-market pricing, or all online-only results.
- Some recent lots (e.g., Phillips June 2010, Christie's March 2026 Pride, Christie's September 2025 Plate 4 and Plate 6, Bonhams June 2025 Eye of History portfolio, Forum Auctions September 2025) show null priceRealised, indicating either unsold lots or results not yet reported; these are excluded from price statistics.
Evidence
Sources for artist context
This source-grounded artist context passed Appraisily's promotion threshold: high confidence, strong sources.
- Wikidata library authority
- Wikipedia wikipedia
- VIAF library authority
- Library of Congress library authority
- The Museum of Modern Art museum or university
- Tate museum or university
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.
Artist value FAQ
How much is Marc Quinn 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.
Can Appraisily value my Marc Quinn artwork?
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