Miles Davis Auction Prices and Value Guide

Miles Davis auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 168 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

Miles Davis auction prices: quick answer

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

Artist
Miles Davis
Source records
168
Market update
2026-02-06

Miles Davis market snapshot

Miles Davis shows solid auction liquidity with 76 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $950. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 8 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-12-07.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (51.0% · 25 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (34.7% · 17 sales)
  • $10,000+ (14.3% · 7 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$2,400
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
8
Median shift vs prior year
+71.4%
Latest recorded sale
2025-12-07

Artist context

About Miles Davis

Miles Davis portrait
William P. Gottlieb · Public domain · Source

Born

1926

Died

1991

Nationality

American

Also known as

Miles Dewey Davis III

Miles Davis (1926–1991) was an American trumpeter, bandleader, composer, and painter whose public identity spans music and visual art. Best known as a major figure in twentieth-century jazz, he worked across bebop, cool jazz, hard bop, third stream, modal jazz, avant-garde jazz, and jazz fusion. That unusually broad musical context matters on an artist page because collectors may encounter his name in both fine-art and music-related cataloguing. The collected evidence explicitly identifies Davis as a painter, but it does not document individual painting titles, recurring subjects, named visual-art series, or a catalogue of his works. Appraisily therefore treats painting as a supported medium while keeping more specific claims open. Stable identity links, including Wikidata, Getty ULAN, VIAF, the Library of Congress, and the official Miles Davis site, help distinguish this Miles Davis from similarly named creators and connect auction records to the correct person.

BebopCool jazzHard bopThird streamModal jazzAvant-garde jazzJazz fusionPainting

Common works and media

Painting is the only visual-art medium explicitly supported by the collected sources. The pack does not substantiate recurring subjects, print editions, drawings, sculpture, ceramics, posters, or named series by Davis, so those categories should not be presented as typical without additional object-level or institutional evidence.

Market and appraisal context

The available evidence supports paintings as the only fine-art category explicitly documented for this entity, while Appraisily’s public page indicates that an auction-record dataset is associated with the name. The pack does not include lot descriptions, major-auction-house commentary, or documented visual-art series, so it cannot support claims about typical prices, scarcity, favored subjects, or market direction. A defensible appraisal should match public records to the correct Miles Davis and the same work type. Sale dates and realized prices can provide comparable-lot context when available, but they should not be treated as predictions or guarantees for a different object.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

  • Paintings

Value drivers

  1. Confirmation that the creator is the jazz musician and painter Miles Davis
  2. Comparison with public auction records matched to the same creator and work type
  3. Sale date and realized price retained as context for comparable public auction records

Appraisal caveats

  • Only the Appraisily artist page at https://appraisily.com/artist/miles-davis/ supplies a market signal in this source pack; no major-auction-house or lot-level excerpts were collected.
  • The available sources do not support conclusions about typical prices, scarcity, favored visual subjects, or market direction.

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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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 Miles Davis

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Artist value FAQ

How much is Miles Davis 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 Miles Davis artwork?

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