Olivier Mourgue Auction Prices and Value Guide

Olivier Mourgue auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 279 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

Olivier Mourgue auction prices: quick answer

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

Artist
Olivier Mourgue
Source records
279
Market update
2026-02-06

Olivier Mourgue market snapshot

Olivier Mourgue shows deep auction liquidity with 212 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $1,147. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 24 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-12-10.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (38.0% · 52 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (61.3% · 84 sales)
  • $10,000+ (0.7% · 1 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$1,000
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
24
Median shift vs prior year
0.0%
Latest recorded sale
2025-12-10

Artist context

About Olivier Mourgue

Born

1939

Nationality

French

Olivier Mourgue, born in 1939, is a French industrial designer whose available public records center on furniture and seating. He is best known for the futuristic Djinn chairs associated with the film 2001: A Space Odyssey. Photographic documentation in the collected source pack also identifies Djinn sofas and a chaise longue, showing that the name applies to a broader seating family rather than a single chair form. Authority and museum identifiers from Wikidata, Getty ULAN, MoMA, and national-library networks help distinguish Mourgue from similarly named people and connect catalogued objects with the correct designer. Collectors most often encounter his name in twentieth-century design contexts, especially in connection with Djinn seating from the 1960s. Because the available institutional excerpts are brief, this profile does not assign Mourgue to a formal artistic movement or extend beyond the career details established by the collected records.

Furniture and seating design

Common works and media

The collected records most clearly document furniture and seating, especially the Djinn family. Objects encountered in auction or appraisal contexts may be described as Djinn chairs, sofas, or chaise longues. Listings should be matched to the precise seating format and documented design rather than grouped solely under Mourgue's name. The source pack does not establish that other object types occur frequently enough to characterize them as common market categories.

Market and appraisal context

Market review should begin by determining whether an object is a chair, sofa, or chaise longue and whether its identification as a Djinn design is documented. Titles and dates attached to the supplied Wikimedia records illustrate why the exact seating format and design date matter when matching an object with public examples. Appraisily auction records can then support comparison by lot type, sale date, and realized price when sufficiently similar records are available. This source pack does not include accessible auction-house catalogue notes, condition reports, manufacturer documentation, or verified individual results, so it cannot support a price forecast. Attribution, condition, provenance, completeness, and restoration history should remain unresolved until documented for the particular object under appraisal.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

  • Twentieth-century furniture and design objects
  • Djinn chairs, sofas, and chaise longues

Value drivers

  1. Exact design and seating format, particularly whether a lot is documented as a Djinn chair, sofa, or chaise longue
  2. Documented design date when matching an object with identified public examples
  3. Comparable public auction lots, sale dates, and realized prices when sufficiently similar records are available

Appraisal caveats

  • The source pack contains no accessible major-auction-house catalogue essay, condition report, manufacturer record, or verified individual sale result.
  • The supplied auction-record count may cover varied object types and attributions; individual records require review before they are treated as comparables.
  • No price trend, scarcity claim, authenticity conclusion, or price forecast can be supported from this source pack alone.

Evidence

Sources for artist context

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

Source-grounded artist Markdown

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 Olivier Mourgue

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Artist value FAQ

How much is Olivier Mourgue 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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