Rosemarie Trockel Auction Prices and Value Guide

Rosemarie Trockel auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 563 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

Rosemarie Trockel auction prices: quick answer

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

Artist: Rosemarie Trockel
Source records: 563
Market update: 2026-02-16

Rosemarie Trockel market snapshot

Rosemarie Trockel shows deep auction liquidity with 320 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $5,000. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 31 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-12-16.

Realized price distribution

Under $1,000 (19.3% · 42 sales)
$1,000 to $10,000 (41.7% · 91 sales)
$10,000+ (39.0% · 85 sales)

Median sale (last 12 months): $2,500
Sales recorded (last 12 months): 31
Median shift vs prior year: +25.0%
Latest recorded sale: 2025-12-16

Artist context

About Rosemarie Trockel

Born

1952

Nationality

German

Rosemarie Trockel is a German conceptual artist born in 1952. Her practice crosses drawing, painting, sculpture, video, installation, and mixed media, resisting identification with a single material or format. She is especially associated with pictures produced using knitting machines, a body of work she began making in 1985. The use of mechanized knitting places a medium often connected with domestic craft into dialogue with the conventions of painting and contemporary art. Trockel has also worked in academic life; the supplied German biographical source identifies her as a former professor at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, serving there until 2016. Collectors may consequently encounter her name across materially different objects rather than one uniform category. Drawings and paintings can appear alongside textile-based pictures, sculptures, videos, and installation-related works. Establishing the exact medium, date, and relationship to a documented part of her practice is therefore important when identifying or comparing a work.

Conceptual artDrawingPaintingSculptureVideo

Common works and media

Works associated with Trockel include drawings, paintings, sculptures, videos, installations, mixed-media objects, and textile-based pictures produced with knitting machines. In auction and appraisal settings, works on paper, paintings, sculptural objects, and machine-knitted works may require separate comparison groups because their materials and formats differ substantially. The supplied sources do not document a complete catalogue of editions, subjects, or named series.

Market and appraisal context

Rosemarie Trockel's varied practice makes object-level comparison essential. A drawing, sculpture, mixed-media object, or machine-knitted picture should not be evaluated as though each belonged to the same market category. The work's date and its documented relationship to the knitting-machine pictures begun in 1985 may help define an appropriate comparison set. Public auction records can provide sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when suitable records exist, but the supplied source pack does not contain detailed lot histories or an auction-house market analysis. Any appraisal should therefore verify the object's identity and physical characteristics before using public results as evidence, and should avoid treating a broad artist-level price range as a prediction for an individual work.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

Drawings and works on paper
Paintings and textile-based pictures
Sculpture, installations, and mixed-media works

Value drivers

Medium and work type, particularly whether an object is a drawing, painting, sculpture, mixed-media work, or machine-knitted picture
Date and documented relationship to the machine-knitted pictures associated with her practice from 1985 onward
Comparable public auction records, including sale date and realized price when available

Appraisal caveats

Market coverage should be treated as appraisal context rather than a price forecast.
A comparison should be confirmed against the specific object's medium, date, physical characteristics, and documented identity before drawing a value conclusion.

Evidence

Sources for artist context

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

Wikidata library authority
Getty Vocabulary Program library authority
The Museum of Modern Art museum or university
Tate museum or university
VIAF library authority
Library of Congress library authority

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 Rosemarie Trockel

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Artist value FAQ

How much is Rosemarie Trockel 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 Rosemarie Trockel artwork?

Yes. Appraisily can review photos, dimensions, signatures, condition, provenance, and comparable market data to prepare a current valuation.