Sarah Lucas Auction Prices and Value Guide
Sarah Lucas auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 238 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.
Sarah Lucas auction prices: quick answer
Sarah Lucas auction prices depend on medium, size, date, condition, provenance, edition details, attribution confidence, and recent comparable auction sales.
- Artist
- Sarah Lucas
- Source records
- 238
- Market update
- 2026-02-06
Sarah Lucas market snapshot
Sarah Lucas shows deep auction liquidity with 163 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $12,500. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 8 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-10-21.
Realized price distribution
- Under $1,000 (9.9% · 12 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000 (28.1% · 34 sales)
- $10,000+ (62.0% · 75 sales)
- Median sale (last 12 months)
- $2,800
- Sales recorded (last 12 months)
- 8
- Median shift vs prior year
- 0.0%
- Latest recorded sale
- 2025-10-21
Artist context
About Sarah Lucas
Born
1962
Nationality
English
Sarah Lucas, born in 1962, is an English artist whose practice encompasses sculpture, photography, installation, collage, and assemblage made with found materials. She is associated with the Young British Artists generation that gained attention from the late 1980s into the 1990s. Across these media, Lucas is known for direct visual jokes, irreverent humor, and transformations of familiar objects into suggestive or unsettling forms. Her authority records identify her particularly as a sculptor, installation artist, and photographer, while broader biographical sources document the deliberately mixed-media character of her work. Collectors may therefore encounter her name attached to materially different objects: autonomous sculptures, constructed assemblages, photographic works, collages, and installation-related pieces. That range makes precise identification important. A credible assessment should distinguish the specific medium and object type rather than treating every work associated with Lucas as belonging to a single uniform category.
Young British ArtistsSculpturePhotographyInstallation artCollageVisual puns and bawdy humor
Common works and media
Works encountered in appraisal and auction contexts may include sculptures, assemblages constructed from found or everyday materials, photographs, collages, and mixed-media installation components. Lucas's documented visual vocabulary includes irreverent humor and visual puns, but subject or style alone is not sufficient to establish authorship or attribution.
Market and appraisal context
Sarah Lucas appears across several collecting categories rather than one narrowly defined medium. The available evidence supports sculpture, found-object assemblage, photography, collage, and mixed-media installation as relevant classifications. For appraisal purposes, the first task is to identify the actual work type and material construction, then compare it with Lucas's documented practice and established identity records. Appraisily's supplied directory input indicates substantial auction-record presence, but this research pack does not include individual lot descriptions, realized prices, or sale dates. It therefore cannot support a price trend or forecast. Object-specific cataloguing and appropriate comparable public sales are necessary before drawing a market conclusion.
Auction categories and appraisal factors
Common auction categories
- Sculpture and found-object assemblage
- Photography and collage
- Mixed-media installation
Value drivers
- Documented work type and material configuration, including whether an object is sculpture, photography, collage, installation, or found-object assemblage
- Consistency with Lucas's documented practice of visual puns, humor, and unconventional objects or materials
- Correct identification and attribution against established institutional and authority profiles
Appraisal caveats
- The collected pack contains an Appraisily auction-directory signal but no individual lot descriptions, realized prices, sale dates, edition details, or comparable-sale results.
- No price trend, market direction, scarcity conclusion, or price prediction can be supported from this source pack alone.
- The effect of condition, provenance, dimensions, date, and edition status must be assessed from the specific object and its documentary record; the collected sources do not quantify those effects for this artist.
Evidence
Sources for artist context
This source-grounded artist context is based on collected public records: medium confidence, adequate source quality.
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 Sarah Lucas 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 Sarah Lucas artwork?
Yes. Appraisily can review photos, dimensions, signatures, condition, provenance, and comparable market data to prepare a current valuation.