Ugo Rondinone Auction Prices and Value Guide
Ugo Rondinone auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 424 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.
Ugo Rondinone auction prices: quick answer
Ugo Rondinone auction prices depend on medium, size, date, condition, provenance, edition details, attribution confidence, and recent comparable auction sales.
- Artist
- Ugo Rondinone
- Source records
- 424
- Market update
- 2026-02-16
Artist context
About Ugo Rondinone
Ugo Rondinone is a Swiss contemporary artist born in 1964 in Brunnen, Switzerland. Active since the mid-1980s, he works across an unusually broad range of media—sculpture, painting, drawing, photography, video, and installation—often within expansive, immersive series. His practice blends poetic, pop-cultural, and minimalist vocabularies, producing recognizable bodies of work that include his large-scale stacked-stone Mountain sculptures, figurative nude sculptures, still.life paintings, and text-based pieces. Rondinone's work is held in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and has been the subject of exhibitions at major international institutions. He maintains an active studio practice and continues to produce public commissions, gallery exhibitions, and cross-disciplinary projects that bridge visual art with poetry and performance.
Contemporary artSculpturePaintingPhotographyVideoMountain formsNude figuresStill life (candle motifs)
Common works and media
Rondinone produces large-scale painted bronze or stone Mountain sculptures, figurative nude sculptures in various materials, still.life paintings often depicting candles, text-based and poem-derived works, drawings, photographs, and video installations. Public sculptures are a significant part of his output. Works on paper, small-scale sculptures, and editioned photographs appear frequently in auction contexts, while monumental outdoor pieces are typically commissioned or sited in public collections.
Market and appraisal context
Rondinone's work appears regularly in the contemporary art auction market, particularly sculpture, painting, and editioned photographs from his well-known series. Factors that affect appraisal include whether a piece belongs to a recognized series (such as the Mountain or nude sculptures), the scale and medium, provenance linking to major gallery exhibitions, and the work's date within his decades-long career. Unique sculptures and large paintings typically command the strongest results. Collectors should verify edition details for prints and multiples, confirm provenance, and assess condition, as these variables materially influence value. Institutional exhibition history and published catalogue references further support appraisal accuracy.
Auction categories and appraisal factors
Appraisal caveats
- The available source pack does not include specific auction-house records with realized prices; market context is inferred from the artist's institutional presence, known output types, and auction category conventions
- No major auction-house biographical pages were retrieved in this collection pass; market observations should be corroborated with live auction data
Evidence
Sources for artist context
This source-grounded artist context passed Appraisily's promotion threshold: high confidence, strong sources.
- Wikidata library authority
- Wikipedia wikipedia
- Getty Vocabulary Program library authority
- VIAF library authority
- Library of Congress library authority
- The Museum of Modern Art 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
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