Vladimir Jankilevskij Auction Prices and Value Guide

Vladimir Jankilevskij auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 206 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

Vladimir Jankilevskij auction prices: quick answer

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

Artist
Vladimir Jankilevskij
Source records
206
Market update
2026-02-06

Vladimir Jankilevskij market snapshot

Vladimir Jankilevskij shows thin auction liquidity with 2 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $45,600. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 0 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2024-11-13.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (0.0% · 0 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (0.0% · 0 sales)
  • $10,000+ (100.0% · 1 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$0
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
0
Median shift vs prior year
0.0%
Latest recorded sale
2024-11-13

Artist context

About Vladimir Jankilevskij

Vladimir Jankilevskij (1938–2018) was a Russian painter, graphic artist, and assemblage maker based in Moscow, widely recognized as a leading figure in the Soviet nonconformist art movement. Active from the early 1960s through the end of his life, Jankilevskij is best known for his large-scale triptychs, which combine surreal, often unsettling imagery to explore themes of psychological confinement, the human body, and the oppressive atmosphere of daily Soviet existence. His participation in the landmark 1962 Manezh exhibition in Moscow — an event famously denounced by Nikita Khrushchev — placed him at the center of one of the most consequential episodes in twentieth-century Russian cultural history. His work spans painting, drawing, printmaking, installation, and assemblage, and is held in major institutional collections including the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Soviet nonconformist artpaintinggraphic artinstallationassemblagehuman condition and psychological statesSoviet daily life and restriction

Common works and media

Jankilevskij worked across a broad range of media. His most distinctive output includes large-scale painted triptychs, mixed-media assemblages incorporating found objects, ink and graphite drawings, graphic prints, and photographic works. Recurring subjects include fragmented or distorted human figures, surreal anatomical forms, and densely layered compositions evoking psychological tension. Works on paper — including studies and preparatory drawings for his triptychs — also appear with some regularity in auction and gallery contexts.

Market and appraisal context

Jankilevskij's work appears at auction primarily under Post-War and Contemporary Art and Russian Art categories. His paintings, graphic works, and mixed-media assemblages are the formats most commonly encountered by collectors. Works from the 1960s through the 1980s — the period of his most celebrated triptychs and nonconformist production — tend to attract the strongest market interest. Provenance linking a work to documented exhibitions or notable Soviet-era collections can materially affect appraisal value. Collectors should note that transliteration variants of his name (Yankilevsky, Jankilevskij, Jankilevski) across catalogues may complicate search and attribution verification.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Value drivers

  1. Medium: paintings, works on paper, and assemblages are the most commonly encountered work types at auction
  2. Provenance: works with documented exhibition history or provenance from major Soviet nonconformist collections carry stronger attribution
  3. Period: works from the 1960s–1980s nonconformist period are most significant

Appraisal caveats

  • The source pack does not include specific auction-house sale records; realized-price comparisons should be verified through major auction databases.
  • Attribution should be confirmed through provenance documentation or expert authentication, as name transliteration variants (Yankilevsky, Jankilevskij, Jankilevski) may cause cataloguing inconsistencies.

Evidence

Sources for artist context

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Data basis

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