Artists/Jean-Michel Basquiat

Jean-Michel Basquiat: Auction Results & Market Statistics

Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960–1988, american) has 410 recorded auction sales between 2006 and 2025, totaling $1.4B in hammer-price volume. Statistics are computed from the Art Market API auction database and updated regularly.

Sold lots

410

Total volume

$1.4B

hammer prices, USD

Average price

$3.4M

Auction record

$85.0M

Sell-through rate

83%

share of offered lots that sold

Sold above estimate

42%

share of sold lots beating the high estimate

Jean-Michel Basquiat — auction volume by year (USD)
2006peak $254.3M2025

Volume by category

Yearly auction performance

YearLots soldTotal volumeAverage price
202520$72.0M$3.6M
202425$173.5M$6.9M
202335$138.0M$3.9M
202230$148.7M$5.0M
202133$254.3M$7.7M
202030$99.9M$3.3M
201932$91.0M$2.8M
201832$74.3M$2.3M
201741$107.7M$2.6M
201621$55.2M$2.6M
201512$17.3M$1.4M
201415$47.8M$3.2M
20138$8.2M$1.0M
20128$6.4M$801,332
201118$23.8M$1.3M
201024$27.9M$1.2M
20097$3.8M$546,480
200814$28.5M$2.0M
20074$6.4M$1.6M
20061$11,698$11,698

Query this data programmatically

Every figure on this page is computed from the Art Market API's auction database.Jean-Michel Basquiat's complete lot-level auction history is available as structured JSON, filterable by date, price, category, and more.

curl "https://api.artmarketapi.com/api/v1/auction_records?artist=5ce31ad2bf16530017ba4206&limit=10" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer amapi_live_your_key_here"

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