Artists/Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso: Auction Results & Market Statistics

Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) has 3,172 recorded auction sales between 2006 and 2026, totaling $1.6B in hammer-price volume. Statistics are computed from the Art Market API auction database and updated regularly.

Sold lots

3,172

Total volume

$1.6B

hammer prices, USD

Average price

$520,082

Auction record

$67.5M

Sell-through rate

80%

share of offered lots that sold

Sold above estimate

62%

share of sold lots beating the high estimate

Pablo Picasso — auction volume by year (USD)
2006peak $305.6M2026

Volume by category

Yearly auction performance

YearLots soldTotal volumeAverage price
2026131$4.9M$37,644
2025277$73.9M$266,769
2024331$128.8M$389,181
2023270$284.0M$1.1M
2022307$305.6M$995,308
2021280$139.3M$497,362
2020555$186.0M$335,142
2019334$169.8M$508,246
201851$123.7M$2.4M
201768$3.3M$48,976
201620$22.5M$1.1M
201528$25.6M$915,196
201466$32.9M$498,578
201348$707,904$14,748
201280$50.0M$624,660
201122$59.0M$2.7M
201035$36.3M$1.0M
200934$234,642$6,901
200841$418,664$10,211
2007170$2.5M$14,563
200624$319,549$13,315

Query this data programmatically

Every figure on this page is computed from the Art Market API's auction database.Pablo Picasso'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=5a7b1b939c7e0400146c781f&limit=10" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer amapi_live_your_key_here"

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