Artists/Sebastião Salgado

Sebastião Salgado: Auction Results & Market Statistics

Sebastião Salgado (b. 1944, brazilian) has 97 recorded auction sales between 2008 and 2025, totaling $1.5M in hammer-price volume. Statistics are computed from the Art Market API auction database and updated regularly.

Sold lots

97

Total volume

$1.5M

hammer prices, USD

Average price

$15,641

Auction record

$126,000

Sell-through rate

78%

share of offered lots that sold

Sold above estimate

33%

share of sold lots beating the high estimate

Sebastião Salgado — auction volume by year (USD)
2008peak $333,3302025

Volume by category

Yearly auction performance

YearLots soldTotal volumeAverage price
20252$6,800$3,400
20244$51,931$12,983
20238$49,355$6,169
20227$84,168$12,024
202110$207,564$20,756
202019$333,330$17,544
201915$233,867$15,591
20182$19,200$9,600
20174$37,002$9,251
20163$73,685$24,562
20156$121,200$20,200
20148$153,238$19,155
20132$62,003$31,002
20123$36,096$12,032
20103$45,312$15,104
20081$2,446$2,446

Query this data programmatically

Every figure on this page is computed from the Art Market API's auction database.Sebastião Salgado'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=5ce9a0071cca2f00174f8eac&limit=10" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer amapi_live_your_key_here"

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