Market Data · Updated 2026-09-29
Global Art Auction Market Metrics
The state of the art auction market in numbers: 208,502 sold lots since 2001, totaling $42.2B in hammer-price volume across 286,952 catalogued records and 56,844 artists. All figures computed from the Art Market API auction database.
Sold lots
208,502
since 2001
Total volume
$42.2B
hammer prices, USD
2025 volume
$1.4B
8,063 lots
2025 sell-through
41%
share of offered lots sold
By year
2026
$179.0M · 3,128 lots
2025
$1.4B · 8,063 lots
2024
$3.6B · 21,944 lots
2023
$4.9B · 20,534 lots
2022
$7.1B · 22,377 lots
2021
$5.0B · 21,768 lots
2020
$4.1B · 27,099 lots
2019
$4.6B · 22,080 lots
2018
$2.0B · 9,884 lots
2017
$1.9B · 10,771 lots
2016
$1.2B · 5,870 lots
2015
$789.8M · 4,257 lots
2014
$1.5B · 5,230 lots
2013
$106.3M · 2,518 lots
2012
$252.6M · 2,458 lots
2011
$895.5M · 4,006 lots
2010
$1.1B · 4,767 lots
2009
$303.0M · 3,058 lots
2008
$987.5M · 4,117 lots
2007
$131.7M · 3,386 lots
2006
$27.9M · 1,178 lots
2005
$12,170 · 1 lots
2004
$1.0M · 3 lots
2002
$237,500 · 1 lots
2001
$4.4M · 4 lots
By category
Leading auction houses
Query this data programmatically
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