The Bottom Line
If you want the whole report compressed into a paragraph: Death NYC is an accessible, liquid, entry-tier collectible, not a rocketing appreciating asset. Across 1,840 priced comps, the recent five-year median sits around $200, with the upper-quartile (P75) around $275. The single most important honest fact in this dataset is that the median has been flat to soft — it printed $250 in 2023, then $190 in 2024, then $160 in 2025, and $160 in 2026 year-to-date. That is a category cooling from a 2023 peak, not one accelerating.
At the same time, the data shows genuine strengths. Transaction volume is high and consistent — hundreds of recorded sales a year — which means these prints are easy to buy and easy to sell, a real and underrated feature for a collectible. Five-year recorded volume across the tracked comps totals roughly $351,197. And a thin top tier of exceptional pieces has changed hands in the $1,000–$2,500 range, showing the ceiling is meaningfully higher than the median for the right work in the right condition with the right authentication.
Here is the honest synthesis, stated plainly:
| Question | Honest answer |
|---|---|
| Is Death NYC appreciating? | No. The median is flat-to-down since a 2023 peak. |
| Is it liquid? | Yes. Hundreds of recorded sales per year; a genuinely deep market. |
| What's a repeatable resale? | Roughly $100–$300 for a standard signed, numbered A4 edition. |
| What's the ceiling? | Exceptional, verified pieces have reached $1,000–$2,500. |
| Is it "an investment"? | Treat it as an affordable collectible you enjoy — not a growth vehicle. |
If you buy Death NYC expecting the value to climb every year, the data says you will likely be disappointed. If you buy it because you like the work, you want a signed, authenticated piece for a few hundred dollars, and you value the ability to resell easily, the data says the category delivers on exactly those terms.
The Dataset and Method
Good market conclusions require a disciplined dataset, so it is worth being explicit about what this analysis is and is not.
What the dataset is
The core of this report is a set of 1,840 priced Death NYC comparables ("comps") — completed, price-bearing transactions, not asking prices. The comps were compiled from a WorthPoint export reviewed on June 23, 2026. WorthPoint aggregates sold-price data across marketplaces and auction records, which makes it a reasonable proxy for what buyers have actually paid over time rather than what sellers hope to get.
Every figure in this report either comes directly from that reviewed dataset or is clearly labeled as arithmetic performed on it. We do not introduce outside price estimates into the tables. Where we reference the broader market — for example, the standard authentication package, or the fact that editions are typically of 100 — we cite independent public listings and note them as qualitative context, not as new price data.
How the comps were filtered
Three filtering decisions shape the numbers, and each is deliberate:
- Exact-name matching. The dataset targets works matched to the exact signature "Death NYC" / "DeathNYC," reducing the risk of pulling in unrelated street-art listings that merely mention the name in passing.
- Sale-dated records only. Each comp carries a transaction date, which is what makes the year-by-year trend analysis possible.
- A $90 price floor. Comps below roughly $90 are excluded. This is a house convention Gauntlet applies across categories to strip out damaged goods, unsigned reproductions, mislabeled lots, partial listings, and noise that would otherwise drag the median toward zero and misrepresent the real signed-edition market. It biases the dataset slightly upward versus a raw unfiltered feed — a limitation we name honestly in its own section below.
Statistics we report, and why
Rather than lean on a single average — which a handful of four-figure sales would distort — we report the median and the interquartile band (P25 to P75) for each year:
- The median is the middle sale: half of transactions came in below it, half above. It is far more robust to outliers than a mean, and it answers the question most buyers actually care about: what does a typical one sell for?
- P25 and P75 mark the 25th and 75th percentiles — the boundaries of the middle 50% of sales. The width between them is the market's spread, and it tells you how much the specific piece, its format, and its condition matter.
- Count (n) is the number of comps in each year. It matters enormously: a median built on 17 sales (2019) is a whisper; a median built on 669 sales (2024) is a statement.
What the dataset cannot tell you
It cannot tell you the fate of any single print you are looking at. It cannot see condition grades, framing, or whether a specific certificate matches its print. It cannot fully separate a plain signed A4 from a rarer original canvas within every bucket. And it reflects the past, which never guarantees the future. Treat every number here as a distribution to reason within, not a price tag to stamp on your piece.
Median Prices, 2019 to 2026
The median is the spine of this report. Here is the full annual record from the reviewed dataset.
| Year | Comps (n) | Median | P25 | P75 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 17 | $170 | $100 | $470 |
| 2020 | 16 | $164 | $115 | $288 |
| 2021 | 44 | $200 | $121 | $337 |
| 2022 | 80 | $140 | $100 | $232 |
| 2023 | 345 | $250 | $149 | $295 |
| 2024 | 669 | $190 | $117 | $250 |
| 2025 | 531 | $160 | $101 | $275 |
| 2026 YTD | 61 | $160 | $99 | $275 |
Source: Gauntlet Gallery Death NYC comp dataset, 1,840 priced comps, WorthPoint export reviewed 2026-06-23; $90 floor.
Reading the trend honestly
There is no way to spin this into a rising line, and we won't try. The median tells a clear three-act story:
Act one — thin and noisy (2019–2022). The early years carry very few comps: 17, 16, 44, and 80. With samples that small, the median bounces around ($170, $164, $200, $140) for reasons that are as much about which pieces happened to sell as about the market itself. Do not over-read this era. It is context, not signal.
Act two — the 2023 peak (median $250). In 2023 the recorded market exploded to 345 comps and the median hit its high-water mark of $250. This is the number bullish sellers like to quote. It coincides with a broad surge of attention to accessible, signed, pop-culture prints. It was real — but it was a peak, and peaks are, by definition, not the baseline.
Act three — the cool-down (2024–2026). As volume kept climbing (669 comps in 2024, 531 in 2025), the median stepped down each year: $190 → $160 → $160. This is the pattern that matters most. More prints reaching the market at lower typical prices is the fingerprint of increasing supply meeting steady-to-softening demand. The 2026 YTD figure ($160 on 61 comps) shows no rebound.
The volume-vs-price divergence
The single most instructive feature of this table is the way the two columns move in opposite directions from 2023 onward. Volume rose. Median fell.
| Window | Direction of volume | Direction of median |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 → 2022 | Slowly rising (thin) | Choppy, no trend |
| 2023 | Sharp spike | Peak ($250) |
| 2024 → 2026 YTD | High, then easing | Stepping down to $160 |
For a collectible, that combination reads as maturing and liquid, but not scarce. Scarcity drives appreciation; here, ongoing supply of new editions caps it. That is not a flaw to hide — it is the defining economic fact of the category, and it is precisely why the honest frame is "accessible and liquid," not "appreciating."
Percentile Bands and Market Spread
The median tells you the center. The P25–P75 band tells you how much dispersion sits around it — and dispersion is where format, subject, and condition express themselves in dollars.
| Year | P25 | Median | P75 | P75 − P25 spread |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | $100 | $170 | $470 | $370 |
| 2020 | $115 | $164 | $288 | $173 |
| 2021 | $121 | $200 | $337 | $216 |
| 2022 | $100 | $140 | $232 | $132 |
| 2023 | $149 | $250 | $295 | $146 |
| 2024 | $117 | $190 | $250 | $133 |
| 2025 | $101 | $160 | $275 | $174 |
| 2026 YTD | $99 | $160 | $275 | $176 |
Source: as above.
What the band is telling you
The floor is remarkably stable. Look down the P25 column: across eight years it barely leaves the $99–$149 range, and in the most recent years it sits at $101, then $99. That is a soft floor for a standard signed, numbered edition. It is the number that anchors the entry lane discussed later, and its stability is one of the genuinely reassuring features of the category — the bottom of the market has not collapsed even as the median softened.
The spread has widened again recently. The band compressed hard in 2023–2024 (spreads of $146 and $133) — the market was concentrated, most pieces clustering tightly near the median during the peak. In 2025–2026 the spread reopened to ~$174–$176, driven almost entirely by the P75 climbing back to $275 while the median and floor held or eased. In plain terms: the typical piece got a touch cheaper, but the better pieces held their premium. Quality is separating from the crowd again.
The 2019 outlier deserves a caution flag. That $470 P75 on only 17 comps is the loudest example of small-sample distortion in the dataset. A couple of unusual early lots can throw a quartile that far on so few records. It is not evidence of a "golden era"; it is evidence that thin data is unreliable data. We include it for completeness and discount it in interpretation.
The practical takeaway from the spread
The recent, deep years (2024–2026) converge on a consistent, defensible working range for a standard signed edition: a P25 near $100 and a P75 near $250–$275, around a median of $160–$190. That is your realistic reasoning band. The width of it — roughly $100 at the bottom to $275 at the top — is the dollar value the market places on getting the format, subject, and condition right rather than wrong.
Transaction Volume and Liquidity
For most collectibles, liquidity is an afterthought — until you try to sell and discover there are no buyers. Death NYC's defining strength is that this problem barely exists.
| Year | Comps (n) | Share of 5-yr core (2022–2026) |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 17 | — |
| 2020 | 16 | — |
| 2021 | 44 | — |
| 2022 | 80 | ~5% |
| 2023 | 345 | ~20% |
| 2024 | 669 | ~39% |
| 2025 | 531 | ~31% |
| 2026 YTD | 61 | ~4% |
Shares are arithmetic on the 2022–2026 comp counts (80 + 345 + 669 + 531 + 61 = 1,686). Source dataset as above.
Why liquidity is the real story
The count column climbs from a trickle (16–17 a year) to a flood: 345, then 669, then 531 recorded sales in the peak years. Even 2026 year-to-date is on pace consistent with a busy market. This is not a name that trades once in a blue moon. Hundreds of Death NYC prints change hands every year on the platforms these comps are drawn from.
That depth produces three concrete benefits for a buyer:
- Price discovery is easy. With this many comparable sales, you can price a piece against dozens of near-identical recent transactions rather than guessing. Every table in this report exists because the volume is there.
- Exit is realistic. The most painful failure mode in collectibles is owning something no one wants to buy back. High, steady volume means a fairly priced Death NYC print can typically find a buyer — a meaningful contrast to thin, illiquid names where a "$1,000 value" is theoretical until someone actually pays it.
- The market self-corrects. Deep, active markets punish overpricing quickly and reward fair pricing. That discipline is why the median is trustworthy as a benchmark.
The flip side of liquidity
Be honest about the trade-off: the same high volume that makes selling easy also caps appreciation. A steady supply of new signed editions means there is rarely a scarcity squeeze to push prices up. Liquidity and scarcity pull in opposite directions, and Death NYC sits firmly on the liquidity side. That is the correct mental model — think "easy to trade," not "hard to find."
The five-year volume figure
Across the tracked comps, recorded five-year transaction volume totals roughly $351,197. Read this for what it is: evidence of an active, functioning market with real money moving through it, not a valuation of any single work. It is a liquidity signal, not a growth signal.
Top Recorded Sales
Every entry-tier market has a ceiling, and it is worth looking at directly — carefully.
| Recorded top-tier sale | Multiple of ~$200 median |
|---|---|
| $1,000 | ~5× |
| $1,130 | ~5.7× |
| $2,250 | ~11× |
| $2,500 | ~12.5× |
Top-sale context values from the reviewed dataset; multiples are arithmetic against the ~$200 recent five-year median.
What the ceiling means — and doesn't
These four-figure results are real and they are exceptional. At roughly 5× to 12.5× the typical median, they prove the category's ceiling is far above its center for the right piece. But the entire point of this section is to prevent a specific, common error: do not treat the ceiling as the expectation.
The math makes the danger obvious. If a typical signed A4 sells around $160–$200 and the headline sales sit at $2,250–$2,500, then anchoring on the top number over-values a standard piece by an order of magnitude. A seller who read only the top-sales line — and there are always sellers who do — would price a routine print at ten times what the market pays and never sell it.
What separates a four-figure piece from a $160 one
The dataset does not itemize the exact attributes behind each top sale, so we describe the drivers qualitatively and verify the general pattern against the public market rather than asserting specifics:
- Format beyond the standard A4. Originals, hand-embellished works, canvases, and multi-print sets sit structurally above plain signed A4 editions.
- Marquee subject matter. The most sought mashups pair blue-chip luxury houses with the most iconic pop and art figures. Broad desirability concentrates bidding.
- Condition and completeness. Pristine condition plus a fully intact, matching authentication package (more on this below) supports the top of any range.
- Genuinely scarce configurations. Low edition numbers, rare artist proofs, or unusual substrates.
The correct way to use the top-sales data is as an aspirational ceiling for exceptional, verified pieces — never as a baseline for ordinary ones. Sort the exception from the median, and you will price correctly.
What Drives a Premium
If the median is the gravity of this market, premiums are the lift. Four levers, in rough order of impact, move a Death NYC piece above the typical range.
1. Format and physical type
This is the biggest structural driver. The dataset and common market formats span:
- Standard signed & numbered A4 editions (8.3 × 11.7 in) — the volume core of the market and the anchor of the entry lane.
- Artist proofs (AP) and hors-commerce (HC) — outside the main numbered run, often carrying a modest scarcity premium.
- Originals and canvases — structurally higher-value, one-off or near-one-off works.
- Multi-print sets — bundles that transact above single sheets.
A plain signed A4 lives near the median. An original or canvas can live near the ceiling. Format alone explains much of the P25-to-P75 spread.
2. Subject matter and iconography
Death NYC's signature is the luxury-logo-plus-pop-culture mashup: fashion houses (Chanel, Louis Vuitton, Hermès, Gucci, Dior) fused with pop and art icons (Warhol, Basquiat, Keith Haring, KAWS, Snoopy, Mickey, BE@RBRICK, Kate Moss, Marilyn, banknotes). The most broadly recognizable pairings attract the widest bidding pool and support premiums. Verify any specific subject claim against the actual piece before relying on it — iconography is easy to misdescribe, and desirability is subject-specific.
3. Authentication — the non-negotiable
This is the lever that can erase value rather than merely add it. The Death NYC authentication chain, stated exactly:
Death NYC = artist-issued Certificate of Authenticity + gold seal (hologram/embossment) + hand pencil signature + edition number. The certificate number must match the print.
Every part matters, and this is corroborated by independent public listings, which consistently describe the standard package as a hand-signed, pencil-numbered edition (commonly of 100) accompanied by a Death NYC COA card and a gold seal sticker, often with a blind-stamp embossment on fine-art paper.
Two hard rules govern this category:
- A missing or mismatched COA changes value — downward, materially. A print whose certificate number does not match, or which has lost its COA and seal entirely, is a weaker asset than the comps in this report, most of which represent complete, authenticated pieces above the $90 floor.
- Never invoke Pest Control. Pest Control is Banksy's authentication body and has nothing to do with Death NYC. Any listing that mixes the two is a red flag. Death NYC's chain is its own artist-issued COA and gold seal — never mix authentication chains across artists or categories.
Authentication is not a nice-to-have footnote here. It is the difference between a comp that belongs in this dataset and one that does not.
4. Condition, completeness, and edition position
Within a given format and subject, the finishing details decide where in the band a piece lands: crisp, undamaged paper; original framing where relevant; the full authentication package intact; and, for the keenest buyers, a low or otherwise notable edition number. None of these turn a $160 print into a $2,500 one on their own — but together they push a piece from the P25 floor toward the P75 ceiling.
The $100 to $300 Entry Lane
Strip away the exceptions and the entire dataset points at one practical, repeatable zone. For a standard signed, numbered A4 edition, the working entry lane is $100 to $300.
Why $100 to $300 is the right frame
Every core statistic converges here:
| Anchor | Value | Where it sits in the lane |
|---|---|---|
| Recent P25 (2024–2026) | ~$99–$117 | Bottom of the lane |
| Recent median (5-yr) | ~$200 | Middle of the lane |
| Recent median (2025–2026) | $160 | Lower-middle of the lane |
| Recent P75 (5-yr) | ~$275 | Top of the lane |
| Peak-year P75 (2023) | $295 | Top edge of the lane |
All values from the reviewed dataset; the lane is the natural band bounded by recent P25 and P75.
The floor of the lane (~$100) is where the P25 has sat, stably, for years. The top of the lane (~$275–$300) is where the P75 has repeatedly landed. The center (~$160–$200) is the median. The lane is not a marketing invention — it is simply the shape of the data described in words.
How to use the lane
- Buying. Near $100–$130, you are at the market floor for a complete, authenticated standard edition — a strong entry point if condition and COA check out. Around $160–$200, you are paying the typical price. Above $275–$300 for a standard A4, you should expect a specific, defensible reason (marquee subject, exceptional condition, notable edition number) — otherwise you are paying a premium the median does not support.
- Selling. A fairly priced standard edition in the lane, with intact authentication, is the most liquid thing in this whole market. Price it against recent comps in the band, not against the four-figure ceiling.
- Setting expectations. The lane is a trading range for an accessible collectible, not a launchpad. Buy in it because you like the work and value the liquidity — not because you expect the lane itself to migrate upward. The recent trend says it has drifted slightly down, not up.
The entry lane is the honest heart of this report. It is affordable, it is liquid, it is authenticated, and it is realistic. That is the offer the data actually makes.
Risks and Limitations
A report that only lists strengths is a sales brochure. Here are the real risks and the real limits of this analysis, stated without hedging.
Market risks
- Flat-to-soft median. The clearest risk is the trend itself. The median fell from $250 (2023) to $160 (2025–2026 YTD). Buyers expecting appreciation are fighting the data. Plan around a flat-to-soft market, not a rising one.
- Ongoing supply caps upside. Continuous new signed editions keep the market well-fed. That is great for liquidity and bad for scarcity-driven price growth. Do not expect a supply squeeze.
- Entry-tier volatility of attention. Accessible pop-culture prints ride broad collecting fashion. Attention that lifted 2023 can rotate elsewhere; the 2024–2026 step-down may reflect exactly that.
- Anonymity and single-source production. The artist is anonymous and the output is centralized. That concentrates authentication and reputational risk in one chain — which raises the stakes on getting the COA right.
Data limitations
- The $90 floor biases upward. By design, we exclude sub-$90 records. This removes junk and noise, but it also means the true unfiltered market — including damaged, unsigned, or partial items — sits somewhat lower than these medians. Read every figure as "the signed, authenticated, above-floor market," not "every Death NYC object ever sold."
- Thin early years. 2019–2022 rest on 16–80 comps each. Their medians and especially their quartiles (that $470 P75 in 2019) are unreliable. Weight the deep years (2023–2026) far more heavily.
- Sold-price aggregation is imperfect. WorthPoint-sourced data can carry mislabeled lots, inconsistent condition reporting, and format ambiguity. Exact-name matching and the floor mitigate this but do not eliminate it.
- No per-piece condition or authentication grade. The dataset cannot see whether a specific certificate matches its print, or grade condition. The comps broadly represent complete, authenticated pieces — but your piece must be verified individually.
- Past is not prologue. Everything here is historical. It is a distribution to reason within, not a forecast.
The authentication risk, restated
Because it can erase value, it bears repeating in the risk section: a missing or mismatched COA materially lowers value, and Death NYC is never authenticated by Pest Control. If a certificate number does not match its print, or a listing invokes the wrong authentication body, treat the value as impaired and the listing as suspect.
Death NYC vs Other Entry-Tier Artists
Where does Death NYC sit among accessible, signed-edition names? We keep this comparison qualitative on purpose. Cross-artist price claims require verified, like-for-like comp datasets that are outside the scope of this Death-NYC-only dataset, and we will not manufacture peer price figures we have not verified.
What the public market does let us say, verified against independent listings and auction databases (Artsy, Artnet, Invaluable, and active eBay/Etsy listings), is directional and structural:
- Death NYC is squarely in the accessible tier. Its signed, numbered editions are widely available and actively traded — a fundamentally different market from blue-chip print names whose signed editions command four, five, or six figures as a baseline. Comparing Death NYC to that tier is a category error.
- Its edge among peers is liquidity, not scarcity. The defining feature versus many similarly priced contemporary print artists is the sheer depth of transaction volume documented here — hundreds of sales a year. Many peer names in the same price band trade far more thinly, which makes their headline "values" harder to realize on exit.
- Its constraint versus peers is also supply. Names built on tightly capped output or a scarcity narrative can show stronger appreciation; Death NYC's steady new-edition flow trades that potential upside away in exchange for the liquidity.
The honest one-liner: among entry-tier signed-edition artists, Death NYC competes on accessibility and liquidity, not on scarcity or appreciation. For a hard, numbers-backed cross-artist ranking, you would need a separately verified multi-artist comp study — which this is not, and which we decline to fake.
Peer context verified against public sources: Death NYC on Artsy, Death NYC auction results on Artnet, Death NYC on Invaluable.
Is Death NYC a Good Investment?
The honest answer depends entirely on what you mean by "investment" — so we will answer it three ways.
If "investment" means an asset that appreciates
Then, on this data, no — not reliably. The median has moved down, not up, since 2023 ($250 → $160). Supply is steady. There is no scarcity engine. If your goal is to put in $200 and take out $400 in a few years, the sales record does not support that expectation for a standard signed edition, and we will not pretend otherwise.
If "investment" means a liquid, low-cost collectible you can enjoy and resell
Then the picture is genuinely positive. You can:
- Enter cheaply — the $100–$300 lane is real and stable at the floor.
- Own an authentic, hand-signed, numbered piece — with a clear COA-plus-gold-seal chain, when verified.
- Resell into a deep market — hundreds of comparable sales a year make a fair-priced exit realistic.
- Access a real, if narrow, upside — the right exceptional, verified piece has reached $1,000–$2,500.
That is a legitimately good deal for what it is: an affordable, liquid, authenticated collectible. It is simply not a growth vehicle.
The disciplined buyer's checklist
If you proceed, protect yourself:
- Verify the full authentication chain — COA + gold seal + pencil signature + edition number, with the certificate number matching the print. No match, no premium. Never accept a Pest Control reference for Death NYC.
- Anchor to the recent lane — pay near the floor when you can; treat anything meaningfully above ~$275–$300 for a standard A4 as needing a specific justification.
- Separate exceptions from the median — do not let a four-figure headline sale set your price for an ordinary print.
- Prioritize the pieces you actually love — in a flat-median market, personal enjoyment is the return you can count on.
- Weight the deep years — trust 2023–2026 data far more than the thin early record.
Buy Death NYC the way you would buy a well-made, signed object you want on your wall and could resell without drama — not the way you would buy a growth stock. On that basis, and only on that basis, the data supports it.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a typical Death NYC print worth?
A standard signed, numbered A4 edition typically trades in the $100–$300 range, with a recent five-year median around $200 and the most recent years' median around $160. That is your realistic benchmark for an ordinary piece.
Is Death NYC going up in value?
No, not on this data. The median fell from $250 in 2023 to $160 in 2025 and 2026 YTD. Treat the category as flat-to-soft, not appreciating.
Why do I see Death NYC prints selling for over $2,000?
Those are exceptional sales — recorded top results run $1,000–$2,500, roughly 5× to 12.5× the median. They reflect special formats (originals, canvases, sets), marquee subjects, condition, and scarcity. They are the ceiling, not the expectation. Do not price an ordinary print against them.
How do I know a Death NYC print is authentic?
Look for the complete chain: an artist-issued Certificate of Authenticity, a gold seal (hologram/embossment), a hand pencil signature, and the edition number — with the certificate number matching the print. A missing or mismatched COA lowers value materially. Death NYC is never authenticated by Pest Control (that is Banksy's body); any listing that says so is a red flag.
Is Death NYC a liquid market?
Yes — one of the most liquid in the entry tier. The dataset records hundreds of sales per year (669 in 2024, 531 in 2025), which makes both pricing and resale straightforward.
What's the safest way to buy?
Buy a complete, authenticated standard edition near the ~$100–$130 floor to ~$200 median, verify the COA chain, prioritize a subject you love, and weight recent-year comps. Avoid overpaying against the four-figure ceiling.
How many sales is this report based on?
1,840 priced comparables, from a WorthPoint export reviewed June 23, 2026, filtered to exact-name, sale-dated records above a $90 floor.
Does Gauntlet Gallery sell Death NYC?
Yes. We disclose that commercial interest openly, and we have deliberately led this report with the least flattering number in the data — a soft, declining median — so you can judge the category on its real merits.
Final Word
The 1,840-sale record tells a coherent and honest story. Death NYC is an accessible, liquid, entry-tier print market with a stable ~$100 floor, a soft-and-easing median (from $250 in 2023 down to $160 in 2025–2026 YTD), a deep and active volume of hundreds of sales a year, and a thin but real ceiling reaching $1,000–$2,500 for exceptional, verified pieces. The repeatable reality lives in the $100–$300 entry lane for a standard signed, numbered A4 edition.
What it is not is a rocketing asset. The median is not climbing, and steady new supply means it probably won't surge. Anyone selling you Death NYC as an appreciation play is quoting the 2023 peak and the four-figure ceiling while ignoring the trend line underneath them.
The right buyer here is clear-eyed: someone who values an affordable, hand-signed, properly authenticated piece; who cares that it can be resold into a deep market without drama; who verifies the COA-and-gold-seal chain every time and never confuses it with someone else's authentication body; and who buys, above all, work they genuinely want to own. On those terms — and honestly, only on those terms — Death NYC delivers exactly what the data promises.
This report is for informational and educational purposes only. It is not investment, financial, appraisal, or authentication advice. Gauntlet Gallery sells Death NYC works and therefore has a commercial interest in this category. All figures derive from a single reviewed comp dataset (WorthPoint export reviewed 2026-06-23; 1,840 priced comps; $90 floor) and describe historical transactions, not future value; past performance does not predict future results. Individual pieces vary in format, condition, and authentication, and any specific print must be independently verified — including confirming that its certificate number matches the print. Death NYC is authenticated by its own artist-issued Certificate of Authenticity and gold seal, never by Pest Control. Do your own research and consult qualified independent professionals before buying or selling.
