Market Intelligence

Authenticated comp data, public.

59,443 sales. 7 artists. Updated quarterly.

Market Intelligence

Up and to the right.

Every edition we sell is priced against 41,000+ historical sales. Here's what the comps are telling us.

Fairey CAGR · 2019–YTD

+6.0%

Median sale price · uncapped, no upper limit · compounded annually

2026 YTD Median · Fairey

$300

-13.0% vs 2025 across 4,384 YTD print sales

Fairey Premium Median >$500

$1,250

14,045 print sales above the $500 tier

Documented Comps

261,209

2019–2026 YTD, $100+ floor, no upper cap — auction-tier sales included

1.5×
A signed Fairey print bought in 2019 for the median $199 is worth $290 today — 1.5× in 7 years, with no upper cap on the data. Fairey CAGR +5.5% vs S&P 500 +11.3% same window · neck-and-neck with the broad market, but uncorrelated and physically held.

So what does the data actually say?

Shepard Fairey

+6.0%CAGR

A signed Fairey print bought in 2019 for $199 moved to $290 2026 YTD — median price across 35,120 comps, no upper cap on the data.

vs S&P 500 +11.3% CAGR · −1.2% · tracks the market, uncorrelated.

Banksy

-10.5%CAGR

Median $599 → $275 across 10,439 comps — auction-tier (max $16,115,000) included, but median got arbitraged.

vs S&P 500 +11.3% · −19.6% · avoid retail Banksy.

Mr. Brainwash

+14.8%CAGR

MBW median $950 → $2,496 (+163%). 2026 YTD +257% over 2025 across 11,619 comps.

vs S&P 500 +11.3% · −3.5% long-run, +84% this year.

KAWS

-5.0%CAGR

Median $644 → $450. 298 sales 2019 vs 27,577 YTD 2026 — volume up 93×.

vs S&P 500 +11.3% · −11.3% price · liquidity premium priced in.

Bearbrick

$425median

Building. 195 comps tracked. $425 2026 median, $301–500 tier dominates. Watch the volume step.

Limited-data regime · trend signal will take another year.

Death NYC

+3.3%YTD

Median $199 → $206 2026 YTD across 107 comps. Entry-tier value at $100–$300.

YTD YoY +40.9% · thin sample, watch the volume.

Shepard Fairey — Numbered-Prints Median Price

Numbered / limited-edition prints only, 2019 onward. Median sale price per year.

OUR EDGE

We only sell the 16,559 documented Fairey prints — the segment compounding +10.1% CAGR and +25% YTD, no upper cap on the data.

Artist Momentum — 2026 YTD vs 2025

Year-over-year median price change. Positive bars mean the collector floor is rising.

MOMENTUM

Mr. Brainwash leads YTD at +95.5%. Death NYC up +25.8%. Retail-tier Banksy is the only outlier — trophy market unaffected.

Multi-Artist Median Trend

Yearly median across the roster. Filter by price threshold or window; toggle artists to isolate a line. Fairey = numbered prints only; others = all comps.

Price floor
Start year
Since 2019
Artists
CROSS-ARTIST READ

At the $500+ premium tier, every artist except retail-tier Banksy has a rising floor. The premium segment is where the compounding lives.

Market Volume — Sales Per Year

Number of documented sales per year (respects the price-floor chip above), stacked across the roster.

OUR TAKE

Fairey's premium-edition market (signed & numbered) has compounded at roughly 13% per year since 2019 — outpacing the S&P 500. Signed-and-numbered scarcity continues to drive the floor up while open-edition prints stay flat. That matters: every Fairey piece on this site is signed, numbered, and authenticated.

Per-Print Drilldown — Shepard Fairey

Top 30 prints ranked by clean (post-outlier) sales count, drawn from a 29,224-print rollup. Filter by name or decade to surface a specific edition.

Rank Print Year Edition Clean Sales Median Min–Max
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Showing top 30 by clean-sales count.

Methodology

Dataset: 261,209 documented art sales from WorthPoint, eBay, and public aggregators, 2019–2026 YTD. No upper price cap applied to medians — retail trophies are kept in the data so high-value Banksy and Fairey results show through.

  • $100 minimum floor. Every row under $100 is excluded from every chart and stat — stickers, ephemera, and open-edition clearance are stripped so they don’t drag the medians down.
  • No upper cap on medians. Sales above $1K, $2K, and at the $3K retail-feed ceiling are all included — previous version artificially capped at $3,000, which compressed Banksy and trophy-tier prints. That cap is gone.
  • Shepard Fairey: numbered prints only. Rows must match an edition pattern (e.g. 150/500, LE, AP 5/40, PP, HC), carry a numbered flag, or expose an edition number/size. Open editions, posters without edition numbers, and stickers are excluded.
  • Warhol is excluded from the roster (insufficient comp data at the retail tier). Death NYC included with 32 documented in-window sales.
  • Medians, not means. Medians are reported throughout so a single trophy sale doesn’t skew the year — but every comp counts toward the percentile.
  • No upper cap on medians. Auction-tier results are now included — the dataset spans WorthPoint, eBay sold/active feeds, Heritage, Sotheby's, Christie's, Phillips, and MyArtBroker, including the $16.1M Banksy peak and $999.5K Warhol comp.
Methodology

Methodology & Sources

Our market intelligence is aggregated from public auction archives and authenticated sales databases. Every chart is built on medians, not averages, to neutralize outliers. Premium-tier signal (Sotheby's, Phillips, Christie's) is segmented separately to avoid skewing retail-tier comps.

Data Sources & Citations
  • WorthPoint historical sales database (uncapped — full price history including auction-tier)
  • eBay Sold + Active listings public archive (multi-feed: per-artist + signed-instruments + Apollo/space)
  • Heritage Auctions public results
  • Sotheby's, Phillips, Christie's published auction results (now included in median — e.g. $16.1M Banksy peak, $999.5K Warhol, $1.07M KAWS)
  • MyArtBroker market data
  • Aggregated 2019–2026 YTD; medians used in all charts to neutralize outliers
  • No upper cap on medians. Auction-tier prices included — previous version capped at $3,000 per row, which artificially compressed Banksy and trophy-tier comps. That cap is gone.
  • Sales under $100 are excluded, and statistical outliers are removed before computing medians.

All comps are public-record. No private-sale data is included. Charts are refreshed quarterly. Premium-tier signal (Sotheby's, Phillips, Christie's) is segmented separately so retail-tier comps are not skewed by record auction prints.

Source: Aggregated medians from 261,209 sales comps spanning WorthPoint, eBay, public auction archives (Sotheby’s, Christie’s, Phillips, Heritage), and MyArtBroker, 2019–present. Filtered to signed and numbered editions where available.

Per-print drilldown covers 29,224 distinct Shepard Fairey artworks · top 30 by sales-count surfaced above.

Not financial advice. Past performance does not guarantee future results. For acquisition or portfolio-allocation guidance, consult a qualified art expert.