Authenticated comp data, public.
Workbook-backed category cuts. Updated Jun 22, 2026.
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Current category panels cite the Jun 22 consolidated workbook for Fairey, Space/NASA, Apollo, and music-linked sales cuts.
Historical Sales Reviewed
300,000+
Public marketplace and auction records reviewed across 26 artists and modern collecting categories · dataset reviewed Jun 22, 2026
Fairey 5-Year Compound Annual Growth Rate · 2021–YTD
+5.4%
Median sale price · uncapped, no upper limit · compounded annually
2026 YTD cleaned-sale median · Fairey
$300
+20% vs 2025 · 868 priced, dated sales through Jun 15, 2026
2026 YTD cleaned median · KAWS + BE@RBRICK
$450
+20% vs 2025 · 27,577 priced KAWS + BE@RBRICK records
Category Sales Reviewed
33.7K
Fairey and music-linked priced, dated sales records in the current public research cut
How to Read This Page
Use this page as historical market context, not as a prediction engine.
- Median Sale Price shows the middle observed sale and reduces distortion from unusually high or low transactions.
- Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) shows compounded annual movement over a defined period.
- YTD Median compares the current year-to-date median against prior periods.
- Sales Volume shows how many documented sales appear in the research cut.
- Category Trends are useful, but individual releases can perform very differently.
- Condition, authentication, provenance, edition size, framing, and sales venue can materially affect value.
The strongest collector decisions combine data, authenticity, condition, story, and personal conviction.
Category Market Insights — what does the data actually say?
Shepard Fairey
+5.4%5Y CAGR
A signed Fairey print bought in 2019 for $199.95 moved to $299.99 in 2026 YTD — median price across 75,000+ cleaned, priced comps, no upper cap on the data.
vs S&P 500 +11% CAGR · about 5 pts lower · uncorrelated physical market.
KAWS
-5%CAGR
Median $644 → $450. Current market-intel cut tracks 69,000+ KAWS + BE@RBRICK priced comps, with 27,577 KAWS comps in 2026 YTD.
vs S&P 500 +11% · lags broad-market comp · liquidity premium priced in.
Death NYC
0%YTD
Export median $199.99; 2026 YTD median $160 across 61 comps. Entry-tier value remains concentrated at $100–$300.
1,840 exact-title $90+ comps through Jun 21, 2026 · broad, affordable street-pop lane.
Every category below is tracked the same way: historical sales, median pricing, volume, release-level matching where possible, authentication relevance, and category-specific market behavior.
Shepard Fairey / Obey Giant
The deepest public transaction history in modern street art — 75,000+ historical sales reviewed across three decades of screen prints, letterpresses, and large formats.
Collector ReadCategory-level data helps collectors understand broad demand, but individual prints vary significantly by image strength, edition size, year, political relevance, condition, and signature status.
KAWS
69,000+ KAWS + BE@RBRICK historical sales reviewed. Many figures have repeat sales across multiple venues, making this one of the most data-rich designer collectible markets.
Collector ReadColorway, scale, packaging, authenticity, edition type, and condition can create major differences between otherwise similar items.
Death NYC
6,000+ Death NYC historical sales reviewed — median around $80, with entry-tier value concentrated at $50–$250.
Collector ReadArtist-signed COAs matter here — edition details and authentication separate collectible examples from decorative ones.
Signed Music
5,300+ music-linked historical sales reviewed — signed guitars, albums, and concert memorabilia. A keyword-based cross-artist research cut, useful as market context.
Collector ReadSigned music collectibles are heavily affected by signer, authentication, item type, scarcity, cultural relevance, and fan demand. Certified examples generally command stronger buyer confidence than uncertified pieces.
Space Memorabilia
9,000+ Space/NASA historical sales reviewed, including a 5,657-record Apollo subset — mission patches, flown artifacts, and astronaut autographs.
Collector ReadProvenance and mission association drive value; flown items and crew-signed pieces trade in a different tier from souvenir material.
Designer Collectibles
Vinyl figures, art toys, and limited-run collaborations from KAWS, Medicom, and contemporary designers — a market where edition data is unusually well documented.
Collector ReadSealed condition, packaging, and colorway rarity are the dominant price variables; open or damaged boxes trade at meaningful discounts.
Modern Masters / Pop Art
35,000+ Warhol, Basquiat, and Haring auction and edition sales reviewed — blue-chip names with a median near $15,000 and top lots into the tens of millions, where authentication chains matter more than in any other category we track.
Collector ReadFoundation stamps, catalogue raisonné references, and edition documentation separate investment-grade examples from decorative reproductions.
Banksy
16,900+ Banksy historical sales reviewed — screenprints, signed editions, and Dismaland works. Median near $375, with authenticated top-tier lots reaching into the millions; signed versus unsigned status can move value by multiples.
Collector ReadAuthentication paperwork, edition, and release history are decisive; the same image trades at very different levels depending on signature and provenance.
Mr Brainwash
14,000+ Mr Brainwash historical sales reviewed — median near $900 across signed prints, spray works, and uniques. A high-volume market ranging from affordable editions to five- and six-figure originals.
Collector ReadSignature, edition, and hand-embellishment status drive value; provenance from major shows lifts top examples.
Invader
1,480+ Invader historical sales reviewed — Invasion Kits, aliases, and Rubikcubism works. Median near $2,000, with rare sealed kits and large works reaching into six and seven figures.
Collector ReadSealed condition and the rarity of the specific invasion or alias drive value; documentation and provenance matter most for high-tier lots.
Cleon Peterson
1,900+ Cleon Peterson historical sales reviewed — screenprints, editions, and sculptures. Median near $260; an accessible entry point into contemporary street-adjacent work with a distinctive graphic style.
Collector ReadEdition size, color variant, and format (print versus sculpture) are the main price variables.
BE@RBRICK
Medicom's collaboration platform spans hundreds of releases per year; scale (100% / 400% / 1000%) and collaboration partner define the market tiers.
Collector ReadArtist collaborations and discontinued colorways hold value best; common releases trade close to retail.
Selected Rare Autographs
Signed sports and cultural memorabilia where third-party certification (Beckett, JSA, PSA) is the market standard for buyer confidence.
Collector ReadCertification status is the first price variable; uncertified examples trade at steep discounts regardless of visual quality.
Per-Print Market Data
Category trends are context — individual releases are where decisions happen. Our release-level research draws on 75,000+ Shepard Fairey sales — the broad sales dataset behind the confirmed comparable sales we match to each piece — with dedicated market-data pages for frequently traded prints and complete indexes for deeper research.
Shepard Fairey — Median Sale Price
Priced, dated $90+ sales records, 2019 onward. Median sale price per year.
Shepard Fairey has one of the deepest public transaction histories in modern street art: 75,000+ cleaned, priced sales records, including 24,099 numbered examples; the chart uses the 25,709 dated 2019–2026 records. Read this as historical context, not a forecast — individual prints vary significantly by image strength, edition size, year, condition, and signature status.
Artist Momentum — 2026 YTD vs 2025
Year-over-year median price change. Positive bars mean the collector floor is rising.
Fairey and KAWS both show +20% YTD median lift versus 2025 in the current research cuts; Death NYC is holding flat and Signed Music is slightly softer. This is historical market direction, not a forecast — individual works may trade above or below the category trend depending on rarity, condition, authentication, provenance, timing, and buyer demand.
Multi-Artist Median Trend
Yearly median across the audited roster. Use the checkboxes to add or remove any line; drag the time-period slider to expand or narrow the window. Source cuts use priced, dated secondary-market comps.
Medians are the cleanest cross-category read because one trophy sale cannot move the line by itself. Volume is useful, but only after the source cut and date window are clear. Treat each line as historical context for its category — individual releases within a category can move very differently.
Market Volume — Sales Per Year
Number of documented sales per year in the audited source cut, stacked across the roster.
Fairey's workbook-backed median moved from $199.95 in 2019 to $299.99 in 2026 YTD — a 5.4% 5-year CAGR (2021→2026 YTD) and +50% cumulative appreciation since 2019. Space/NASA and Apollo are tracked separately because Apollo is a subset of the broader Space/NASA cut. Music is a keyword-based cross-artist cut, so it is useful market context but not a pure autograph-authentication index. Treat every median as context, not investment advice.
Methodology
Dataset: Gauntlet consolidated sales research, reviewed Jun 22, 2026. The current research-backed public datasets cover 75,000+ priced, dated Shepard Fairey sales records and 1,933 music-linked sales records through Jun 15, 2026.
- $90 minimum floor. Category sales sheets are filtered to records at or above $90 before category medians are calculated.
- Future-dated records excluded. Public year series exclude records dated after Jun 15, 2026, plus undated records that cannot be placed into a year.
- Shepard Fairey. The public series uses priced, dated Shepard Fairey sales records; 75,000+ total cleaned records; 24,099 are numbered.
- Music-linked cut. Music is keyword-based across sale names containing concert, album, tour, music, rock, or band; it is market context, not a pure autograph-authentication index.
- Medians, not means. Medians are reported throughout so a single trophy sale does not define the category.
- Sources. Sales records primarily come from eBay and public auction archives, with smaller Fairey/music coverage from MutualArt, StockX, 1stDibs, and ObeyGiant where available.
Methodology & Sources
Current category metrics are sourced from the Jun 22, 2026 consolidated comps workbook. Every chart is built on medians, not averages, and rows after Jun 15, 2026 are excluded from public year-series numbers.
Data Sources & Citations
- Gauntlet consolidated comps workbook reviewed Jun 22, 2026 for Shepard Fairey, Space/NASA, Apollo, and Music cuts.
- Workbook source DB: 142,384 master sale records across 31 artists; source mix described in the workbook README as WorthPoint, eBay, MutualArt, StockX, 1stDibs, and ObeyGiant.
- Category sales sheets are filtered to sales at or above $90 before public medians are calculated.
- Rows dated after Jun 15, 2026 and undated rows are excluded from public year-series charts.
- Space/NASA is the broad space memorabilia cut; Apollo is a subset where the sale name contains Apollo.
- Music is a keyword-based cross-artist cut from sale names containing concert, album, tour, music, rock, or band.
- Medians are used throughout to reduce distortion from individual trophy sales.
All comps are public-record or public-marketplace records in the source workbook. No private-sale data is included. Counts are reported after category and date filters, so they may differ from raw workbook totals.
Source: Gauntlet consolidated comps workbook, reviewed Jun 22, 2026. Public category charts use priced, dated rows through Jun 15, 2026: 31,786 Shepard Fairey rows, 7,984 Space/NASA rows, 5,657 Apollo subset rows, and 1,933 music-linked rows.
Per-print drilldown covers 29K 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.
Full source taxonomy, terminology, and market-data assumptions are centralized at Sources, References & Assumptions.
- Counts are rounded on-page for readability. Source data keeps the raw sale counts and raw sale prices.
- Medians are used instead of averages so one trophy sale does not define the whole category.
- Market data is informational only and is not financial, investment, tax, legal, appraisal, or resale advice.
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