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Market Intelligence
Your Collector Market Map
Start with the category, compare the market, then go deeper on the specific work.
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?
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.
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.
Shepard Fairey
Deep Dive
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.
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.
Sources, Assumptions & Disclosures
One place for the market-data assumptions, sources, scope, and footnotes used throughout this page.
Key Assumptions
- $90 minimum floor. Category medians use records at or above $90.
- Date handling. Public year series exclude records after Jun 15, 2026 and undated records.
- Fairey series. The public series uses priced, dated Shepard Fairey sales; 75,000+ cleaned records are represented, including 24,099 numbered records.
- Music 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. A single trophy sale does not define a category result.
Data Sources & Scope
- Gauntlet consolidated comps workbook, reviewed Jun 22, 2026, for Shepard Fairey, Space/NASA, Apollo, and Music cuts.
- Source database: 300,000++ public sale records across 26 artists and collecting categories. Source mix includes WorthPoint, eBay, MutualArt, StockX, 1stDibs, and ObeyGiant where available.
- Space/NASA is the broad space-memorabilia cut; Apollo is the subset where the sale name contains Apollo.
- All included comps are public-record or public-marketplace records. No private-sale data is included.
Source: Gauntlet consolidated comps workbook, reviewed Jun 22, 2026. Public category charts use priced, dated rows through Jun 15, 2026: 75,000+ Shepard Fairey rows, 7,984 Space/NASA rows, 5,657 Apollo subset rows, and 1,933 music-linked rows.
Footnotes & Disclosures
Per-print drilldown covers 75,000+ Shepard Fairey sales · top 30 prints 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.
- Market data is informational only and is not financial, investment, tax, legal, appraisal, or resale advice.
- Condition, authentication, provenance, edition size, framing, sales venue, timing, and buyer demand can materially affect an individual work's value.