LIVE LOTS 17,750,189 HOUSES 866 UNSOLD RECORDED 4,679,234 UPDATED NIGHTLY
TheBasis.Art

American, 1931–2025

Mort Künstler

Follow artist
448results on record
93%sell-through
$2,125median result (USD, incl. premium; 99% observed, 1% estimated from hammer)
$125,000record in our coverage

Drawn from 448 recorded results (419 sold · 29 passed) across 6 auction houses, 2004–2026. What we cover

Median sold price by year typical estimate range median result USD, incl. premium; 99% observed, 1% estimated from hammer method · log scale

$14K$27K$40K2006: $478 median, 1 sold2008: $2.2K median, 61 sold2009: $1.9K median, 7 sold2010: $1.8K median, 66 sold2011: $3.2K median, 2 sold2012: $2.1K median, 5 sold2013: $3.2K median, 9 sold2014: $3.0K median, 16 sold2015: $5.1K median, 16 sold2016: $2.1K median, 34 sold2017: $1.6K median, 45 sold2018: $3.1K median, 6 sold2019: $1.5K median, 43 sold2020: $4.0K median, 17 sold2021: $4.4K median, 14 sold2022: $1.5K median, 21 sold2023: $2.2K median, 20 sold2024: $3.2K median, 17 sold2025: $2.5K median, 11 sold2026: $10K median, 6 sold20062011201620212026

Where does a value land in this market?

$
$2.1K$65$125K

Every sold result for this market, low to high (log scale) — the dashed line is the median. Enter a value to see where it lands.

By medium where medium is recorded or stated in the catalog line

MediumResultsSell-throughMedian result (USD)
works on paper 253 95% $1,875
painting 107 87% $3,750
other 28 100% $1,673
prints 5 60% $65

Medium is recorded for 393 of 448 results (88%) — rows above cover that subset; the rest of the record is in the full ledger below.

Compared with Leroy Neiman Mort Künstler Leroy Neiman

$12K$24K$35K1998: $1.9K median2004: $1.5K median2005: $23K median2006: $2.8K median2007: $1.9K median2008: $3.9K median2009: $1.8K median2010: $11K median2011: $16K median2012: $41K median2013: $22K median2014: $44K median2015: $41K median2016: $32K median2017: $6.1K median2018: $7.5K median2019: $5.0K median2020: $938 median2021: $1.8K median2022: $1.5K median2023: $1.1K median2024: $1.2K median2025: $1.9K median2026: $1.6K median2006: $478 median2008: $2.2K median2009: $1.9K median2010: $1.8K median2011: $3.2K median2012: $2.1K median2013: $3.2K median2014: $3.0K median2015: $5.1K median2016: $2.1K median2017: $1.6K median2018: $3.1K median2019: $1.5K median2020: $4.0K median2021: $4.4K median2022: $1.5K median2023: $2.2K median2024: $3.2K median2025: $2.5K median2026: $10K median19982005201220192026
MetricMort KünstlerLeroy Neiman
Median result$2,125$1,844
Record price $125,000 $430,000
Results on record448909
Years active at auction 2004–2026 1998–2026

Related artists: Leroy NeimanNorman RockwellDean CornwellJoseph Christian Leyendecker

Market strength liquidity score, 0–100 · method

83/ 100
  • Sell-through93%
  • Meets estimate60%
  • Market depth448 results

How readily and near-estimate this market clears — sell-through, estimate reliability, and depth, blended into one score. "Meets estimate" is the share of sold lots hammering at or above the low estimate, over catalogs that print a real appraisal: a house whose printed low is a starting bid would meet its estimate on every lot, so those lots are excluded from this term only — their prices and outcomes still count in the other two. Method →

Where this artist sells best

HouseResultsSell-throughMedianvs. estimate
Heritage Auctions 427 94% $2,000 —
Sotheby's 10 100% $10,938 0.80×
Freeman's | Hindman 6 83% $4,062 0.83×
Christie's 2 100% $26,430 —
Bonhams 1 100% $4,480 0.70×
Cutler Bay Auctions 2 0% — —

The same artist across every house we cover — hammer-vs-estimate side by side. A dash in the estimate column can mean withheld rather than unpublished: the house publishes no hammer price, or its printed low is a starting bid rather than an appraisal. Method →

Prices realized 448 recorded lots — sold, passed, and upcoming — results in USD incl. premium; est. marks a premium estimated from the house's schedule ✓ Includes 29 passed lots

DateLotMediumvs. estimateEstimate USDResult USD, incl. premiumHouse
100 realized prices on this page are locked. A Research Pass reads 50 of them for $39, once — buy a pass
2017·05 Hold Toktong Pass to the Last Man, Male Magazine cover, November Gouache on board — Heritage Auctions
2017·05 Captured by the Chief, Stag magazine cover, February Gouache on board — Heritage Auctions
2017·05 Madame Penal, Male magazine cover, June Gouache on board — Heritage Auctions
2017·05 Hill 400: 31 Hour Hell of JayJay Carroll's Co K. Marines, Stag magazine cover Gouache on board — Heritage Auctions
2017·05 Love Swap Aleuts, Stag magazine interior illustration, February Gouache on board — Heritage Auctions
2017·05 Lt. Gowen's Sea of Fire Raid to Sink a Jap Fleet, For Men Only magazine cover, March Gouache on board — Heritage Auctions
2017·05 Breakout, Male magazine interior illustration, November Gouache on board — Heritage Auctions
2017·05 The Yank Marauder and his Strange Jap-Killing Death Buggy, Male magazine interior illustration, April Gouache on board — Heritage Auctions
2017·05 Siberian Temptress, probable magazine cover Gouache on board — Heritage Auctions
2017·05 The Blue and the Gray Gouache on board — Heritage Auctions
2017·05 Hot Lead Oil on Masonite — Heritage Auctions
2017·05 Losing the Trail Oil on canvas — Heritage Auctions
2017·05 Pickett's Charge: Gettysburg, July 3, 1863 Oil on canvas — Heritage Auctions
2017·05 D-Day Mixed media on board — Heritage Auctions
2017·05 ...How Real Soldiers Live: Jackson and Lee, Moss Neck, December 25, 1862 Oil on canvas — Heritage Auctions
2017·05 Amber's Mirage, paperback cover Oil on board — Heritage Auctions
2017·04 rush's lancers (camp meigs, philadelphia, november 1861) $20,000–$30,000 Sotheby's
2016·11 The Battle of Anacostia Flats Mixed media on board — Heritage Auctions
2016·11 Launch Site Sketch, Space Shuttle Columbia Pre-Launch: April 12, 1981, 6:35 AM Oil on paper — Heritage Auctions
2016·11 Launch Site Sketch, Space Shuttle Columbia Pre-Launch: April 12, 1981, 6:20 AM Oil on paper — Heritage Auctions
2016·11 Launch Site Sketch, Space Shuttle Columbia Pre-Launch: April 12, 1981, 6:10 AM Oil on paper — Heritage Auctions
2016·11 Launch Site Sketch, Space Shuttle Columbia Pre-Launch: April 12, 1981, 6:00 AM Oil on paper — Heritage Auctions
2016·11 Launch Site Sketch, Space Shuttle Columbia Pre-Launch: April 12, 1981, 5:50 AM Oil on paper — Heritage Auctions
2016·11 Launch Site Sketch, Space Shuttle Columbia Pre-Launch: April 12, 81, 5:40 AM Oil on paper — Heritage Auctions
2016·11 Launch Site Sketch, Space Shuttle Columbia Pre-Launch Oil on canvasboard — Heritage Auctions
2016·11 Charge! Gouache on panel — Heritage Auctions
2016·11 It's All My Fault, General Robert E. Lee at Gettysburg Oil on canvas — Heritage Auctions
2016·11 Crippen and Young Oil on Masonite — Heritage Auctions
2016·11 First Rollout of the Enterprise, September 17, 1976, Palmdale, California Oil on canvas — Heritage Auctions
2016·11 Application of Heat Shield Tiles, May 6 Oil on canvas — Heritage Auctions
2016·11 Rockwell Tile Team, May 6 Oil on canvas — Heritage Auctions
2016·11 Test Firing the Main Engine, National Space Technology Laboratories, Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, July 12 Oil on canvas — Heritage Auctions
2016·11 Launch of the Space Shuttle Columbia, April 12, 1981, 7:00:10 EST from John F. Kennedy Space Center, Florida Oil on canvas — Heritage Auctions
2016·11 Touchdown of Columbia, April 14, 1981, 10:20:53 PST Oil on canvas — Heritage Auctions
2016·11 Launch Site Sketch, Touchdown - Columbia: Edwards Air Force Base, California 10:20 AM, April 14 Oil on paper — Heritage Auctions
2016·11 Launch Site sketch, Launch - Columbia: Cape Canaveral, Florida, April 12, 1981, 7:00:10 AM Oil on paper — Heritage Auctions
2016·11 Launch Site Sketch, First Launch of Space Shuttle Columbia: April 12, 1981, 7:00 AM Oil on paper — Heritage Auctions
2016·10 Nobility, paperback cover Gouache on board — Heritage Auctions
2016·10 My Death Run, Male magazine cover, January Gouache on board — Heritage Auctions
2016·10 The Spy, probable Men's Adventure magazine illustration Gouache on board — Heritage Auctions
2016·10 Amazon Tribe of Taboo Maidens, For Men Only magazine cover, March Gouache on board — Heritage Auctions
2016·10 The Great Trans-Pacific Escape, For Men Only magazine cover, November Gouache and watercolor on board — Heritage Auctions
2016·10 Amanda, probable paperback cover Oil on board — Heritage Auctions
2016·10 King Abdullah, Adventure Magazine cover, October Gouache on board — Heritage Auctions
2016·04 The Sinking of Yamato, Stag magazine cover, November Gouache on board — Heritage Auctions
2016·04 Arctic Ordeal, Sports Afield magazine illustration Gouache on board — Heritage Auctions
2016·04 The Nude Decoy, Stag magazine interior illustration Gouache on board — Heritage Auctions
2016·04 Sexy Trap, Stag or Male magazine illustration Gouache on board — Heritage Auctions
2016·04 The Escaping GIs Who Kidnapped 27 Camp Girls, For Men Only magazine cover, February Gouache on board — Heritage Auctions
2016·04 The Kill-Crazy Life of John Dillinger, Stag magazine cover Gouache on board — Heritage Auctions
2016·04 Hanging by a Thread, American Weekly magazine illustration Gouache on board — Heritage Auctions
2016·04 The Night the Mob Took Over Thrill Park, For Men Only magazine cover, November Gouache on board — Heritage Auctions
2015·11 The Stars and Stripes are Born Oil on masonite — Heritage Auctions
2015·11 John Philip Sousa Oil on board — Heritage Auctions
2015·11 The Great White Fleet Sails Oil on board — Heritage Auctions
2015·11 The Vision of Freedom's Victory Oil on masonite — Heritage Auctions
2015·11 The Giant Leap for Mankind Oil on board — Heritage Auctions
2015·10 The Revolution Victorious Oil on masonite — Heritage Auctions
2015·10 The Star Spangled Banner, The American Spirit, A New Nation interior illustration Gouache on masonite — Heritage Auctions
2015·10 First Praised as Old Glory, The American Spirit interior illustration Oil on masonite — Heritage Auctions
2015·10 The First Pledge of Allegiance Oil on board — Heritage Auctions
2015·10 Flag and Union Imperiled Oil on board — Heritage Auctions
2015·10 The Flag Reaches the North Pole Oil on board — Heritage Auctions
2015·10 WWII's Boldest Kidnap Raid, Stag magazine interior story illustration Gouache on board — Heritage Auctions
2015·10 Night of the Hyenas, Male magazine cover, March Gouache on board — Heritage Auctions
2015·05 Breaking Out, Stag or Male magazine interior story illustration Gouache on board — Heritage Auctions
2015·05 Yield to the Amazon Women, Stag magazine cover, April Gouache on board — Heritage Auctions
2015·05 "Saigon Sally's Sin Barracks," For Men Only magazine cover, May Gouache on board — Heritage Auctions
2015·05 Ambush Behind the Rocks, Stag magazine cover, August Gouache on board — Heritage Auctions
2015·05 Duty, Honor and Tears, (Long Branch, Millwood, Virginia, May 24, 1862) Oil on canvas — Heritage Auctions
2015·05 Portraits of General James Longstreet, South Carolina, General John Brown Gordon, Georgia, and General John Bell Hood, Texas (three works) Oil on board, each — Heritage Auctions
2014·11 the great beefsteak raid: general wade hampton, september 16, 1864 $25,000–$35,000 Sotheby's
2014·11 They Were Soldiers Indeed (Generals Jackson and Lee, Gaines's Mill, Virginia, June 28, 1862) Gouache on board — Heritage Auctions
2014·10 Beginnings in New Salem $10,000–$15,000 Sotheby's
2014·05 The Impossible Escape, Stag magazine story illustration, August Gouache on board — Heritage Auctions
2014·05 The Four Who Escaped the Dynamite Kite, Male magazine story illustration Gouache on board — Heritage Auctions
2014·05 Breaking Out, Stag or Male magazine story illustration Gouache on board — Heritage Auctions
2014·05 Shootout with Russians in Barn, Male or Stag magazine cover Gouache on board — Heritage Auctions
2014·05 Attacking the Stockade, Male or Stag magazine story illustration Gouache on board — Heritage Auctions
2014·05 G.I. Tiger-Bandit of Saipan, Male magazine story illustration, February Gouache on board — Heritage Auctions
2014·05 The Welcoming Committee, Male or Stag magazine cover Gouache on board — Heritage Auctions
2014·05 Dillinger Bank Robbery, Stag magazine story illustration, July Gouache on board — Heritage Auctions
2014·05 Tojo's Monster Sub, Male magazine story illustration Gouache on board — Heritage Auctions
2014·05 To the Rescue, Male or Stag magazine cover Gouache on board — Heritage Auctions
2014·05 Portrait of General John Bell Hood, Texas Oil on board — Heritage Auctions
2014·05 Portrait of General James Longstreet, South Carolina Oil on board — Heritage Auctions
2014·05 Portrait of General John Brown Gordon, Georgia Oil on board — Heritage Auctions
2014·05 Remember Island, Good Housekeeping magazine story illustration, August Oil on canvas — Heritage Auctions
2014·05 Fighting Phil and the Ride That Wrecked the Rebels, Men (True Adventure) magazine cover, September Oil on board — Heritage Auctions
2014·05 Intrigue in the Orient, MALE or Stag magazine story illustration Gouache on board — Heritage Auctions
2014·05 Sex Subway from Berlin, MALE magazine cover, October Gouache on board — Heritage Auctions
2013·12 Fighting 69th: General Meagher and the Irish Brigade, Fredericksburg, Virginia, December 2, 1862 Oil on canvas — Heritage Auctions
2013·12 Brief Encounter, Middleburg, Virginia, February 1863 oil on canvas $30,000–$50,000 Christie's
2013·11 Holding Them Off at the Cantina, For Men Only cover Gouache on board — Heritage Auctions
2013·11 Survivor Carmody's Two Girl Paradise, True Action cover, January Gouache on board — Heritage Auctions
2013·11 Robbing the Government Mint, Stag cover, August Gouache on board — Heritage Auctions
2013·11 The Bedford Incident Gouache on board — Heritage Auctions
2013·07 I Have Just Begun to Fight, North Sea, Old Glory's Proudest Moments Oil on masonite — Heritage Auctions
2013·07 The Couple That Refused to Die, For Men Only magazine cover, January Gouache and tempera on board — Heritage Auctions
2013·05 The Future, The Past Oil on canvas — Heritage Auctions

Realized prices are sold by the record: 50 for $39, non-expiring. Reading them at volume is what Starter is for.

This price costs one credit

Realized prices are metered. A Research Pass reads 50 of them for $39 — bought once, never expires, and a record you open stays open. Sign in to spend credits you already have, or buy a pass.

No credits? Buy a Research Pass — $39