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American, 1938–2020

Peter Beard

927results on record
75%sell-through
$18,210median result (USD, incl. premium; 99% observed, 1% estimated from hammer)
$672,500record in our coverage

Drawn from 927 recorded results (794 sold · 133 passed) across 20 auction houses, 1998–2026. 11 upcoming lots on the ledger. 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

$12K$24K$36K1998: $39K median, 1 sold1999: $25K median, 3 sold2001: $13K median, 3 sold2002: $16K median, 40 sold2004: $26K median, 6 sold2005: $44K median, 18 sold2006: $31K median, 44 sold2007: $19K median, 28 sold2008: $19K median, 33 sold2009: $16K median, 14 sold2010: $19K median, 11 sold2011: $30K median, 14 sold2012: $22K median, 25 sold2013: $39K median, 34 sold2014: $32K median, 48 sold2015: $15K median, 50 sold2016: $17K median, 38 sold2017: $18K median, 32 sold2018: $23K median, 42 sold2019: $23K median, 29 sold2020: $23K median, 41 sold2021: $16K median, 33 sold2022: $11K median, 40 sold2023: $16K median, 34 sold2024: $4.0K median, 81 sold2025: $12K median, 33 sold2026: $5.5K median, 16 sold19982005201220192026

Where does a value land in this market?

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The same figure also answers the seller's question: which house clears a work like this, and for how much — expected proceeds by house, from the sell-through the rest of this page is built on.

$18K$188$672K

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)
photography 471 81% $20,000
prints 40 43% $5,097
other 20 60% $5,000
works on paper 19 100% $15,000
ceramics & design 5 67% $522
sculpture 3 100% $20,869
painting 3 100% $24,049

Medium is recorded for 561 of 927 results (61%) — rows above cover that subset; the rest of the record is in the full ledger below.

Compared with Robert Mapplethorpe Peter Beard Robert Mapplethorpe

$12K$24K$36K1998: $7.5K median1999: $6.3K median2000: $7.6K median2001: $6.2K median2002: $9.7K median2003: $10K median2004: $9.6K median2005: $26K median2006: $11K median2007: $21K median2008: $12K median2009: $21K median2010: $16K median2011: $14K median2012: $10K median2013: $16K median2014: $19K median2015: $12K median2016: $18K median2017: $21K median2018: $19K median2019: $13K median2020: $15K median2021: $13K median2022: $18K median2023: $15K median2024: $12K median2025: $9.8K median2026: $22K median1998: $39K median1999: $25K median2001: $13K median2002: $16K median2004: $26K median2005: $44K median2006: $31K median2007: $19K median2008: $19K median2009: $16K median2010: $19K median2011: $30K median2012: $22K median2013: $39K median2014: $32K median2015: $15K median2016: $17K median2017: $18K median2018: $23K median2019: $23K median2020: $23K median2021: $16K median2022: $11K median2023: $16K median2024: $4.0K median2025: $12K median2026: $5.5K median19982005201220192026
MetricPeter BeardRobert Mapplethorpe
Median result$18,210$15,000
Record price $672,500 $726,348
Results on record9271,490
Years active at auction 1998–2026 1998–2026

Related artists: Robert MapplethorpeIrving PennHiroshi SugimotoHenri Cartier-bresson

Market strength liquidity score, 0–100 · method

71/ 100
  • Sell-through75%
  • Meets estimate53%
  • Market depth927 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
Sotheby's 275 73% $20,316 0.80×
Christie's 221 94% $25,286
Phillips 177 86% $27,500
Heritage Auctions 112 76% $4,625
Bonhams 56 66% $6,325 0.80×
Grisebach 18 $46,002
Rago 9 100% $1,596
Lyon & Turnbull 11 75% $1,682 0.86×
Lempertz 9 33% $11,131
Artcurial 3 $7,112 0.83×
Chiswick Auctions 3 100% $1,097
Dorotheum 3 100% $13,471
Freeman's | Hindman 5 40% $7,360 0.57×
Wright 3 67% $8,170
Sworders 1 100% $522
SBI Art Auction 1 100% $7,782
Bertolami Fine Art 1 100% $28,819
Finarte 6 17% $23,337 0.85×
Kruso Art 1 100% $12,805 1.90×
Itineris Auction House 14 7% $5,568 0.67×

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 940 recorded lots — sold, passed, and upcoming — results in USD incl. premium; est. marks a premium estimated from the house's schedule ✓ Includes 133 passed lots

DateLotMediumvs. estimateEstimate USDResult USD, incl. premiumHouse
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2017·04 Diary Page $30,000–$50,000 Sotheby's
2017·04 'Loliondo' $7,000–$10,000 Sotheby's
2017·04 'Rhino Roping' $30,000–$50,000 Sotheby's
2017·04 Lion Pride from The End of the Game $10,000–$15,000 Phillips
2017·03 Orphaned Cheetah Cubs, Mweiga, near Nyeri, Kenya, March 1968 gelatin silver print with gelatin silver print collage, watercolour, tempera and ink $24,336–$36,504 Christie's
2016·11 „Loliondo lion charge“. 1964 Later gelatin silver print $6,381–$8,508 Grisebach
2016·11 magritte rommé and world record cow-ivory (45 lbs.) – for “tusk” – montauk point, 1976 $21,790–$32,685 Sotheby's
2016·11 'ode to estelle' n. d. $8,716–$13,074 Sotheby's
2016·11 Karen Blixen $4,000–$6,000 Bonhams
2016·10 Francis Bacon, London $12,000–$18,000 Sotheby's
2016·10 'Lion Eating a RAUSCHENBERG Dead Ele in "Starvo" 1975' $6,000–$9,000 Sotheby's
2016·10 'Carole Bouquet Perusing the End of the Game (Last Word from Paradise) 1977 Edition' $7,000–$10,000 Sotheby's
2016·10 Orphaned Cheetah Cubs, Mweiga, Kenya $50,000–$70,000 Sotheby's
2016·10 Ken Hiratsuka creating Drifted Coral $10,000–$15,000 Sotheby's
2016·10 Elephant Embryo, Uganda $5,000–$7,000 Phillips
2016·10 Turkana, Ferguson's Gulf Spit, Croc-Leg Soup $40,000–$60,000 Phillips
2016·10 Orphaned Cheetah Cubs, Mweiga National Park, Kenya for The End of the Game $15,000–$20,000 Phillips
2016·10 Giraffes and Zebras $15,000–$25,000 Phillips
2016·10 756 elephants in misery-likes company formation, Tsavo during the die-off $8,000–$12,000 Phillips
2016·10 Margritte Rammé and world record bull ele. ivories, 1976 diptych: 2 gelatin silver prints affixed together, printed later $8,000–$12,000 Christie's
2016·10 Lion Pride from The End of the Game $60,000–$80,000 Phillips
2016·10 Ali Hassan ("a lonely horn in the woods") Servant to Karan Blixen, Nairobi Kenya for the End of the Game $5,000–$7,000 Phillips
2016·07 'mt. kilimanjaro (mountain of slave caravans) . . . now home of the elephant problem, amboseli + beyond' $25,000–$35,000 Sotheby's
2016·06 „Large tusker c. 150 lbs in TSAVO north nr. Block 33 + Ithumba Hill“. 1965 Gelatin silver print, 1990s $22,348–$33,522 Grisebach
2016·06 Andy Warhol at home in Montauk, Church Estate, New York. 1972 Gelatin silver print, 2002 $55,870–$78,218 Grisebach
2016·06 „giraffes in mirage on the Taru desert, Kenya“. 1960 Gelatin silver print, 1990s $11,174–$16,761 Grisebach
2016·05 Giraffes in Mirage on the Taru Dessert, Kenya, June 1960 gelatin silver print, printed later with paint, ink and blood handwork $58,274–$87,412 Christie's
2016·05 Heart Attack City, 1972/1998 complex collage of chromogenic, gelatin silver and halftone prints, various found objects $437,058–$582,745 Christie's
2016·05 Africa on the Rocks, 1991 five Polaroid prints with blood and hand colouring $14,569–$21,853 Christie's
2016·05 'Jerry Hall with Ele Skull in Montauk', c. 1976 $10,234–$14,620 Sotheby's
2016·05 'Turkana Bibi at Kalokol, Lake Rudolph', 1967 $7,310–$10,234 Sotheby's
2016·05 'kadra of ethiopia at the c.n.p., last day of “carnets africains”', 1997 $14,620–$21,931 Sotheby's
2016·05 'Living Sculpture, Loingalani, Lake Rudolf, Kenya', 1968 $10,234–$14,620 Sotheby's
2016·05 'Untitled', 1988 $8,772–$11,696 Sotheby's
2016·05 Female Gerenuk on the Tiva, Tsavo north, near Kathemula, Feb. $11,645–$17,468 Phillips
2016·05 Agnes of El Molo Bay, Loingalani, Lake Rudolf, Kenya $5,823–$8,734 Phillips
2016·05 Fayel Tall at Loingalani, Lake Rudolf, Kenya, February $21,835–$29,113 Phillips
2016·05 I'll Write Whenever I Can, Koobi Fora, Lake Rudolf, Kenya $43,669–$72,782 Phillips
2016·05 Maureen and a late-night feeder, 2.00 am, Hog Ranch, 1987 $145,564–$218,345 Phillips
2016·04 Hunting Cheetahs on the Taru Desert, Kenya, June $6,000–$9,000 Bonhams
2016·04 Large Tusker, circa 110-115 pounder, near Kattremula, on the Tiva Sand River, February Gelatin silver with ink, printed later Heritage Auctions
2016·04 Waterbuck Family, 1968 toned gelatin silver print in artist's frame, printed later $25,000–$35,000 Christie's
2016·04 Medicine Man Ol Lenana, February 1990 chromogenic print $20,000–$30,000 Christie's
2016·04 AW @ The Factory, October $20,000–$30,000 Phillips
2016·04 Lolindo Lion Charge $8,000–$12,000 Phillips
2016·04 'Loingalani, Lake Rudolph' (Fayel Tall) $15,000–$25,000 Sotheby's
2016·01 We Have Lived in the Best Time... SBI Art Auction
2015·11 Magritte Rommé with World Record Elephant Tusk (45 Lbs.) Found in Marsabit, Kenya – 1976 Tirage Polaroïd grand format unique $26,448–$37,026 Artcurial
2015·11 Né en 1938 $529–$635 Artcurial
2015·11 „Elephant Tussle, Aberdare Forest“. 1972 Later gelatin silver print $9,527–$12,703 Grisebach
2015·11 'pebbleworm (crocodrillos), 1968', 1968/1998 $26,910–$37,674 Sotheby's
2015·11 Boran Woman, Marsabit Hospital, Kenya $7,569–$10,597 Phillips
2015·11 Machine in the garden, Tsavo, Kenya $7,569–$10,597 Phillips
2015·11 Collector's Edition, Fayel Tall $7,569–$10,597 Phillips
2015·11 Carole Bouquet, NYC $22,707–$30,277 Phillips
2015·11 Magritte Ramme in the basement of the Natural History Museum, London with the world record elephants tusks: 214 lbs and 226 1/4 lbs $6,055–$9,083 Phillips
2015·11 Alia Bay, Lake Rudolf $6,055–$9,083 Phillips
2015·11 Selected Images $30,277–$45,415 Phillips
2015·11 Buffalos and Eles, Abedares $30,277–$45,415 Phillips
2015·10 Orphaned Cheetah Cubs, Mweiga National Park, Kenya, for The End of the Game $10,000–$15,000 Bonhams
2015·10 Large Bull Elephant c. 110 lbs. per side on the Tiva lugga near Kathemula in February $20,000–$30,000 Phillips
2015·10 Large tusker (c. 150 lbs per side), Tsavo North, nr. block 33 & Ithumber Hill, Feb. $30,000–$50,000 Phillips
2015·10 Spitting Cobra (Tsavo) $5,000–$7,000 Phillips
2015·10 'peter beard 35 times' $25,000–$35,000 Sotheby's
2015·10 'gerenuks grazing, kenya n. f. d.' $7,000–$10,000 Sotheby's
2015·10 'homage to tony's terrace' $8,000–$12,000 Sotheby's
2015·10 'aberdare moorlands' $5,000–$7,000 Sotheby's
2015·10 Orphaned Cheetah Cubs, Mweiga, Kenya, 1968 unique Polaroid print, with ink and blood $8,000–$12,000 Christie's
2015·10 Waterbuck Family on the Uaso Nyiro, 1968 unique gelatin silver print with ink handwork, blood and feathers, printed later $60,000–$80,000 Christie's
2015·07 Orphaned Cheetah Cubs at Mweiga near Nyiri, Kenya, 1968 gelatin silver print $15,000–$25,000 Christie's
2015·07 vautours, 1984 $11,100–$16,650 Sotheby's
2015·07 rhinocéros, 1984 $11,100–$16,650 Sotheby's
2015·06 Elephant Embryo, Uganda, from The End of the Game, Last Word from Paradise, $2,000–$3,000 Bonhams
2015·05 'giraffes in mirage on the taru desert, kenya june for the end of the game', 1960 $15,640–$23,460 Sotheby's
2015·05 '756 elephants in stressed-out formation, tsavo park, kenya', 1976 $18,768–$28,152 Sotheby's
2015·05 'elephant tussle in the aberdare forest, for the end of the game/last word from paradise', 1972 $12,512–$18,768 Sotheby's
2015·05 'a bend in the tsavo river', 1976 $12,512–$18,768 Sotheby's
2015·05 'baboons, impalas and elephants under kilimanjaro', 1984 $62,561–$93,841 Sotheby's
2015·05 'darajani rhino roping', 1966 $12,512–$18,768 Sotheby's
2015·05 'loliondo lion charge', 1964 $125,122–$187,683 Sotheby's
2015·05 Alistair and Croc, The Mingled Destinies of Crocodiles and Men, Lake Rudolf, Kenya $10,874–$13,981 Phillips
2015·05 Hunting Cheetahs on the Taru Desert, Kenya, June $31,069–$46,603 Phillips
2015·05 Large tusker (c. 150 lbs per side), Tsavo North, near hunting block 33/ Ithumber Hill on the Athi-Tiva dry river, February $15,534–$23,302 Phillips
2015·05 Model $6,214–$9,321 Phillips
2015·05 Rhino Roping with Ken Randall in Darajani, Tsavo, Kenya $9,321–$12,428 Phillips
2015·05 Loliondo Lion Charge $15,534–$23,302 Phillips
2015·04 Art Edition No. 251-2500 $2,000–$3,000 Phillips
2015·04 Crab Diary Page, November 1984 $10,000–$20,000 Sotheby's
2015·04 Maureen Gallagher and a Late Night Feeder, Hog Ranch $7,000–$9,000 Phillips
2015·04 Giraffes in Mirage on the Taru Desert, Kenya, June $12,000–$18,000 Phillips
2015·04 Fayel Tall at Loingalani, Lake Rudolph, Kenya, February $15,000–$20,000 Phillips
2015·04 Francis Bacon on His Roof at 80 Narrow Street, London, March $10,000–$15,000 Phillips
2015·04 Elephant reaching for the last branch on a tree, Kenya $10,000–$15,000 Phillips
2015·04 magritte rammé with world record elephant tusks $8,000–$12,000 Sotheby's
2015·04 large crocodile, 15-16 feet, uganda (leviathan) $12,000–$18,000 Sotheby's
2015·04 'beverly johnson in driftwood cove (montauk point c/o peter beard)' $8,000–$12,000 Sotheby's
2015·04 'bianca on the diving board overlooking driftwood cove (montauk point 1970's)' $7,000–$10,000 Sotheby's
2015·04 selected diary pages $8,000–$12,000 Sotheby's
2015·04 Running Zebras $8,000–$12,000 Sotheby's
2015·03 Veruschka von Lehndorf for Vogue, Rhino Roping with Galo Galo, 1964 gelatin silver print with collage, applied ink and snakeskin molt, printed later $20,000–$30,000 Christie's

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