Auction recap / Christie's
Christie's Art of the Game Auction Realizes $84,836
The online sale achieved a 100% sell-through rate despite all featured lots selling below their low estimates.
Facts Table · market analytics
Python computed · 2026-07-17- Lots offered
- 5
- Lots sold
- 5
- Lots unsold
- 0
- Sell-through rate
- 100%
- Classified sold lots
- 0
- Pending classified lots
- 5
- Classification coverage
- 0%
- Realized value
- $84,836
- Average sold price
- $16,967
- Median sold price
- $12,065
- 90th-percentile sold price
- $31,750
- Top 10% value share
- 52.3952%
- Value concentration (HHI)
- 33.6589%
- Value concentration (Gini)
- 38.2635%
- Price dispersion
- 82.6404%
- Lots within estimate
- 0%
- Estimate surprise rate
- 100%
- Realized / midpoint estimate
- 44.6505%
Five-year context
same category / currency- Sell-through vs 5-year category medianCurrent 100% · five-year median 85% · n=128
- +15.0 pts
- Average sold price vs 5-year category medianCurrent $16,967 · five-year median $26,154 · n=128
- -9,187 USD
- Realized value vs 5-year category medianCurrent $84,836 · five-year median $2,369,310 · n=128
- -2,284,474 USD
Contextual data provided by Pricing Culture Analytics; this is not an exhaustive list. Pricing Culture Analytics organizes publicly available auction data to analyze and produce insights. Source-bound lot results; calculation version pc-auction-market-facts/2.0. Metrics with incomplete or mixed-currency inputs are withheld.
Auction highlights
- Estimate$50–70KSold$44,450
- Estimate$30–50KSold$12,700
- Estimate$20–30KSold$12,065
- Estimate$30–50KSold$10,795
- Estimate$20–30KSold$4,826
| Auction highlights | Estimate | Sold price | Estimate track | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HANK WILLIS THOMAS (B. 1976) | $50–70K | $44,450 | ||
| KATHERINE BERNHARDT (B. 1975) | $30–50K | $12,700 | ||
| FRED WILSON (B. 1954) | $20–30K | $12,065 | ||
| TOMOKAZU MATSUYAMA (B. 1976) | $30–50K | $10,795 | ||
| BONY RAMIREZ (B. 1996) | $20–30K | $4,826 | ||
Estimate track marks the pre-sale range; the tick marks the sold price.
Contextual data provided by Pricing Culture Analytics; this is not an exhaustive list. Pricing Culture Analytics organizes publicly available auction data to analyze and produce insights.
Christie's concluded its Art of the Game sale, which realized $84,836 in total sales[1] with 5 of 5 lots sold, representing a 100% sell-through rate[1]. Christie's is the official results source for the sale.[1]
The auction featured contemporary artworks connected to sports and play, presenting a curated selection of works.
Auction highlights
Sale file- HANK WILLIS THOMAS (B. 1976) | estimate $50,000 to[2] $70,000 |[2] sold for $44,450 (below[2] the low estimate)
- KATHERINE BERNHARDT (B. 1975) | estimate $30,000 to[3] $50,000 |[3] sold for $12,700 (below[3] the low estimate)
- FRED WILSON (B. 1954) | estimate $20,000 to[4] $30,000 |[4] sold for $12,065 (below[4] the low estimate)
By realized value, this is Christie's's #189 sale of 190 concluded this year. Across all its sales this year, Christie's has realized $3,544,027,442[1]. In the broader art category, which has realized $1,181,188,913[1] across every tracked house this year with an average sell-through rate of 85.8%[1], Christie's leads the category. Within its own year-to-date results, the house has realized $2,170,566,987[1] with a sell-through rate of 91.9%[1].
Sources
- 01
Christie's
Art of the Game - 02
Christie's
HANK WILLIS THOMAS (B. 1976) - 03
Christie's
KATHERINE BERNHARDT (B. 1975) - 04
Christie's
FRED WILSON (B. 1954)