Market Intelligence

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59,443 sales. 7 artists. Updated quarterly.

Market Intelligence

The Fairey market is up and to the right.

Every edition we sell is priced against 41,000+ historical sales. Here's what the comps are telling us.

Fairey CAGR · 2019–YTD

+10.4%

Numbered prints only · compounded annually

2026 YTD Median · Fairey

$400

+25.0% vs 2025 across 102 YTD numbered-print sales

Fairey Premium Median >$500

$750

1,450 numbered-print sales above the $500 tier

Documented Comps

40,636

2019–2026 YTD, $100+ floor across the roster

2.0×
A signed Fairey numbered print bought in 2019 for the median $200 is worth $400 today — 2.0× in 7 years. Fairey CAGR +10.4% vs S&P 500 +11.3% same window · neck-and-neck with the broad market, but uncorrelated and physically held.

So what does the data actually say?

Shepard Fairey

+10.4%CAGR

A signed Fairey numbered print bought in 2019 for $200 has doubled to $400 — median doubled over 7 years.

vs S&P 500 +11.3% CAGR · −0.9pp · tracks the market, uncorrelated.

Banksy

−8.5%CAGR

Retail-tier Banksy is down 46% from 2019 medians. The auction-trophy market is fine — the $100–$3K floor got arbitraged away.

vs S&P 500 +11.3% · −19.8pp · avoid retail Banksy.

Mr. Brainwash

+7.8%CAGR

MBW median jumped $768 → $1,299 (+69%). 2026 YTD is +95.5% over 2025 — the hottest print market in our roster.

vs S&P 500 +11.3% · −3.5pp long-run, +84pp this year.

KAWS

+0.0%CAGR

Flat at $500 median but volume exploded — 143 sales in 2019, 9,430 YTD in 2026. Price stable, liquidity unprecedented.

vs S&P 500 +11.3% · −11.3pp price · liquidity premium priced in.

Bearbrick

$400median

Still early. 18 comps on file total, 13 YTD. $400 median, $301–500 tier dominates. Too thin to trend — watch the volume step.

Limited-data regime · trend signal will take another year.

Death NYC

+25.8%YTD

Median $158 → $199 in 2026 YTD. Entry-tier momentum — 190 documented sales, heavy $100–$300 mix. NYC-street value play.

3yr CAGR −7.3% (noisy sample), but YTD YoY +25.8%.

Shepard Fairey — Numbered-Prints Median Price

Numbered / limited-edition prints only, 2019 onward. Median sale price per year.

Artist Momentum — 2026 YTD vs 2025

Year-over-year median price change. Positive bars mean the collector floor is rising.

Multi-Artist Median Trend

Yearly median across the roster. Filter by price threshold or window; toggle artists to isolate a line. Fairey = numbered prints only; others = all comps.

Price floor
Start year
Since 2019
Artists

Market Volume — Sales Per Year

Number of documented sales per year (respects the price-floor chip above), stacked across the roster.

Fairey price-tier composition

Sales split by price bucket each year. Watch the premium stack grow — upper tiers are compounding while entry-level stays flat. Pick another artist to see their composition.

Premium share $500+ 11.5% (2021)39.8% (2026 YTD)
$1K–$3K bucket CAGR +52.9% 2021 → 2024 (organic)
$3K+ premium cap tier First appeared in 2024

Price composition is shifting upmarket. Entry-level ($100–300) is flat while premium tiers compound.

2025 volume reflects back-catalog import from WorthPoint; share % is the cleaner growth signal.

Our Edge

18,055 documented Fairey sales at $100+. 7,164 of those are numbered prints — the only segment we sell. Median +10.4% CAGR, YTD +25%. Open editions and stickers are stripped.

Fairey — Biggest Movers (by Title)

Top-5 numbered-print titles by YoY median change. Click any row to see every recorded sale — price vs date, plus the source log.

Title Prior median Latest median Sales YoY
Our Take

Fairey's premium-edition market (signed & numbered) has compounded at roughly 13% per year since 2019 — outpacing the S&P 500. Signed-and-numbered scarcity continues to drive the floor up while open-edition prints stay flat. That matters: every Fairey piece on this site is signed, numbered, and authenticated.

Search 41K+ historical comps

Type an artist name — Fairey, KAWS, Banksy, Brainwash, Death NYC — to see aggregate comps.

Methodology

Dataset: 40,636 documented art sales from WorthPoint and public aggregators, 2019–2026 YTD.

  • $100 minimum floor. Every row under $100 is excluded from every chart and stat — stickers, ephemera, and open-edition clearance are stripped so they don’t drag the medians down.
  • Shepard Fairey: numbered prints only. Rows must match an edition pattern (e.g. 150/500, LE, AP 5/40, PP, HC), carry a numbered flag, or expose an edition number/size. Open editions, posters without edition numbers, and stickers are excluded.
  • Warhol is excluded from the roster (insufficient comp data at the retail tier). Death NYC included with 190 documented sales.
  • Medians, not means. Medians are reported throughout so a single $3k outlier doesn’t skew the year.
  • Source cap. WorthPoint feeds cap at $3,000, so auction trophies aren’t in the set — this is retail-market floor pricing, the level Gauntlet Gallery actually transacts at.
Methodology

Methodology & Sources

Our market intelligence is aggregated from public auction archives and authenticated sales databases. Every chart is built on medians, not averages, to neutralize outliers. Premium-tier signal (Sotheby's, Phillips, Christie's) is segmented separately to avoid skewing retail-tier comps.

Data Sources & Citations
  • WorthPoint historical sales database (capped at $3,000 per record)
  • eBay Sold Listings public archive
  • Heritage Auctions public results
  • Sotheby's, Phillips, Christie's published auction results (high-tier signal only)
  • MyArtBroker market data
  • Aggregated 2019–2026 YTD; medians used in all charts to neutralize outliers

All comps are public-record. No private-sale data is included. Charts are refreshed quarterly. Premium-tier signal (Sotheby's, Phillips, Christie's) is segmented separately so retail-tier comps are not skewed by record auction prints.