Robert Colescott's record has compounded ~25% annually
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Hi , Robert Colescott's auction record has compounded at roughly 25 percent annually for roughly three decades ('96-'25). His top auction hammer was $19,200 in 1996, $132,000 by 2010, $912,500 in 2018, and the current $15,224,900 set at Sotheby's New York in May 2021 when George Washington Carver Crossing the Delaware: Page from an American History Textbook (1975) was acquired by the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, founded by George Lucas and Mellody Hobson. Each reset opened a new tier in his market. Cactus Jack belongs to the satirical figurative tradition that defines much of Colescott's market. Densely populated, politically barbed compositions also occupy both his top hammer prices and the major museum acquisitions of his career on pieces featuring different scales and desirability.
Each work is unique, but according to Masterworks' analysis, works by Colescott have appreciated approximately 80 percent of the time when resold at auction from '96 to '25. Mid-tier activity in his market has held since the 2021 reset. In 2023, six Colescott works sold at auction with a combined turnover of approximately $12.1 million and in 2025, 22 Colescott works sold at auction with a combined turnover of approximately $1 million. His estate is represented by Gladstone Gallery, and his work is held in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Seattle Art Museum. Cactus Jack is available now with a total offering size of $426,000. Schedule your advisory call to review this opportunity and discover if art is a fit for your portfolio.
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The Masterworks Team
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