Firelei Baez's Auction Record Jumps (Again) With $1.1m Sale
3 min read · 20 Nov 2025
Untitled (Colonization in America, Visual History Wall Map, Prepared by Civic Education Service). Image courtesy of Christie's
Firelei Baez, Untitled (Colonization in America, Visual History Wall Map, Prepared by Civic Education Service) (2021), sold for $1.11m, more than seven times the low estimate at Christie's in New York on November 19.
The oil and acrylic on printed canvas work had been traded 3 times in the past.
The sale beat the artist’s previous auction record by $466,200, a 72% rise, which had been set on same night in New York at Phillips.
Daughter of Revolutions. Image courtesy of Phillips
The previous record was set by Daughter of Revolutions (2014), which sold for $645,000 at Phillips on November 19, 2025. The work had been traded once in the past.
Sale Date | Title | Price | Record Increase | Venue | City |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
November 19, 2025 | Untitled (Colonization in America, Visual History Wall Map, Prepared by Civic Education Service) | $1.11m | 72 % | Christie's | New York |
November 19, 2025 | Daughter of Revolutions | $645,000 | 14 % | Phillips | New York |
November 21, 2024 | Josephine Judas GOAT (it does not disturb me to accept that there are places where my identity is obscure to me, and the fact that it amazes you does not mean I relinquish it) | $567,000 | 397 % | Christie's | New York |
October 02, 2024 | Mistaking Passion for Fever (June 11) | $114,000 | 13 % | Sotheby's | New York |
June 24, 2021 | Cibyl from the series Geographic Delay | $100,800 | 60 % | Phillips | New York |
March 12, 2021 | Ciguapa Pantera (to all the goods and pleasures of this world) | $63,000 | 5 % | Sotheby's | New York |
November 17, 2019 | Untitled | $60,000 | 71 % | MCA Chicago Benefit Auction | - |
March 01, 2019 | Patterns of Resistance | $35,000 | - | Sotheby's | New York |
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