--- title: "Edgar Plans: results at LLB Auction" source: LLB Auction canonical: https://www.llb-auction.com/artists/edgar-plans currency: EUR price_basis: hammer, excluding buyer's premium and VAT scope: results at this auction house only --- # Edgar Plans | Fact | Value | |---|---| | Born | 1977 | | Nationality | Spanish | | Lots offered at LLB Auction | 3 | | Lots sold | 3 | | Range of prices realised | €1,000 to €3,700 | | Median price realised | €1,234 | ## Lots | Work | Medium | Sale | Date | Estimate | Hammer | |---|---|---|---|---|---| | Burn Me To Be Real! Red | Print on canvas | Contemporary Art Summer 2026 | 7 July 2026 | €500 to €1,000 | €1,000 | | YOU ARE MY HERO! | Pencil | Contemporary Art Summer 2026 | 7 July 2026 | €1,000 to €1,500 | €3,700 | | 19. Burn Me To Be Real! (2025) | Print | Contemporary Art Spring 2025 | 18 May 2025 | €1,000 to €1,500 | €1,234 | ## About Edgar Plans ### Life and work Edgar Plans was born in Madrid in 1977 and lives and works in Gijón, on the north coast of Spain. He learned to draw and paint between 1995 and 1997 in the studio of the painter José María Ramos, then took a degree in Art History at the University of Oviedo. His pictures are built from a cast of small characters he calls Animal Heroes, big headed figures with mouse ears and wide eyes, scattered across a heavily worked ground among scribbled words and numbers. The surface reads as a child's drawing at first glance and as a very deliberate one on the second. The subjects run from a private mythology of heroes and villains to blunt commentary on the way societies behave. ### Disciplines and how they differ Three registers, and the distance between them is unusually wide. At the top are the unique paintings, mixed media on canvas or panel, and the large mixed media and collage works on paper. Below them sit the small unique drawings, in pencil, charcoal or crayon, often only a few centimetres across. Below those sit the editions, prints on paper and prints on canvas issued over the last few years. LLB Auction has handled the lower two registers: a pencil drawing of 2021 and two prints of 2025, one of them on canvas. All three sold and the drawing led. ### What a specialist examines The signature reads Plans, normally at the lower right on works on paper and on the reverse with the date on the canvases, and titles are often written into the picture in the artist's own hand along the top edge. Because the drawings are small and the images are heavily reproduced, the first question is always whether a sheet is a drawing or a print of one. A pencil or charcoal line sits in the paper and catches raking light; a printed line does not. On prints on canvas, look at the edges where the image meets the tacking margin, and check whether any hand worked passages have been added over the printed base, because that changes what the object is. Provenance carries more weight than usual for an artist whose market moved this fast in so short a time. ### Market position This is a market that rose very sharply and then fell back. At Phillips in Hong Kong in September 2021 the mixed media canvas Amore of 2019, a metre square, made HKD 1,512,000. Two months earlier, in July 2021, the large mixed media and collage on paper Hero or Villain of 2018 made HKD 1,071,000. In April 2022 a charcoal drawing of 2020 measuring under fifteen centimetres across made HKD 201,600. Against that, an editioned print of 2025, Lil Villains, made GBP 312 at Tate Ward in London in June 2026. The peak figures belong to unique work sold in Hong Kong inside a two year window, the recent print results belong to a different market entirely, and results at this house sit closer to the second than the first. Each figure includes the buyer's premium as the house prints it. ### What a seller should have ready Photographs of the face in raking light, which is the quickest way to establish whether a line is drawn or printed. The reverse in full, since the canvases carry the signature and date there. Exact dimensions in centimetres, because the small drawings and the editions are close in size and easily confused in a photograph. Any edition number and the total edition. The purchase invoice and the name of the gallery it came from, which for this artist is the single most useful document a consignor can produce. And the year, which is often written into the picture itself and should be photographed rather than reported from memory. ## Market at LLB Auction | Figure | Value | |---|---| | Sell-through | 100% | | Record hammer | €3,700 (YOU ARE MY HERO!) | | Hammer vs low estimate | 2.31x | | Lots above high estimate | 1 | ### Prices by medium | Medium | Offered | Sold | Lowest hammer | Median hammer | Highest hammer | |---|---|---|---|---|---| | Pencil | 1 | 1 | €3,700 | €3,700 | €3,700 | | Print | 1 | 1 | €1,234 | €1,234 | €1,234 | | Print on canvas | 1 | 1 | €1,000 | €1,000 | €1,000 | ### Year by year | Year | Offered | Sold | Total hammer | |---|---|---|---| | 2025 | 1 | 1 | €1,234 | | 2026 | 2 | 2 | €4,700 | ## Public auction records Results published by other auction houses, cited from the linked sources. Not results of LLB Auction. | House | Date | Work | Price (basis) | Source | |---|---|---|---|---| | Phillips | 16 September 2021 | Amore (2019) | HK$1,512,000 (premium) | https://www.phillips.com/detail/edgar-plans/HK090321/3 | | Phillips | 20 July 2021 | Hero or Villain (2018) | HK$1,071,000 (premium) | https://www.phillips.com/detail/edgar-plans/HK090221/4 | | Phillips | 20 April 2022 | Untitled (2020) | HK$201,600 (premium) | https://www.phillips.com/detail/edgar-plans/HK090622/5 | | Tate Ward Auctions | 24 June 2026 | Lil Villains (2025) | £312 (premium) | https://www.tateward.com/auction/search/?au=135&sd=2&g=1 | ## Career ### Cautions - The headline results for this name were made in Hong Kong in a narrow window. Amore made HKD 1,512,000 at Phillips in September 2021 and Hero or Villain HKD 1,071,000 two months earlier. Those figures are for unique work at the top of a steep rise and are not a guide to what is achievable now. (https://www.phillips.com/detail/edgar-plans/HK090321/3) - The editions sit in a completely different band. An editioned print of 2025, Lil Villains, made GBP 312 including premium at Tate Ward in London in June 2026. Do not read a painting result across to a print. (https://www.tateward.com/auction/search/?au=135&sd=2&g=1) - Small unique drawings can carry very large prices when the market is hot. A charcoal on paper of 2020 measuring under fifteen centimetres made HKD 201,600 at Phillips in April 2022, so size alone tells you nothing about which register a work belongs to. (https://www.phillips.com/detail/edgar-plans/HK090622/5) - Catalogued lots have been accompanied by certificates of authenticity issued by the Miquel Alzueta Art Gallery. There is no independent authentication body for this artist, so gallery paperwork and a clear purchase history are what a buyer will ask for. (https://www.phillips.com/detail/edgar-plans/HK090221/4) - The images are widely reproduced and the artist issues prints on canvas as well as on paper. A print on canvas can read as a painting in a photograph; check the tacking edges and look for any hand worked passages over the printed base before describing a work as unique. (https://www.phillips.com/detail/edgar-plans/HK090221/4) ### Exhibitions | Exhibition | Venue | Year | |---|---|---| | Art Madrid contemporary art fair, exhibiting artist | Art Madrid, Madrid | 2026 | | Training in the studio of the painter José María Ramos | Studio of José María Ramos, Spain | 1995 | ## Comparables Comparable price band (middle half of hammer prices here): €1,000 to €3,700 Related artists: Pablo Picasso, Angeles Agrela ## Sources - LLB Auction catalogue (Proprietary) - Art Madrid contemporary art fair (all rights reserved, cited under quotation): https://www.art-madrid.com/en/artist/edgar-plans - Phillips Auctioneers (all rights reserved, cited under quotation): https://www.phillips.com/artist/23262/edgar-plans - Tate Ward Auctions (all rights reserved, cited under quotation): https://www.tateward.com/auction/search/?au=135&sd=2&g=1 ## Valuations Request a free valuation: https://www.llb-auction.com/sell