Alec Monopoly valuation
Took the Monopoly Man off the board and onto walls, canvases and a great deal of product.
Alec Monopoly is an American street artist who works under that name and built an international following in the 2010s on a single appropriated character — the top-hatted mascot from the Monopoly board — restaged across wealth, celebrity and consumer imagery.
What a work by Alec Monopoly is worth
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Bio
Alec Monopoly is an American street artist who works under that name and built an international following in the 2010s on a single appropriated character — the top-hatted mascot from the Monopoly board — restaged across wealth, celebrity and consumer imagery. The work has been unusually commercially successful and unusually commercially extended, with brand partnerships, watches and product alongside the paintings, which is part of what makes this market distinctive.
Unique works on canvas, generally mixed media with spray, marker and collage, lead. Below them sit editions, hand-finished variants and a large volume of collaborative product, and that product is regularly presented for valuation as though it were studio work. Establishing which of the three a piece is, is the first job. The surfaces are mixed media and frequently varnished, so condition should be assessed on the actual object rather than from a photograph. Certificates accompany most editioned releases.
New York, Los Angeles and the Monopoly Man
Alec Monopoly is Alec Andon, who grew up in New York, is of Armenian descent, and moved to Los Angeles in 2006, where the billboards gave him more room to work. The top-hatted character was first inspired by the stockbroker Bernie Madoff. He hides his face with a hand or a medical mask when photographed. His first solo gallery show was in New York in November 2010, and since the late 2010s he has been represented by Eden House of Art.
The brand work runs alongside the paintings: an ambassadorship with TAG Heuer, a watch with Jacob & Co. in 2021 made in nine pieces, merchandise with Barstool Sports for its small-business relief fund, and the character on Jake Paul's shorts for his fight with Mike Tyson in 2024. In 2025 he showed Flying to a Happy Place, with life-size jet sculptures, during Art Basel Miami Beach.
Materials, Miami and the collectors
He works in stencils, spray paint, epoxy, varnish and newspaper, on walls in Miami, Los Angeles, Europe, Mexico and Asia, and besides the Monopoly Man he pastes up images of Jack Nicholson. In December 2010, a month after his first New York show, he took part in an exhibition at the Mondrian Hotel during Art Basel Miami Beach, and in 2013 he painted a mural live on the red carpet for the film Justin Bieber's Believe.
Collectors of his work have included Philipp Plein, Miley Cyrus, Snoop Dogg, Seth Rogen and Adrien Brody. He also performs as a DJ.
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