A large-scale Martin Kippenberger painting from the artist's 'Fred the Frog' series will return to the auction block this autumn. The untitled oil on canvas, measuring 240 by 200 centimetres, is consigned to Christie's London, where it carries an estimate of $794,800 to $1.06 million (£600,000 and up) for the October 14, 2026 sale. The canvas has changed hands three times, and its price history reads as a compact case study in the Kippenberger market. It last sold in 2014 at Dorotheum for $1.09 million, a figure the top of the new estimate approaches but does not exceed. Before that outing it traded at $350,100 — meaning the low end of Christie's current estimate sits roughly 127 percent above that earlier result, a steep climb that signals how firmly the work's valuation has reset over the past decade. Estimates are not results, and the painting would need spirited bidding to reclaim its 2014 high. But the positioning is telling: Christie's is pitching a seven-figure-adjacent Kippenberger at a moment when collectors have grown selective about postwar European painting. The sheer scale of the work, a room-dominating canvas from one of the artist's signature series, gives it the kind of presence that auction houses count on to pull attention in a crowded autumn calendar. For the market, the lot offers a clean data point. A third trade within twelve years, with each outing documented and the trajectory moving consistently upward, makes 'Ohne Titel (aus der Serie Fred the frog)' one of the more legible Kippenberger benchmarks to watch when the hammer falls in London.