# Alma Lavenson - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-28T16:24:46.560Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 58
- Lots with prices: 44
- First auction date: 2001-10-03
- Latest auction date: 2025-09-15
- Median realised price: $7,500
- Price range: $600 to $25,000

## Market Takeaway
Alma Lavenson has 58 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $7,500. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 1 sales. These metrics reflect recorded public auction results and may not include private transactions or every premium outlier sale.

## How To Read This Data
- Use median \($7,500\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($1,645 to $13,000\) as the middle 50% of recorded sales.
- Auction prices can include buyer premiums or fees depending on house reporting, so compare on a like\-for\-like basis.
- Condition, provenance, size, and attribution confidence can move final value materially versus median comps.

## Price Bands
- Under $1,000: 13.6% (6 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 47.7% (21 sales)
- $10,000\+: 38.6% (17 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 1
- Previous 12 months sales: 2
- Recent 12 months median: $600
- Previous 12 months median: $700
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-09-15
- Days since latest sale: 225
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Sotheby's: 17 lots
- Phillips: 12 lots
- Bonhams: 9 lots
- Swann Auction Galleries: 8 lots
- Christie's: 3 lots
- Skinner: 3 lots
- Adams Amsterdam Auctions: 1 lots
- Austin Auction Gallery: 1 lots
- Be\-Hold: 1 lots
- Cottone Auctions: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-09-15 | Alma Lavenson \(American 1897 \- 1989\) . Eucalyptus Leaves, 1933/c. 1987. | Adams Amsterdam Auctions | €600
2. 2024-10-31 | ALMA LAVENSON \(1897\-1989\) Eucalyptus Leaves. 1933; printed 1987. | Swann Auction Galleries | $1,625
3. 2024-07-10 | Alma Lavenson, Child with Doll | Los Angeles Modern Auctions | $700
4. 2023-05-06 | ALMA LAVENSON \(D.1989\) PHOTO SAN ILDEFONSO PUEBLO | Austin Auction Gallery | $600
5. 2022-06-08 | Alma Lavenson \(1897\-1989\) "Eucalyptus Leaves" | Cottone Auctions | $1,000
6. 2021-10-21 | ALMA LAVENSON \(1897\-1989\) Mooring Ropes. | Swann Auction Galleries | N/A
7. 2021-05-27 | ALMA LAVENSON \(1897\-1989\) Pump and Trough, Hornitos. | Swann Auction Galleries | $9,375
8. 2021-03-11 | ALMA LAVENSON \(1897\-1989\) Child with doll. | Swann Auction Galleries | N/A
9. 2021-03-11 | ALMA LAVENSON \(1897\-1989\) Figurehead \(sailing vessel\). | Swann Auction Galleries | N/A
10. 2020-10-22 | ALMA LAVENSON \(1897\-1989\) Rigging. | Swann Auction Galleries | $10,000
11. 2020-10-22 | ALMA LAVENSON \(1897\-1989\) Shadowed Wall, Biltmore Hotel, Santa Barbara. | Swann Auction Galleries | $15,000
12. 2019-06-07 | ALMA LAVENSON \- Self Portrait, 1932 | Phillips | $13,000
13. 2019-04-04 | ALMA LAVENSON \- Water Lilies, 1932 | Phillips | $12,000
14. 2019-04-04 | ALMA LAVENSON \- Easter Lily, 1932 | Phillips | $9,000
15. 2019-04-04 | ALMA LAVENSON \- Auratum Lily, 1932 | Phillips | $10,000
16. 2019-04-04 | ALMA LAVENSON \- Consuelo Kanaga, 1933 | Phillips | $3,000
17. 2019-04-04 | ALMA LAVENSON \- Iris, 1932 | Phillips | $15,000
18. 2019-04-04 | ALMA LAVENSON \- Glass Study, 1931 | Phillips | $22,000
19. 2019-04-04 | ALMA LAVENSON \- Self Portrait, 1932 | Phillips | $8,000
20. 2018-10-04 | ALMA LAVENSON \- Virginia City, 1943 | Phillips | $7,000
21. 2018-10-04 | ALMA LAVENSON \- Composition, 1933 | Phillips | $19,000
22. 2018-06-28 | ALMA LAVENSON | Koller Auctions | N/A
23. 2018-06-27 | ALMA LAVENSON \(1897 \- 1989\), "Taos Pueblo", 1941. Printed 1987. | Be\-Hold | $600
24. 2018-04-09 | ALMA LAVENSON \- St. Charles Hotel, Downieville, 1934 | Phillips | $8,500

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