# Arno Rafael Minkkinen - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-28T20:38:08.606Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 39
- Lots with prices: 27
- First auction date: 1999-06-24
- Latest auction date: 2025-11-21
- Median realised price: $1,900
- Price range: $615 to $4,300

## Market Takeaway
Arno Rafael Minkkinen has 39 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $1,900. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 4 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 \($1,900\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($1,500 to $2,600\) 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: 7.4% (2 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 92.6% (25 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 4
- Previous 12 months sales: 4
- Recent 12 months median: $1,600
- Previous 12 months median: $2,600
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-11-21
- Days since latest sale: 158
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- OstLicht Auctions: 13 lots
- Finarte: 6 lots
- Brunk Auctions: 3 lots
- Kunsthaus Lempertz KG: 3 lots
- Rago Arts and Auction Center: 2 lots
- Skinner: 2 lots
- Abington Auction Gallery: 1 lots
- Ader: 1 lots
- Bonhams: 1 lots
- Gonnelli Casa d'Aste: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-11-21 | ARNO RAFAEL MINKKINEN \(\*1945\) | OstLicht Auctions | €1,600
2. 2025-11-04 | Arno Rafael Minkkinen, Foster's Pond | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $3,800
3. 2025-11-04 | Arno Rafael Minkkinen, Mountain Lakes, New Jersey | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $800
4. 2025-06-12 | Arno Rafael Minkkinen \(Finnish\-American, b. 1945\), Narragansett, Rhode Island | Sloane Street Auctions | £1,600
5. 2024-11-29 | Arno Rafael Minkkinen, Narragansett, Rhode Island, 1973 | Kunsthaus Lempertz KG | €4,300
6. 2024-11-29 | Arno Rafael Minkkinen, Nordkapp, 1995 | Kunsthaus Lempertz KG | N/A
7. 2024-06-05 | ARNO RAFAEL MINKKINEN \(\*1945\) | OstLicht Auctions | €2,600
8. 2024-06-04 | Arno Rafael Minkkinen, Nude Descending a Staircase, Rockport, Maine, 2005 | Kunsthaus Lempertz KG | N/A
9. 2023-03-16 | Arno Rafael Minkkinen \(1945\) \- Foster's Swan, 1994 | Finarte | €1,400
10. 2022-10-14 | Arno Rafael Minkkinen | Brunk Auctions | $1,900
11. 2022-10-14 | Arno Rafael Minkkinen | Brunk Auctions | $1,700
12. 2022-10-14 | Arno Rafael Minkkinen | Brunk Auctions | $1,500
13. 2022-06-10 | Arno Rafael Minkkinen, Dead horse point Canyonlands, Utah. 1997. | Gonnelli Casa d'Aste | €1,000
14. 2022-04-07 | Arno Rafael Minkkinen \(born 1945\); Self\-Portrait, Foster's Pond; | Bonhams | $1,200
15. 2021-04-16 | ARNO RAFAEL MINKKINEN \(\* 1945\) | OstLicht Auctions | €1,800
16. 2021-04-16 | ARNO RAFAEL MINKKINEN \(\* 1945\) | OstLicht Auctions | €2,800
17. 2021-04-16 | ARNO RAFAEL MINKKINEN \(\* 1945\) | OstLicht Auctions | N/A
18. 2021-04-08 | Arno Rafael Minkkinen 'Self Portrait' Silver Print | Abington Auction Gallery | $2,100
19. 2020-11-15 | Arno Rafael Minkkinen, “Skrøvafjellet Mountain, Skrøva, Lofoten Islands, Norway” \[Photograph, Photography\] | Griffin Museum of Photography | $4,000
20. 2020-10-16 | Arno Rafael Minkkinen \(1945\) \- Foster's Swan, 1994 | Finarte | N/A
21. 2020-10-02 | ARNO RAFAEL MINKKINEN \(\* 1945\) | OstLicht Auctions | N/A
22. 2020-10-02 | ARNO RAFAEL MINKKINEN \(\* 1945\) | OstLicht Auctions | €2,400
23. 2020-10-02 | ARNO RAFAEL MINKKINEN \(\* 1945\) | OstLicht Auctions | €1,800
24. 2020-09-30 | Arno Rafael Minkkinen \(1945\) \- Foster's Swan, 1994 | Finarte | N/A

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