# Barbara Bloom - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-28T21:04:37.290Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 21
- Lots with prices: 15
- First auction date: 2004-05-16
- Latest auction date: 2025-03-05
- Median realised price: $500
- Price range: $80 to $8,255

## Market Takeaway
Barbara Bloom has 21 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $500. Category concentration is still broad. Recent 12-month volume is still light. 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 \($500\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($275 to $2,100\) 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: 73.3% (11 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 26.7% (4 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 0
- Previous 12 months sales: 3
- Recent 12 months median: $0
- Previous 12 months median: $400
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-03-05
- Days since latest sale: 419
- Market velocity: inactive

## Top Auction Houses
- Christie's: 4 lots
- Rago Arts and Auction Center: 3 lots
- Freeman’s \| Hindman: 2 lots
- Karl & Faber \- Timed: 2 lots
- AAG Auctioneers: 1 lots
- Germann Auction House Ltd: 1 lots
- Phillips: 1 lots
- STAIR: 1 lots
- Shapiro Auctioneers: 1 lots
- Sotheby's: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-03-05 | Barbara Bloom \(American, b. 1951\) Watermark Papers, 1988 \(8 works\) | Freeman’s \| Hindman | $400
2. 2024-12-11 | Barbara Bloom \(American, b. 1951\) Esprit de l'Escalier \(Works for the Blind\), 1985\-87 \(2 works\) | Freeman’s \| Hindman | $400 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-barbara-bloom-american-b-1951-esprit-de-l-escalier-works-for-the-blind-1985-87-2-works-374-c-f6546dda88
3. 2024-06-21 | BARBARA BLOOM, EPHEMERA 1970S\-1980S | Zwiggelaar Auctions | €80 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-barbara-bloom-ephemera-1970s-1980s-6279-c-3c7436286e
4. 2023-11-29 | Barbara Bloom \(1951 Los Angeles\) – Watermark Papers | Karl & Faber \- Timed | N/A
5. 2023-11-29 | Barbara Bloom \(1951 Los Angeles\) – The Titanic | Karl & Faber \- Timed | N/A
6. 2023-06-21 | Safe | Sotheby's | $8,255
7. 2023-06-19 | BARBARA BLOOM \(1951\) | AAG Auctioneers | N/A
8. 2023-03-15 | Barbara Bloom, Artist's books and ephemera | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $400 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-barbara-bloom-artist-s-books-and-ephemera-234-c-b7e44859aa
9. 2022-11-29 | Barbara Bloom, 1951, The Complete Works of Barbara Bloom | Germann Auction House Ltd | CHF 700
10. 2020-10-07 | Barbara Bloom \(American, b. 1951\) | Shapiro Auctioneers | N/A
11. 2019-12-12 | Barbara Bloom \(American, born 1951\) | Vallot Auctioneers | N/A
12. 2018-10-17 | BARBARA BLOOM \- The Reign of Narcissism, Mirror I; and The Reign of Narcissism, Mirror VI, 1989 | Phillips | $5,000
13. 2017-12-06 | BARBARA BLOOM \(b. 1951\): GREEN DAHLEM CURTAIN | STAIR | $2,100
14. 2012-09-15 | BARBARA BLOOM \(American, b. 1951\) | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $500
15. 2011-09-21 | Barbara Bloom \(b. 1951\) | Christie's | $4,000
16. 2009-05-20 | Barbara Bloom \(AMERICAN, B. 1951\) | Christie's | €275
17. 2009-05-16 | Barbara Bloom \(American, b. 1951\) Ashes to Ashes, | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $180
18. 2007-11-28 | \[Photographs \] | Van Ham Kunstauktionen | N/A
19. 2006-04-24 | BARBARA BLOOM \(b. 1951\) | Christie's | $600
20. 2004-09-28 | BARBARA BLOOM \(B. 1951\) | Christie's | $837
21. 2004-05-16 | Barbara Bloom \(b. 1951\) | Wright | $236

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