# Benjamín Cañas - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-28T19:02:48.972Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 16
- Lots with prices: 8
- First auction date: 2003-11-19
- Latest auction date: 2025-09-18
- Median realised price: $25,000
- Price range: $1,000 to $40,640

## Market Takeaway
Benjamín Cañas has 16 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $25,000. 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 \($25,000\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($3,810 to $31,000\) 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: 0% (0 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 25% (2 sales)
- $10,000\+: 75% (6 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 1
- Previous 12 months sales: 0
- Recent 12 months median: $3,810
- Previous 12 months median: $0
- Median shift: N/A
- Latest sale date: 2025-09-18
- Days since latest sale: 222
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Sotheby's: 7 lots
- Christie's: 6 lots
- Phillips: 1 lots
- Swann Auction Galleries: 1 lots
- Weschler's: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-09-18 | Benjamín Cañas \(1933\-1987\), The Colored Bird, 1977. | Swann Auction Galleries | $3,810
2. 2017-05-24 | BENJAMÍN CAÑAS \- The Critics | Phillips | $32,500
3. 2015-05-27 | BENJAMÍN CAÑAS \(1933\-1987\) \| Untitled  | Sotheby's | $18,750
4. 2011-05-26 | Benjamín Cañas \(Salvadorian 1933\-1987\) | Christie's | N/A
5. 2023-09-22 | Benjamín Cañas \(Salvadoran 1933\-1987\), Untitled \(Musician and Acrobat\), Mixed media on paper, Sight size: 23 x 17 in \(58.4 x 43.2 cm\) | Weschler's | $1,000
6. 2023-05-19 | Bacanal | Sotheby's | $40,640
7. 2012-11-20 | Benjamín Cañas \(Salvadorian 1933\-1987\) | Christie's | N/A
8. 2011-05-27 | Benjamín Cañas \(Salvadorian 1933\-1987\) | Christie's | N/A
9. 2010-05-26 | Benjamín Cañas \(Salvadorian 1933\-1987\) | Christie's | N/A
10. 2009-11-18 | BENJAMÍN CAÑAS \(1933\-1987\) | Sotheby's | N/A
11. 2008-05-29 | Benjamín Cañas \(1933\-1987\) , Los bailarines y los bebedores | Sotheby's | $31,000
12. 2008-05-28 | Untitled | Christie's | $29,800
13. 2007-11-19 | Untitled | Christie's | $25,000
14. 2004-05-26 | BENJAMÍN CAÑAS \(1933\-1987\) | Sotheby's | N/A
15. 2004-05-26 | BENJAMÍN CAÑAS \(1933\-1987\) | Sotheby's | N/A
16. 2003-11-19 | BENJAMÍN CAÑAS \(1933\-1987\) | Sotheby's | N/A

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