# Benno Elkan - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-30T23:22:43.978Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 13
- Lots with prices: 9
- First auction date: 2007-06-12
- Latest auction date: 2025-03-30
- Median realised price: $1,200
- Price range: $175 to $7,000

## Market Takeaway
Benno Elkan has 13 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $1,200. 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 \($1,200\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($540 to $1,800\) 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: 44.4% (4 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 55.6% (5 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 0
- Previous 12 months sales: 2
- Recent 12 months median: $0
- Previous 12 months median: $0
- Median shift: N/A
- Latest sale date: 2025-03-30
- Days since latest sale: 396
- Market velocity: inactive

## Top Auction Houses
- Bonhams: 3 lots
- Simpson Galleries, LLC: 2 lots
- Alma: 1 lots
- Auctions at Showplace: 1 lots
- Auktionshaus Schwab: 1 lots
- Hermann Historica GmbH: 1 lots
- Kunstauktionshaus Schloss Ahlden: 1 lots
- Marques dos Santos: 1 lots
- Pari Auktionen: 1 lots
- Setdart Auction House: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-03-30 | BENNO ELKAN \(1877\-1960\), GERMANY\-GREAT BRITAIN \- BRONZE MEMORIAL PLAQUE | Alma | N/A
2. 2024-06-20 | BENNO ELKAN \(Westphalia, 1877 \- London, 1960\). "Baboon." Partially glazed ceramic. Presents mark on the base. Signed. | Setdart Auction House | N/A
3. 2024-01-13 | Benno ELKAN \(1877\-1960\), 'Der junge Flötist' / 'The young flute player' / 'Le jeune flûtiste', 1906 | Auktionshaus Schwab | €3,200
4. 2023-10-21 | Benno Elkan \(1877\-1960\), Bronze medal of the writer Frank Wedekind, signed, around 1920. | Pari Auktionen | €600
5. 2022-10-23 | Benno Elkan, Bust, Bronze, 1947 | Auctions at Showplace | $175
6. 2020-09-24 | Benno Elkan \(German, 1877\-1960\) Moses has Arms Held Aloft | Bonhams | £300
7. 2019-02-10 | BENNO ELKAN \(active/lived in Germany/England 1877\-1960\) A PAIR OF ART NOUVEAU BRONZE TWO LIGHT CANDELABRA, CIRCA 1915, | Simpson Galleries, LLC | $1,300
8. 2017-06-11 | BENNO ELKAN \(active/lived in Germany/England 1877\-1960\) A PAIR OF ART NOUVEAU BRONZE TWO LIGHT CANDELABRA, CIRCA 1915, | Simpson Galleries, LLC | $1,200
9. 2016-11-10 | BENNO ELKAN \(1877\-1960\) \- 'Figura feminina' \[Female figure\] | Marques dos Santos | €7,000
10. 2014-11-29 | Benno Elkan | Kunstauktionshaus Schloss Ahlden | N/A
11. 2013-12-10 | BENNO ELKAN \(German, 1877\-1960\) \- A fine and important bronze menorah\- cast in the form of Adam and Eve standing on a lotus support entwined with a large serpent, the scrolled and ribbon\-tied structure with six lights, the serpent's head supporting | Bonhams | N/A
12. 2010-10-14 | Benno Elkan \(1877 \- 1960\) | Hermann Historica GmbH | €1,800
13. 2007-06-12 | Benno Elkan \(German, 1877\-1960\): A bronze figure of a boy flutist | Bonhams | £540

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