# Bernard Childs - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-28T20:20:26.568Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 21
- Lots with prices: 11
- First auction date: 2005-03-10
- Latest auction date: 2025-11-02
- Median realised price: $250
- Price range: $50 to $425

## Market Takeaway
Bernard Childs has 21 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $250. 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 \($250\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($100 to $400\) 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: 100% (11 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 0% (0 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 1
- Previous 12 months sales: 4
- Recent 12 months median: $0
- Previous 12 months median: $225
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-11-02
- Days since latest sale: 177
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- DUMBO Auctions: 3 lots
- Capsule Gallery Auction: 2 lots
- Market Auctions: 2 lots
- Nye & Company: 2 lots
- Potomack Company: 2 lots
- Auctions at Showplace: 1 lots
- Barton's Auction: 1 lots
- Eldred's: 1 lots
- Freedom Auction Company: 1 lots
- John Moran Auctioneers: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-11-02 | Bernard Childs \- Kinetic Light Sculpture | Barton's Auction | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-bernard-childs-kinetic-light-sculpture-75-c-b4a5e07b81
2. 2024-11-19 | Bernard Childs "The Receptive" Print on Paper | Auctions at Showplace | $50
3. 2024-11-14 | BERNARD CHILDS \- FLYING BANANAS AT A RUSSIAN WEDDING | Capsule Gallery Auction | $425
4. 2024-10-15 | Bernard Childs \(1910\-1985\), "Frumenti," 1955 | John Moran Auctioneers | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-bernard-childs-1910-1985-frumenti-1955-131-c-c22479cb42
5. 2024-07-31 | Bernard Childs, American 1910\-1985, Frumente, Lithograph | Nye & Company | $225
6. 2024-01-30 | Bernard Childs \- Mozart Bicentennial at Lincoln Center \- 1991 Offset Lithograph 31.75" x 24" | DUMBO Auctions | N/A
7. 2023-05-30 | Bernard Childs \- Mozart Bicentennial at Lincoln Center \- 1991 Offset Lithograph 31.75" x 24" | DUMBO Auctions | N/A
8. 2022-09-22 | BERNARD CHILDS \- JACOB | Capsule Gallery Auction | $375
9. 2022-04-05 | Bernard Childs \- Mozart Bicentennial at Lincoln Center \- 1991 Offset Lithograph 31.75" x 24" | DUMBO Auctions | N/A
10. 2021-04-21 | Bernard Childs, Intaglio Trial Proof, "The Chasm" | Nye & Company | $50
11. 2020-09-20 | BERNARD CHILDS \(AMERICAN 1910\-1985\), ENGRAVING | Robert Slawinski Auctioneers, Inc. | N/A
12. 2020-05-21 | Bernard Childs \(American 1910 \- 1985\) | Vallot Auctioneers | $400
13. 2019-10-27 | BERNARD CHILDS LITHOGRAPH | Freedom Auction Company | N/A
14. 2019-09-03 | BERNARD CHILDS \(1910\-1985\) DRAWING AND PRINT | Westport Auction | $325
15. 2019-06-05 | Bernard Childs \(American, born 1910\) Holocaust 1964 | Market Auctions | $250
16. 2019-03-06 | Bernard Childs \(American, born 1910\) Holocaust 1964 | Market Auctions | N/A
17. 2017-01-21 | BERNARD CHILDS, American, 1910\-1985, Abstract composition., Acrylic on canvas, 21.75" x 18.25". Framed 27.25" x 23.75". | Eldred's | N/A
18. 2015-12-05 | BERNARD CHILDS \(b. 1910\): UNTITLED | STAIR | $400
19. 2013-12-10 | BERNARD CHILDS \(AMERICAN, 1910\-1985\) THE GRADUATE Lithograph: 15 x 14 3/4 in. \(sight\) 20 1/4 x 20 1/4 in. \(frame\) | Potomack Company | $100
20. 2013-10-06 | BERNARD CHILDS \(AMERICAN, 1910\-1985\) THE GRADUATE Lithograph: 15 x 14 3/4 in. \(sight\) 20 1/4 x 20 1/4 in. \(frame\) | Potomack Company | N/A
21. 2005-03-10 | BERNARD CHILDS | Swann Auction Galleries | $225

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