# Birney Imes - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-28T16:18:37.345Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 29
- Lots with prices: 26
- First auction date: 2008-08-17
- Latest auction date: 2025-02-20
- Median realised price: $300
- Price range: $20 to $4,375

## Market Takeaway
Birney Imes has 29 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $300. 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 \($300\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($200 to $400\) 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: 92.3% (24 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 7.7% (2 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 0
- Previous 12 months sales: 1
- Recent 12 months median: $0
- Previous 12 months median: $450
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-02-20
- Days since latest sale: 432
- Market velocity: inactive

## Top Auction Houses
- Revere Auctions: 13 lots
- STAIR: 5 lots
- Christie's: 4 lots
- Bonhams: 2 lots
- Ahlers & Ogletree Inc.: 1 lots
- Auctions at Showplace: 1 lots
- Neal Auction Company: 1 lots
- Quinn's Auction Galleries Central Virginia: 1 lots
- Tamarkin Rare Camera Auctions: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-02-20 | BIRNEY IMES, 'ROOSTER AT WHISPERING...' PHOTOGRAPH | Ahlers & Ogletree Inc. | $450
2. 2022-07-27 | Birney Imes Photograph Tables & Chairs | Revere Auctions | $300
3. 2022-07-27 | Birney Imes Photograph Pool Hall | Revere Auctions | $250
4. 2022-07-27 | Birney Imes Photograph Bar | Revere Auctions | $275
5. 2022-07-27 | Birney Imes Photograph Pool Hall | Revere Auctions | $300
6. 2021-08-04 | Birney Imes \(American/Mississippi, b. 1951\) | Neal Auction Company | $625
7. 2021-07-28 | Birney Imes Photograph Red Curtains | Revere Auctions | $460
8. 2021-07-28 | Birney Imes Photograph Old Milwaukee Beer Can | Revere Auctions | $100
9. 2021-07-28 | Birney Imes Photograph Men with Posters | Revere Auctions | $400
10. 2021-07-28 | Birney Imes Photograph Men at a Bar | Revere Auctions | $300
11. 2021-07-28 | Birney Imes Photograph Memorial "Jesus Called" | Revere Auctions | $160
12. 2021-07-28 | Birney Imes Photograph Man on Red Table | Revere Auctions | $200
13. 2021-07-28 | Birney Imes Photograph Chair in Field | Revere Auctions | $380
14. 2021-07-28 | Birney Imes Photograph Cap on Post | Revere Auctions | $100
15. 2021-07-28 | Birney Imes Photograph Bar Scene | Revere Auctions | $180
16. 2021-04-25 | Birney Imes "The Chickenman's Dog" Gelatin Silver | Auctions at Showplace | $600
17. 2016-11-11 | "Juke Joint" Birney Imes Signed Poster. | Quinn's Auction Galleries Central Virginia | $20
18. 2015-02-07 | Juke Joint: Photographs | Tamarkin Rare Camera Auctions | $50
19. 2011-09-10 | Birney Imes \(American, b. 1951\): Front Yard Series \(Fallen Metal Chair\) | STAIR | $250
20. 2011-09-10 | Birney Imes \(American, b. 1951\): Rooster Near Columbus, Missouri, 1986 | STAIR | $300
21. 2011-04-30 | BIRNEY IMES \(b. 1951\): FRONT YARD SERIES \(PINK FLAMINGO & PLYMOUTH\) | STAIR | $200
22. 2011-04-30 | BIRNEY IMES \(b. 1951\): FRONT YARD SERIES \(FALLEN METAL CHAIR\) | STAIR | N/A
23. 2011-04-30 | BIRNEY IMES \(b. 1951\): FRONT YARD SERIES \(CAT ON PORCH\) | STAIR | $300
24. 2009-10-07 | BIRNEY IMES \(B. 1951\) | Christie's | N/A

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