# Cornell Capa - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-29T00:35:34.431Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 117
- Lots with prices: 60
- First auction date: 2004-04-24
- Latest auction date: 2025-12-03
- Median realised price: $1,750
- Price range: $160 to $7,000

## Market Takeaway
Cornell Capa shows solid auction liquidity with 117 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $1,750. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 6 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-12-03.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($1,750\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $800 and $3,200.
- Auction totals can include buyer premiums or fees depending on reporting, so compare like\-for\-like when possible.
- Condition, size, medium, provenance, and attribution confidence can move value materially versus median comps.

## Price Bands
- Under $1,000: 26.7% (16 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 73.3% (44 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 6
- Previous 12 months sales: 6
- Recent 12 months median: $850
- Previous 12 months median: $225
- Median shift: 100%
- Latest sale date: 2025-12-03
- Days since latest sale: 77
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Phillips: 21 lots
- Christie's: 14 lots
- Heritage Auctions: 9 lots
- Bruce Teleky Inc.: 8 lots
- Bonhams: 6 lots
- Finarte: 6 lots
- OstLicht Auctions: 6 lots
- Swann Auction Galleries: 6 lots
- Winter Associates, Inc.: 6 lots
- PBA Galleries Auctions & Appraisers: 5 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2024-04-25 | Cornell Capa \(American/Hungarian, 1918–2008\) Female 'Human Cannonball' at a Circus in Texas, 1947 | Hindman | $1,200 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-cornell-capa-american-hungarian-1918-2008-female-human-cannonball-at-a-circus-in-texas-1947-122-c-e01464886c
2. 2025-12-03 | Cornell Capa, Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable during the filming of 'The Misfits', Nevada, 1960 | Lempertz | €3,200
3. 2025-12-03 | Cornell Capa, Bolshoi Ballet School, Moskow, 1958 | Lempertz | €1,900
4. 2025-09-09 | Cornell Capa \(1918 \- 2008\) \- Untitled \(Church\), 1950s/1960s | Finarte | €170
5. 2025-07-31 | Cornell Capa, Bolshoi Ballet | Los Angeles Modern Auctions | $750
6. 2025-05-22 | Cornell Capa \(1918\-2008\) | Chiswick Auctions | £3,400
7. 2025-04-10 | Cornell Capa \(1918 \- 2008\) \- John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 1961 | Finarte | €850
8. 2024-11-29 | Cornell Capa, JFK and Jackie, New York City, 1960 | Kunsthaus Lempertz KG | €750
9. 2024-09-26 | CORNELL CAPA \(1918\-2008\) Pitching Ball, New York. 1948; printed before 2001. | Swann Auction Galleries | N/A
10. 2024-02-22 | Robert Kennedy by Cornell Capa | PBA Galleries Auctions & Appraisers | $225
11. 2024-02-22 | Magnum photograph signed by Cornell Capa | PBA Galleries Auctions & Appraisers | $200
12. 2024-02-22 | Adlai Stevenson by Cornell Capa | PBA Galleries Auctions & Appraisers | $160
13. 2023-12-05 | Cornell Capa \(1918\-2008\) John F. Kennedy, Washington D.C. stampa ai sali d' | Christie's | €1,890
14. 2023-11-18 | CORNELL CAPA \(1918–2008\) | OstLicht Auctions | €2,600
15. 2023-11-18 | CORNELL CAPA \(1918–2008\) | OstLicht Auctions | N/A
16. 2023-11-13 | CORNELL CAPA \(1918\-2008\) \- JERUSALEM \- CITY OF MANKIND, LIMITED EDITION PHOTO ALBUM, 1973. | Pasarel | N/A
17. 2023-10-19 | Robert Kennedy by Cornell Capa | PBA Galleries Auctions & Appraisers | N/A
18. 2023-10-19 | Hyde Park, London, 1951 by Cornell Capa | PBA Galleries Auctions & Appraisers | N/A
19. 2023-06-02 | CORNELL CAPA \(1918–2008\) | OstLicht Auctions | N/A
20. 2023-06-02 | CORNELL CAPA \(1918–2008\) | OstLicht Auctions | €1,600
21. 2023-04-27 | CORNELL CAPA \(1918\-2008\) Bolshoi Ballet School. | Swann Auction Galleries | N/A
22. 2023-04-13 | CORNELL CAPA \(1918–2008\) The Bolshoi Ballet School, 1956 signed and numbere | Christie's | $5,040
23. 2022-12-06 | Cornell Capa  \(1918\-2008\)   Robert F. Kennedy, Buffalo, New York, 1964   | Hindman | N/A
24. 2022-12-06 | Cornell Capa  \(1918\-2008\) John and Jacqueline Kennedy, New York, 1960   | Hindman | N/A

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