# Dawoud Bey - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-29T06:35:15.244Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 62
- Lots with prices: 49
- First auction date: 2002-09-26
- Latest auction date: 2025-11-04
- Median realised price: $3,750
- Price range: $325 to $19,050

## Market Takeaway
Dawoud Bey has 62 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $3,750. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 9 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 \($3,750\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($1,750 to $6,250\) 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: 16.3% (8 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 69.4% (34 sales)
- $10,000\+: 14.3% (7 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 9
- Previous 12 months sales: 4
- Recent 12 months median: $4,200
- Previous 12 months median: $2,750
- Median shift: 52.7%
- Latest sale date: 2025-11-04
- Days since latest sale: 175
- Market velocity: moderate

## Top Auction Houses
- Swann Auction Galleries: 18 lots
- Black Art Auction: 11 lots
- Christie's: 9 lots
- Rago Arts and Auction Center: 9 lots
- Leonard Auction: 7 lots
- Hindman: 3 lots
- Bonhams: 1 lots
- Los Angeles Modern Auctions: 1 lots
- Phillips: 1 lots
- Saskatchewan Network for Art Collecting: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-11-04 | Dawoud Bey, Shirley | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $2,400
2. 2025-10-18 | Dawoud Bey, b. 1953, Five Children, Syracuse, NY | Black Art Auction | $2,000
3. 2025-10-07 | Dawoud Bey \(1953\-\) Man on the B26 Bus, New York, NY, 1986. | Swann Auction Galleries | N/A
4. 2025-10-07 | Dawoud Bey \(1953\-\), Trajal, 1991. | Swann Auction Galleries | $19,050
5. 2025-07-31 | Dawoud Bey, Alex and Sarah | Los Angeles Modern Auctions | $8,500
6. 2025-06-10 | Dawoud Bey, Untitled | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $4,200
7. 2025-06-10 | Dawoud Bey, Two boys on Carrollsburg Place | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $4,500
8. 2025-06-10 | Dawoud Bey, Itan | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $2,600
9. 2025-06-10 | Dawoud Bey, Toyia, Kelvin, and Erica | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $13,000
10. 2025-04-17 | DAWOUD BEY \(B. 1953\). Sean II, 1996. signed in ink on affixed gallery label | Christie's | N/A
11. 2025-04-03 | DAWOUD BEY \(1953 \- \) A Girl in Deli Doorway, Brooklyn, NY. | Swann Auction Galleries | $2,750
12. 2024-12-18 | DAWOUD BEY \(b. 1953\). Martina and Her Grandmother, Chicago. Polaroid prints | Christie's | $13,000
13. 2024-11-26 | DAWOUD BEY \(1953 \- \) A Girl in Deli Doorway, Brooklyn, NY. | Swann Auction Galleries | N/A
14. 2024-04-04 | DAWOUD BEY \(1953 \- \) Two Men at Cambridge Place and Fulton Street, Brooklyn, New York. | Swann Auction Galleries | $6,250
15. 2024-04-04 | DAWOUD BEY \(1953\- \) A Girl in Hyde Park, Chicago. | Swann Auction Galleries | $1,875
16. 2023-10-19 | Dawoud Bey \(born 1953\) Mandy, 1998 | Hindman | N/A
17. 2023-04-06 | DAWOUD BEY \(1953 \- \) Woman and Child in a Doorway. | Swann Auction Galleries | $4,750
18. 2023-03-19 | Dawoud Bey \(American, b.1953\) Portrait Photographs | Leonard Auction | $1,400
19. 2023-03-19 | Dawoud Bey \(American, b.1953\) Portrait Photographs | Leonard Auction | $900
20. 2023-03-19 | Dawoud Bey \(American, b.1953\) Portrait Photographs | Leonard Auction | $1,200
21. 2023-03-19 | Dawoud Bey \(American, b.1953\) Portrait Photographs | Leonard Auction | $700
22. 2023-03-19 | Dawoud Bey \(American, b.1953\) Portrait Photographs | Leonard Auction | $950
23. 2023-03-19 | Dawoud Bey \(American, b.1953\) Portrait Photographs | Leonard Auction | $1,200
24. 2022-05-11 | Dawoud Bey \(American, b. 1953\) Mark and Petra, 2000 | Hindman | $7,500

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