# Dorothea Lange - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-29T00:01:04.371Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 526
- Lots with prices: 382
- First auction date: 2001-01-17
- Latest auction date: 2026-04-01
- Median realised price: $4,250
- Price range: $80 to $305,000

## Market Takeaway
Dorothea Lange shows very deep auction liquidity with 524 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $4,250. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 69 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2026-01-29.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($4,250\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $1,375 and $12,500.
- 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: 21.3% (81 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 47.5% (181 sales)
- $10,000\+: 31.2% (119 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 69
- Previous 12 months sales: 53
- Recent 12 months median: $600
- Previous 12 months median: $1,500
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2026-01-29
- Days since latest sale: 19
- Market velocity: high

## Top Auction Houses
- Christie's: 137 lots
- Swann Auction Galleries: 133 lots
- STAIR: 47 lots
- Phillips: 39 lots
- Bonhams: 38 lots
- Sotheby's: 26 lots
- Morgan Auctions: 19 lots
- Heritage Auctions: 11 lots
- Los Angeles Modern Auctions: 7 lots
- Finarte: 6 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-12-03 | Dorothea Lange, Mexican Migrant Family with Tire Trouble, California, 1936 | Lempertz | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-dorothea-lange-mexican-migrant-family-with-tire-trouble-california-1936-561-c-805854c76f
2. 2024-12-17 | DOROTHEA LANGE \(1895\-1965\) Girl on porch, Macon County, Georgia. July 1937. | Swann Auction Galleries | $2,375 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-dorothea-lange-1895-1965-girl-on-porch-macon-county-georgia-july-1937-146-c-74090922c2
3. 2026-04-01 | Dorothea Lange \(1895 \- 1965\) \- Feeding poor Orphans, 1930s | Finarte | €2,400 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-dorothea-lange-1895-1965-feeding-poor-orphans-1930s-54-c-a2a982db25
4. 2026-01-29 | Dorothea Lange, Three related drought refugee families from homes near Claremore, Oklahoma, 1937. | Swann Auction Galleries | N/A
5. 2026-01-29 | Dorothea Lange, Abandoned tenant house seen across tractored fields. Hall County, Texas, June 1938; printed circa 1970. | Swann Auction Galleries | N/A
6. 2026-01-29 | Dorothea Lange, Wife and child of Negro laborer of the Brazos riverbottoms, Texas, June 1938; printed circa 1970. | Swann Auction Galleries | N/A
7. 2026-01-29 | Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California, 1936; printed 1970s. | Swann Auction Galleries | $13,970
8. 2026-01-13 | Dorothea Lange \(1895 \- 1965\) \- Migrant Mother, 1936 | Finarte | €2,600
9. 2025-12-03 | Dorothea Lange, Child of Migratory Worker, American River Camp near Sacramento, California, 1936 | Lempertz | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-dorothea-lange-child-of-migratory-worker-american-river-camp-near-sacramento-california-1936-556-c-df869de509
10. 2025-12-03 | Dorothea Lange, Unemployed Men on Howard Street, San Francisco, 1934 | Lempertz | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-dorothea-lange-unemployed-men-on-howard-street-san-francisco-1934-551-c-6d68a15670
11. 2025-12-03 | Dorothea Lange, Untitled, 1932 | Lempertz | €1,500
12. 2025-12-03 | Dorothea Lange, Untitled, c. 1935 | Lempertz | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-dorothea-lange-untitled-c-1935-549-c-4b65875a99
13. 2025-12-03 | Dorothea Lange, Nettie Featherston, Wife of Migratory Laborer with three Children, Near Childress, Texas, 1938 | Lempertz | €4,600 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-dorothea-lange-nettie-featherston-wife-of-migratory-laborer-with-three-children-near-childress-texas-1938-547-c-e5a8df706e
14. 2025-11-21 | DOROTHEA LANGE \(1895–1965\) | OstLicht Auctions | €3,400
15. 2025-11-21 | DOROTHEA LANGE \(1895–1965\) | OstLicht Auctions | €600
16. 2025-11-19 | Dorothea Lange \(1895\-1965\): Near Wudi Modaui, Sudan | STAIR | $250
17. 2025-11-19 | Dorothea Lange \(1895\-1965\): Near Wudi Modaui, Sudan | STAIR | $600
18. 2025-11-19 | Dorothea Lange \(1895\-1965\): Man, Egypt | STAIR | $800
19. 2025-11-19 | Dorothea Lange \(1895\-1965\): Procession, Egypt | STAIR | $500
20. 2025-11-19 | Dorothea Lange \(1895\-1965\): Arab, Egypt | STAIR | $350
21. 2025-11-19 | Dorothea Lange \(1895\-1965\): Arches, Egypt | STAIR | $400
22. 2025-11-19 | Dorothea Lange \(1895\-1965\): Architectural Detail, Upper Egypt | STAIR | $350
23. 2025-11-19 | Dorothea Lange \(1895\-1965\): Boy, Egypt | STAIR | $500
24. 2025-11-19 | Dorothea Lange \(1895\-1965\): Bedouin Camp, Egypt | STAIR | $600

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