# Edith Head - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-29T01:14:01.139Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 23
- Lots with prices: 21
- First auction date: 2013-12-21
- Latest auction date: 2025-12-03
- Median realised price: $1,250
- Price range: $125 to $26,250

## Market Takeaway
Edith Head has 23 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $1,250. 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 \($1,250\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($450 to $4,000\) 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: 38.1% (8 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 57.1% (12 sales)
- $10,000\+: 4.8% (1 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 1
- Previous 12 months sales: 4
- Recent 12 months median: $350
- Previous 12 months median: $4,000
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-12-03
- Days since latest sale: 146
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Julien's Auctions: 6 lots
- DOYLE Auctioneers & Appraisers: 4 lots
- Abell Auction: 2 lots
- Bonhams: 2 lots
- Helmuth Stone: 2 lots
- Profiles in History: 2 lots
- Swann Auction Galleries: 2 lots
- Greenwich Auction: 1 lots
- Lawsons: 1 lots
- Leonard Joel: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-12-03 | Edith Head \| The Airport Collection A\-Line Shift Dress | Julien's Auctions | $350 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-edith-head-the-airport-collection-a-line-shift-dress-260-c-671b9bfba1
2. 2024-06-20 | Edith Head, Judy Garland, I Could Go On Singing | DOYLE Auctioneers & Appraisers | $1,900
3. 2024-06-13 | Edith Head \| Tippi Hedren "The Birds" Signed Costume Illustration | Julien's Auctions | $5,000
4. 2018-01-01 | Edith Head / Audrey Hepburn Beaded Crop Top | Greenwich Auction | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-edith-head-audrey-hepburn-beaded-crop-top-121-c-469490587f
5. 2017-06-27 | Edith Head \(5\) costume sketches of Susan Clark as "Dr. Markham" in Colossus: The Forbin Project. | Profiles in History | $840 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-edith-head-5-costume-sketches-of-susan-clark-as-dr-markham-in-colossus-the-forbin-project-1181-c-66444dbb04
6. 2024-10-24 | Edith Head \(1907\-1981\) Costume Design Possibly for The Ten Commandments 17 3/4 x 12 in. \(45 x 30.5 cm\) | Bonhams | N/A
7. 2024-06-13 | Edith Head \| Tippi Hedron "The Birds" Signed Screentest Costume Illustrations | Julien's Auctions | $4,000
8. 2023-09-08 | EDITH HEAD \| "HERE COME THE GIRLS" COSTUME DESIGN ILLUSTRATIONS | Julien's Auctions | $1,250
9. 2023-09-08 | EDITH HEAD \| "GUNFIGHT AT THE O.K. CORRAL" COSTUME DESIGN ILLUSTRATIONS FOR RHODA FLEMMING AND JO VAN FLEET | Julien's Auctions | $1,000
10. 2023-09-08 | EDITH HEAD \| "TO EACH HIS OWN" COSTUME DESIGN ILLUSTRATIONS | Julien's Auctions | $450
11. 2023-01-19 | Edith Head \(1897\-1981\): Costume Sketch for Elizabeth Taylor in "Bluebird" | Abell Auction | $1,700
12. 2022-12-08 | EDITH HEAD \(1907 \- 1981\): COSTUME SKETCH FOR ELIZABETH TAYLOR IN "BLUEBIRD" | Abell Auction | $3,000
13. 2022-06-24 | EDITH HEAD \(1897\-1981\) Original costume design for a daytime dress worn by Elizabeth Taylor in A Place in the Sun. An origin... | DOYLE Auctioneers & Appraisers | $6,500
14. 2022-06-24 | EDITH HEAD \(1897\-1981\) Original costume design for a coat worn by Audrey Hepburn in Sabrina. An original watercolor design d... | DOYLE Auctioneers & Appraisers | $6,000
15. 2022-06-24 | EDITH HEAD \(1897\-1981\) Original costume design for the red dress worn by Judy Garland in I Could Go On Singing, 1963. An ori... | DOYLE Auctioneers & Appraisers | $5,500
16. 2021-12-16 | EDITH HEAD \(1907\-1981\) "Rita Hayworth / A Hole in the Head." \[COSTUME DESIGN / FILM\] | Swann Auction Galleries | $1,250
17. 2021-12-16 | EDITH HEAD \(1907\-1981\) "Julie Andrews." \[COSTUME DESIGN\] | Swann Auction Galleries | $812
18. 2021-11-25 | EDITH HEAD \(1897 \- 1981\) \- Costume Study from Francesca watercolour and pencil 27 x 20.5 cm \(frame: 38 x 30 x 2 cm\) | Lawsons | A$350
19. 2021-09-26 | Edith Head \(1907 \- 1981\) "Portrait Sketches" | Helmuth Stone | $125
20. 2020-11-15 | Edith Head Original Costume Design | Helmuth Stone | $300
21. 2019-03-26 | EDITH HEAD \(American 1897\-1981\) Three Fashion Designs Drawing\-watercolour, mixed media drawing, circa 1950. | Leonard Joel | A$1,000
22. 2016-12-15 | EDITH HEAD / AUDREY HEPBURN: A WATERCOLOUR AND PENCIL COSTUME SKETCH OF AUD | Bonhams | £26,250
23. 2013-12-21 | Edith Head \(3\) costume sketches of Jo Anne Meredith as "Marie" in The Don is Dead. | Profiles in History | $400 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-edith-head-3-costume-sketches-of-jo-anne-meredith-as-marie-in-the-don-is-dead-169-c-363c07e68e

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