# Edward Sorel - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-29T06:19:10.516Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 30
- Lots with prices: 24
- First auction date: 2008-05-16
- Latest auction date: 2025-06-17
- Median realised price: $1,375
- Price range: $65 to $5,750

## Market Takeaway
Edward Sorel has 30 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $1,375. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 3 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 \($1,375\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($425 to $2,530\) 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: 45.8% (11 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 54.2% (13 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 3
- Previous 12 months sales: 5
- Recent 12 months median: $1,500
- Previous 12 months median: $1,375
- Median shift: 9.1%
- Latest sale date: 2025-06-17
- Days since latest sale: 315
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Swann Auction Galleries: 12 lots
- Heritage Auctions: 2 lots
- Merrill's Auctioneers & Appraisers: 2 lots
- Capo Auction: 1 lots
- Capsule Gallery Auction: 1 lots
- Casco Bay Auctions: 1 lots
- Dogny Auction: 1 lots
- EJ'S Auction & Appraisal: 1 lots
- Illustration House: 1 lots
- Litchfield Auctions: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-06-17 | EDWARD SOREL \(1929 \- \) Liberté! Egalité! Chasteté! | Swann Auction Galleries | $1,500
2. 2025-06-17 | EDWARD SOREL \(1929 \- \) Marlon Brando and Tennessee Williams. | Swann Auction Galleries | $5,750
3. 2025-06-10 | Edward Sorel \(American b. 1929\), Sisyphus, Pen and Ink on Paper, Signed Edward Sorel l.r., Image Size: 14 3/4 x 11 1/2 in. \(37.5 x 29.2 cm.\) | Weschler's | $475
4. 2024-06-20 | EDWARD SOREL \(1929\-\) A Toast to Neil Bush. | Swann Auction Galleries | N/A
5. 2024-06-20 | EDWARD SOREL \(1929\-\) "Star Wars Con Game." | Swann Auction Galleries | N/A
6. 2024-06-20 | EDWARD SOREL \(1929\-\) "How was I supposed to know?" | Swann Auction Galleries | N/A
7. 2024-06-20 | EDWARD SOREL \(1929\-\) "They gave the Nobel prize to Saul Bellow." | Swann Auction Galleries | $1,375
8. 2024-06-20 | EDWARD SOREL \(1929\-\) "America and Ed Sorel salute you." | Swann Auction Galleries | $1,375
9. 2023-11-08 | Edward Sorel \(American, 1929\) Illustration Art | Material Culture | N/A
10. 2023-05-06 | Edward Sorel \(Born 1929\). Semper Paratus. | Casco Bay Auctions | $300
11. 2022-12-15 | EDWARD SOREL \(1929\-\) Self Portrait \(Drawing Class\). | Swann Auction Galleries | $3,900
12. 2022-12-15 | EDWARD SOREL \(1929\-\) "Ziegler, Ruckleshouse, Kleindienst . . . March in New York's Von Steuben's Day Parade." | Swann Auction Galleries | $2,250
13. 2022-12-15 | EDWARD SOREL \(1929\-\) Richard Nixon as W.C. Fields. | Swann Auction Galleries | $3,000
14. 2022-11-16 | Edward Sorel, original color cartoon drawing | Millea Bros Ltd | $1,900
15. 2022-07-16 | Edward Sorel Signed Anti\-War Vietnam Poster | EJ'S Auction & Appraisal | $65
16. 2022-06-09 | EDWARD SOREL \(1929\-\) "Henry Kissinger on the Road." | Swann Auction Galleries | $2,750
17. 2022-06-09 | EDWARD SOREL \(1929\-\) The Death of Uncle Sam \(after Benjamin West\). | Swann Auction Galleries | $3,000
18. 2021-12-10 | Edward Sorel \(AM 1929\-\) Some Like it Reheated | Merrill's Auctioneers & Appraisers | $750
19. 2021-12-10 | Edward Sorel \(AM 1929\-\) Biting the Hand | Merrill's Auctioneers & Appraisers | $2,200
20. 2020-12-02 | Edward Sorel \- The Melting Plot | Capsule Gallery Auction | $3,600
21. 2020-10-07 | EDWARD SOREL \(AMERICAN, 1929\-\) HENRY KISSINGER Ink and wash: 18 1/2 x 21 3/4 in. | Potomack Company | N/A
22. 2019-07-25 | Edward Sorel \(born 1929\) Watercolor. | Weiss Auctions | $130
23. 2019-03-12 | Edward Sorel \(1929\), "Après moi le déluge" 1973. | Dogny Auction | N/A
24. 2019-02-17 | Edward Sorel \(American, born 1929\) Original Political 1968 Kennedy Painting \- Ramparts Magazine | Myers Fine Art | $425

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