# Emil James Bisttram - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-29T09:53:57.762Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 85
- Lots with prices: 69
- First auction date: 2003-08-20
- Latest auction date: 2025-11-08
- Median realised price: $2,629
- Price range: $160 to $413,000

## Market Takeaway
Emil James Bisttram shows solid auction liquidity with 85 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $2,629. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 8 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-11-08.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($2,629\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $1,220 and $4,880.
- 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: 14.5% (10 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 69.6% (48 sales)
- $10,000\+: 15.9% (11 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 8
- Previous 12 months sales: 4
- Recent 12 months median: $2,767
- Previous 12 months median: $6,250
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-11-08
- Days since latest sale: 102
- Market velocity: moderate

## Top Auction Houses
- Heritage Auctions: 25 lots
- Santa Fe Art Auction: 13 lots
- Bonhams: 10 lots
- Christie's: 8 lots
- Toomey & Co. Auctioneers: 4 lots
- Art\-Torg: 3 lots
- Neal Auction Company: 3 lots
- Skinner: 3 lots
- Bill Hood & Sons Arts & Antiques Auctions: 2 lots
- James D. Julia: 2 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2024-11-09 | Emil James Bisttram, Reflection, 1960 | Santa Fe Art Auction | $17,220
2. 2025-11-08 | Emil James Bisttram, Marine Patterns, 1950 | Santa Fe Art Auction | $30,750
3. 2025-11-07 | Emil James Bisttram, Directions | Santa Fe Art Auction | $2,767
4. 2025-09-18 | Emil James Bisttram \(1895\-1976\), Untitled, 1942. | Swann Auction Galleries | $10,160
5. 2025-09-17 | Emil James Bisttram, Untitled, 1940 | Santa Fe Art Auction | $4,612
6. 2025-09-17 | Emil James Bisttram, Ancient Gods, 1952 | Santa Fe Art Auction | $922
7. 2025-07-24 | Emil James Bisttram, The Pottery Maker | Santa Fe Art Auction | $896
8. 2025-04-16 | Emil James Bisttram \(1895\-1976\) The Sentinels 30 x 24 in. framed 35 1/2 x 29 1/2 in. | Bonhams | $6,500
9. 2025-03-12 | Emil James Bisttram, Near the Ranchos Church | Santa Fe Art Auction | $922
10. 2024-11-08 | Emil James Bisttram, Taos Mountain | Santa Fe Art Auction | $6,765
11. 2024-11-08 | Emil James Bisttram, Forest Fugue, 1955 | Santa Fe Art Auction | $3,690
12. 2024-05-02 | EMIL JAMES BISTTRAM, American 1895\-1976, Geometric Shapes on Orange Ground, 1944, encaustic and sand on paper, 13 1/2 x 10 3/4 in. \(34.3 x 27.3 cm.\) \(sight\), Frame: 21 1/4 x 18 1/4 x 1 3/4 in. \(54 x 46.4 x 4.4 cm.\) | Shannon's | $6,250
13. 2023-11-11 | Emil James Bisttram, Lucite Construction, 1962 | Santa Fe Art Auction | N/A
14. 2023-11-11 | Emil James Bisttram, White Noise, 1960 | Santa Fe Art Auction | $21,960
15. 2023-11-11 | Emil James Bisttram, Space Abstraction, 1951 | Santa Fe Art Auction | N/A
16. 2023-11-10 | Emil James Bisttram, Along the Rio Grande Gorge, Northern NM, 1973 | Santa Fe Art Auction | $4,270
17. 2023-11-01 | Emil James Bisttram \(American, 1895\-1976\) Winter Evening 48 x 56 in. \(121.9 x 142.2 cm\) framed 49 x 57 x 2 in. | Bonhams | $1,700
18. 2023-05-25 | Emil James Bisttram \(1895\-1976\) Taos Mountain in Winter 25 x 31 1/2 in. \(63.5 x 80 cm.\) | Bonhams | $15,000
19. 2023-05-06 | EMIL JAMES BISTTRAM \(D.1976\) HUMMINGBIRD DANCER | Austin Auction Gallery | $6,000
20. 2022-06-03 | Emil James BISTTRAM \(1895\-1976\) Hungary \- American | Art\-Torg | N/A
21. 2021-11-18 | Emil James Bisttram \(Romainian/New Mexico, 1895\-1976\), "Transcendental No. 5" | New Orleans Auction Galleries | $900
22. 2021-08-12 | Emil James BISTTRAM \(1895\-1976\) Hungary \- American | Art\-Torg | N/A
23. 2021-08-04 | Emil James Bisttram \(1895\-1976\) Taos Mountain in Winter 25 x 32in framed 34 x 40 1/2in | Bonhams | $4,000
24. 2021-08-04 | Emil James Bisttram \(1895\-1976\) Ranchos Church Taos 28 x 36in framed 36 x 44in \(Painted in 1974.\) | Bonhams | $20,000

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