# Ernest Leonard Blumenschein - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-29T11:22:36.348Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 33
- Lots with prices: 22
- First auction date: 2002-12-10
- Latest auction date: 2025-10-23
- Median realised price: $5,000
- Price range: $250 to $471,000

## Market Takeaway
Ernest Leonard Blumenschein has 33 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $5,000. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 5 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 \($5,000\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($1,150 to $30,000\) 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: 18.2% (4 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 36.4% (8 sales)
- $10,000\+: 45.5% (10 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 5
- Previous 12 months sales: 2
- Recent 12 months median: $750
- Previous 12 months median: $2,460
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-10-23
- Days since latest sale: 188
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Bonhams: 6 lots
- Mark Sublette Medicine Man Gallery & Auction: 4 lots
- Altermann Galleries: 3 lots
- Heritage Auctions: 2 lots
- James D. Julia: 2 lots
- New Orleans Auction Galleries: 2 lots
- Santa Fe Art Auction: 2 lots
- Selkirk Auctioneers & Appraisers: 2 lots
- Sotheby's: 2 lots
- Christie's: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-10-23 | ERNEST LEONARD BLUMENSCHEIN \(New York/New Mexico, 1874\-1960\), Figures in a restaurant., Pencil on paper, 7" x 9". Framed 12.75" x 16". | Eldred's | N/A
2. 2025-10-17 | Ernest Leonard Blumenschein \(1874\-1960\) \- Portrait of a Hungarian Roller | Mark Sublette Medicine Man Gallery & Auction | N/A
3. 2025-10-17 | Ernest Leonard Blumenschein \(1874\-1960\) \- Portrait of a Scotch Engineer | Mark Sublette Medicine Man Gallery & Auction | $850
4. 2025-10-17 | Ernest Leonard Blumenschein \(1874\-1960\) \- Portrait of an Open\-Hearth Furnaceman | Mark Sublette Medicine Man Gallery & Auction | $750
5. 2025-10-17 | Ernest Leonard Blumenschein \(1874\-1960\) \- Portrait of a Captain | Mark Sublette Medicine Man Gallery & Auction | N/A
6. 2024-11-09 | Ernest Leonard Blumenschein, Isadora Duncan, 1900 | Santa Fe Art Auction | $2,460
7. 2024-05-15 | Ernest Leonard Blumenschein | DOYLE Auctioneers & Appraisers | $14,000
8. 2024-04-23 | Ernest Leonard Blumenschein \(1874\-1960\) Mexican in Doorway 14 x 20 in. framed 20 x 26 in. | Bonhams | $30,000 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-ernest-leonard-blumenschein-1874-1960-mexican-in-doorway-14-x-20-in-framed-20-x-26-in-105-c-35e46c18aa
9. 2023-05-17 | Autumn in the Mountains | Sotheby's | N/A
10. 2023-01-01 | Ernest Leonard Blumenschein \(1874\-1960\)"Poker Game at Camp"watercolorsigned top right letters grand dance 8 e.m. Prof E.L. Blumen... | Nadeau's Auction Gallery | $1,100
11. 2022-11-01 | Ernest Leonard Blumenschein \(1874\-1960\) Church at Chimayo 16 x 20 in. framed 25 x 29 in. \(Painted in 1929.\) | Bonhams | $220,000
12. 2022-07-30 | Ernest Leonard Blumenschein \(American, 1874\-1960\), "Backstage \(Study of a German Tragedian\)" | New Orleans Auction Galleries | $1,700
13. 2022-03-27 | Ernest Leonard Blumenschein \(American, 1874\-1960\), "Backstage \(Study of a German Tragedian\)" | New Orleans Auction Galleries | $1,500
14. 2021-08-04 | Ernest Leonard Blumenschein \(1874\-1960\) Fishing Eagle's Nest Lake 12 x 16in framed 17 x 21in | Bonhams | $65,000 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-ernest-leonard-blumenschein-1874-1960-fishing-eagle-s-nest-lake-12-x-16in-framed-17-x-21in-34-c-6624fb1948
15. 2019-11-09 | Ernest Leonard Blumenschein, Margaret Berg | Santa Fe Art Auction | N/A
16. 2019-11-09 | ERNEST LEONARD BLUMENSCHEIN \(AMERICAN, 1874\-1960\) | Selkirk Auctioneers & Appraisers | $250
17. 2019-11-07 | Ernest Leonard Blumenschein \(American, 1874\-1960\) Indian Chief   | Hindman | $10,000
18. 2019-05-18 | ERNEST LEONARD BLUMENSCHEIN \(AMERICAN, 1874\-1960\) | Selkirk Auctioneers & Appraisers | N/A
19. 2019-03-26 | Ernest Leonard Blumenschein \(American, 1874\-1960\) The Well\-Dressed Engineman...Remarks to the Despatcher from What a Train\-Despatcher Does: Illustration 7 x 18 1/4in \(17.8 x 46.4cm\) | Bonhams | N/A
20. 2018-01-18 | Ernest Leonard Blumenschein \| French Washer Woman | Altermann Galleries | $1,600
21. 2017-11-13 | ERNEST LEONARD BLUMENSCHEIN \| Eagle Nest Lake | Sotheby's | $471,000
22. 2017-08-01 | Ernest Leonard Blumenschein \(1874\-1960\) Palms, Los Angeles Park 6 1/2 x 3 3/4in overall: 7 1/2 x 4 3/4in | Bonhams | $5,000
23. 2016-12-03 | Ernest Leonard BLUMENSCHEIN \(American, 1874 \- 1960\) | Fine Art Auctions Miami | $7,500
24. 2016-12-02 | Ernest Leonard Blumenschein \| Margaret Berg | Altermann Galleries | $500

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