# Esther Bubley - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-29T11:18:58.070Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 35
- Lots with prices: 19
- First auction date: 2008-09-14
- Latest auction date: 2025-09-25
- Median realised price: $900
- Price range: $200 to $3,960

## Market Takeaway
Esther Bubley has 35 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $900. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 2 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 \($900\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($325 to $1,300\) 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: 63.2% (12 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 36.8% (7 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 2
- Previous 12 months sales: 2
- Recent 12 months median: $937
- Previous 12 months median: $812
- Median shift: 15.4%
- Latest sale date: 2025-09-25
- Days since latest sale: 215
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Christie's: 5 lots
- Revere Auctions: 4 lots
- STAIR: 4 lots
- Swann Auction Galleries: 4 lots
- Be\-Hold: 3 lots
- Heritage Auctions: 3 lots
- Keith Delellis Gallery LLC: 3 lots
- Bonhams: 2 lots
- Kunsthaus Lempertz KG: 2 lots
- Artcurial: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-09-25 | Esther Bubley, Manhattan Bridge, silver print, 1940. | Swann Auction Galleries | $3,960
2. 2025-05-08 | ESTHER BUBLEY \(1921\-1998\) Tailor Shop. Ouro, Preto, Brazil. 1956; printed 1970s. | Swann Auction Galleries | $937
3. 2025-02-13 | ESTHER BUBLEY \(1921\-1998\) Group of children, hands reaching up, Morocco. Circa 1953. | Swann Auction Galleries | N/A
4. 2024-10-31 | ESTHER BUBLEY \(1921\-1998\) A pair of photographs taken in Greyhound Bus Terminals. 1943; printed 1980s. | Swann Auction Galleries | $812
5. 2023-04-06 | Esther Bubley \(American, 1921\-1998\); New York Harbor from Weehawken, New Jersey; | Bonhams | N/A
6. 2022-12-02 | Esther Bubley, Greyhound Bus Passengers, New York City, 1947 | Kunsthaus Lempertz KG | €1,100
7. 2022-05-24 | Esther Bubley \(1922\-1998\) | Chiswick Auctions | £200
8. 2021-12-02 | Esther Bubley \(1922\-1998\): Girl by Bus | STAIR | $350
9. 2021-06-19 | Esther Bubley,Rockefeller Center, c. 1945 | Keith Delellis Gallery LLC | N/A
10. 2021-04-16 | ESTHER BUBLEY \(1991\-1998\) | OstLicht Auctions | €900
11. 2021-02-27 | Esther Bubley, SS Waltham Victory, 1940s | Keith Delellis Gallery LLC | N/A
12. 2021-02-10 | Esther Bubley "Bow Bridge Central Park" Photograph | Revere Auctions | $1,150
13. 2021-02-10 | Esther Bubley "Birds in Snow Central Park" Photograph | Revere Auctions | $220
14. 2020-12-17 | Esther Bubley, Humble Co., Tomball Field, 1945 | Keith Delellis Gallery LLC | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-esther-bubley-humble-co-tomball-field-1945-176a-c-73047ef861
15. 2020-03-25 | Esther Bubley Photograph Couple Central Park | Revere Auctions | $200
16. 2020-03-25 | Esther Bubley Photograph Bird and Pond | Revere Auctions | $200
17. 2018-06-27 | ESTHER BUBLEY, Family with child in the Greyhound Bus Station Waiting Room, 1947. | Be\-Hold | N/A
18. 2018-06-27 | ESTHER BUBLEY, Sleeping passengers, Greyhound Bus Station, NYC waiting room, 1947. 6 ¼ x 9 ½\- inch ferrotyped gelatin silver prints. | Be\-Hold | N/A
19. 2018-06-27 | ESTHER BUBLEY, Greyhound Bus Station NYC, 1947, printed 1947. 8 ¾ x 11 7/8 \-inch gelatin silver print flush mounted to heavy board. Signed by Bubley in pen, with her stamp and other notations on the verso. | Be\-Hold | N/A
20. 2015-05-29 | Esther Bubley, Rockefeller Plaza, New York City, 1953 | Kunsthaus Lempertz KG | N/A
21. 2014-05-24 | Esther Bubley \(1921\-1998\), photograph | Millea Bros Ltd | $700
22. 2014-05-20 | Esther BUBLEY \(1922\-1998\) West 47th street \- 1949 Tirage argentique d'époque | Artcurial | €1,300
23. 2012-12-06 | ESTHER BUBLEY \(1921\-1998\) | Christie's | $2,500
24. 2012-12-06 | ESTHER BUBLEY \(1921\-1998\) | Christie's | $2,000

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