# Frank Lobdell - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-29T03:10:57.428Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 47
- Lots with prices: 35
- First auction date: 2002-11-21
- Latest auction date: 2025-11-19
- Median realised price: $2,000
- Price range: $200 to $109,800

## Market Takeaway
Frank Lobdell has 47 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $2,000. 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 \($2,000\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($550 to $5,250\) 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: 40% (14 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 42.9% (15 sales)
- $10,000\+: 17.1% (6 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 2
- Previous 12 months sales: 3
- Recent 12 months median: $250
- Previous 12 months median: $200
- Median shift: 25%
- Latest sale date: 2025-11-19
- Days since latest sale: 160
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Bonhams: 15 lots
- Clars Auctions: 5 lots
- Los Angeles Modern Auctions: 5 lots
- Material Culture: 3 lots
- Sotheby's: 3 lots
- Christie's: 2 lots
- Capo Auction: 1 lots
- Clarke Auction Gallery: 1 lots
- Dallas Auction Gallery: 1 lots
- Heritage Auctions: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-11-19 | Frank Lobdell, Untitled | Los Angeles Modern Auctions | $250
2. 2025-11-19 | Frank Lobdell, April | Los Angeles Modern Auctions | $4,200
3. 2025-01-29 | Frank Lobdell "3EP Etching No. 8" 1981 2nd State | Revere Auctions | N/A
4. 2025-01-09 | With signed aquatint by Frank Lobdell | PBA Galleries Auctions & Appraisers | $200
5. 2024-06-20 | Frank Lobdell, Untitled | Los Angeles Modern Auctions | $1,400
6. 2024-03-13 | Frank Lobdell, November 1953 | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $15,000
7. 2022-09-14 | FRANK LOBDELL \(1921\-2013\) Untitled, 1970 | Bonhams | N/A
8. 2022-07-23 | Frank Lobdell \(American 1921\-2013\) Lithograph | Sarasota Estate Auction | $450
9. 2022-03-25 | Frank Lobdell, 9.10.83 State II | Los Angeles Modern Auctions | $900
10. 2022-03-25 | Frank Lobdell, 8.28.83 State I | Los Angeles Modern Auctions | $900
11. 2021-11-15 | Frank Lobdell \(American, 1921\-2013\) Etching | Material Culture | $550
12. 2021-11-15 | Frank Lobdell \(American, 1921\-2013\) Etching | Material Culture | $550
13. 2021-11-15 | Frank Lobdell \(American, 1921\-2013\) Etching | Material Culture | $550
14. 2019-06-30 | FRANK LOBDELL \(AMERICAN, 1921\-2013\). | Clarke Auction Gallery | N/A
15. 2018-06-10 | Frank Lobdell \(1921 \- 2013\) | Turner Auctions \+ Appraisals | $225
16. 2018-05-02 | Frank Lobdell \(1921\-2013\) Untitled, 2001 | Bonhams | N/A
17. 2017-08-27 | FRANK LOBDELL \(CA/KS/MO, 1921\-2013\) | Thomaston Place Auction Galleries | $2,750
18. 2017-08-22 | FRANK LOBDELL \(AMERICAN, 1921\-2013\) Untitled | Christie's | $2,250
19. 2017-04-26 | Frank Lobdell \(1921\-2013\) Untitled, 2000 12 x 9 in. \(30.5 x 22.9 cm\) | Bonhams | $2,500
20. 2017-04-26 | Frank Lobdell \(1921\-2013\) Untitled, 2001 12 x 9 in. \(30.5 x 22.9 cm\) | Bonhams | $2,500
21. 2016-11-13 | Frank Lobdell, ink on paper | Clars Auctions | N/A
22. 2016-11-13 | Frank Lobdell, ink on paper | Clars Auctions | N/A
23. 2016-11-01 | Frank Lobdell \(1921\-2013\) | Bonhams | $2,000
24. 2016-11-01 | Frank Lobdell \(1921\-2013\) | Bonhams | $2,000

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