# Frederick Sommer - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-29T14:20:23.521Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 139
- Lots with prices: 86
- First auction date: 2001-04-25
- Latest auction date: 2025-11-04
- Median realised price: $10,200
- Price range: $400 to $62,400

## Market Takeaway
Frederick Sommer shows solid auction liquidity with 138 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $11,250. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 2 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-11-04.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($11,250\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $6,300 and $18,000.
- 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: 7.1% (6 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 35.3% (30 sales)
- $10,000\+: 57.6% (49 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 2
- Previous 12 months sales: 5
- Recent 12 months median: $950
- Previous 12 months median: $3,000
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-11-04
- Days since latest sale: 106
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Christie's: 52 lots
- Sotheby's: 38 lots
- Phillips: 20 lots
- Swann Auction Galleries: 9 lots
- Aguttes: 6 lots
- Rago Arts and Auction Center: 4 lots
- PBA Galleries Auctions & Appraisers: 2 lots
- STAIR: 2 lots
- Bonhams: 1 lots
- Clarke Auction Gallery: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2011-10-04 | FREDERICK SOMMER | Phillips | $52,500
2. 2025-11-04 | Frederick Sommer, The Birth of Venus | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $950
3. 2025-09-11 | Collection of books & ephemera on Frederick Sommer | PBA Galleries Auctions & Appraisers | $400 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-collection-of-books-ephemera-on-frederick-sommer-383-c-9554f4e944
4. 2025-05-08 | FREDERICK SOMMER \(1905\-1999\) Portfolio entitled The Birth of Venus. 1991\-93. | Swann Auction Galleries | N/A
5. 2024-11-21 | Frederick Sommer \(1905\-1999\): The Milky Way | STAIR | $2,900
6. 2024-11-21 | Frederick Sommer \(1905\-1999\): Glass | STAIR | $3,000
7. 2024-05-16 | FREDERICK SOMMER \(1905\-1999\) Dry Creek Bed. | Swann Auction Galleries | $7,000
8. 2024-04-03 | FREDERICK SOMMER \(1905–1999\) Lee Nevin with Violin, 1963 signed, titled and | Christie's | N/A
9. 2024-02-22 | FREDERICK SOMMER \(1905–1999\) Coyotes, 1945 signed, titled, and dated \(twice | Christie's | $6,300
10. 2023-10-19 | Frederick Sommer \(1905\-1999\) Livia, 1948 | Hindman | N/A
11. 2023-04-13 | FREDERICK SOMMER \(1905–1999\) Lee Nevin, 1965 signed, titled and dated in pe | Christie's | N/A
12. 2022-10-29 | FREDERICK SOMMER \(AMERICAN, 1905\-1999\). | Clarke Auction Gallery | $1,600
13. 2022-07-28 | Frederick Sommer at Seventy\-Five signed poster | PBA Galleries Auctions & Appraisers | N/A
14. 2022-04-28 | FREDERICK SOMMER \(1905\-1999\) Untitled, 1950 | Aguttes | €450
15. 2022-04-28 | FREDERICK SOMMER \(1905\-1999\) Untitled, 1949 | Aguttes | €500
16. 2022-04-28 | FREDERICK SOMMER \(1905\-1999\) Untitled, 1949 | Aguttes | €550
17. 2022-04-28 | FREDERICK SOMMER \(1905\-1999\) Untitled, 1949 | Aguttes | €500
18. 2022-04-28 | FREDERICK SOMMER \(1905\-1999\) Pine Cone, 1947 | Aguttes | N/A
19. 2022-04-28 | FREDERICK SOMMER \(1905\-1999\) I Adore You, 1947 | Aguttes | N/A
20. 2022-04-07 | FREDERICK SOMMER \(1905–1999\) Circumnavigation of the Blood, 1950 signed, ti | Christie's | $8,190
21. 2021-10-06 | FREDERICK SOMMER \(1905–1999\) Golden Apples \(Smoke on cellophane\), 1961 | Christie's | N/A
22. 2020-12-16 | Frederick Sommer, Eight Young Roosters | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $5,500
23. 2020-07-13 | FREDERICK SOMMER \- Max Ernst, 1946 | Phillips | $25,000
24. 2020-07-13 | FREDERICK SOMMER \- Livia, 1948 | Phillips | $28,000

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