# Harold Balazs - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-29T23:26:13.992Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 20
- Lots with prices: 20
- First auction date: 2010-08-08
- Latest auction date: 2025-12-11
- Median realised price: $475
- Price range: $50 to $8,500

## Market Takeaway
Harold Balazs has 20 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $475. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 1 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 \($475\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($325 to $2,300\) 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: 70% (14 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 30% (6 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 1
- Previous 12 months sales: 1
- Recent 12 months median: $6,500
- Previous 12 months median: $50
- Median shift: 100%
- Latest sale date: 2025-12-11
- Days since latest sale: 139
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- MBA Seattle Auction LLC: 11 lots
- Grant Zahajko Auctions, LLC: 3 lots
- O'Gallerie: 2 lots
- Pacific Galleries: 2 lots
- Clars Auctions: 1 lots
- Leonard Auction: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-12-11 | Harold Balazs "Red Tide" 1971 Enameled Steel | MBA Seattle Auction LLC | $6,500
2. 2025-01-22 | Harold Balazs, Fred Oldfield Autographed Photos | Grant Zahajko Auctions, LLC | $50
3. 2024-03-28 | Harold Balazs ''What's in a Cymbal'' 1954 Oil | MBA Seattle Auction LLC | $2,300
4. 2024-03-28 | Harold Balazs ''Another Struggle'' 2008 Acrylic | MBA Seattle Auction LLC | $2,750
5. 2023-09-28 | Harold Balazs ''The Sentinel'' Steel Sculpture 6' | MBA Seattle Auction LLC | $8,500
6. 2022-12-15 | Harold Balazs ''Pandoras Box'' 1973 Watercolor | MBA Seattle Auction LLC | $500
7. 2022-12-15 | 2pc Harold Balazs ''Relic'' 1991 Graphite and Lead | MBA Seattle Auction LLC | $375
8. 2022-12-15 | 2pc Harold Balazs ''Daemon II and III'' Enamels | MBA Seattle Auction LLC | $325
9. 2022-12-15 | Harold Balazs ''Totem with Bow Tie'' Enamel | MBA Seattle Auction LLC | $325
10. 2022-12-15 | Harold Balazs ''Pharonic Form II'' Bronze | MBA Seattle Auction LLC | $500
11. 2022-06-26 | Harold Balazs \(American, 1928\-2017\) Modernist Patinated Metal Sculpture | Leonard Auction | $3,000
12. 2022-03-03 | Harold Balazs ''Jumping Thru Hoops II'' 1992 Lead | MBA Seattle Auction LLC | $600
13. 2020-12-17 | Harold Balazs ''Above and Below'' 1971 Screenprint | MBA Seattle Auction LLC | $325
14. 2019-06-16 | \(lot of 5\) Harold Balazs \(American 1928\-2017\) Mid Century enamel decorative group | Clars Auctions | $2,880 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-lot-of-5-harold-balazs-american-1928-2017-mid-century-enamel-decorative-group-7035-c-c3445a1893
15. 2017-07-29 | Harold Balazs \(American, born 1928\) Pair Enamels | Grant Zahajko Auctions, LLC | $400
16. 2017-04-22 | Harold Balazs Signed Color Screenprint | Grant Zahajko Auctions, LLC | $160
17. 2014-08-18 | HAROLD BALAZS \(American, born 1928\) BRONZE | O'Gallerie | $475
18. 2014-08-18 | HAROLD BALAZS \(AMERICAN, B. 1928\) SCULPTURE IN | O'Gallerie | $950
19. 2010-08-09 | HAROLD BALAZS SCULPTURE | Pacific Galleries | $180
20. 2010-08-08 | HAROLD BALAZS SCULPTURE | Pacific Galleries | $325

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