# Hiram Powers - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-29T07:44:12.342Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 42
- Lots with prices: 29
- First auction date: 1990-11-30
- Latest auction date: 2026-01-29
- Median realised price: $25,000
- Price range: $324 to $144,000

## Market Takeaway
Hiram Powers shows developing auction liquidity with 42 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $25,000. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 2 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2026-01-29.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($25,000\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $6,350 and $43,750.
- 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: 3.4% (1 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 31% (9 sales)
- $10,000\+: 65.5% (19 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 2
- Previous 12 months sales: 2
- Recent 12 months median: $25,000
- Previous 12 months median: $5,500
- Median shift: 100%
- Latest sale date: 2026-01-29
- Days since latest sale: 20
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Christie's: 15 lots
- Bonhams: 5 lots
- STAIR: 4 lots
- Sotheby's: 3 lots
- Brunk Auctions: 2 lots
- Clarke Auction Gallery: 1 lots
- Colasanti Casa d'Aste: 1 lots
- Cottone Auctions: 1 lots
- Doyle New York: 1 lots
- Early American History Auctions: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2026-01-29 | Hiram Powers \(1805\-1873\): Fisher Boy | STAIR | $25,000
2. 2025-02-20 | HIRAM POWERS \(1805\-1873\) L'esclave mourant d'après Michel\-Ange | HVMC \- Hôtel des Ventes de Monte\-Carlo | N/A
3. 2024-02-24 | HIRAM POWERS \(DC/ITALY VT/OH, 1805\-1873\) | Thomaston Place Auction Galleries | $5,500
4. 2023-12-13 | Bust of Faith | Sotheby's | £6,350
5. 2023-07-12 | Hiram Powers \(American, 1805\-1872\): A very rare and early carved white marble ideal portrait bust of Ginevra, \(first version\) | Bonhams | £30,000 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-hiram-powers-american-1805-1872-a-very-rare-and-early-carved-white-marble-ideal-portrait-bust-of-ginevra-first-version-84-c-c6a4dbfbf6
6. 2021-11-17 | Hiram Powers \(American, 1805\-1873\): A documented carved Carrara marble portrait bust of Mary Rebecca Lloyd Boggs Ray \(1808\-1876\) circa 1853\-4 | Bonhams | N/A
7. 2020-12-06 | Hiram Powers \(American 1805 \- 1873\) Signed | Clarke Auction Gallery | $24,000
8. 2019-06-25 | Hiram Powers attributed | Colasanti Casa d'Aste | €5,000
9. 2018-11-14 | HIRAM POWERS | Wannenes Art Auctions | €4,200
10. 2018-02-14 | Hiram Powers \(American, 1805\-1873\): A carved white marble bust of Thomas Henry Sutton Sotheron\-Estcourt M.P. \(1801\-76\) | Bonhams | N/A
11. 2017-04-05 | HIRAM POWERS \(AMERICAN, 1805\-1873\): A CARVED WHITE MARBLE BUST OF PROSE | Bonhams | N/A
12. 2017-01-20 | Hiram Powers \(1805\-1873\) | Christie's | $7,500
13. 2016-06-29 | Hiram Powers,1805\-1873, Autographed Letter | Litchfield Auctions | N/A
14. 2015-03-25 | Hiram Powers \(1805\-1873\) Proserpine marble 21 in. \(53.3 cm.\) high | Christie's | $18,750
15. 2013-12-05 | Hiram Powers \(1805\-1873\) | Christie's | $43,750
16. 2013-10-27 | HIRAM POWERS \(AMERICAN, 1805\-1873\): PORTRAIT BUST OF JOHN MOFFAT \(1788\-1863\) | STAIR | $2,500
17. 2013-09-21 | After Hiram Powers | Brunk Auctions | $10,030
18. 2013-07-02 | HIRAM POWERS | Sotheby's | £84,100
19. 2013-03-23 | Hiram Powers \(American, 1805\-1873\) Marble Bust with Period Pedestal | Cottone Auctions | $9,000
20. 2012-06-23 | HIRAM POWERS \(AMERICAN, 1805\-1873\): PORTRAIT BUST OF JOHN MOFFAT \(1788\-1863\) | STAIR | N/A
21. 2012-03-10 | HIRAM POWERS \(AMERICAN, 1805\-1873\): PORTRAIT BUST OF JOHN MOFFAT \(1788\-1863\) | STAIR | N/A
22. 2010-12-01 | Hiram Powers \(1805\-1873\) | Christie's | N/A
23. 2010-08-11 | Autograph: Hiram Powers | RR Auction | $324
24. 2009-11-11 | HIRAM POWERS \(American, 1805\-1873\) Proserpine, | Heritage Auctions | $29,875

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