# Howard Ben Tré - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-30T04:53:20.825Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 8
- Lots with prices: 6
- First auction date: 2011-01-28
- Latest auction date: 2024-10-23
- Median realised price: $3,250
- Price range: $100 to $28,000

## Market Takeaway
Howard Ben Tré has 8 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $3,250. Category concentration is still broad. Recent 12-month volume is still light. 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 \($3,250\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($652 to $5,000\) 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: 33.3% (2 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 50% (3 sales)
- $10,000\+: 16.7% (1 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 0
- Previous 12 months sales: 1
- Recent 12 months median: $0
- Previous 12 months median: $5,000
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2024-10-23
- Days since latest sale: 553
- Market velocity: inactive

## Top Auction Houses
- STAIR: 4 lots
- Bonhams: 2 lots
- Skinner: 1 lots
- Sotheby's: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2024-10-23 | HOWARD BEN TRÉ \(BORN 1949\) Cast Form1980scast glass, copper, with white laminate pedestalheight of sculpture 12 1/4in \(32cm\); width 16 1/4in \(42cm\); depth 7 1/4in \(18.5cm\) | Bonhams | $5,000
2. 2022-11-17 | Howard Ben Tré \(1949\-2020\): Dedicant 3 | STAIR | $3,250
3. 2016-03-02 | HOWARD BEN TRÉ \| "Paired Forms 2" | Sotheby's | N/A
4. 2014-06-10 | HOWARD BEN TRÉ \(AMERICAN, BORN 1949\) Structure | Bonhams | N/A
5. 2014-06-07 | HOWARD BEN TRÉ \(b. 1949\): PRIMARY VESSEL | STAIR | $3,750
6. 2012-05-19 | HOWARD BEN TRÉ \(b. 1949\): EMBOSSING FOR URN \#2, 1991 | STAIR | $100
7. 2012-05-19 | HOWARD BEN TRÉ \(b. 1949\): COLUMN 34 | STAIR | $28,000
8. 2011-01-28 | Howard Ben Tré \(American, b. 1949\), Leslie Bostrom \(American, 20th/21st Century\), Ruth Frisch Dealy \(American, 20th/21st Century\), A... | Skinner | $652

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