# Ilonka Karasz - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-30T22:56:18.580Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 29
- Lots with prices: 15
- First auction date: 2003-12-07
- Latest auction date: 2025-10-07
- Median realised price: $2,400
- Price range: $50 to $45,000

## Market Takeaway
Ilonka Karasz has 29 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $2,400. 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 \($2,400\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($700 to $4,500\) 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: 26.7% (4 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 60% (9 sales)
- $10,000\+: 13.3% (2 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 2
- Previous 12 months sales: 1
- Recent 12 months median: $500
- Previous 12 months median: $0
- Median shift: N/A
- Latest sale date: 2025-10-07
- Days since latest sale: 205
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Wright: 7 lots
- Rago Arts and Auction Center: 5 lots
- Sotheby's: 3 lots
- Freeman’s \| Hindman: 2 lots
- Potomack Company: 2 lots
- Ripley Auctions: 2 lots
- Rose Hill Auction Gallery: 2 lots
- Wright's Auction Service: 2 lots
- Christie's: 1 lots
- Doyle New York: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-10-07 | Ilonka Karasz, Rare armchair | Wright | $4,500
2. 2010-12-18 | Ilonka Karasz modernist teapot; silver plated ribbed body with walnut handle and pull. | Ripley Auctions | N/A
3. 2010-07-24 | Ilonka Karasz electroplated nickel silver cream and sugar; modernist machine age tea service articles. | Ripley Auctions | $700 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-ilonka-karasz-electroplated-nickel-silver-cream-and-sugar-modernist-machine-age-tea-service-articles-142-c-75349d2a45
4. 2025-07-17 | Ilonka Karasz \(Hungarian\-American, 1896\-1981\) Arabian Nights wallpaper panel, 1948 Katzenbach & Warren, USA | Freeman’s \| Hindman | $500
5. 2024-11-19 | Ilonka Karasz \(Hungarian\-American, 1896\-1981\) Arabian Nights wallpaper panel, 1948 Katzenbach & Warren, USA | Freeman’s \| Hindman | N/A
6. 2018-11-19 | ILONKA KARASZ \(AMERICAN, 1896\-1981\) MASKS Ink on paper: 3 x 2 in. \(sight\) | Potomack Company | $50
7. 2018-09-29 | ILONKA KARASZ \(AMERICAN, 1896\-1981\) MASKS Ink on paper: 3 x 2 in. \(sight\) | Potomack Company | N/A
8. 2015-04-01 | ILONKA KARASZ \| Under the El | Sotheby's | N/A
9. 2015-02-15 | Ilonka Karasz, Orig New Yorker Magazine Cover Art | Weiss Auctions | N/A
10. 2008-02-09 | Ilonka Karasz \(American, 1896/1981\) Girl in a | Rago Arts and Auction Center | N/A
11. 2008-02-09 | Ilonka Karasz \(American, 1896/1981\) Picnic, | Rago Arts and Auction Center | N/A
12. 2008-02-09 | Ilonka Karasz \(American, 1896/1981\) Central Park | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $3,500
13. 2007-12-18 | ILONKA KARASZ \(1896\-1981\) | Christie's | $25,000
14. 2007-11-10 | ILONKA KARASZ \(American, 1896\-1981\). TWELVE ASTROLOGICAL SIGNS, twelve scratch board illustrations for "ASTROLOGICAL CALENDAR FOR THE G | Sloans & Kenyon | $250
15. 2007-10-27 | Ilonka Karasz \(American, 1886\-1981\) Cover Illustra | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $9,600
16. 2007-03-25 | Ilonka Karasz | Wright | N/A
17. 2007-03-25 | Ilonka Karasz | Wright | $1,020
18. 2007-03-05 | Ilonka Karasz \(1896\-1981, Amer\) Theatre costume sketch of a Roman soldier titled "An Operative", watercolor & ink on paper, unsigned, 8 1/2" x 7", matted & framed 22 1/2" x 18 1/2". | Rose Hill Auction Gallery | N/A
19. 2007-03-05 | Ilonka Karasz \(1896\-1981, Amer\) Theatre sketch scene design, "The Gallery of the Noble Count de Jafhe Entering the Harbor of Damietta", watercolor on paper, initialed middle right, 8 1/2" x 7", matted & framed 22 1/2" x 18 1/2" | Rose Hill Auction Gallery | N/A
20. 2006-12-15 | ILONKA KARASZ | Sotheby's | N/A
21. 2005-12-09 | ILONKA KARASZ | Sotheby's | $45,000
22. 2005-06-22 | Ilonka Karasz | Doyle New York | N/A
23. 2005-05-22 | Ilonka Karasz | Wright | $2,400
24. 2004-12-05 | Ilonka Karasz | Wright | $1,500

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