# Inka Essenhigh - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-01T03:01:08.199Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 79
- Lots with prices: 52
- First auction date: 2001-05-16
- Latest auction date: 2025-12-16
- Median realised price: $11,500
- Price range: $175 to $132,000

## Market Takeaway
Inka Essenhigh has 79 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $11,500. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 4 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 \($11,500\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($4,800 to $35,000\) 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: 13.5% (7 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 30.8% (16 sales)
- $10,000\+: 55.8% (29 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 4
- Previous 12 months sales: 2
- Recent 12 months median: $600
- Previous 12 months median: $396
- Median shift: 51.5%
- Latest sale date: 2025-12-16
- Days since latest sale: 135
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Christie's: 29 lots
- Sotheby's: 19 lots
- Phillips: 14 lots
- Auctionata US: 3 lots
- Dreweatts 1759: 3 lots
- Rago Arts and Auction Center: 3 lots
- STAIR: 2 lots
- Bill Hood & Sons Arts & Antiques Auctions: 1 lots
- Grisebach: 1 lots
- John Moran Auctioneers: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-12-16 | INKA ESSENHIGH \(B. 1969\). Fantasy. oil on linen74 x 70 in. \(188 x 177.8 cm. | Christie's | $8,890
2. 2025-12-05 | Inka Essenhigh, War | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $250
3. 2025-11-20 | Inka Essenhigh \(b. 1969\): Untitled \(Lavender\) | STAIR | $600
4. 2025-07-18 | INKA ESSENHIGH \(B. 1969\). Explosion. oil enamel on canvas stretched over bo | Christie's | $27,720
5. 2024-10-30 | Inka Essenhigh \(b. 1969\), "War," 2004 | John Moran Auctioneers | $396
6. 2024-06-20 | Inka Essenhigh \(b. 1969\): Western Print | STAIR | $600
7. 2023-12-07 | Inka Essenhigh, Girls at a Rock Concert | Wright | $1,900
8. 2022-07-20 | INKA ESSENHIGH \(b. 1969\) Beauty Pageant oil enamel on canvas 60 x 72 1/2 i | Christie's | $7,560
9. 2021-12-15 | INKA ESSENHIGH \(b. 1969\) Heaven's Gate oil and enamel on canvas 70 x 72 1/ | Christie's | $15,000
10. 2021-05-19 | Inka Essenhigh, Mermaid | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $175
11. 2020-02-18 | INKA ESSENHIGH \(B. 1969\) 5am | Christie's | £6,000
12. 2020-02-05 | Inka Essenhigh \(b. 1969\) Corset \(from People Do Weird Things To Their Bodies\) | Christie's | $1,625
13. 2019-12-12 | INKA ESSENHIGH \- Beauty Contest | Phillips | £9,500
14. 2019-08-06 | Inka Essenhigh \(AMERICAN, 1969\) MAD COW \- 2004, oil on paper, 18 x 24 inches, 303 Gallery NY label o | Bill Hood & Sons Arts & Antiques Auctions | $1,000
15. 2019-04-11 | INKA ESSENHIGH \- White Rain | Phillips | £8,500
16. 2018-11-20 | INKA ESSENHIGH \| Bullies | Sotheby's | N/A
17. 2018-09-26 | INKA ESSENHIGH \- Spring Bar Scene | Phillips | $35,000
18. 2018-06-27 | INKA ESSENHIGH \| Waves at Midnight | Sotheby's | £11,500
19. 2017-12-07 | INKA ESSENHIGH \- Figure Burning in Hell | Phillips | £14,000
20. 2017-11-21 | INKA ESSENHIGH \| Morning | Sotheby's | £375
21. 2017-10-05 | INKA ESSENHIGH \- Sunshine | Phillips | N/A
22. 2017-09-15 | INKA ESSENHIGH \(B. 1969\) Two Chicks Fighting signed, titled and dated ’ | Christie's | £11,250
23. 2017-09-14 | INKA ESSENHIGH \| Escape Pod | Sotheby's | £15,000
24. 2017-03-10 | INKA ESSENHIGH \- Figure Burning in Hell | Phillips | N/A

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