# Ivan Otterlifter - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-15T20:54:33.747Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 10
- Lots with prices: 6
- First auction date: 2007-10-30
- Latest auction date: 2025-12-13
- Median realised price: $750
- Price range: $350 to $22,500

## Market Takeaway
Ivan Otterlifter has 10 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $750. 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 \($750\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($650 to $2,375\) 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: 50% (3 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 33.3% (2 sales)
- $10,000\+: 16.7% (1 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 1
- Previous 12 months sales: 3
- Recent 12 months median: $750
- Previous 12 months median: $650
- Median shift: 15.4%
- Latest sale date: 2025-12-13
- Days since latest sale: 153
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Artemis Gallery: 5 lots
- MBA Seattle Auction LLC: 2 lots
- Christie's: 1 lots
- Sofe Design Auctions: 1 lots
- Waddington's: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-12-13 | Ivan Otterlifter \( Cyot \) Northwest Coast Carved Wood Abalone Eyes Large Fish | Sofe Design Auctions | $750 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-ivan-otterlifter-cyot-northwest-coast-carved-wood-abalone-eyes-large-fish-9023-c-624551ae9a
2. 2024-09-26 | Ivan Otterlifter ''Owl Man'' Large Cedar Mask | MBA Seattle Auction LLC | $650
3. 2024-07-18 | Tlingit Argillite & Nacre Bear Pipe by Ivan Otterlifter | Artemis Gallery | N/A
4. 2024-06-13 | Ivan Otterlifter \(Cyot\) \(1936\-1999\), RAVEN TRANSFORMATION MASK | Waddington's | CA$2,375
5. 2020-09-17 | 20th C. Tlingit Wood & Nacre Spoon by Ivan Otterlifter | Artemis Gallery | $1,000
6. 2020-05-21 | 20th C. Tlingit Wood & Nacre Spoon by Ivan Otterlifter | Artemis Gallery | N/A
7. 2019-12-05 | Ivan Otterlifter \(1931\-1999 Cherokee\) Medicine Man Mask Carved and Painted Cedar 11''x8''. | MBA Seattle Auction LLC | $350
8. 2019-11-14 | 20th C. Tlingit Wood & Nacre Spoon by Ivan Otterlifter | Artemis Gallery | N/A
9. 2019-09-05 | 20th C. Tlingit Wood & Nacre Spoon by Ivan Otterlifter | Artemis Gallery | N/A
10. 2007-10-30 | Coyote \(E. 169\) | Christie's | $22,500

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