# Joel Sternfeld - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-30T17:11:55.844Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 184
- Lots with prices: 126
- First auction date: 2001-01-17
- Latest auction date: 2025-11-27
- Median realised price: $5,000
- Price range: $100 to $153,100

## Market Takeaway
Joel Sternfeld shows deep auction liquidity with 180 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $5,000. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 15 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-11-27.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($5,000\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $2,250 and $11,250.
- 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: 15.3% (19 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 54.8% (68 sales)
- $10,000\+: 29.8% (37 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 15
- Previous 12 months sales: 7
- Recent 12 months median: $460
- Previous 12 months median: $2,400
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-11-27
- Days since latest sale: 83
- Market velocity: moderate

## Top Auction Houses
- Christie's: 77 lots
- Phillips: 18 lots
- Bonhams: 11 lots
- Sotheby's: 9 lots
- STAIR: 8 lots
- Heritage Auctions: 6 lots
- Roseberys: 6 lots
- Swann Auction Galleries: 6 lots
- Finarte: 5 lots
- Gray's Auctioneers: 4 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2024-08-22 | Six works by Joel Sternfeld | PBA Galleries Auctions & Appraisers | $170 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-six-works-by-joel-sternfeld-137-c-07040a0802
2. 2024-06-13 | Six works by Joel Sternfeld | PBA Galleries Auctions & Appraisers | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-six-works-by-joel-sternfeld-299-c-92441b7a7e
3. 2025-11-27 | Joel Sternfeld \(b.1944\) Garden Roof, City Hall, Chicago, May 2005 | Chiswick Auctions | N/A
4. 2025-11-25 | Joel Sternfeld,  American b. 1944\-  Sixteenth\-century farm..., December 19 | Roseberys | £460 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-joel-sternfeld-american-b-1944-sixteenth-century-farm-december-19-298-c-7a139948a4
5. 2025-11-20 | Joel Sternfeld \(b. 1944\): Untitled, from Walking the High Line | STAIR | $2,500
6. 2025-11-06 | Joel Sternfeld \(b. 1944\): Matanuska Glacier, Alaska | STAIR | $500
7. 2025-11-06 | Joel Sternfeld \(b. 1944\): Meadowview, Virginia | STAIR | $350
8. 2025-11-06 | Joel Sternfeld \(b. 1944\): Buckingham, Pennsylvania | STAIR | $350
9. 2025-09-17 | Joel Sternfeld,  Sixteenth\-century farm..., December 1990  | Roseberys | £260 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-joel-sternfeld-sixteenth-century-farm-december-1990-177-c-70e4f7498b
10. 2025-06-25 | Joel Sternfeld,  Sixteenth\-century farm..., December 1990  | Roseberys | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-joel-sternfeld-sixteenth-century-farm-december-1990-351-c-6264fda86a
11. 2025-06-25 | Joel Sternfeld,  Tor Pignatorre, October 1990  | Roseberys | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-joel-sternfeld-tor-pignatorre-october-1990-350-c-71f4bb7852
12. 2025-05-22 | Joel Sternfeld \(b.1944\) | Chiswick Auctions | N/A
13. 2025-05-08 | JOEL STERNFELD \(1944\- \) Meadowview, Virginia. May 1983; printed 1987. | Swann Auction Galleries | N/A
14. 2025-04-10 | Joel Sternfeld \(1944\) \- A Blind Man in his Garden, Homer, Alaska, 1984 | Finarte | N/A
15. 2025-04-09 | Joel Sternfeld,  Tor Pignatorre, October 1990;  | Roseberys | N/A
16. 2025-04-09 | Joel Sternfeld,  Sixteenth\-century farm..., December 1990;  | Roseberys | N/A
17. 2025-03-26 | Joel Sternfeld, Ektacolor print mounted to plexi | Millea Bros Ltd | $2,250
18. 2024-11-26 | Joel Sternfeld, 1944, Wet 'N Wild Aquatic Theme Park, Orlando, FL | Germann Auction House Ltd | CHF 2,400
19. 2024-11-20 | Joel Sternfeld \(b. 1944\): McLean, Virginia | STAIR | $2,000
20. 2024-10-03 | JOEL STERNFELD \(B. 1944\). Near Lake Powell Arizona \(basketball hoop\), 1979. | Christie's | $6,300
21. 2024-10-03 | JOEL STERNFELD \(B. 1944\). After a Flash Flood, Rancho Mirage, California, J | Christie's | $15,120
22. 2024-10-03 | JOEL STERNFELD \(B. 1944\). Exhausted Renegade Elephant, Woodland, Washington | Christie's | $1,512
23. 2024-10-03 | JOEL STERNFELD \(B. 1944\). McLean, Virginia, 1978. signed, titled, dated \[wi | Christie's | $37,800
24. 2024-08-22 | Signed by Joel Sternfeld | PBA Galleries Auctions & Appraisers | $100 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-signed-by-joel-sternfeld-138-c-c86468493d

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