# John Opper - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-15T20:52:53.749Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 21
- Lots with prices: 15
- First auction date: 2010-11-13
- Latest auction date: 2025-06-28
- Median realised price: $6,500
- Price range: $180 to $42,000

## Market Takeaway
John Opper has 21 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $6,500. 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 \($6,500\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($1,659 to $10,625\) 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: 13.3% (2 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 60% (9 sales)
- $10,000\+: 26.7% (4 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 1
- Previous 12 months sales: 4
- Recent 12 months median: $0
- Previous 12 months median: $8,000
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-06-28
- Days since latest sale: 321
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Art\-Torg: 6 lots
- Swann Auction Galleries: 3 lots
- Eldred's: 2 lots
- Rago Arts and Auction Center: 2 lots
- Auctions at Showplace: 1 lots
- Capsule Gallery Auction: 1 lots
- DuMouchelles: 1 lots
- Heritage Auctions: 1 lots
- Hindman: 1 lots
- Quinn's Auction Galleries: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-06-28 | John OPPER \(1908\-1994\) American | Art\-Torg | N/A
2. 2025-05-01 | John Opper "Color Series \#32" Acrylic on Canvas | Auctions at Showplace | $8,000
3. 2024-11-21 | Iota | Sotheby's | $42,000
4. 2024-10-18 | John OPPER \(1908\-1994\) American | Art\-Torg | N/A
5. 2024-07-26 | JOHN OPPER \(New York/North Carolina/Illinois, 1908\-1994\), Provincetown landscape with "Wharf" banner., Oil on canvas, 24" x 30". Framed 30" x 36". | Eldred's | $1,600 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-john-opper-new-york-north-carolina-illinois-1908-1994-provincetown-landscape-with-wharf-banner-oil-on-canvas-24-x-30-framed-30-x-36-5746-c-d484ef9832
6. 2024-02-16 | John OPPER \(1908\-1994\) American | Art\-Torg | N/A
7. 2023-06-20 | John Opper \(1908\-1994\) 30/79 Acrylic on canvas 57 x 65 inches \(144.8 x 165.1 cm\) | Heritage Auctions | $2,200
8. 2023-06-09 | John OPPER \(1908\-1994\) American | Art\-Torg | N/A
9. 2023-04-19 | John Opper \(American, 1908\-1994\) Color Series 19, 1971\-72 | Hindman | $15,000
10. 2022-12-01 | JOHN OPPER \(1908 \- 1994, AMERICAN\) Untitled. | Swann Auction Galleries | $8,750
11. 2022-10-14 | John OPPER \(1908\-1994\) American | Art\-Torg | N/A
12. 2022-05-26 | JOHN OPPER \- AM 8\-21 | Capsule Gallery Auction | $6,750
13. 2021-12-17 | John OPPER \(1908\-1994\) American | Art\-Torg | N/A
14. 2021-12-15 | John Opper, Untitled | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $5,500
15. 2021-12-02 | JOHN OPPER \(1908 1994, AMERICAN\) Pale Yellow Field II. | Swann Auction Galleries | $16,250
16. 2021-07-28 | JOHN OPPER \(New York/North Carolina/Illinois, 1908\-1994\), Chicago scene with the “L” at 9th Ave., Oil on canvas, 29.5” x 23.5”. Framed 31” x 25”. | Eldred's | $3,250
17. 2021-05-20 | JOHN OPPER \(1908 \- 1994, AMERICAN\) Painting, \#32. | Swann Auction Galleries | $10,625
18. 2020-12-18 | JOHN OPPER \(AMERICAN, 1908–1994\) OIL ON CANVAS 1970 H 30" W 24" BB | DuMouchelles | $6,500
19. 2014-09-13 | John Opper gouache of fishing wharf | Quinn's Auction Galleries | $180
20. 2012-02-03 | John Opper \(American, 1908\-1994\), Untitled Abstraction, Signed and dated "John Opper 67" faintly in pen l.r., identified on a label fro | Skinner | $1,659
21. 2010-11-13 | John Opper \(American, 1908\-1994\) Untitled, 1950; | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $793

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