# John Vachon - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-29T01:24:02.987Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 23
- Lots with prices: 12
- First auction date: 2002-02-19
- Latest auction date: 2025-05-08
- Median realised price: $1,500
- Price range: $50 to $37,500

## Market Takeaway
John Vachon has 23 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $1,500. 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 \($1,500\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($600 to $2,125\) 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: 41.7% (5 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 41.7% (5 sales)
- $10,000\+: 16.7% (2 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 1
- Previous 12 months sales: 0
- Recent 12 months median: $2,125
- Previous 12 months median: $0
- Median shift: N/A
- Latest sale date: 2025-05-08
- Days since latest sale: 355
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Swann Auction Galleries: 6 lots
- Be\-Hold: 4 lots
- Keith Delellis Gallery LLC: 4 lots
- Christie's: 3 lots
- Hindman: 2 lots
- Rago Arts and Auction Center: 1 lots
- STAIR: 1 lots
- Seagrave Gallery: 1 lots
- Van Ham Kunstauktionen: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-05-08 | JOHN VACHON \(1914\-1975\) Bus depot, Washington, D.C. 1951; printed circa 1970. | Swann Auction Galleries | $2,125
2. 2024-01-25 | JOHN VACHON \(1914\-1975\) Burlington, Iowa \* Ravalli County, Mont., Old Russian\-born sheep herder and lambing hand \* St. Mary's County, M | Swann Auction Galleries | $1,500 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-john-vachon-1914-1975-burlington-iowa-ravalli-county-mont-old-russian-born-sheep-herder-and-lambing-hand-st-mary-s-county-m-143-c-ced0a67859
3. 2024-01-25 | JOHN VACHON \(1914\-1975\) Photographer's Studio, Fredericksburg, Virginia. | Swann Auction Galleries | $1,500
4. 2022-10-20 | JOHN VACHON \(1914\-1975\) A pair of portraits of Marilyn Monroe. | Swann Auction Galleries | $5,750
5. 2021-10-09 | JOHN VACHON \- Skating on the Mississippi River near Lake City, Minnesota, 1942 | Seagrave Gallery | $300
6. 2021-06-19 | John Vachon, Mexican woman, Saginaw County, Michigan, 1941 | Keith Delellis Gallery LLC | N/A
7. 2021-06-17 | John Vachon\(American, 1914\-1975\) | Hindman | N/A
8. 2021-02-27 | John Vachon, The Dakotas, 1948 | Keith Delellis Gallery LLC | N/A
9. 2021-02-04 | JOHN VACHON \(1914\-1975\) A select group of 38 vintage photographs. | Swann Auction Galleries | $37,500
10. 2020-11-12 | John Vachon, North Dakota, 1948 | Keith Delellis Gallery LLC | N/A
11. 2020-11-12 | John Vachon, The Dakotas, 1948 | Keith Delellis Gallery LLC | N/A
12. 2020-10-22 | JOHN VACHON \(1914\-1975\) A binder with 56 vintage prints and 23 press prints for LOC reference. | Swann Auction Galleries | $12,500
13. 2020-10-17 | John Vachon, Rural church with stakes for vegetables in the foreground. | Be\-Hold | N/A
14. 2020-10-17 | John Vachon, Fire escapes. Rare FSA abstraction | Be\-Hold | $600
15. 2020-10-17 | John Vachon, Clearing snow or playing winter games FSA. | Be\-Hold | N/A
16. 2020-06-10 | John Vachon \(American, 1914\-1975\) Marilyn Monroe with Tongue and Marilyn Monroe with Sculpture \(a pair of works\), 1956 | Hindman | $960
17. 2016-06-16 | John Vachon, FSA, Mexican woman in Michigan | Be\-Hold | N/A
18. 2011-12-19 | JOHN VACHON \(1914\-1975\) | Christie's | $625
19. 2011-12-19 | JOHN VACHON \(1914\-1975\) | Christie's | $2,000
20. 2011-12-09 | \[ Photograph \] | Van Ham Kunstauktionen | N/A
21. 2011-02-25 | John Vachon \(American, 1914\-1975\): "Newstand, Omaha" | STAIR | $50
22. 2008-11-21 | John Vachon \(American, 1914\-1975\) Cinncinati, | Rago Arts and Auction Center | N/A
23. 2002-02-19 | JOHN VACHON | Christie's | N/A

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