# Josef Breitenbach - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-30T18:30:29.499Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 71
- Lots with prices: 34
- First auction date: 2001-01-17
- Latest auction date: 2025-08-19
- Median realised price: $1,800
- Price range: $70 to $24,000

## Market Takeaway
Josef Breitenbach shows solid auction liquidity with 71 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $1,800. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 5 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-08-19.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($1,800\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $650 and $3,600.
- 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: 26.5% (9 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 61.8% (21 sales)
- $10,000\+: 11.8% (4 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 5
- Previous 12 months sales: 4
- Recent 12 months median: $425
- Previous 12 months median: $250
- Median shift: 70%
- Latest sale date: 2025-08-19
- Days since latest sale: 183
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Sotheby's: 15 lots
- Kunsthaus Lempertz KG: 13 lots
- Schneider\-Henn: 9 lots
- Christie's: 5 lots
- Bonhams: 4 lots
- Willow Auction House: 3 lots
- Chiswick Auctions: 2 lots
- Phillips: 2 lots
- Swann Auction Galleries: 2 lots
- Sworders: 2 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-08-19 | Josef Breitenbach \(1896\-1984\) Germany New York | Clark's Fine Art & Auctioneers Inc. | $425
2. 2025-06-27 | Josef Breitenbach 1896\-1984 | Schneider\-Henn | N/A
3. 2025-06-27 | Josef Breitenbach 1896\-1984 | Schneider\-Henn | €2,000
4. 2025-04-17 | JOSEF BREITENBACH \(1896–1984\). Dr. Riegler and J. Grend, Munich, 1933. numb | Christie's | $2,394
5. 2025-02-20 | Josef Breitenbach 2 Photographs Nudes | Willow Auction House | $300
6. 2024-12-12 | Josef Breitenbach 2 Photographs Nudes | Willow Auction House | N/A
7. 2024-12-12 | Josef Breitenbach 2 Photographs James Joyce | Willow Auction House | $250
8. 2024-07-10 | Josef Breitenbach, Dr. Riegler and J. Greno, Munich | Los Angeles Modern Auctions | $650
9. 2024-02-27 | Josef Breitenbach, 1896\-1984 | Schneider\-Henn | N/A
10. 2024-02-02 | Josef Breitenbach, 1896\-1984 | Schneider\-Henn | N/A
11. 2023-10-05 | JOSEF BREITENBACH \(1896\-1984\) The Sculptor \(Portrait of Aristide Maillol 1861\-1944\). | Swann Auction Galleries | N/A
12. 2023-09-22 | Josef Breitenbach 1896\-1984 | Schneider\-Henn | €2,300
13. 2023-09-22 | Josef Breitenbach 1896\-1984 | Schneider\-Henn | €2,000
14. 2023-07-27 | Josef Breitenbach, Surrealist photograph | Millea Bros Ltd | N/A
15. 2023-06-16 | Josef Breitenbach, 1896\-1984 | Schneider\-Henn | €1,400
16. 2022-02-10 | JOSEF BREITENBACH \(1896\-1984\) Max Ernst and the Seahorse, New York. | Swann Auction Galleries | N/A
17. 2021-11-09 | Josef Breitenbach \(German\-American, 1896\-1984\) | Sworders | N/A
18. 2021-09-21 | Josef Breitenbach, 1896\-1984 | Schneider\-Henn | N/A
19. 2021-09-07 | Josef Breitenbach \(1896\-1984\) | Chiswick Auctions | N/A
20. 2021-07-14 | Josef Breitenbach \(German\-American, 1896\-1984\) | Sworders | N/A
21. 2021-06-23 | Josef Breitenbach: Nude | Van Ham Kunstauktionen | €500
22. 2021-05-28 | Josef Breitenbach \(1896\-1984\) | Chiswick Auctions | N/A
23. 2020-12-07 | Josef Breitenbach, Badende, c. 1950 | Kunsthaus Lempertz KG | N/A
24. 2020-07-29 | Josef Breitenbach \(German, 1896\-1984\); Montparnasse, Paris; | Bonhams | £2,200

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