# Joseph Cornell - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-30T18:40:58.709Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 327
- Lots with prices: 251
- First auction date: 1998-05-14
- Latest auction date: 2025-12-18
- Median realised price: $37,500
- Price range: $50 to $7,781,000

## Market Takeaway
Joseph Cornell shows deep auction liquidity with 327 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $37,500. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 16 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-12-18.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($37,500\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $10,000 and $110,000.
- 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: 10% (25 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 14.7% (37 sales)
- $10,000\+: 75.3% (189 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 16
- Previous 12 months sales: 20
- Recent 12 months median: $1,079
- Previous 12 months median: $10,080
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-12-18
- Days since latest sale: 62
- Market velocity: moderate

## Top Auction Houses
- Christie's: 164 lots
- Sotheby's: 83 lots
- STAIR: 16 lots
- Bonhams: 11 lots
- Artcurial: 3 lots
- DUMBO Auctions: 3 lots
- Nadeau's Auction Gallery: 3 lots
- Phillips: 3 lots
- Piasa: 3 lots
- Skinner: 3 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2024-12-13 | Joseph Cornell \(American 1903\-1972\), Derby Hat, Photogravure in color, 1972, Plate size: 337 x 260 mm \(13\-1/4 x 10\-1/4 in\) | Weschler's | $425
2. 2024-11-21 | Joseph Cornell \(American 1903\-1972\) | Nadeau's Auction Gallery | $700
3. 2024-02-27 | Joseph Cornell \(American, 1903\-1972\) \- The Commodore Pose | Freeman's \| Hindman | $10,000 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-joseph-cornell-american-1903-1972-the-commodore-pose-49-c-4df4189aeb
4. 2023-07-19 | JOSEPH CORNELL \(1903\-1972\) /Prints for Phoenix House: /Two Prints Including | Christie's | $756
5. 2023-05-23 | Joseph Cornell, A Valentine Object for Grace Hartigan | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $11,000
6. 2022-05-18 | JOSEPH CORNELL \(1903\-1972\) Untitled \(Derby Hat\), from Prints for Phoenix Ho | Christie's | $2,016
7. 2008-11-12 | Joseph Cornell \(1903\-1972\) | Christie's | $1,142,500 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-joseph-cornell-1903-1972-41-c-jgxuqakd22
8. 2005-05-11 | Joseph Cornell \(1903\-1972\) | Christie's | $2,592,000 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-joseph-cornell-1903-1972-17-c-3vtu7nmc6n
9. 2025-12-18 | Joseph Cornell, Hotel du Nord, 1972. | Swann Auction Galleries | $3,556
10. 2025-12-18 | Joseph Cornell, How to Make a Rainbow, 1972. | Swann Auction Galleries | $1,079
11. 2025-12-16 | JOSEPH CORNELL \(1903\-1972\). Carrousel\-Lanner Waltzes. printed paper collage | Christie's | $20,320
12. 2025-11-20 | JOSEPH CORNELL \(1903\-1972\). Distance to the Moon. wood box construction—woo | Christie's | $88,900
13. 2025-11-20 | JOSEPH CORNELL \(1903\-1972\). Hotel Taglioni\-Hotel du Nord. wood box construc | Christie's | $76,200
14. 2025-11-14 | Joseph Cornell \(American, 1903–1972\) The Human Thermostat, c. 1961 | Freeman’s | $10,000
15. 2025-10-23 | Joseph Cornell \(1903\-1972\). Sans titre \(d'après Seurat\). | Christie's | €16,510
16. 2025-10-16 | Joseph Cornell \(American 1903\-1972\) Untitled \(Derby Hat\) from Prints for Phoenix House, 1972 Color heliogravure, edition 125/125 Signed with the artist's estate stamp lower right Published by Brooke Alexander Edition... | Nadeau's Auction Gallery | $250
17. 2025-10-14 | Joseph Cornell \(Nyack, 1903 \- New York, 1972\) Hercules, 1955 | Piasa | €60,000
18. 2025-09-11 | Joseph Cornell \(1903\-1972\): Untitled \(Landscape with Figure\) | STAIR | $50
19. 2025-09-11 | Joseph Cornell \(1903\-1972\): Untitled \(Landscape with Figure\) | STAIR | $100
20. 2025-08-07 | Joseph Cornell \(1903\-1972\): Untitled \(Landscape with Figure\) | STAIR | $125
21. 2025-08-07 | Joseph Cornell \(1903\-1972\): Untitled \(Landscape with Figure\) | STAIR | $125
22. 2025-07-09 | Joseph Cornell \(1903\-1972\): Untitled \(Landscape with Figure\) | STAIR | $250
23. 2025-07-09 | Joseph Cornell \(1903\-1972\): Untitled \(Landscape with Figure\) | STAIR | $150
24. 2025-02-27 | JOSEPH CORNELL \(1903\-1972\). The Journeying Sun for Samuel Taylor Coleridge. | Christie's | $27,720

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