# Kara Walker - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-29T10:40:27.977Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 272
- Lots with prices: 224
- First auction date: 2001-02-09
- Latest auction date: 2025-12-16
- Median realised price: $7,500
- Price range: $400 to $422,500

## Market Takeaway
Kara Walker shows deep auction liquidity with 271 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $7,500. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 22 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-12-16.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($7,500\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $3,500 and $17,925.
- 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: 4.5% (10 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 55.2% (123 sales)
- $10,000\+: 40.4% (90 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 22
- Previous 12 months sales: 19
- Recent 12 months median: $3,800
- Previous 12 months median: $5,000
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-12-16
- Days since latest sale: 64
- Market velocity: moderate

## Top Auction Houses
- Swann Auction Galleries: 65 lots
- Christie's: 53 lots
- Phillips: 40 lots
- Sotheby's: 28 lots
- Rago Arts and Auction Center: 18 lots
- Bonhams: 17 lots
- Wright: 8 lots
- Black Art Auction: 7 lots
- Leonard Auction: 6 lots
- STAIR: 4 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2024-12-08 | KARA WALKER \(African\-American, B. 1969\). | Clarke Auction Gallery | $950
2. 2025-12-16 | Kara Walker, Excerpt | Wright | $6,500
3. 2025-12-16 | KARA WALKER \(B. 1969\). Sugar Cane Prep in Yellow. watercolor on paper22 1/8 | Christie's | $27,940
4. 2025-12-12 | Kara Walker \(American, b. 1969\) Freedom, a Fable: A Curious Interpretation of the Wit of a Negress in Troubled Times \(Norton Family Christmas Project\), 1997 | Freeman’s | $1,600
5. 2025-12-07 | KARA WALKER \(African / American Born 1969\) | Clarke Auction Gallery | $850
6. 2025-11-12 | Kara Walker, Nearing Fact | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $15,000
7. 2025-10-07 | Kara Walker \(1969\-\), Canisters, 1997. | Swann Auction Galleries | N/A
8. 2025-10-07 | Kara Walker \(1969\-\), The Means to an End...A Shadow Drama in 5 Acts, 1995. | Swann Auction Galleries | $24,130
9. 2025-09-11 | Kara Walker for Bernardaud Porcelain Pitcher | STAIR | $500
10. 2025-09-11 | Kara Walker for Bernardaud Porcelain Pitcher | STAIR | $700
11. 2025-07-30 | Kara Walker, Nearing Fact | Rago Arts and Auction Center | N/A
12. 2025-07-17 | KARA WALKER \(B. 1969\). Signal Station, Summit of Maryland Heights, from Har | Christie's | N/A
13. 2025-07-17 | KARA WALKER \(B. 1969\). Pack\-Mules in the Mountains, from Harper's Pictorial | Christie's | N/A
14. 2025-07-16 | KARA WALKER \(B. 1969\). The Means to an End...A Shadow Drama in Five Acts. Overall: 33 x 126.¼ in. \(838 x 3250 mm.\).75 | Christie's | N/A
15. 2025-06-26 | KARA WALKER \(B. 1969\). The Policy of Admissions. cut paper collage on paper | Christie's | £126,000
16. 2025-06-23 | Kara Walker, 1969, The Bush, Skinny, De\-boning | Germann Auction House Ltd | CHF 4,400
17. 2025-06-14 | Kara Walker, b. 1969, Porgy and Bess | Black Art Auction | $1,200
18. 2025-06-05 | Kara Walker, Porgy & Bess | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $2,000
19. 2025-05-16 | Kara Walker \(1969 Stockton – lebt in New York\) | AaG Auktionshaus am Grunewald | €3,000
20. 2025-05-16 | Kara Walker \(1969 Stockton – lebt in New York\) | AaG Auktionshaus am Grunewald | €3,800
21. 2025-05-15 | KARA WALKER \(B. 1969\) Untitled 70 x 48 in \(177.8 x 121.9 cm\) \(each\) \(Executed in 2001\) | Bonhams | $105,000
22. 2025-03-15 | Kara Walker, b. 1969, Porgy and Bess | Black Art Auction | N/A
23. 2025-02-26 | KARA WALKER \(B. 1969\). I'll Be a Monkey's Uncle. Image: 30 x 34 ½ in. \(762 | Christie's | $8,820
24. 2025-02-06 | KARA WALKER \(1969 \- \) What I Want History to Do to Me. | Swann Auction Galleries | $23,750

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