# Karl Stanley Benjamin - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-30T17:00:26.316Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 32
- Lots with prices: 23
- First auction date: 2004-05-02
- Latest auction date: 2025-09-18
- Median realised price: $18,750
- Price range: $2,196 to $56,250

## Market Takeaway
Karl Stanley Benjamin has 32 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $18,750. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 2 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 \($18,750\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($7,637 to $34,375\) 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: 0% (0 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 39.1% (9 sales)
- $10,000\+: 60.9% (14 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 2
- Previous 12 months sales: 3
- Recent 12 months median: $8,000
- Previous 12 months median: $0
- Median shift: N/A
- Latest sale date: 2025-09-18
- Days since latest sale: 224
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Bonhams: 19 lots
- Los Angeles Modern Auctions: 4 lots
- Abell Auction: 3 lots
- Art\-Torg: 3 lots
- Christie's: 1 lots
- Fine Estate Inc.: 1 lots
- Sotheby's: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-09-18 | KARL STANLEY BENJAMIN \(1925\-2012\) \#9, 1968 \(Louis Stern has confirmed the authenticity of this work. It is included in the catalogue raisonné of the paintings of Karl Benjamin as Catalog \#957.\) | Bonhams | $8,000
2. 2025-06-28 | Karl Stanley Benjamin \(1925\-2012\) American | Art\-Torg | N/A
3. 2024-12-15 | Karl Stanley Benjamin \(1925 \- 2012\) American | Art\-Torg | N/A
4. 2024-09-25 | KARL STANLEY BENJAMIN \(1925\-2012\) FS \#15, 1962 \(Louis Stern has confirmed the authenticity of this work. It is included in the catalogue raisonné of the paintings of Karl Benjamin as Catalog \#860.\) | Bonhams | N/A
5. 2024-06-28 | Karl Stanley Benjamin \(1925 \- 2012\) American | Art\-Torg | N/A
6. 2024-04-17 | KARL STANLEY BENJAMIN \(1925\-2012\) Squares – Umber and Black, 1961 \(Louis Stern has confirmed the authenticity of this work. It is included in the catalogue raisonné of the paintings of Karl Benjamin as Catalog \#1049.\) | Bonhams | $6,500
7. 2023-07-23 | Karl Stanley Benjamin \(American, 1925\-2012\) | Fine Estate Inc. | $19,000
8. 2023-04-12 | KARL STANLEY BENJAMIN \(1925\-2012\) Yellow and Blue Roses, 1953 \(Louis Stern has confirmed the authenticity of this work. It will be included in the catalogue raisonné of the paintings, currently being compiled by Louis Stern Fine Arts and Beth... | Bonhams | N/A
9. 2022-04-20 | KARL STANLEY BENJAMIN \(1925\-2012\) Yellow Landscape, 1953 \(Louis Stern has confirmed the authenticity of this work. It will be included in the catalogue raisonné of the paintings, currently being compiled by Beth Benjamin and Louis Stern Fine ... | Bonhams | $54,000
10. 2019-11-15 | KARL STANLEY BENJAMIN \| \#19 | Sotheby's | N/A
11. 2018-10-24 | KARL STANLEY BENJAMIN \(1925\-2012\) \#11, 1967 | Bonhams | $8,750
12. 2018-05-18 | Karl Stanley Benjamin \(1925\-2012\) \- FS \#10 | Christie's | N/A
13. 2017-04-26 | Karl Stanley Benjamin \(1925\-2012\) \#3, 1981 72 x 48 in. \(183 x 122 cm\) | Bonhams | $9,375
14. 2016-11-01 | Karl Stanley Benjamin \(1925\-2012\) | Bonhams | $47,500
15. 2016-05-04 | KARL STANLEY BENJAMIN \(1925\-2012\) \#3, 1981 72 x 48 in. \(183 x 122 cm\) | Bonhams | N/A
16. 2015-05-03 | KARL BENJAMIN: "UNTITLED" | Abell Auction | $20,000
17. 2015-05-03 | KARL BENJAMIN: "UNTITLED" | Abell Auction | $30,000
18. 2015-03-01 | \#44 | Los Angeles Modern Auctions | $22,500
19. 2015-03-01 | \#32 | Los Angeles Modern Auctions | $34,375
20. 2015-02-08 | KARL BENJAMIN: "SMALL PERSON" | Abell Auction | $2,750
21. 2014-02-23 | Karl Benjamin: \#6 | Los Angeles Modern Auctions | $56,250
22. 2014-02-23 | Karl Benjamin: Untitled | Los Angeles Modern Auctions | $40,625
23. 2012-05-21 | Karl Stanley Benjamin \(born 1925\) | Bonhams | $3,500
24. 2011-11-22 | Karl Stanley Benjamin \(American, born 1925\) Untitled, 1962 44 1/4 x 50in | Bonhams | $18,750

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