# Karl Zerbe - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-26T09:54:45.279Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 54
- Lots with prices: 43
- First auction date: 2002-06-21
- Latest auction date: 2025-09-02
- Median realised price: $750
- Price range: $125 to $5,250

## Market Takeaway
Karl Zerbe has 54 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $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 \($750\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($450 to $1,500\) 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: 60.5% (26 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 39.5% (17 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 2
- Previous 12 months sales: 1
- Recent 12 months median: $500
- Previous 12 months median: $500
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-09-02
- Days since latest sale: 262
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Bill Hood & Sons Arts & Antiques Auctions: 10 lots
- Skinner: 8 lots
- Hindman: 3 lots
- Brunk Auctions: 2 lots
- Christie's: 2 lots
- Eldred's: 2 lots
- Freeman's: 2 lots
- Freeman’s \| Hindman: 2 lots
- James D. Julia: 2 lots
- Leland Little Auctions: 2 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2016-01-19 | Karl Zerbe \(America 1903 \- 1972\) oil encaustic on board, "Man from Cyprus ll", abstract expressionist figure, ca. 1955, Label on reverse\- Carnegie Institute Pittsburgh PA | Bill Hood & Sons Arts & Antiques Auctions | $1,500
2. 2025-09-02 | Karl Zerbe \(AMERICAN/GERMAN, 1903–1972\) acrylic oil watercolor on paper. Letters and numbers composition, Artwork size 24 x 36 inches. Near Miami 1966 signature on front and back. Title and date on back. Frame Size 28.5 x 40.5 inches | Bill Hood & Sons Arts & Antiques Auctions | $750
3. 2025-06-25 | Karl Zerbe \(American/German, 1903\-1972\) Portrait Study of a Painter \(Kokoshka\), circa 1959 | Freeman’s \| Hindman | $500
4. 2024-08-22 | Karl Zerbe \(German/American, 1903\-1972\) The Shrine, 1956 | Freeman’s \| Hindman | $500 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-karl-zerbe-german-american-1903-1972-the-shrine-1956-17-c-f794fabae6
5. 2024-05-04 | Karl Zerbe \(1903\-1972, Massachusetts, Florida\). A | Marion Antique Auctions | $200
6. 2023-09-18 | Karl Zerbe \(American, 1903 \- 1972\) Fictitious Figure, 1947 | Hindman | $400
7. 2023-09-12 | Karl Zerbe | DOYLE Auctioneers & Appraisers | $600
8. 2023-02-21 | Karl Zerbe \(AMERICAN/GERMAN, 1903–1972\) mixed media, "Spider in the Chapel" reverso signed "Zerbe 1961" "Gem 46" and titled. Cracked plexiglass, 16" x 12" sight, 19" x 15" overall | Bill Hood & Sons Arts & Antiques Auctions | $125
9. 2023-01-25 | Karl Zerbe, Mixed Media, "Red Ring" | Nye & Company | N/A
10. 2022-07-16 | Karl Zerbe | Brunk Auctions | $1,000
11. 2022-04-21 | Karl Zerbe | Brunk Auctions | $800
12. 2021-11-17 | Karl Zerbe 1903\-1972 The Birds Wildlife Lithograph | Hill Auction Gallery | $150
13. 2021-09-08 | Karl Zerbe \(AMERICAN/GERMAN, 1903–1972\), Rhino, Watercolor and Gouache, Unframed with losses to paper: 17\-3/4 x 29 in | Weschler's | $450
14. 2021-07-11 | KARL ZERBE \(MA/FL, 1903\-1972\) | Thomaston Place Auction Galleries | $850
15. 2021-06-26 | KARL ZERBE \(German/American 1903\-1972\) | John McInnis Auctioneers | N/A
16. 2021-02-28 | KARL ZERBE \(MA/FL, 1903\-1972\) | Thomaston Place Auction Galleries | N/A
17. 2021-02-12 | Karl Zerbe \(American, 1903\-1972\) Shadow \#I, 1960 | Hindman | $2,560
18. 2020-11-17 | Karl Zerbe \(AMERICAN/GERMAN, 1903–1972\) acrylic oil watercolor on paper. Letters and numbers composition, 28 x 36 inches. Near Miami 1966 signature on front and back. Title and date on back | Bill Hood & Sons Arts & Antiques Auctions | $400
19. 2020-09-08 | Karl Zerbe \(American, 1903\-1972\), Encaustic on board, Clown in White, Felix Adler \-1947, 18 x 24. Downtown Gallery label on reverse | Bill Hood & Sons Arts & Antiques Auctions | $1,300
20. 2020-06-04 | Karl Zerbe, mixed media | Millea Bros Ltd | $325
21. 2020-02-18 | Karl Zerbe \(AMERICAN/GERMAN, 1903–1972\) acrylic oil watercolor on paper. Letters and numbers composition, 28 x 36 inches. Near Miami 1966 signature on front and back. Title and date on back. | Bill Hood & Sons Arts & Antiques Auctions | $750
22. 2020-01-08 | Karl Zerbe \(German/American, 1903 €“ 1972\) Uriel I, 1969  | Hindman | $768
23. 2019-10-19 | Karl Zerbe, Am. 1903\-1972, "The Bottle \#1" 1962, mixed media, framed under glass, 17" x 22.75" sight, 24.25" x 30" framed | Barridoff Auctions | $427 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-karl-zerbe-am-1903-1972-the-bottle-1-1962-mixed-media-framed-under-glass-17-x-22-75-sight-24-25-x-30-framed-146-c-9794f3c841
24. 2018-11-06 | Karl Zerbe \(America 1903 \- 1972\) Acrylic on canvas, SEGREGATED, label on reverse\- Nordness Madison Gallery, canvas 48inches x 60inches | Bill Hood & Sons Arts & Antiques Auctions | $1,500

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