# Kenneth Snelson - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-01T08:25:57.649Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 33
- Lots with prices: 27
- First auction date: 2003-02-12
- Latest auction date: 2025-10-03
- Median realised price: $4,000
- Price range: $11 to $40,000

## Market Takeaway
Kenneth Snelson has 33 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $4,000. 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 \($4,000\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($750 to $13,000\) 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: 33.3% (9 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 37% (10 sales)
- $10,000\+: 29.6% (8 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 2
- Previous 12 months sales: 4
- Recent 12 months median: $50
- Previous 12 months median: $4,000
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-10-03
- Days since latest sale: 209
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Christie's: 8 lots
- Sotheby's: 4 lots
- Potomack Company: 3 lots
- Rago Arts and Auction Center: 3 lots
- Hindman: 2 lots
- Lyon & Turnbull: 2 lots
- Berner's Auction Gallery: 1 lots
- Bonhams: 1 lots
- Clarke Auction Gallery: 1 lots
- DOYLE Auctioneers & Appraisers: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-10-03 | Kenneth Snelson, Structures exhibition poster | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $50
2. 2025-10-03 | Kenneth Snelson, Untitled | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $200
3. 2025-03-26 | KENNETH SNELSON \(1927\-2016\) Untitled Maquette1969aluminum and steel, etched 'K. Snelson 1969' and editioned '1/4'height 5 1/2in \(14cm\); width 8in \(20.3cm\); depth 6 1/2in \(16.5cm\) | Bonhams | $5,000
4. 2025-02-11 | KENNETH SNELSON "STRUCTURES" ART POSTER | Westport Auction | $60
5. 2024-06-30 | KENNETH SNELSON \(AMERICAN, 1927\-2016\) | Clarke Auction Gallery | $4,000
6. 2024-06-11 | Kenneth Snelson | DOYLE Auctioneers & Appraisers | N/A
7. 2024-03-23 | Kenneth Snelson \(American, 1927\-2016\) sculpture | Rachel Davis Fine Arts | $13,000
8. 2023-12-14 | KENNETH SNELSON \(B. 1927\) Free Ride Home aluminum and coated wire construc | Christie's | $16,380
9. 2023-10-05 | Kenneth Snelson | Berner's Auction Gallery | $11
10. 2022-10-28 | Kenneth Snelson \(American 1927\-2016\) Easter Monday, 1976 | Lyon & Turnbull | £3,000
11. 2021-09-21 | KENNETH SNELSON \(1927\-2016\) Untitled. | Swann Auction Galleries | $30,000
12. 2021-07-15 | Kenneth Snelson, Super Star | Wright | $6,500
13. 2020-12-15 | Kenneth Snelson \(1927–2016\) \- Green Street | Christie's | $6,250
14. 2020-12-09 | Kenneth Snelson \(American, 1927\-2016\) Untitled, 1968\-74 | Hindman | $40,000
15. 2020-12-08 | KENNETH SNELSON \(AMERICAN, 1927\-\) EXHIBITION POSTER for "KENNETH SNELSON" at DWAN GALLERY, 1967 Offset lithograph poster: 17 1/2 x 2... | Potomack Company | N/A
16. 2020-11-18 | KENNETH SNELSON \(AMERICAN, 1927\-\) EXHIBITION POSTER for "KENNETH SNELSON" at DWAN GALLERY, 1967 Offset lithograph poster: 17 1/2 x 2... | Potomack Company | N/A
17. 2020-10-07 | KENNETH SNELSON \(AMERICAN, 1927\-\) EXHIBITION POSTER for "KENNETH SNELSON" at DWAN GALLERY, 1967 Offset lithograph poster: 17 1/2 x 2... | Potomack Company | N/A
18. 2019-05-17 | Kenneth Snelson, large format photograph | Millea Bros Ltd | $750
19. 2019-05-01 | Kenneth Snelson \(1927–2016\) \- Gittalore | Christie's | €7,500
20. 2019-03-27 | KENNETH SNELSON \(AMERICAN, 1927\-2016\) EASTER MONDAY, 1976 50.5cm high, 38.5cm across \(19.75in high, 15.25in across\) | Lyon & Turnbull | N/A
21. 2018-09-25 | KENNETH SNELSON \| Untitled | Sotheby's | $13,000
22. 2018-03-06 | KENNETH SNELSON \(1927 \- 2016\) \| Pyramid Piece, 1993 | Sotheby's | $5,500
23. 2017-09-29 | KENNETH SNELSON \(1927 \- 2016\) \| Easter Monday, 1976 | Sotheby's | $16,000
24. 2016-03-19 | KENNETH SNELSON \(American, born 1927\) | South Bay Auctions Inc | $2,800

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