# Komar and Melamid - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-01T01:47:17.271Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 45
- Lots with prices: 17
- First auction date: 2011-05-24
- Latest auction date: 2025-06-19
- Median realised price: $4,800
- Price range: $500 to $120,000

## Market Takeaway
Komar and Melamid has 45 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $4,800. 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 \($4,800\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($1,200 to $7,500\) 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: 17.6% (3 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 58.8% (10 sales)
- $10,000\+: 23.5% (4 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 2
- Previous 12 months sales: 5
- Recent 12 months median: $0
- Previous 12 months median: $1,100
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-06-19
- Days since latest sale: 315
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- RoGallery: 15 lots
- Shapiro Auctions LLC: 15 lots
- Rago Arts and Auction Center: 5 lots
- Sotheby's: 4 lots
- STAIR: 2 lots
- Christie's: 1 lots
- Helios Auctions: 1 lots
- Heritage Auctions: 1 lots
- Phillips: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-05-18 | KOMAR AND MELAMID, SUNRISE AT BAYONNE, ETCHING, AQUATINT, AND METALLIC LEAF ON COLLAGE | RoGallery | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-komar-and-melamid-sunrise-at-bayonne-etching-aquatint-and-metallic-leaf-on-collage-854-c-1154103af7
2. 2024-11-29 | Komar and Melamid \(Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid\), Sunrise at Bayonne, Etching, aquatint, and metallic leaf on collage | RoGallery | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-komar-and-melamid-vitaly-komar-and-alexander-melamid-sunrise-at-bayonne-etching-aquatint-and-metallic-leaf-on-collage-616-c-1634e2e97e
3. 2023-10-20 | KOMAR AND MELAMID \(VITALY KOMAR AND ALEXANDER MELAMID\), SUNRISE AT BAYONNE, ETCHING, AQUATINT, AND METALLIC LEAF ON COLLAGE | RoGallery | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-komar-and-melamid-vitaly-komar-and-alexander-melamid-sunrise-at-bayonne-etching-aquatint-and-metallic-leaf-on-collage-576-c-6964e04850
4. 2023-05-18 | KOMAR AND MELAMID \(VITALY KOMAR AND ALEXANDER MELAMID\), SUNRISE AT BAYONNE, ETCHING, AQUATINT, AND METALLIC LEAF ON COLLAGE | RoGallery | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-komar-and-melamid-vitaly-komar-and-alexander-melamid-sunrise-at-bayonne-etching-aquatint-and-metallic-leaf-on-collage-1081-c-57e4e0a9fd
5. 2013-06-05 | KOMAR AND MELAMID | Sotheby's | £50,000 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-komar-and-melamid-832-c-05a866ee4b
6. 2013-06-05 | KOMAR AND MELAMID | Sotheby's | £50,000 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-komar-and-melamid-832-c-6b575c3bc3
7. 2025-06-19 | KOMAR AND MELAMID, SUNRISE AT BAYONNE, ETCHING, AQUATINT, AND METALLIC LEAF ON COLLAGE | RoGallery | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-komar-and-melamid-sunrise-at-bayonne-etching-aquatint-and-metallic-leaf-on-collage-615-c-4a144c283f
8. 2025-02-20 | KOMAR AND MELAMID \(VITALY KOMAR AND ALEXANDER MELAMID\), CHURCH, NJ, MONOTYPE AQUATINT AND PHOTO\-ETCHING | RoGallery | N/A
9. 2024-11-20 | Komar and Melamid \(b. 1943 and b. 1945\): Stalin Portrait No. 4 | STAIR | $1,100
10. 2024-11-20 | Komar and Melamid \(b. 1943 and b. 1945\): Lenin Portrait No. 28 | STAIR | $1,200
11. 2024-10-10 | KOMAR AND MELAMID \(VITALY KOMAR AND ALEXANDER MELAMID\), HEAD OF WORKER, BERGEN POINT FOUNDRY, COMPLETE SET OF PRINTS | RoGallery | N/A
12. 2023-05-18 | KOMAR AND MELAMID \(VITALY KOMAR AND ALEXANDER MELAMID\), CHURCH, NJ, MONOTYPE AQUATINT AND PHOTO\-ETCHING | RoGallery | N/A
13. 2022-04-24 | A RUSSIAN COLOR SCREENPRINT BY KOMAR AND MELAMID | Helios Auctions | N/A
14. 2022-04-14 | Komar and Melamid \(Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid\), Church, NJ, Monotype Aquatint and Photo\-Etching | RoGallery | N/A
15. 2021-01-30 | Komar and Melamid \(Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid\), Sunrise at Bayonne, Etching, aquatint, and metallic leaf on collage | RoGallery | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-komar-and-melamid-vitaly-komar-and-alexander-melamid-sunrise-at-bayonne-etching-aquatint-and-metallic-leaf-on-collage-207-c-98649e5a57
16. 2020-07-25 | KOMAR AND MELAMID \(RUSSIAN B. 1943 and B. 1945\) | Shapiro Auctions LLC | $6,000
17. 2020-07-25 | KOMAR AND MELAMID \(RUSSIAN B. 1943 AND B. 1945\) | Shapiro Auctions LLC | N/A
18. 2020-04-19 | Komar and Melamid, Sunrise at Bayonne, Etching, aquatint, and metallic leaf collage | RoGallery | N/A
19. 2020-03-11 | Komar and Melamid, Sunrise at Bayonne, Etching, aquatint, and metallic leaf collage | RoGallery | N/A
20. 2020-02-05 | Komar and Melamid, Church, NJ, Monotype Aquatint | RoGallery | N/A
21. 2019-11-20 | Komar and Melamid, Sunrise at Bayonne, Etching | RoGallery | N/A
22. 2019-05-18 | KOMAR AND MELAMID | Shapiro Auctions LLC | $120,000
23. 2016-03-12 | KOMAR AND MELAMID | Shapiro Auctions LLC | $30,000
24. 2014-06-07 | KOMAR AND MELAMID \(RUSSIAN B. 1943 AND B. 1945\), | Shapiro Auctions LLC | N/A

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