# Kurt Markus - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-01T01:41:04.505Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 44
- Lots with prices: 23
- First auction date: 2009-02-12
- Latest auction date: 2025-09-18
- Median realised price: $500
- Price range: $20 to $6,930

## Market Takeaway
Kurt Markus has 44 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $500. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 1 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 \($500\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($300 to $1,300\) 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: 69.6% (16 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 30.4% (7 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 1
- Previous 12 months sales: 5
- Recent 12 months median: $512
- Previous 12 months median: $90
- Median shift: 100%
- Latest sale date: 2025-09-18
- Days since latest sale: 224
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Finarte: 13 lots
- Christie's: 6 lots
- Art\-Rite: 3 lots
- Ashcroft and Moore: 3 lots
- Piasa: 3 lots
- Capsule Gallery Auction: 2 lots
- DUMBO Auctions: 2 lots
- Santa Fe Art Auction: 2 lots
- Swann Auction Galleries: 2 lots
- Cottone Auctions: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2011-04-07 | KURT MARKUS \(B. 1947\) | Christie's | $3,500
2. 2011-04-07 | KURT MARKUS \(B. 1947\) | Christie's | N/A
3. 2025-09-18 | Kurt Markus, Big Springs Ranch, Bruneau, Idaho, 1982 | Santa Fe Art Auction | $512
4. 2025-04-09 | Kurt Markus,  Derrick Cage, Vicksburg, Mississippi, 1983;  | Roseberys | £320
5. 2024-10-16 | Kurt Markus, photograph, pencil signed | Millea Bros Ltd | $60
6. 2024-05-17 | KURT MARKUS, CARLA BRUNI | Art\-Rite | N/A
7. 2024-05-17 | KURT MARKUS, CARLA BRUNI | Art\-Rite | N/A
8. 2024-05-17 | KURT MARKUS, CARLA BRUNI | Art\-Rite | €90
9. 2023-12-12 | Kurt Markus \(1947\) \- Derrick Cage, Vicksburg, Missisipi, from the series "The year of Tibet", 1988 | Finarte | €450
10. 2023-06-19 | Kurt Markus \(1947\) \- France, 1991 | Finarte | N/A
11. 2022-11-17 | KURT MARKUS \- MARLA, AUSTRALIA | Capsule Gallery Auction | $225
12. 2022-06-23 | Kurt Markus \(1947\) \- Derrick Cage, Vicksburg, Mississipi, 1988 | Finarte | €500
13. 2022-05-25 | KURT MARKUS \(B. 1947\) Ranch, Paisley, Oregon, 1982 signed in pencil \(margin | Christie's | $3,780
14. 2022-05-25 | KURT MARKUS \(B.1947\) Ranch, Paisley, Oregon, 1981 signed, titled dated \[wit | Christie's | $6,930
15. 2022-05-06 | Kurt Markus \(American, b. 1947\) Rick Bates XP Ranch | Cottone Auctions | $350
16. 2022-04-14 | KURT MARKUS \(1947\- \) Namibia Africa, No. 2 \* Namibia Africa, No. 5. | Swann Auction Galleries | $1,430
17. 2021-07-19 | Kurt Markus \(Montana, 1947\), Paesaggio \- Stampa fotografica su carta in B/N, firmato con data e | Gregory's Casa d'Aste | €200
18. 2021-05-27 | KURT MARKUS \(1947\- \) Namibia Africa, No. 2 \* Namibia Africa, No. 5. | Swann Auction Galleries | N/A
19. 2021-05-06 | Kurt Markus \(1947\) \- Valdosta, Georgia, 1991 | Finarte | N/A
20. 2021-05-06 | Kurt Markus \(1947\) \- France, 1991 | Finarte | N/A
21. 2021-05-06 | Kurt Markus \(1947\) \- Louis Sanders, Bell Ranch, New Mexico, 1983 | Finarte | €1,300
22. 2020-12-17 | Kurt Markus \(1947\) \- Double RC Ranch, Ouray, 1987 | Finarte | €500
23. 2020-07-06 | Kurt Markus \- Louis Sanders, Bell Ranch, New Mexico | Finarte | N/A
24. 2020-06-18 | Kurt Markus \- Louis Sanders, Bell Ranch, New Mexico | Finarte | N/A

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