# Lee Lorenz - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-29T15:26:34.365Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 37
- Lots with prices: 20
- First auction date: 2016-04-28
- Latest auction date: 2024-06-20
- Median realised price: $585
- Price range: $25 to $3,500

## Market Takeaway
Lee Lorenz has 37 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $585. Category concentration is still broad. Recent 12-month volume is still light. 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 \($585\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($343 to $687\) 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: 95% (19 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 5% (1 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 0
- Previous 12 months sales: 2
- Recent 12 months median: $0
- Previous 12 months median: $875
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2024-06-20
- Days since latest sale: 678
- Market velocity: inactive

## Top Auction Houses
- Swann Auction Galleries: 24 lots
- RoGallery: 10 lots
- Grant Zahajko Auctions, LLC: 1 lots
- South Bay Auctions Inc: 1 lots
- Tremont Auctions: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2024-06-20 | \(NEW YORKER\) LEE LORENZ \(1932\-2022\) Migration. | Swann Auction Galleries | N/A
2. 2024-06-20 | \(NEW YORKER\) LEE LORENZ \(1932\-2022\) "I'm afraid I can't help you." | Swann Auction Galleries | $875
3. 2023-12-14 | LEE LORENZ "Shall we join the ladies?" | Swann Auction Galleries | N/A
4. 2023-12-14 | LEE LORENZ "Larned Blenford's the name. Cost system analysis is my thing." | Swann Auction Galleries | $375
5. 2023-12-14 | LEE LORENZ "Uncle Sam wants you to purchase a big ticket item." | Swann Auction Galleries | N/A
6. 2023-12-14 | LEE LORENZ "Take a load off Leonard\- we're watching genration X and Y duke it out." | Swann Auction Galleries | $343
7. 2023-12-14 | LEE LORENZ "When Mel Brooks Makes Fun Of Everything and Everybody the Critics cheer!" | Swann Auction Galleries | N/A
8. 2022-12-15 | LEE LORENZ \(1933\-\) \(THE NEW YORKER\) "So\-what seems to be the problem?" | Swann Auction Galleries | $750
9. 2022-12-15 | LEE LORENZ \(1933\-\) \(THE NEW YORKER\) Temple Elevator. | Swann Auction Galleries | $650
10. 2022-12-15 | LEE LORENZ \(1933\-\) \(THE NEW YORKER\) "You will have a nice day." | Swann Auction Galleries | $875
11. 2022-08-17 | Lee Lorenz \(New York b. 1933\) S/N Lithograph | Grant Zahajko Auctions, LLC | $25
12. 2021-12-16 | LEE LORENZ \(1933\- \) "Stonehenge Decoded." \[NEW YORKER / CARTOONS\] | Swann Auction Galleries | $437
13. 2021-12-16 | LEE LORENZ \(1933\- \) "I'm Vlad the Impaler and I approve this message." \[NEW YORKER / CARTOONS\] | Swann Auction Galleries | $687
14. 2021-12-16 | LEE LORENZ \(1933\- \) "I dropped twelve pounds the first week and kept it off!" \[NEW YORKER / CARTOONS\] | Swann Auction Galleries | N/A
15. 2021-12-16 | LEE LORENZ \(1933\- \) "Your wife gets the house, the car, the dog, your I.R.A., and ten thousand dollars a month. \[NEW YORKER / CARTOONS\] | Swann Auction Galleries | $585
16. 2021-06-24 | LEE LORENZ \(1933\- \) "It was only supposed to lift him gently into an upright position." \[NEW YORKER / CARTOONS\] | Swann Auction Galleries | $585
17. 2021-06-24 | LEE LORENZ \(1933\- \) "As I recall, you're the one who insisted on a conquistador\-size mattress." \[NEW YORKER / CARTOONS\] | Swann Auction Galleries | N/A
18. 2021-06-24 | LEE LORENZ \(1933\- \) "You've been eating again." \[NEW YORKER / CARTOONS\] | Swann Auction Galleries | $687
19. 2021-06-24 | LEE LORENZ \(1933\- \) Fall Fashions. \[NEW YORKER COVER\] | Swann Auction Galleries | $3,500
20. 2021-06-24 | LEE LORENZ \(1933\- \) "Mr. Wrong." \[NEW YORKER / CARTOONS\] | Swann Auction Galleries | $875
21. 2021-03-06 | Lee Lorenz, The Temptation of St. Anthony, Lithograph | RoGallery | N/A
22. 2021-03-06 | Lee Lorenz, Ecce Femina, Lithograph | RoGallery | N/A
23. 2021-01-28 | LEE LORENZ \(1933\- \) "Look! I didn't come down here to work on our relationship. I came down here to work on my backhand." \[NEW YORKER\] | Swann Auction Galleries | N/A
24. 2021-01-28 | LEE LORENZ \(1933\- \) "The ball, I presume, is me." \[CARTOONS / NEW YORKER / GOLF\] | Swann Auction Galleries | N/A

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