# Len Chmiel - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-01T03:35:55.803Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 30
- Lots with prices: 18
- First auction date: 2009-02-24
- Latest auction date: 2025-10-17
- Median realised price: $1,024
- Price range: $300 to $15,000

## Market Takeaway
Len Chmiel has 30 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $1,024. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 3 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 \($1,024\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($425 to $3,500\) 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: 44.4% (8 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 44.4% (8 sales)
- $10,000\+: 11.1% (2 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 3
- Previous 12 months sales: 4
- Recent 12 months median: $425
- Previous 12 months median: $375
- Median shift: 13.3%
- Latest sale date: 2025-10-17
- Days since latest sale: 195
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Dargate Auction Galleries: 9 lots
- Altermann Galleries: 5 lots
- Auctions at Showplace: 4 lots
- Mark Sublette Medicine Man Gallery & Auction: 4 lots
- Scottsdale Art Auction, LLC: 2 lots
- Ascendant Auction Galleries: 1 lots
- Dirk Soulis Auctions: 1 lots
- Dreweatts 1759: 1 lots
- James Cox Gallery: 1 lots
- Santa Fe Art Auction: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-10-17 | Len Chmiel \(b. 1946\) \- Untitled | Mark Sublette Medicine Man Gallery & Auction | N/A
2. 2025-10-17 | Len Chmiel \(b. 1946\) \- Midday Heat | Mark Sublette Medicine Man Gallery & Auction | $425
3. 2025-05-08 | Len Chmiel, Off the Bumpy Road to San Sebastian, 1979 | Santa Fe Art Auction | $1,024
4. 2025-03-06 | Len Chmiel "Bowers Farm & Beyond" Oil on Canvas | Auctions at Showplace | $425
5. 2024-09-21 | LEN CHMIEL \(Born 1942\) WASHINGTON STATE WATERCOLOR | Dirk Soulis Auctions | N/A
6. 2024-07-09 | Len Chmiel "Bowers Farm & Beyond" Oil on Canvas | Auctions at Showplace | $375
7. 2024-05-17 | Len Chmiel \- Along the Rio Plata, Uruguay | Mark Sublette Medicine Man Gallery & Auction | $300
8. 2024-04-07 | Len Chmiel "Bowers Farm & Beyond" Oil on Canvas | Auctions at Showplace | $475
9. 2024-03-01 | Len Chmiel \- Along the Rio Plata, Uruguay | Mark Sublette Medicine Man Gallery & Auction | N/A
10. 2023-08-26 | Len Chmiel, "Valley Flora" | Scottsdale Art Auction, LLC | $1,600
11. 2023-08-06 | Len Chmiel "Bowers Farm & Beyond" Oil on Canvas | Auctions at Showplace | $650
12. 2022-12-11 | LEN CHMIEL \(B. 1942\) | James Cox Gallery | N/A
13. 2022-08-28 | LEN CHMIEL \(AMERICAN, BORN 1942\) | Dargate Auction Galleries | $10,000
14. 2021-09-19 | LEN CHMIEL \(AMERICAN, BORN 1942\) | Dargate Auction Galleries | $15,000
15. 2019-08-23 | Len Chmiel \| Wall at Canyon Lake | Altermann Galleries | N/A
16. 2019-08-23 | Len Chmiel \| Colorado National Monument | Altermann Galleries | $500
17. 2019-05-31 | Len Chmiel \| Colorado National Monument | Altermann Galleries | N/A
18. 2019-05-31 | Len Chmiel \| Wall at Canyon Lake | Altermann Galleries | N/A
19. 2018-01-19 | Len Chmiel \| March Snow | Altermann Galleries | $3,200
20. 2017-06-24 | LEN CHMIEL \(AMERICAN/CO/IL, b. 1942\) | Ascendant Auction Galleries | $2,000
21. 2017-04-08 | Len Chmiel \- Six O'clock Mass | Scottsdale Art Auction, LLC | $2,250
22. 2017-03-05 | LEN CHMIEL \(AMERICAN/CO/IL, b. 1942\) \- ''Lost Horse Creek''; oil on canvas board; Signed lower left ''L. Chmiel'', verso paper label 2008; Set in gilt wood frame; Measures: Visible Art 33''H x 43''W, Frame 25''H x 35''W; Provenance: Purchased in 2008, from The Thunderbird Foundation, for $14,500; From the Estate Collection of Robert B Fay Jr. | Dargate Auction Galleries | $6,500
23. 2017-03-05 | LEN CHMIEL \(AMERICAN/CO/IL, b. 1942\) \- ''Vinales''; Oil on canvas board; Signed low center ''L. Chmiel'', verso paper label 2004; Set in gold gilt wood frame; Measures: Visible Art 27''H x 35''W, Frame 34.5''H x 43''W; Provenance: Valued in 2007, by Len Chmiel, for $14,200; From the Estate Collection of Robert B Fay Jr. | Dargate Auction Galleries | N/A
24. 2017-03-05 | LEN CHMIEL \(AMERICAN/CO/IL, b. 1942\) \- ''An Afternoon to Enjoy''; Oil on canvas on board; Signed lower right ''L. Chmiel''; Set in pewter gilt wood frame; Measures: Visible Art 21''H x 32''W, Frame 29''H x 40''W; Provenance: Purchased in 2012, from National Western Stock Show, for $13,500; Piece was also featured in Coores Western Art Exhibit November 2011; From the Estate Collection of Robert B Fay Jr. | Dargate Auction Galleries | N/A

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