# Leo Politi - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-29T15:29:54.780Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 46
- Lots with prices: 35
- First auction date: 2003-03-02
- Latest auction date: 2025-11-18
- Median realised price: $310
- Price range: $20 to $1,778

## Market Takeaway
Leo Politi has 46 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $310. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 4 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 \($310\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($222 to $510\) 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: 97.1% (34 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 2.9% (1 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 4
- Previous 12 months sales: 5
- Recent 12 months median: $425
- Previous 12 months median: $300
- Median shift: 41.7%
- Latest sale date: 2025-11-18
- Days since latest sale: 162
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- John Moran Auctioneers: 12 lots
- Heritage Auctions: 8 lots
- Nye & Company: 3 lots
- Toomey & Co. Auctioneers: 3 lots
- PBA Galleries Auctions & Appraisers: 2 lots
- Skinner: 2 lots
- Austin Auction Gallery: 1 lots
- Burns Auction & Appraisal, LLC.: 1 lots
- Eldred's: 1 lots
- Helmuth Stone: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-11-18 | Leo Politi \(1908\-1996\), "The City" \(Los Angeles\) | John Moran Auctioneers | $1,778
2. 2025-10-14 | Leo Politi \(1908\-1996\), Two girls with jump ropes | John Moran Auctioneers | N/A
3. 2025-09-29 | Leo Politi \(American 1908\-1996\) | Mallams | N/A
4. 2025-05-15 | LEO POLITI \(Italian\-American, 1908\-1996\). Forever Friends, Oil on board depicting three women with dark skin tones, possibly of Mexican | Sloans & Kenyon | $425 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-leo-politi-italian-american-1908-1996-forever-friends-oil-on-board-depicting-three-women-with-dark-skin-tones-possibly-of-mexican-134-c-8814c608f2
5. 2025-03-11 | Leo Politi \(1908\-1996\), Two illustrated children's hardcover books about Los Angeles, 1964\-1967 | John Moran Auctioneers | $222
6. 2025-02-01 | Leo Politi \(American 1908\-1996\) Two Seated Asian Girls Mixed media, watercolor, pencil, acrylic on paper Signed lower right Leo Politi 22" x 18" Provenance: From a Washington Depot Connecticut Collection | Nadeau's Auction Gallery | $550
7. 2025-01-22 | Leo Politi, 1908\-1996, Woman with Children, Watercolor | Nye & Company | $300
8. 2024-12-05 | LEO POLITI \(California, 1908\-1996\), Sleeping angel., Watercolor on paper, 6.5" x 10.5". Framed 14.25" x 18". | Eldred's | $350
9. 2024-08-18 | Leo Politi \(California, 1908\-1996\) | Helmuth Stone | N/A
10. 2024-03-24 | C. 1930 Leo Politi Framed Oil On Board | Monarch Auction and Estate Services | $260
11. 2023-04-03 | Leo Politi \(1908\-1996\), Young boy with two burros, Acrylic on paper, Sight: 16.25" H x 18.125" W | John Moran Auctioneers | $520
12. 2023-04-03 | Leo Politi \(1908\-1996\), "Mexico," 1976, Mixed media on paper, Sight: 15.125" H x 17" W | John Moran Auctioneers | $437
13. 2023-03-15 | Leo Politi, Pair of Watercolors, 1941 | Santa Fe Art Auction | $687
14. 2022-11-26 | LEO POLITI \(1908\-1996\) PONCHO AND GIRL IMAGES 1944. IMAGE AREA IS 11 X 13" | Sunset Auction | $130
15. 2022-07-24 | LEO POLITI \(1908\-1996\) ILLUSTRATION W/C PAINTING | Austin Auction Gallery | $300
16. 2022-05-22 | Leo Politi \(1908\-1996\)California, W/C Illustration | Sarasota Estate Auction | $60
17. 2022-03-12 | LEO POLITI \(1908\-1996\) AMERICAN WATERCOLOR PAINTING | RB Fine Arts | $35
18. 2021-09-15 | Leo Politi 1908\-1996 Figural Watercolor Painting | MiddleManBrokers | $60
19. 2021-07-22 | Bunker Hill, LA inscribed w/drawing by Leo Politi | PBA Galleries Auctions & Appraisers | $140
20. 2018-11-01 | Leo Politi original watercolor | PBA Galleries Auctions & Appraisers | $150
21. 2017-03-25 | Leo Politi mixed media | Rachel Davis Fine Arts | $275
22. 2016-09-24 | Leo Politi \(1908\-1996 Los Angeles, CA\) | John Moran Auctioneers | N/A
23. 2016-07-30 | Leo Politi \(1908\-1996 Los Angeles, CA\) | John Moran Auctioneers | $840
24. 2015-11-19 | LEO POLITI \(ITALIAN/AMERICAN 1908\-1996\) CHILD WITH SOMBRERO, 1938 Gouache, ink, watercolor on illustration board: 19 x 12 1/2 in. | Potomack Company | N/A

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