# Lionel Kalish - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-01T08:02:23.060Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 22
- Lots with prices: 15
- First auction date: 2013-07-31
- Latest auction date: 2025-09-11
- Median realised price: $175
- Price range: $40 to $1,625

## Market Takeaway
Lionel Kalish has 22 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $175. 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 \($175\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($60 to $300\) 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: 93.3% (14 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 6.7% (1 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 1
- Previous 12 months sales: 3
- Recent 12 months median: $50
- Previous 12 months median: $40
- Median shift: 25%
- Latest sale date: 2025-09-11
- Days since latest sale: 231
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- South Bay Auctions Inc: 7 lots
- Capo Auction: 3 lots
- James Cox Gallery: 3 lots
- Swann Auction Galleries: 2 lots
- Austin Auction Gallery: 1 lots
- Das Kunst\- und Auktionshaus Kastern GmbH & Co KG: 1 lots
- Gray's Auctioneers: 1 lots
- Leland Little Auctions: 1 lots
- Nadeau's Auction Gallery: 1 lots
- RoGallery: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-09-11 | LIONEL KALISH \(1931 \- 2022\) EXPRESSIONIST 1961 O/C | Westport Auction | $50
2. 2025-03-22 | Lionel Kalish \(American B.1931\), "A Villa on the Sea", c.1980, Oil on canvas, Signed lower right L.Kalish, Bark Frameworks Inc. N.Y. label verso, 16" x 24" | Nadeau's Auction Gallery | $150
3. 2024-12-08 | LIONEL KALISH \(AMERICAN, 1931 \- 2022\) | James Cox Gallery | $40
4. 2024-08-08 | LIONEL KALISH \(1931\- \). THE POLISH LESSON. 1967. 20½x15½ inches, 52x39¼ cm. Cullen Rapp Studios, \[New York\]. | Swann Auction Galleries | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-lionel-kalish-1931-the-polish-lesson-1967-201-2x151-2-inches-52x391-4-cm-cullen-rapp-studios-new-york-352-c-9d4b17d681
5. 2023-12-10 | LIONEL KALISH \(AMERICAN, 1931 \- 2022\) | James Cox Gallery | N/A
6. 2023-12-10 | LIONEL KALISH \(AMERICAN, 1931 \- 2022\) | James Cox Gallery | $60
7. 2023-08-03 | LIONEL KALISH \(1931\- \). THE YIDDISH LESSON. 1969. 28½x21¾ inches, 72½x55¼ cm. Record Offset. | Swann Auction Galleries | $1,625
8. 2022-03-12 | Lionel Kalish | Das Kunst\- und Auktionshaus Kastern GmbH & Co KG | €350
9. 2021-03-20 | LIONEL KALISH \(American, b. 1931\) | South Bay Auctions Inc | $200
10. 2021-03-20 | LIONEL KALISH \(American, b. 1931\) | South Bay Auctions Inc | $300
11. 2021-01-30 | LIONEL KALISH \(American, b. 1931\) | South Bay Auctions Inc | $275
12. 2020-12-05 | LIONEL KALISH \(American, b. 1931\) | South Bay Auctions Inc | N/A
13. 2020-12-05 | LIONEL KALISH \(American, b. 1931\), | South Bay Auctions Inc | N/A
14. 2020-12-05 | LIONEL KALISH \(American, b. 1931\) | South Bay Auctions Inc | $125
15. 2020-12-05 | LIONEL KALISH \(American, b. 1931\) | South Bay Auctions Inc | $175
16. 2020-07-09 | Lionel Kalish \(NY, b. 1931\), Asclepius | Leland Little Auctions | $175
17. 2018-11-11 | LIONEL KALISH \(B.1931\) OIL LANDSCAPE PAINTING | Austin Auction Gallery | $450
18. 2015-09-26 | Lionel Kalish \(American, b. 1931\) | Capo Auction | $50
19. 2015-08-29 | Lionel Kalish \(American, b. 1931\) | Capo Auction | N/A
20. 2015-07-25 | Lionel Kalish \(American, b. 1931\) | Capo Auction | N/A
21. 2013-10-17 | Lionel Kalish, The Polish Lesson, Poster | RoGallery | N/A
22. 2013-07-31 | Lionel Kalish \(20th Century\) Untitled, Acrylic on board, | Gray's Auctioneers | $168

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