# Lou Rankin - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-29T15:30:29.792Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 12
- Lots with prices: 12
- First auction date: 2020-01-26
- Latest auction date: 2025-09-11
- Median realised price: $250
- Price range: $25 to $552

## Market Takeaway
Lou Rankin has 12 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $250. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 2 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 \($250\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($160 to $325\) 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: 100% (12 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 0% (0 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 2
- Previous 12 months sales: 1
- Recent 12 months median: $25
- Previous 12 months median: $325
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-09-11
- Days since latest sale: 230
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Caza Sikes: 5 lots
- District Auction: 1 lots
- DuMouchelles: 1 lots
- Fine Estate Inc.: 1 lots
- Hill Auction Gallery: 1 lots
- John Moran Auctioneers: 1 lots
- MiddleManBrokers: 1 lots
- Nadeau's Auction Gallery: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-09-11 | Lou Rankin \(American, 1929\-2016\) Cement Sculptures, 1978, 'Seal And Toad', 2 PCS | DuMouchelles | $200
2. 2025-05-21 | Lou Rankin 1929\-2016 Concrete LE Gorilla Sculpture | MiddleManBrokers | $25
3. 2024-05-26 | Lou Rankin \(American 1929\-2016\) | Fine Estate Inc. | $325
4. 2024-03-10 | LOU RANKIN \(1929\-2016\) PORCUPINE SCULPTURE | District Auction | $250
5. 2023-09-27 | Lou Rankin 1929\-2016 Concrete Frog & Puppy Statues | Hill Auction Gallery | $50
6. 2023-09-14 | Lou Rankin \(American, 1929\-2016\) | Caza Sikes | $552
7. 2023-08-01 | Lou Rankin \(1929\-2016\), Cheshire Cat, 1982, Cement and glass, 2.75" H x 6" W x 8.625" D | John Moran Auctioneers | $468
8. 2022-02-05 | Lou Rankin \(1929 \- 2016\), stone sculpture of an owl on iron legs, mounted on wood base and glass eyes, signed L. Rankin 63 on bottom... | Nadeau's Auction Gallery | $275
9. 2020-01-26 | Lou Rankin \(1929\-2016\), Concrete Otter Sculpture | Caza Sikes | $275
10. 2020-01-26 | Lou Rankin \(1929\-2016\), Porcupine Sculpture | Caza Sikes | $160
11. 2020-01-26 | Lou Rankin \(1929\-2016\), Owl Sculpture | Caza Sikes | $500
12. 2020-01-26 | Lou Rankin \(1929\-2016\) Puppy Concrete Sculpture | Caza Sikes | $170

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