# Louis Novak - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-29T02:54:15.133Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 39
- Lots with prices: 27
- First auction date: 2003-02-03
- Latest auction date: 2025-12-07
- Median realised price: $125
- Price range: $50 to $1,200

## Market Takeaway
Louis Novak has 39 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $125. 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 \($125\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($75 to $288\) 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: 96.3% (26 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 3.7% (1 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 1
- Previous 12 months sales: 5
- Recent 12 months median: $100
- Previous 12 months median: $75
- Median shift: 33.3%
- Latest sale date: 2025-12-07
- Days since latest sale: 142
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Winter Associates, Inc.: 7 lots
- California Historical Design, Inc: 6 lots
- Rachel Davis Fine Arts: 4 lots
- Skinner: 4 lots
- Kaminski Auctions: 3 lots
- Sloans & Kenyon: 3 lots
- Grant Zahajko Auctions, LLC: 2 lots
- Grogan & Company: 2 lots
- Arthaz: 1 lots
- Aspire Auctions Fine Art & Antiques: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-12-07 | Louis Novak \(1903 \- 1988\) Antique American Impressionist Winter Framed Landscape Signed Oil Painting | Curated Gallery Auctions | $100 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-louis-novak-1903-1988-antique-american-impressionist-winter-framed-landscape-signed-oil-painting-108-c-401e750589
2. 2024-11-20 | Louis Novak Serigraph S/N \[Swift River\] | Grant Zahajko Auctions, LLC | $50
3. 2025-03-04 | Louis Novak \(American 1903\-1983\), Hallway of the Webb House at Wethersfield \(Connecticut\), 1946, Woodblock Print in Color, Mat: 20 x 16 in. \(50.8 x 40.6 cm.\) | Weschler's | $100
4. 2024-10-16 | Louis Novak Signed Color Woodcut | Grant Zahajko Auctions, LLC | $125
5. 2024-09-21 | Louis Novak \(1903\-1983\) Color Woodcut "Fish Pier, Boston" c1940 | California Historical Design, Inc | $75
6. 2024-06-29 | Louis Novak \(1903\-1983\) Color Woodcut "Fish Pier, Boston" c1940 | California Historical Design, Inc | N/A
7. 2024-03-23 | Louis Novak \(MA 1903\-1983\) Color Woodcut "A Covered Bridge" c1940s | California Historical Design, Inc | $150
8. 2024-02-10 | Louis Novak \(1903\-1988\) wood engraving | Rachel Davis Fine Arts | $80
9. 2023-12-09 | Louis Novak \(1903\-1983\) Color Woodcut "Fish Pier, Boston" c1940 | California Historical Design, Inc | N/A
10. 2023-12-09 | Louis Novak \(1903\-1983\) Color Woodcut "The Old State House, Boston" 1949 | California Historical Design, Inc | N/A
11. 2023-12-04 | Louis Novak \( Hungarian\-American, 1903\-1983\) "The Road Church" colored block print, edition 4/100, depicts a white church with steeple, with flowering trees surrounding, pencil signed and titled along bottom border, f... | Winter Associates, Inc. | N/A
12. 2023-09-16 | Louis Novak \(MA 1903\-1983\) Color Woodcut "A Covered Bridge" c1940s | California Historical Design, Inc | N/A
13. 2023-05-08 | Louis Novak \( Hungarian\-American, 1903\-1983\) "The Road Church" colored block print, edition 4/100, depicts a white church with steeple, with flowering trees surrounding, pencil signed and titled along bottom border, f... | Winter Associates, Inc. | N/A
14. 2021-09-25 | 4 Louis Novak woodcuts | Rachel Davis Fine Arts | $200
15. 2020-02-26 | Louis Novak \(1903\-1983\) American. "Sunday at Faneuil Hall" \(Boston, Massachusetts\), Woodcut in Colours, Signed and Inscribed in Pencil, 8.25" x 10.75", and another by the same hand, "Dixon Square, Westerly, RI", Two \(2\). | John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers | £60
16. 2019-08-24 | Louis Novak \(AM 1903\-1983\) | Merrill's Auctioneers & Appraisers | $70
17. 2019-06-29 | Louis Novak, Old Copley Square, Print | Kaminski Auctions | N/A
18. 2018-10-27 | Louis Novak, Old Copley Square, Print | Kaminski Auctions | N/A
19. 2017-12-09 | Louis Novak woodcut | Rachel Davis Fine Arts | $160
20. 2015-06-25 | LOUIS NOVAK \(AMERICAN, 1904\-1983\), PARK AND TREMONT STREETS, COLOUR LINOCUT SIGNED, TITLED IN PENCIL \(Image, 5.5” x 7.3”\) | Waddington's | N/A
21. 2015-02-10 | Louis Novak \(Hungarian\-American, 1903\-1983\), three colored woodblock prints: "Williams College", depicting snowy Thompson Memorial C... | Winter Associates, Inc. | $50
22. 2014-11-26 | Sunday at faneuil hall, Boston by Louis Novak | Arthaz | N/A
23. 2014-10-06 | Louis Novak \(Hungarian\-American, 1903\-1983\), three colored woodblock prints: "Williams College", depicting snow\-covered Thompson Mem... | Winter Associates, Inc. | N/A
24. 2013-10-19 | Louis NovaK woodcut in colors | Rachel Davis Fine Arts | $160

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