# Luis de Morales - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-29T15:10:38.445Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 619
- Lots with prices: 483
- First auction date: 2003-11-12
- Latest auction date: 2025-10-26
- Median realised price: $216,000
- Price range: $20 to $95,216,000

## Market Takeaway
Luis de Morales has 619 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $216,000. 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 \($216,000\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($17,000 to $968,000\) 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: 4.3% (21 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 16.1% (78 sales)
- $10,000\+: 79.5% (384 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 1
- Previous 12 months sales: 1
- Recent 12 months median: $35
- Previous 12 months median: $5,000
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-10-26
- Days since latest sale: 185
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Sotheby's: 577 lots
- Hampel Fine Art Auctions: 3 lots
- Lettieri Auction & Appraisal: 3 lots
- Setdart Auction House: 3 lots
- Vanderkindere: 3 lots
- Auctionata Paddle8 AG: 2 lots
- Christie's: 2 lots
- Hargesheimer Kunstauktionen Düsseldorf: 2 lots
- Henry's Auktionshaus: 2 lots
- Hutchinson Scott Limited: 2 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-10-26 | antique Mother of Pearl opera glasses by L | R & R Auction INC | $35 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-antique-mother-of-pearl-opera-glasses-by-l-4223-c-591ea0c250
2. 2021-06-01 | LUIS DE MORALES \(Badajoz, ca. 1510\-1586\). "Mercy." Oil on panel. | Setdart Auction House | N/A
3. 2017-02-25 | A Pair of Six\-Light Empire Gilt and Patinated Bronze Figural Candelabra, after L | Heritage Auctions | $2,500 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-a-pair-of-six-light-empire-gilt-and-patinated-bronze-figural-candelabra-after-l-61164-c-e474ee2be8
4. 2008-02-27 | l \- Yue Minjun , B. 1962 Fools in the Night acrylic on canvas | Sotheby's | £916,500
5. 2008-02-27 | l \- Liu Ye , B.1964 I Believe I Can Fly oil on canvas | Sotheby's | N/A
6. 2008-01-24 | l \- Paolo Antonio Barbieri , Still life with plates, a sack filled with olives, game, pomegranates, and quince oil on canvas | Sotheby's | $181,000
7. 2007-12-05 | l \- Charles\-François Grenier de Lacroix, called Lacroix de Marseille Marseille circa 1700 \- 1782 Berlin , Morning: Fisherfolk on a rocky coast, a fortified town beyond; Evening: A couple dancing near a cave, their barge awaiting off the shore both | Sotheby's | £180,500
8. 2007-11-15 | l \- Donald Judd , 1928\-1994 Untitled stainless steel | Sotheby's | $623,400
9. 2007-11-15 | l \- Tom Wesselmann , 1931\-2004 Little Bathtub Collage \#4 oil, pencil and collage on board | Sotheby's | $301,000
10. 2007-11-14 | l \- Mark Rothko , 1903\-1970 Untitled acrylic on canvas | Sotheby's | $12,081,000
11. 2007-11-14 | l \- Philip Guston , 1913\-1980 Night Room oil on canvas | Sotheby's | $4,185,000
12. 2007-11-14 | l \- Francis Bacon , 1909\-1992 Second Version of Study for Bullfight No. 1 oil on canvas | Sotheby's | $45,961,000 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-l-francis-bacon-1909-1992-second-version-of-study-for-bullfight-no-1-oil-on-canvas-29-c-pkpgi24zbc
13. 2007-11-14 | l \- Cy Twombly , b. 1928 Untitled oil, oil based house paint, wax crayon, colored pencil and pencil on canvas | Sotheby's | $5,081,000
14. 2007-11-14 | l \- Donald Judd , 1928\-1994 Untitled stainless steel and red fluorescent Plexiglas in ten units | Sotheby's | $7,433,000
15. 2007-11-14 | l \- Richard Serra , b. 1939 Even Level hot rolled steel | Sotheby's | $1,497,000
16. 2007-11-08 | l \- Jean\-Louis Forain , 1852\-1931 Portrait de Madame N Oil on board | Sotheby's | $20,000
17. 2007-06-21 | l \- Yue Minjun , The Pope | Sotheby's | £2,148,000
18. 2007-05-23 | l \- Frederick C. Frieseke 1874\-1939 , The Gold Locket | Sotheby's | $276,000 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-l-frederick-c-frieseke-1874-1939-the-gold-locket-86-c-7cumc6v06b
19. 2007-05-16 | l \- Al Held , Padua V | Sotheby's | $54,000
20. 2007-05-16 | l \- Annette Lemieux , Geographics of the Sublime | Sotheby's | $4,800
21. 2007-05-16 | l \- Sean Scully , Flannan | Sotheby's | $936,000
22. 2007-05-16 | l \- Richard Serra , Vertical Parallelogram | Sotheby's | $300,000
23. 2007-05-15 | l \- Tom Wesselmann , Bathtub Collage \#5 | Sotheby's | $1,104,000
24. 2007-05-15 | l \- Willem de Kooning , Figure in Landscape I | Sotheby's | $4,072,000

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