# Melissa Zink - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-26T10:08:14.219Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 20
- Lots with prices: 13
- First auction date: 2016-12-10
- Latest auction date: 2025-09-17
- Median realised price: $793
- Price range: $30 to $1,300

## Market Takeaway
Melissa Zink has 20 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $793. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 3 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 \($793\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($170 to $915\) 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: 84.6% (11 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 15.4% (2 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 3
- Previous 12 months sales: 0
- Recent 12 months median: $206
- Previous 12 months median: $0
- Median shift: N/A
- Latest sale date: 2025-09-17
- Days since latest sale: 246
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Santa Fe Art Auction: 8 lots
- District Auction: 4 lots
- Helmuth Stone: 4 lots
- Leonard Joel: 1 lots
- Millea Bros Ltd: 1 lots
- New Orleans Auction Galleries: 1 lots
- Shapiro Auctioneers: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-09-17 | Melissa Zink, Mysterious Asymmetry, 2005 | Santa Fe Art Auction | $206
2. 2025-09-17 | Melissa Zink, Wastrel, 2004 | Santa Fe Art Auction | N/A
3. 2025-06-18 | Melissa Zink, When She Had Finished Cleaning the Tower, Water Dog Would Spend a Few Quiet Moments In The Hall Dedicated to the Flowering Spirit, 1983 | Santa Fe Art Auction | $1,300
4. 2023-09-20 | Melissa Zink, When She Had Finished Cleaning the Tower, Water Dog Would Spend a Few Quiet Moments In The Hall Dedicated to the Flowering Spirit, 1983 | Santa Fe Art Auction | N/A
5. 2023-09-20 | Melissa Zink, RUST, 1989 | Santa Fe Art Auction | $915
6. 2023-09-20 | Melissa Zink, Moments: A Moment Past, 2002 | Santa Fe Art Auction | $793
7. 2023-09-20 | Melissa Zink, Rodney Whiffet, a Companion, 2003 | Santa Fe Art Auction | $915
8. 2023-07-09 | MELISSA ZINK \(1932\-2009\) OIL ON PANEL PAINTING | District Auction | $50
9. 2023-07-09 | MELISSA ZINK \(1932\-2009\) OIL ON PANEL PAINTING | District Auction | $170
10. 2023-07-09 | MELISSA ZINK \(1932\-2009\) OIL ON PANEL PAINTING | District Auction | $30
11. 2023-07-09 | MELISSA ZINK \(1932\-2009\) OIL ON PANEL PAINTING | District Auction | $45
12. 2023-06-04 | Melissa Zink \(New Mexico, 1932 \- 2009\) | Helmuth Stone | N/A
13. 2023-06-04 | Melissa Zink \(New Mexico, 1932 \- 2009\) | Helmuth Stone | N/A
14. 2022-12-04 | Melissa Zink \(New Mexico, 1932 \- 2009\) | Helmuth Stone | N/A
15. 2022-12-04 | Melissa Zink \(New Mexico, 1932 \- 2009\) | Helmuth Stone | N/A
16. 2022-11-16 | Melissa Zink, dimensional painting, 1989 | Millea Bros Ltd | $700
17. 2022-04-16 | Melissa Zink, Safety, The Silent Man | Santa Fe Art Auction | $840
18. 2020-10-18 | Melissa Zink \(America 1932\-2009\) | Shapiro Auctioneers | N/A
19. 2017-09-01 | MELISSA ZINK \(American, 1932\-2009\) Lesson: The Construction of Surrealist Memory oil on board \(5\) and painted wood sculpture \(1\) | Leonard Joel | A$850
20. 2016-12-10 | Melissa Zink \(American/New Mexico, 1932\-2009\) | New Orleans Auction Galleries | $1,062

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