# Melville Price - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-29T22:42:30.543Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 56
- Lots with prices: 35
- First auction date: 2009-06-20
- Latest auction date: 2025-11-05
- Median realised price: $1,800
- Price range: $70 to $7,198

## Market Takeaway
Melville Price has 56 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $1,800. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 5 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 \($1,800\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($950 to $2,875\) 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: 25.7% (9 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 74.3% (26 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 5
- Previous 12 months sales: 4
- Recent 12 months median: $1,000
- Previous 12 months median: $250
- Median shift: 100%
- Latest sale date: 2025-11-05
- Days since latest sale: 175
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- STAIR: 24 lots
- Art\-Torg: 11 lots
- Barridoff Auctions: 4 lots
- Hindman: 3 lots
- Litchfield Auctions: 3 lots
- Revere Auctions: 2 lots
- Akiba Galleries: 1 lots
- Caza Sikes: 1 lots
- Christie's: 1 lots
- EJ'S Auction & Appraisal: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-11-05 | MELVILLE PRICE \- ABSTRACT DRAWING | Litchfield Auctions | $70
2. 2025-09-24 | MELVILLE PRICE \- UNTITLED ABSTRACT O/B | Litchfield Auctions | $1,000
3. 2025-09-24 | MELVILLE PRICE \- ABSTRACT DRAWING | Litchfield Auctions | N/A
4. 2025-06-28 | Melville Price \(1920\-1970\) American | Art\-Torg | N/A
5. 2025-05-21 | Melville Price, Composition I | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $5,500
6. 2024-11-21 | Melville Price \(1920\-1970\): Untitled | STAIR | $250
7. 2024-11-21 | Melville Price \(1920\-1970\): Biomorphic Abstraction | STAIR | N/A
8. 2024-11-21 | Melville Price \(1920\-1970\): Untitled \(Abstract Figure\) | STAIR | N/A
9. 2024-10-18 | Melville Price \(1920\-1970\) American | Art\-Torg | N/A
10. 2024-03-23 | Melville Price \(1920\-1970\) Abstract Oil On Paper | EJ'S Auction & Appraisal | $275
11. 2024-02-20 | Melville Price \(American, 1920\-1970\) Oil On Panel Painting | Akiba Galleries | $950
12. 2024-02-16 | Melville Price \(1920\-1970\) American | Art\-Torg | N/A
13. 2023-12-14 | Melville Price \(American, 1920\-1970\) Untitled, 1967 | Hindman | $2,500
14. 2023-11-30 | Melville Price \(1920\-1970\): Untitled | STAIR | N/A
15. 2023-09-28 | Melville Price \(American, 1920\-1970\) Biomorphic Abstraction , 1946\-48 | Hindman | $3,000
16. 2023-08-23 | Melville Price \(American, 1920–1970\) Untitled | Freeman's \| Hindman | $1,000
17. 2023-06-09 | Melville Price \(1920\-1970\) American | Art\-Torg | N/A
18. 2023-06-08 | Melville Price \(1920\-1970\): Untitled | STAIR | $3,250
19. 2023-06-08 | Melville Price \(1920\-1970\): Untitled | STAIR | $3,000
20. 2023-06-08 | Melville Price \(1920\-1970\): Untitled | STAIR | $1,800
21. 2023-04-12 | Melville Price, Oil / Gouache on Paper | Caza Sikes | $832
22. 2022-10-14 | Melville Price \(1920\-1970\) American | Art\-Torg | N/A
23. 2022-06-02 | Melville Price \(1920\-1970\): Untitled | STAIR | $1,500
24. 2022-06-02 | Melville Price \(1920\-1970\): Untitled | STAIR | $2,500

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