# Melvin Edwards - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-03T08:46:44.500Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 56
- Lots with prices: 38
- First auction date: 2003-09-23
- Latest auction date: 2025-12-05
- Median realised price: $1,536
- Price range: $100 to $409,500

## Market Takeaway
Melvin Edwards has 56 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $1,536. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 11 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 \($1,536\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($750 to $4,000\) 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: 31.6% (12 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 50% (19 sales)
- $10,000\+: 18.4% (7 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 11
- Previous 12 months sales: 6
- Recent 12 months median: $1,200
- Previous 12 months median: $1,250
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-12-05
- Days since latest sale: 148
- Market velocity: moderate

## Top Auction Houses
- Black Art Auction: 17 lots
- Swann Auction Galleries: 15 lots
- RoGallery: 9 lots
- Christie's: 3 lots
- Rago Arts and Auction Center: 3 lots
- Material Culture: 2 lots
- Sotheby's: 2 lots
- Bonhams: 1 lots
- Butterscotch Auction Gallery LLC: 1 lots
- Capsule Gallery Auction: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-12-05 | Melvin Edwards, Premonitions | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $450
2. 2025-10-18 | Melvin Edwards, b. 1937, untitled | Black Art Auction | $1,200
3. 2025-10-18 | Melvin Edwards, b. 1937, untitled | Black Art Auction | $2,400
4. 2025-10-07 | Melvin Edwards \(1937\-\), Prepared \(Lynch Fragment\), 1995. | Swann Auction Galleries | $50,800
5. 2025-10-03 | Melvin Edwards, Premonitions | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $250
6. 2025-06-14 | Melvin Edwards, b. 1937, untitled | Black Art Auction | N/A
7. 2025-06-14 | Melvin Edwards, b. 1937, Transcendence | Black Art Auction | N/A
8. 2025-06-14 | Melvin Edwards, b. 1937, untitled | Black Art Auction | $3,750
9. 2025-06-14 | Melvin Edwards, b. 1937, Fragment and Shadows | Black Art Auction | N/A
10. 2025-06-05 | MELVIN EDWARDS \(1937 \- \) Vision and Purpose IV. | Swann Auction Galleries | $1,250
11. 2025-05-22 | MELVIN EDWARDS, TEXAS SUNDAY BLUE, LITHOGRAPH | RoGallery | $750
12. 2025-04-03 | MELVIN EDWARDS \(1937 \- \) Vision and Purpose II. | Swann Auction Galleries | $1,250
13. 2024-10-03 | MELVIN EDWARDS \(1937 \- \) Untitled \(Self\-Portrait\). | Swann Auction Galleries | $1,625
14. 2024-10-03 | MELVIN EDWARDS \(1937 \- \) Fragment and Shadows. | Swann Auction Galleries | N/A
15. 2024-09-14 | Melvin Edwards, b. 1937, Coco Variant | Black Art Auction | N/A
16. 2024-06-27 | MELVIN EDWARDS \- PREMONITIONS | Capsule Gallery Auction | $400
17. 2024-06-11 | Melvin Edwards, attribution, A Non\-Pornographic Painting Revisited | Rago Arts and Auction Center | N/A
18. 2023-12-02 | Melvin Edwards, b. 1937, Monumental I | Black Art Auction | $1,500
19. 2023-12-02 | Melvin Edwards, b. 1937, Transcendence | Black Art Auction | $1,600
20. 2023-10-19 | MELVIN EDWARDS \(1937 \- \) Untitled \(Self\-Portrait\). | Swann Auction Galleries | N/A
21. 2023-06-21 | MELVIN EDWARDS, TEXAS SUNDAY BLUE, LITHOGRAPH | RoGallery | N/A
22. 2023-05-20 | Mel Edwards, b. 1937, Monumental II | Black Art Auction | $1,000
23. 2023-05-20 | Mel Edwards, b. 1937, Monumental I | Black Art Auction | $1,700
24. 2023-05-18 | MELVIN EDWARDS \(b. 1937\) Ile Ogun, Planetary, Road to Goma, Alterable \[Four | Christie's | $409,500

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