# Merry Alpern - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-29T08:21:02.422Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 28
- Lots with prices: 13
- First auction date: 2004-04-19
- Latest auction date: 2025-06-25
- Median realised price: $950
- Price range: $80 to $11,250

## Market Takeaway
Merry Alpern has 28 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $950. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 2 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 \($950\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($800 to $1,600\) 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: 61.5% (8 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 30.8% (4 sales)
- $10,000\+: 7.7% (1 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 2
- Previous 12 months sales: 1
- Recent 12 months median: $800
- Previous 12 months median: $0
- Median shift: N/A
- Latest sale date: 2025-06-25
- Days since latest sale: 308
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- RoGallery: 8 lots
- Bonhams: 3 lots
- Hill Auction Gallery: 3 lots
- Phillips: 3 lots
- Auktionshaus Stahl: 2 lots
- Chiswick Auctions: 2 lots
- Christie's: 2 lots
- Eldred's: 1 lots
- Germann Auction House Ltd: 1 lots
- Hindman: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-06-25 | Merry Alpern, 1955, 4 photographs from the series "Dirty Windows" | Germann Auction House Ltd | CHF 800
2. 2025-05-22 | Merry Alpern \(b.1955\) | Chiswick Auctions | £1,600
3. 2024-10-30 | Merry Alpern, \#29 from the Dirty Windows Series, Gelatin Silver Print | RoGallery | N/A
4. 2024-03-08 | Merry Alpern, Three works from the Window Series | Los Angeles Modern Auctions | $1,200
5. 2023-09-08 | MERRY ALPERN, \#29 FROM THE DIRTY WINDOWS SERIES, GELATIN SILVER PRINT | RoGallery | N/A
6. 2023-07-27 | Merry Alpern, \#29 from the Dirty Windows Series, Gelatin Silver Print | RoGallery | N/A
7. 2022-11-30 | Merry Alpern b.1955 Street Walker B & W Photograph | Hill Auction Gallery | $950
8. 2022-11-30 | Merry Alpern b.1955 Lipstick Lady B & W Photograph | Hill Auction Gallery | $950
9. 2022-11-30 | Merry Alpern b.1955 Nude Black & White Photograph | Hill Auction Gallery | $950
10. 2022-01-26 | MERRY ALPERN \(AMERICAN, B. 1955\) | Chiswick Auctions | £600
11. 2021-01-21 | Merry Alpern \(American, b. 1955\) Untitled \(from the Window Series\), 1994 | Hindman | $2,813
12. 2019-11-30 | MERRY ALPERN \(NEW YORK 1955\). SHOPPING II, NEW YORK, 1999. | Auktionshaus Stahl | N/A
13. 2019-11-30 | MERRY ALPERN \(NEW YORK 1955\). SHOPPING III, NEW YORK, 1999. | Auktionshaus Stahl | €800
14. 2019-01-31 | Merry Alpern, \#29 from the Dirty Windows Series, Photograph | RoGallery | N/A
15. 2018-05-01 | Merry Alpern, \#29 from the Dirty Windows Series, Gelatin Silver Print Photograph | RoGallery | N/A
16. 2017-11-09 | MERRY ALPERN \(NÉE EN 1955\) \- Untitled, de la série Dirty Window, 1994 | Christie's | €11,250
17. 2015-07-21 | Merry Alpern, \#29 from the Dirty Windows Series, Photograph | RoGallery | N/A
18. 2015-06-24 | Merry Alpern, \#29 from the Dirty Windows Series, Photograph | RoGallery | N/A
19. 2014-06-12 | Merry Alpern, \#29 from the Dirty Windows Series, Photograph | RoGallery | N/A
20. 2011-06-30 | MERRY ALPERN, American, b. 1955, "\#28 Windows Series, 1994"., Gelatin silver print, 20" x 16". Framed. | Eldred's | $80
21. 2010-12-13 | MERRY ALPERN \(B. 1955\) | Christie's | $4,750
22. 2010-03-19 | MERRY ALPERN | Phillips | N/A
23. 2010-03-19 | MERRY ALPERN | Phillips | N/A
24. 2010-03-19 | MERRY ALPERN | Phillips | N/A

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