# Michael Karas - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-01T09:49:23.033Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 25
- Lots with prices: 19
- First auction date: 2015-08-30
- Latest auction date: 2025-09-13
- Median realised price: $850
- Price range: $225 to $4,100

## Market Takeaway
Michael Karas has 25 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $850. 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 \($850\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($425 to $2,400\) 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: 63.2% (12 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 36.8% (7 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 3
- Previous 12 months sales: 2
- Recent 12 months median: $275
- Previous 12 months median: $475
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-09-13
- Days since latest sale: 229
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Altermann Galleries: 5 lots
- Thomaston Place Auction Galleries: 4 lots
- Amelia Jeffers: 3 lots
- Morris and Whiteside Auctions LLC: 3 lots
- William J Jenack Auctioneers: 2 lots
- Abington Auction Gallery: 1 lots
- Blackwood March Auctioneers: 1 lots
- Broward Auction Gallery LLC: 1 lots
- Gallery 95 Auctions: 1 lots
- Heritage Auctions: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-09-13 | MICHAEL KARAS \(AMERICAN, B. 1954\) "A SAIL ON THE BAY" OIL ON BOARD. | Amelia Jeffers | $225
2. 2025-09-13 | MICHAEL KARAS \(AMERICAN, B. 1954\) "MY NEIGHBOR'S GARDEN" OIL ON BOARD. | Amelia Jeffers | $275
3. 2025-09-13 | MICHAEL KARAS \(AMERICAN, B. 1954\) "TRANQUIL COVE" OIL ON BOARD. | Amelia Jeffers | $325
4. 2024-10-19 | MICHAEL KARAS \(BORN 1954\) OIL ON BOARD LANDSCAPE, 17 | Blackwood March Auctioneers | N/A
5. 2024-09-01 | Michael Karas \(ME,SC,MA,b 1954\) oil painting | Broward Auction Gallery LLC | $475
6. 2023-04-26 | Michael Karas 'The Maine Coast' Painting | Abington Auction Gallery | $1,400
7. 2023-01-12 | Michael Karas \(American, b. 1954\) Seascape Oil on canvas 24 x 24 inches \(61.0 x | Heritage Auctions | $875
8. 2021-11-16 | Michael Karas Oil on Canvas | Taos Estate Sales | N/A
9. 2020-12-01 | MICHAEL KARAS \(United States, born 1954\) oil on bo | O'Gallerie | $425
10. 2020-01-17 | Michael Karas, oil on board | Pook & Pook Inc. | $850
11. 2019-08-23 | MICHAEL KARAS \(ME/SC/MA, 1954\- \) | Thomaston Place Auction Galleries | $2,900
12. 2019-08-23 | MICHAEL KARAS \(ME/SC/MA, 1954\- \) | Thomaston Place Auction Galleries | $4,000
13. 2018-11-30 | Michael Karas \| Winter Reverie | Altermann Galleries | $600
14. 2018-09-30 | Michael Karas "New England Surf " | Gallery 95 Auctions | $400
15. 2018-08-11 | Michael Karas \| Winter Reverie | Altermann Galleries | N/A
16. 2018-01-18 | Michael Karas \| Shoreline Sails | Altermann Galleries | $900
17. 2018-01-18 | Michael Karas \| Schoodic Shores | Altermann Galleries | $700
18. 2018-01-18 | Michael Karas \| Winter Reverie | Altermann Galleries | N/A
19. 2017-07-30 | MICHAEL KARAS \(AMERICAN 1954\-\), OIL ON CANVAS, SUMMER LANDSCAPE, NEW ENGLAND, SIGNED. 19 X 25"; FRAMED 27 X 33" | William J Jenack Auctioneers | $700
20. 2017-06-11 | MICHAEL KARAS \(AMERICAN 1954\-\), OIL ON CANVAS, SUMMER LANDSCAPE, NEW ENGLAND, SIGNED. 19 X 25"; FRAMED 27 X 33" | William J Jenack Auctioneers | N/A
21. 2017-05-05 | Thunderhead | Morris and Whiteside Auctions LLC | N/A
22. 2016-08-29 | MICHAEL KARAS \(Contemporary Okatie, SC\) \- "Downeast Shore", oil on luan, signed lower right, titled verso, depicting whitecaps on the granite boulder Maine coast, in gold molded frame with linen liner, OS: 39" x 49", ... | Thomaston Place Auction Galleries | $2,400
23. 2015-10-10 | Michael Karas \- Beach Harmony | Morris and Whiteside Auctions LLC | $2,850
24. 2015-10-10 | Michael Karas \- Sunbreak | Morris and Whiteside Auctions LLC | $1,600

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