# Michel Butor - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-01T10:10:53.971Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 12
- Lots with prices: 9
- First auction date: 2009-06-23
- Latest auction date: 2025-11-20
- Median realised price: $821
- Price range: $180 to $1,239

## Market Takeaway
Michel Butor has 12 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $821. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 1 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 \($821\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($200 to $1,134\) 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: 55.6% (5 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 44.4% (4 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 1
- Previous 12 months sales: 0
- Recent 12 months median: $180
- Previous 12 months median: $0
- Median shift: N/A
- Latest sale date: 2025-11-20
- Days since latest sale: 162
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Artcurial: 3 lots
- Christie's: 2 lots
- Piasa: 2 lots
- Arenberg Auctions: 1 lots
- Brussels Art Auctions: 1 lots
- Cornette de Saint\-Cyr: 1 lots
- Cornette de Saint\-Cyr\-Bruxelles: 1 lots
- Millon & Associes: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-11-20 | Michel Butor, Yehuda Lancry, Henri Maccheroni Trêves et Rêves Jérusalem | Millon & Associes | €180
2. 2023-11-15 | MICHEL BUTOR \(1926\-2016\) \- A Collection of Artist's Portfolios and Sculptures | Christie's | $1,134
3. 2023-04-25 | MICHEL BUTOR \(1926\-2016\) A Collection of Artist's Portfolios and Sculptures | Christie's | $1,134
4. 2021-10-26 | Michel Butor & Alberto Magnelli Acrostiche | Brussels Art Auctions | €200
5. 2020-12-15 | Michel BUTOR \(1926\-2016\) \- et Pierre ALECHINSKY \(1927\-2018\) | Cornette de Saint\-Cyr | €1,235
6. 2020-10-15 | Le prince de l'abîme. \[Illustrations de Julius\] Baltazar. | Arenberg Auctions | €280
7. 2018-12-11 | Michel BUTOR 1926\-2016 Réunion de 3 ouvrages en édition originaleen édition originale | Artcurial | €821
8. 2018-06-06 | Michel Butor \(1926\-2016\) et Gregory Masurovsky \(1929\-2009\)La carte de France et l''encrier | Piasa | N/A
9. 2018-04-26 | Michel BUTOR 1926\-2016 Réunion de 3 ouvragesen édition originale | Artcurial | N/A
10. 2017-12-17 | MICHEL BUTOR \(né en 1926\) Lot composé d’une affiche rehaussée | Cornette de Saint\-Cyr\-Bruxelles | €195
11. 2012-12-13 | Michel BUTOR 7 ouvrages | Artcurial | N/A
12. 2009-06-23 | Michel BUTOR \(né 1926\). Manuscrit autographe | Piasa | €1,239

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