# Nathan Lerner - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-30T23:52:35.015Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 33
- Lots with prices: 30
- First auction date: 2010-05-20
- Latest auction date: 2026-04-14
- Median realised price: $600
- Price range: $100 to $3,500

## Market Takeaway
Nathan Lerner has 33 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $600. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 8 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 \($600\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($500 to $1,100\) 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: 73.3% (22 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 26.7% (8 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 8
- Previous 12 months sales: 3
- Recent 12 months median: $500
- Previous 12 months median: $350
- Median shift: 42.9%
- Latest sale date: 2026-04-14
- Days since latest sale: 16
- Market velocity: moderate

## Top Auction Houses
- Leonard Auction: 5 lots
- Los Angeles Modern Auctions: 4 lots
- Clars Auctions: 3 lots
- Toomey & Co. Auctioneers: 3 lots
- Wright: 3 lots
- Christie's: 2 lots
- Hindman: 2 lots
- Rago Arts and Auction Center: 2 lots
- Swann Auction Galleries: 2 lots
- Akiba Galleries: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2019-11-30 | NATHAN LERNER \(CHICAGO 1913 \- CHICAGO 1997\). SLEEPING MAN. | Auktionshaus Stahl | €800
2. 2026-04-14 | Signed Nathan Lerner "Guitar Player" Gelatin Silver | Akiba Galleries | $350 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-signed-nathan-lerner-guitar-player-gelatin-silver-377-c-c8308a0d6d
3. 2026-01-27 | Nathan Lerner \(American, 1913\-1997\) 'Paper on String' Gelatin Silver Print | Leonard Auction | N/A
4. 2026-01-27 | Nathan Lerner \(American, 1913\-1997\) 'Light Volume' Photograph | Leonard Auction | $500 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-nathan-lerner-american-1913-1997-light-volume-photograph-133-c-9bf3ff7c24
5. 2025-12-06 | Nathan LERNER: "Untitled Abstraction". | Armstrong Fine Art | $600
6. 2025-11-18 | Nathan Lerner \(American, 1913\-1997\) 'Paper on String' Gelatin Silver Print | Leonard Auction | $500
7. 2025-11-18 | Nathan Lerner \(American, 1913\-1997\) 'Light Volume' Photograph | Leonard Auction | $500 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-nathan-lerner-american-1913-1997-light-volume-photograph-147-c-6a15c7b774
8. 2025-11-18 | Nathan Lerner \(American, 1913\-1997\) Photographs | Leonard Auction | $800
9. 2025-05-01 | Nathan Lerner, Focused View for Camera: Brown's Face | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $150
10. 2024-10-25 | Nathan Lerner, Tokyo Street | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $400
11. 2024-07-10 | Nathan Lerner, Old Woman | Los Angeles Modern Auctions | $100
12. 2024-07-10 | Nathan Lerner, Eye and Nails | Los Angeles Modern Auctions | $350
13. 2024-03-08 | Nathan Lerner, Head, Maxwell Street | Los Angeles Modern Auctions | $600
14. 2024-03-08 | Nathan Lerner, The Swimmer, Chicago | Los Angeles Modern Auctions | $1,100
15. 2023-09-14 | Nathan Lerner, Eye and String | Wright | $1,200
16. 2023-05-02 | Nathan Lerner \(1913\-1997\) City Light Box Study, 1944 | Hindman | $600
17. 2022-11-19 | NATHAN LERNER \(1913–1997\) | OstLicht Auctions | €1,300
18. 2020-03-10 | Nathan Lerner \(American, 1913\-1997\) Eye and String, 1939 | Hindman | $608
19. 2019-10-17 | NATHAN LERNER \(1913\-1997\) Eye and String. | Swann Auction Galleries | $1,187
20. 2019-09-15 | Nathan Lerner \(1913\-1997\) chairs, pair 17"w x 21"d x 29 1/2"h | Toomey & Co. Auctioneers | $357
21. 2018-10-18 | NATHAN LERNER \(1913\-1997\) Eye and Barbed Wire. | Swann Auction Galleries | $1,187
22. 2018-02-15 | Nathan Lerner, Light Experiment: Wooden Dowels, Chicago | Wright | $800
23. 2015-11-13 | NATHAN LERNER \(1913\-1997\) El Platform, 1935 | Christie's | €3,500
24. 2014-11-16 | Photographs by Nathan Lerner | Clars Auctions | $600

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