# NIKOLAI ALEXANDROVICH BENOIS - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-01T16:54:39.226Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 44
- Lots with prices: 33
- First auction date: 2004-05-26
- Latest auction date: 2022-03-27
- Median realised price: $1,000
- Price range: $250 to $31,250

## Market Takeaway
NIKOLAI ALEXANDROVICH BENOIS has 44 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $1,000. Category concentration is still broad. Recent 12-month volume is still light. 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 \($1,000\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($600 to $2,160\) 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: 39.4% (13 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 54.5% (18 sales)
- $10,000\+: 6.1% (2 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 0
- Previous 12 months sales: 0
- Recent 12 months median: $0
- Previous 12 months median: $0
- Median shift: N/A
- Latest sale date: 2022-03-27
- Days since latest sale: 1,496
- Market velocity: inactive

## Top Auction Houses
- Accademia Fine Art: 16 lots
- Hermitage Fine Art: 9 lots
- Sotheby's: 8 lots
- Bonhams: 5 lots
- Skinner: 3 lots
- Shapiro Auctions LLC: 2 lots
- Swann Auction Galleries: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2011-06-07 | NIKOLAI ALEXANDROVICH BENOIS | Sotheby's | £31,250
2. 2009-06-10 | Nikolai Alexandrovich Benois , 1901\-1988 two set designs for a production of sadko pastel on paper | Sotheby's | N/A
3. 2009-06-08 | Nikolai Alexandrovich Benois \(Russian, 1901\-1988\) Magical pictures | Bonhams | £1,200
4. 2007-06-14 | Nikolai Alexandrovich Benois, 1901\-1988 , two set designs for a production of Sadko | Sotheby's | £16,800
5. 2006-06-01 | NIKOLAI ALEXANDROVICH BENOIS, 1901\-1988 | Sotheby's | £1,140
6. 2005-11-29 | NIKOLAI ALEXANDROVICH BENOIS, 1901\-1988 | Sotheby's | N/A
7. 2004-12-02 | NIKOLAI ALEXANDROVICH BENOIS, 1901\-1988 | Sotheby's | N/A
8. 2004-05-26 | NIKOLAI ALEXANDROVICH BENOIS, 1901\-1988 | Sotheby's | £3,600
9. 2022-03-27 | NIKOLAI ALEXANDROVICH BENOIS \(1901\-1988\) \- Opera by Rossini ‘The Siege of Corinth’ at La Scala. 1968\-69. | Hermitage Fine Art | N/A
10. 2022-03-27 | NIKOLAI ALEXANDROVICH BENOIS \(1901\-1988\) \- Set design for Japanese ballet ‘Kaguyahime \(The Moon Princess\). 1978. | Hermitage Fine Art | €600
11. 2022-03-27 | NIKOLAI ALEXANDROVICH BENOIS \(1901\-1988\) \- Set design for opera ‘Sadko’ by Rimsky\-Korsakov for La Scala | Hermitage Fine Art | €400
12. 2022-03-27 | NIKOLAI ALEXANDROVICH BENOIS \(1901\-1988\) \- Set design | Hermitage Fine Art | €370
13. 2022-03-27 | NIKOLAI ALEXANDROVICH BENOIS \(1901\-1988\) \- \(1\) Stage design for opera by Verdi ‘La Forza del Destino’. 1965\-66. \- \(2\) Set design for opera Verdi La Forza del Destino, 1965\-66 | Hermitage Fine Art | €600
14. 2022-03-27 | NIKOLAI ALEXANDROVICH BENOIS \(1901\-1988\) \- Set design for opera ‘Un ballo in maschera’ by Verdi. 1967\-68. | Hermitage Fine Art | €310
15. 2022-03-27 | NIKOLAI ALEXANDROVICH BENOIS \(1901\-1988\) \- Costume design for Louis Philippe with a tissue sample | Hermitage Fine Art | €250
16. 2022-03-27 | NIKOLAI ALEXANDROVICH BENOIS \(1901\-1988\) \- Costume deisgn ‘Lady at a ball III act’ | Hermitage Fine Art | €300
17. 2022-03-27 | NIKOLAI ALEXANDROVICH BENOIS \(1901\-1988\) \- Costume design ‘Lady at a ball III act’f. 1979. | Hermitage Fine Art | €500
18. 2021-01-28 | NIKOLAI ALEXANDROVICH BENOIS \(1901\-1988\) "Aida. Act I, Scene II, Variant." \[THEATER / OPERA / SET DESIGN\] | Swann Auction Galleries | $937
19. 2020-11-25 | Nikolai Alexandrovich Benois \(Russian, 1901\-1988\) A St. Petersburg menu, 1923 32.8 x 20.7cm \(12 15/16 x 8 1/8in\). | Bonhams | £1,000
20. 2019-01-26 | NIKOLAI ALEXANDROVICH BENOIS \(RUSSIAN 1901\-1988\) | Shapiro Auctions LLC | N/A
21. 2016-08-06 | NIKOLAI ALEXANDROVICH BENOIS \(1901\-1988\) Scène pour le Ballet « Pedro y el Lobo » de Serge Prokofieff | Accademia Fine Art | €800
22. 2016-08-06 | NIKOLAI ALEXANDROVICH BENOIS \(1901\-1988\) Etude de costume pour « Rigoletto » de Verdi | Accademia Fine Art | €600
23. 2015-03-15 | NIKOLAI ALEXANDROVICH BENOIS \(1901\-1988\) Scène pour le Ballet « Pedro y el Lobo » de Serge Prokofieff | Accademia Fine Art | €900
24. 2014-10-25 | NIKOLAI ALEXANDROVICH BENOIS \(1901\-1988\) Scène pour l'opéra de Wagner \(1\) | Accademia Fine Art | €2,000

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