# Nils Obel - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-15T22:35:43.087Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 30
- Lots with prices: 15
- First auction date: 2010-11-23
- Latest auction date: 2025-02-20
- Median realised price: $900
- Price range: $150 to $12,000

## Market Takeaway
Nils Obel has 30 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $900. 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 \($900\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($250 to $1,700\) 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: 53.3% (8 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 40% (6 sales)
- $10,000\+: 6.7% (1 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 0
- Previous 12 months sales: 3
- Recent 12 months median: $0
- Previous 12 months median: $0
- Median shift: N/A
- Latest sale date: 2025-02-20
- Days since latest sale: 448
- Market velocity: inactive

## Top Auction Houses
- New Orleans Auction Galleries: 11 lots
- RoGallery: 7 lots
- Thomaston Place Auction Galleries: 5 lots
- Leonard Auction: 2 lots
- Svendborg Auktionerne ApS: 2 lots
- Bruun Rasmussen Auctioneers: 1 lots
- Crescent City Auction Gallery: 1 lots
- Neal Auction Company: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-02-20 | NILS OBEL, SAILING IN THE MIST, LITHOGRAPH | RoGallery | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-nils-obel-sailing-in-the-mist-lithograph-55-c-bcb4a74b2d
2. 2025-01-25 | NILS OBEL, SAILING IN THE MIST, LITHOGRAPH | RoGallery | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-nils-obel-sailing-in-the-mist-lithograph-1072-c-0494c88a53
3. 2024-05-22 | NILS OBEL, SAILING IN THE MIST, LITHOGRAPH | RoGallery | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-nils-obel-sailing-in-the-mist-lithograph-71-c-bb24fe4b9b
4. 2024-03-02 | Nils Obel for Kgl. | Svendborg Auktionerne ApS | DKK 750
5. 2023-12-09 | Nils Obel for Kgl. | Svendborg Auktionerne ApS | N/A
6. 2023-11-12 | NILS OBEL \(DENMARK/ME, 1937\-2018\) | Thomaston Place Auction Galleries | $250
7. 2023-07-09 | NILS OBEL \(DENMARK/ME, 1937\-2018\) | Thomaston Place Auction Galleries | $1,100
8. 2023-07-09 | NILS OBEL \(DENMARK/ME, 1937\-2018\) | Thomaston Place Auction Galleries | $900
9. 2022-11-13 | NILS OBEL \(ME, 1937\-2018\) | Thomaston Place Auction Galleries | $2,000
10. 2022-08-28 | NILS OBEL \(NY/DENMARK, 1937 \- \) | Thomaston Place Auction Galleries | $12,000
11. 2021-05-16 | Nils Obel \(Danish / American, b.1937\) Oil on Linen | Leonard Auction | $1,700
12. 2021-01-24 | Nils Obel \(Danish / American, b.1937\) 'Mermaid' Oil on Linen | Leonard Auction | $1,300
13. 2019-02-22 | Nils Obel, Sailing in the Mist, Lithograph | RoGallery | $150
14. 2017-09-09 | Nils Obel \(Danish/Maine, b. 1937\) | Neal Auction Company | $500
15. 2016-07-27 | Nils Obel, Sailing in the Mist, Lithograph | RoGallery | $150
16. 2012-07-27 | Nils Obel \(Danish/American, Contemporary\) | New Orleans Auction Galleries | N/A
17. 2012-07-27 | Nils Obel \(Danish/American, Contemporary\) | New Orleans Auction Galleries | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-nils-obel-danish-american-contemporary-161-c-c5aeeace14
18. 2012-07-27 | Nils Obel \(Danish/American, Contemporary\) | New Orleans Auction Galleries | $738
19. 2012-05-20 | Nils Obel \(Danish/American, Contemporary\) | New Orleans Auction Galleries | N/A
20. 2012-05-20 | Nils Obel \(Danish/American, Contemporary\) | New Orleans Auction Galleries | N/A
21. 2012-05-20 | Nils Obel \(Danish/American, Contemporary\) | New Orleans Auction Galleries | N/A
22. 2012-05-20 | Nils Obel \(Danish/American, Contemporary\) | New Orleans Auction Galleries | N/A
23. 2012-03-04 | Nils Obel \(Danish/American, Contemporary\) | New Orleans Auction Galleries | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-nils-obel-danish-american-contemporary-1832-c-9f4ec7640a
24. 2012-03-04 | Nils Obel \(Danish/American, Contemporary\) | New Orleans Auction Galleries | $1,107

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