# Otis Kaye - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-01T13:35:35.410Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 39
- Lots with prices: 28
- First auction date: 1992-05-28
- Latest auction date: 2025-07-27
- Median realised price: $9,600
- Price range: $45 to $266,500

## Market Takeaway
Otis Kaye has 39 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $9,600. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 4 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 \($9,600\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($5,100 to $24,000\) 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: 3.6% (1 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 50% (14 sales)
- $10,000\+: 46.4% (13 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 4
- Previous 12 months sales: 1
- Recent 12 months median: $7,000
- Previous 12 months median: $4,600
- Median shift: 52.2%
- Latest sale date: 2025-07-27
- Days since latest sale: 278
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Sotheby's: 18 lots
- Christie's: 10 lots
- Butterscotch Auction Gallery LLC: 4 lots
- Grant Zahajko Auctions, LLC: 2 lots
- Artcurial: 1 lots
- Bonhams: 1 lots
- Charlton Hall: 1 lots
- For\-Auction: 1 lots
- James D. Julia: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-07-27 | OTIS KAYE \(American, 1885\-1974\) | Butterscotch Auction Gallery LLC | $34,000
2. 2025-07-27 | OTIS KAYE \(American, 1885\-1974\) | Butterscotch Auction Gallery LLC | $5,500
3. 2025-07-27 | OTIS KAYE \(American, 1885\-1974\) | Butterscotch Auction Gallery LLC | $7,000
4. 2025-07-27 | OTIS KAYE \(American, 1885\-1974\) | Butterscotch Auction Gallery LLC | $22,000
5. 2025-04-30 | Otis Kaye \(attributed\), Germany \- America 1885\-1974, trompe l'oeil, ink and pencil on paper, 35 x 52 cm. \(13.7 x 20.4 in.\) | For\-Auction | A$4,600
6. 2022-01-19 | Otis Kaye \(1885\-1974\) \- Two Old Ways | Christie's | $75,000
7. 2018-05-22 | OTIS KAYE \(1885\-1974\) \- Amor Vincit Omnia | Christie's | N/A
8. 2018-03-03 | Otis Kaye \(1885\-1974\) Etchings, Three Pieces | Grant Zahajko Auctions, LLC | $45
9. 2018-01-27 | Otis Kaye \(1885\-1974\) Etchings, Three Pieces | Grant Zahajko Auctions, LLC | N/A
10. 2017-10-06 | OTIS KAYE \| Bid and Ask | Sotheby's | N/A
11. 2016-06-09 | OTIS KAYE \| 500 Franc Note; Rembrandt's Etching of his Mother with Penny and Indian Head Nickel; Rembrandt's Etching of The Goldsmith with $10 Indian Head Coin: Three works on paper | Sotheby's | $3,000
12. 2013-11-17 | OTIS KAYE \(American, 1885\-1974\) A Loaf of Bread, a | Bonhams | $2,500
13. 2011-01-23 | OTIS KAYE | Sotheby's | $7,500
14. 2010-08-25 | OTIS KAYE \(American, 1885\-1974\) 25 CENT BILL. | James D. Julia | N/A
15. 2010-03-04 | Otis Kaye \(1885\-1974\) | Christie's | $6,250
16. 2009-03-07 | Otis Kaye | Charlton Hall | N/A
17. 2007-12-04 | Otis KAYE \(1885 \- 1974\) LINCOLN SAVES UNION, 1935 Huile sur panneau | Artcurial | €9,913
18. 2007-05-24 | Bid and Ask | Christie's | $144,000
19. 2007-05-24 | Two to Win | Christie's | $96,000
20. 2006-11-30 | Otis Kaye \(1885\-1974\) | Christie's | $48,000
21. 2006-05-24 | OTIS KAYE 1885\-1974 | Sotheby's | N/A
22. 2005-09-16 | OTIS KAYE 1885\-1974 | Sotheby's | N/A
23. 2005-09-16 | OTIS KAYE 1885\-1974 | Sotheby's | $9,600
24. 2005-09-16 | OTIS KAYE 1885\-1974 | Sotheby's | $9,600

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