# Otto Sommer - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-04T16:33:02.619Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 17
- Lots with prices: 11
- First auction date: 2004-10-12
- Latest auction date: 2025-04-29
- Median realised price: $2,800
- Price range: $78 to $40,000

## Market Takeaway
Otto Sommer has 17 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $2,800. 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 \($2,800\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($400 to $14,000\) 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: 36.4% (4 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 27.3% (3 sales)
- $10,000\+: 36.4% (4 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 0
- Previous 12 months sales: 1
- Recent 12 months median: $0
- Previous 12 months median: $400
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-04-29
- Days since latest sale: 370
- Market velocity: inactive

## Top Auction Houses
- Akiba Galleries: 2 lots
- Matthew's Galleries: 2 lots
- Neal Auction Company: 2 lots
- Rago Arts and Auction Center: 2 lots
- Sotheby's: 2 lots
- Thomaston Place Auction Galleries: 2 lots
- Bonhams: 1 lots
- Brunk Auctions: 1 lots
- Heritage Auctions: 1 lots
- Marion Antique Auctions: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2021-11-13 | OTTO SOMMER \(1811\-1911\) OIL ON CANVAS, DEPICTING | Marion Antique Auctions | $2,800
2. 2020-07-18 | OTTO SOMMER \(NY/GERMANY, 1811\-1911\) | Thomaston Place Auction Galleries | $7,500
3. 2025-04-29 | Otto Sommer, "Grand Alpine Landscape" | Old Kinderhook Auction Company | $400
4. 2023-01-11 | Otto Sommer \(German/American, 1811\-1911\) | Neal Auction Company | $832
5. 2022-06-24 | Otto Sommer \(German/American, 1811\-1911\) | Neal Auction Company | N/A
6. 2022-02-05 | Otto Sommer | Brunk Auctions | $40,000
7. 2021-11-12 | Otto Sommer, Union Drover with Cattle | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $14,000
8. 2021-11-12 | Otto Sommer, Beef for the Troops | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $14,000
9. 2021-01-26 | Otto Sommer \(German/American 1811\-1911\) Oil Painting | Akiba Galleries | $1,500
10. 2020-10-20 | Otto Sommer \(German/American 1811\-1911\) Oil Painting | Akiba Galleries | N/A
11. 2019-08-24 | OTTO SOMMER \(NY/GERMANY, 1811\-1911\) | Thomaston Place Auction Galleries | $25,000
12. 2017-01-27 | OTTO SOMMER \| Cows in a Mountainous Landscape | Sotheby's | N/A
13. 2011-09-20 | OTTO SOMMER \(German, 1880\- ?\) | Matthew's Galleries | N/A
14. 2011-05-24 | OTTO SOMMER \(German, 1880\- ?\) | Matthew's Galleries | $110
15. 2007-12-06 | OTTO SOMMER \(American 1811\-1911\) The Struggle of | Heritage Auctions | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-otto-sommer-american-1811-1911-the-struggle-of-23391-c-h41c4rtby7
16. 2005-05-19 | OTTO SOMMER \(FL. CA. 1860\-1870\) VIEW OF WEST POINT, 1861 | Sotheby's | N/A
17. 2004-10-12 | Otto Sommer | Bonhams | £78

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