# Paul Kelpe - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-01T19:13:17.879Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 22
- Lots with prices: 17
- First auction date: 2006-05-04
- Latest auction date: 2025-06-28
- Median realised price: $4,000
- Price range: $1,200 to $60,000

## Market Takeaway
Paul Kelpe has 22 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $4,000. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 1 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 \($4,000\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($2,250 to $8,125\) 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: 0% (0 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 76.5% (13 sales)
- $10,000\+: 23.5% (4 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 1
- Previous 12 months sales: 3
- Recent 12 months median: $0
- Previous 12 months median: $2,000
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-06-28
- Days since latest sale: 307
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Heritage Auctions: 4 lots
- Art\-Torg: 2 lots
- Austin Auction Gallery: 2 lots
- Bill Hood & Sons Arts & Antiques Auctions: 2 lots
- Swann Auction Galleries: 2 lots
- Bonhams: 1 lots
- Christie's: 1 lots
- Grisebach: 1 lots
- Los Angeles Modern Auctions: 1 lots
- Potomack Company: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-06-28 | Paul Kelpe \(1902\-1985\) Germany \- American | Art\-Torg | N/A
2. 2025-04-19 | Paul Kelpe \(1902\-1985\) Germany \- American | Art\-Torg | €6,250
3. 2024-05-02 | PAUL KELPE \(1902 \- 1985, AMERICAN\) Untitled. | Swann Auction Galleries | $1,375
4. 2024-05-02 | PAUL KELPE \(1902 \- 1985, AMERICAN\) Untitled. | Swann Auction Galleries | $2,000
5. 2022-11-18 | PAUL KELPE \(D.1985\) ABSTRACT CUBIST FORMS PAINTING | Austin Auction Gallery | $2,250
6. 2022-10-20 | Paul Kelpe, Untitled | Los Angeles Modern Auctions | $2,800
7. 2020-01-18 | PAUL KELPE \(1902\-1985\) SHAPES, WATERCOLOR & INK | Austin Auction Gallery | $4,250
8. 2019-11-29 | Paul Kelpe \- Untitled | Grisebach | €3,750
9. 2018-07-24 | Paul Kelpe \(1902\-1985\) Abstract oil on canvas painting; buildings, spheres, flags, circles. Frame 22 3/4in. by 20in. Image 14 1/2in. by 17\-1/4 inches | Bill Hood & Sons Arts & Antiques Auctions | $1,200
10. 2018-03-07 | PAUL KELPE \(1902\-1985\) | Shapiro Auctions LLC | N/A
11. 2018-01-27 | PAUL KELPE \(AMERICAN, 1902\-1985\) GEOMETRIC CITYSCAPE Oil on canvas: 17 x 14 1/2 in. | Potomack Company | N/A
12. 2018-01-23 | Paul Kelpe \(AMERICAN, 1902\-1985\) oil on board, Height 16 in.; Width 12 in. / Height 40.6 cm.; Width 30.5 cm | Bill Hood & Sons Arts & Antiques Auctions | N/A
13. 2017-04-07 | PAUL KELPE \| Composition \#518 | Sotheby's | $60,000
14. 2017-03-17 | Paul Kelpe \(American, 1902\-2002\) Untitled, 1936 Mixed media on board 7\-1/4 x 6 i | Heritage Auctions | $3,500
15. 2017-03-17 | Paul Kelpe \(American, 1902\-2002\) Untitled \(Abstract\), 1926 Watercolor on paper 7 | Heritage Auctions | $4,000
16. 2016-11-12 | Paul Kelpe \(American, 1902\-2002\) Untitled, 1930 Waterco | Heritage Auctions | N/A
17. 2015-06-06 | PAUL KELPE \(1902\-1985\): UNTITLED | STAIR | $10,000
18. 2014-11-19 | Paul Kelpe \(American, 1902\-1985\) Untitled \(partial orange circle\) image, 10 1/4 x 7 1/2in; sheet, 12 1/4 x 9in | Bonhams | $7,750
19. 2013-05-23 | Paul Kelpe \(1902\-1985\) | Christie's | $30,000
20. 2011-09-15 | Paul Kelpe 1902\-1985 untitled | Wright | $8,125
21. 2009-07-16 | PAUL KELPE \(American, 1902\-2002\) Untitled, 1930 | Heritage Auctions | $1,792
22. 2006-05-04 | PAUL KELPE | Shannon's | $26,000

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