# Paul Thek - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-16T04:52:14.030Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 50
- Lots with prices: 41
- First auction date: 2004-10-13
- Latest auction date: 2025-12-03
- Median realised price: $19,050
- Price range: $240 to $175,000

## Market Takeaway
Paul Thek has 50 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $19,050. 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 \($19,050\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($8,000 to $35,000\) 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: 4.9% (2 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 24.4% (10 sales)
- $10,000\+: 70.7% (29 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 4
- Previous 12 months sales: 4
- Recent 12 months median: $6,000
- Previous 12 months median: $1,560
- Median shift: 100%
- Latest sale date: 2025-12-03
- Days since latest sale: 164
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Christie's: 23 lots
- Sotheby's: 8 lots
- Kunsthaus Lempertz KG: 5 lots
- Nye & Company: 3 lots
- Art\-Torg: 2 lots
- Myers Fine Art: 2 lots
- Wright: 2 lots
- Auctionata Paddle8 AG: 1 lots
- Doyle New York: 1 lots
- Potomack Company: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-12-03 | Paul Thek, American 1933\-1988, Untitled I/XII, Etchings | Nye & Company | $1,000
2. 2025-12-03 | Paul Thek, American 1933\-1988, Eight Untitled, Etchings | Nye & Company | $6,000 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-paul-thek-american-1933-1988-eight-untitled-etchings-272-c-d6eedb298e
3. 2025-12-03 | Paul Thek, American 1933\-1988, Six Untitled, Etchings | Nye & Company | $6,000
4. 2025-07-08 | Untitled | Sotheby's | €19,050
5. 2024-12-18 | Paul Thek, Untitled | Wright | $3,000
6. 2024-12-18 | Paul Thek, Untitled | Wright | $3,200
7. 2024-10-02 | Paul Thek | Sotheby's | $1,560 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-paul-thek-1123-c-b9947a5917
8. 2024-06-21 | PAUL THEK, THREE PUBLICATIONS | Zwiggelaar Auctions | €240 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-paul-thek-three-publications-6051-c-ed745ae863
9. 2024-04-10 | Paul Thek | Sotheby's | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-paul-thek-175-c-0c049ddb44
10. 2023-11-16 | Hurrah Vacuii!! | Sotheby's | $60,960
11. 2023-06-29 | PAUL THEK \(1933\-1988\) Untitled \(Cityscape\) watercolour, wax crayon and grap | Christie's | £27,720
12. 2023-06-29 | PAUL THEK \(1933\-1988\) Untitled \(Cityscape\) watercolour and graphite on pape | Christie's | £12,600
13. 2023-06-29 | PAUL THEK \(1933\-1988\) Untitled \(Beach Grass\) watercolour, wax crayon and gr | Christie's | £27,720
14. 2023-04-30 | Paul Thek \(American, 1933\-1988\) Cityscape Painting | Myers Fine Art | $8,000 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-paul-thek-american-1933-1988-cityscape-painting-406-c-65e4450b10
15. 2023-04-30 | Paul Thek \(American, 1933\-1988\) Cityscape Painting | Myers Fine Art | $13,000 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-paul-thek-american-1933-1988-cityscape-painting-405-c-3e949caa9c
16. 2023-03-01 | PAUL THEK \(1933\-1988\) Untitled \(cityscape\) graphite and watercolour on pape | Christie's | £17,640
17. 2023-03-01 | PAUL THEK \(1933\-1988\) Untitled \(cityscape\) watercolour and graphite on pape | Christie's | £22,680
18. 2023-03-01 | PAUL THEK \(1933\-1988\) Untitled \(beach with figures\) watercolour and graphit | Christie's | £25,200
19. 2022-12-02 | Paul Thek, Spinning Top, 1969 | Kunsthaus Lempertz KG | €30,000
20. 2022-06-10 | Untitled | Sotheby's | €18,900
21. 2022-06-10 | Untitled | Sotheby's | N/A
22. 2022-02-11 | Paul THEK \(1933\-1988\) American | Art\-Torg | $15,000
23. 2021-12-17 | Paul THEK \(1933\-1988\) American | Art\-Torg | $10,500
24. 2020-10-07 | PAUL THEK \(AMERICAN, 1933\-1988\) EYE Etching: 8 x 10 in. \(paper\), 3 1/2 x 4 1/2 in. \(image\) | Potomack Company | $250

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