# Polly Apfelbaum - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-29T11:20:46.400Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 28
- Lots with prices: 23
- First auction date: 2009-11-03
- Latest auction date: 2025-12-16
- Median realised price: $1,375
- Price range: $150 to $8,750

## Market Takeaway
Polly Apfelbaum has 28 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $1,375. 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 \($1,375\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($650 to $2,091\) 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: 39.1% (9 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 60.9% (14 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 1
- Previous 12 months sales: 4
- Recent 12 months median: $800
- Previous 12 months median: $2,091
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-12-16
- Days since latest sale: 134
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Christie's: 4 lots
- Rago Arts and Auction Center: 4 lots
- Bonhams: 3 lots
- Wright: 3 lots
- Sotheby's: 2 lots
- Abell Auction: 1 lots
- Brunk Auctions: 1 lots
- Capsule Gallery Auction: 1 lots
- Cottone Auctions: 1 lots
- Dreweatts 1759: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-12-16 | Polly Apfelbaum, The Color Circle | Wright | $800
2. 2024-12-18 | Polly Apfelbaum, Durham Dogwood | Wright | $2,200
3. 2024-12-05 | Polly Apfelbaum, 1956, Baby Love 71 | Abell Auction | $6,000
4. 2024-09-18 | Polly Apfelbaum, Untitled for SITE Unseen \#9, ca. 2016 | Santa Fe Art Auction | $2,091
5. 2024-05-16 | POLLY APFELBAUM \- FLOWERS | Capsule Gallery Auction | $650
6. 2023-12-18 | Polly Apfelbaum \(b. 1955\) Untitled, Iris Print | Material Culture | $150
7. 2022-12-21 | Polly Apfelbaum \(b. 1955\) Seed Packet Pictures, 2021 Laser print in colors on pa | Heritage Auctions | $440
8. 2022-11-17 | Polly Apfelbaum \(b. 1955\): Untitled | STAIR | $1,700
9. 2022-09-08 | Polly Apfelbaum, Durham Dogwood | Los Angeles Modern Auctions | $1,100
10. 2022-06-08 | Polly Apfelbaum \(American, b. 1955\) "Red Dots" | Cottone Auctions | $1,800
11. 2021-12-15 | Polly Apfelbaum, Durham Dogwood | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $1,800
12. 2021-10-01 | POLLY APFELBAUM \(B. 1955\) Love Park VI woodblock monoprint on paper 79 x 7 | Christie's | N/A
13. 2021-09-29 | Polly Apfelbaum, Power to the Flower | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $600
14. 2021-03-23 | Polly Apfelbaum, Me Too | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $350
15. 2020-12-15 | Polly Apfelbaum \(b. 1955\) \- Wallflower | Christie's | $3,750
16. 2020-10-17 | POLLY APFELBAUM \(American, b. 1955\), ''The Color S | South Bay Auctions Inc | $950
17. 2020-09-30 | Polly Apfelbaum, Mixed Blooms | Wright | $3,000
18. 2018-04-11 | POLLY APFELBAUM \| HWP22 | Sotheby's | £800
19. 2018-03-08 | POLLY APFELBAUM \| HWP 37 | Sotheby's | £2,000
20. 2018-02-28 | POLLY APFELBAUM \(b. 1955\) \- Color Star | Christie's | $1,875
21. 2018-02-28 | POLLY APFELBAUM \(b. 1955\) \- Durham Dogwood | Christie's | $1,375
22. 2016-12-08 | POLLY APFELBAUM \- Rubbing Colours | Phillips | £8,750
23. 2014-12-03 | Polly Apfelbaum \(b.1955\) \- Persephone \(pink\) | Dreweatts 1759 | N/A
24. 2013-07-20 | Polly Apfelbaum | Brunk Auctions | $1,180

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