# Rafael Barrios - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-04T13:44:18.115Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 21
- Lots with prices: 14
- First auction date: 2007-05-31
- Latest auction date: 2024-11-27
- Median realised price: $5,000
- Price range: $3,400 to $29,500,000

## Market Takeaway
Rafael Barrios has 21 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $5,000. 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 \($5,000\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($4,200 to $8,750\) 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: 78.6% (11 sales)
- $10,000\+: 21.4% (3 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 0
- Previous 12 months sales: 3
- Recent 12 months median: $0
- Previous 12 months median: $5,000
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2024-11-27
- Days since latest sale: 520
- Market velocity: inactive

## Top Auction Houses
- Casa de Subastas Odalys: 5 lots
- Elite Auctioneers, LLC: 2 lots
- Expertisez Enchères: 2 lots
- Lefebre Subastas: 2 lots
- Setdart Auction House: 2 lots
- Akiba Galleries: 1 lots
- Auction Gallery of the Palm Beaches: 1 lots
- Christie's: 1 lots
- Hindman: 1 lots
- Joshua Kodner: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2024-11-27 | RAFAEL BARRIOS \(Venezuela, 1947\), Untitled, 1987. Polychrome wood. Exemplary 1/3. | Setdart Auction House | €7,500
2. 2024-11-27 | RAFAEL BARRIOS \(Venezuela, 1947\). "Displaced Levitation", 1994. Polychrome metal. Exemplary 2/3. It has a slight blow in the front area. Signed and titled on the base. | Setdart Auction House | N/A
3. 2024-06-13 | Rafael BARRIOS | Expertisez Enchères | €5,000
4. 2023-04-25 | Rafael Barrios \(American/Venezuelan, B. 1947\) Optical Sculpture | Akiba Galleries | $6,000
5. 2022-05-25 | RAFAEL BARRIOS \(1947\) Energía Contenida \(335\), 2007 Escultura en metal y acero lacado Medidas: 65 x 68 x 21 cm Ed. 3/4 | Lefebre Subastas | COP 29,500,000
6. 2022-03-23 | Rafael Barrios \(American/Venezuelan, b. 1947\) Vertical dislocado en tres tiempos, 2011 | Hindman | $7,500
7. 2020-07-18 | Rafael Barrios \(AMERICAN/VENEZUELAN, 1947\) | Joshua Kodner | $16,000
8. 2020-07-04 | Rafael Barrios, Hondos | Casa de Subastas Odalys | N/A
9. 2020-07-04 | Rafael Barrios, Acrobática perforada | Casa de Subastas Odalys | N/A
10. 2019-12-08 | Rafael Barrios "TUMBLE" 2018 | Latin American Fine Art LLC | N/A
11. 2019-07-13 | Rafael Barrios | Casa de Subastas Odalys | €5,000
12. 2018-09-26 | RAFAEL BARRIOS \(1947\) | Lefebre Subastas | N/A
13. 2018-07-03 | RAFAEL BARRIOS \(b1947\) "CENTRIFUGE LEVITANTE" 3/6 | Elite Auctioneers, LLC | $3,500
14. 2018-06-28 | Rafael Barrios | Casa de Subastas Odalys | €25,000
15. 2018-05-26 | RAFAEL BARRIOS \(b1947\) "CENTRIFUGE LEVITANTE" 3/6 | Elite Auctioneers, LLC | $4,000
16. 2017-10-26 | Rafael Barrios | Casa de Subastas Odalys | N/A
17. 2017-05-12 | Rafael Barrios \(American b. 1947\), Levitating Drawing, Signed Enameled Steel, Height: 25 inches | Weschler's | $4,200
18. 2016-04-13 | Rafael BARRIOS \(Né en 1947\) | Expertisez Enchères | €3,400
19. 2010-02-15 | RAFAEL BARRIOS \(American. Born 1947\) | Auction Gallery of the Palm Beaches | N/A
20. 2009-11-18 | RAFAEL BARRIOS \(B. 1947\) | Sotheby's | $8,750
21. 2007-05-31 | Irradiación de Glorias | Christie's | $4,800

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