# Ralph Steiner - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-04T09:00:39.727Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 107
- Lots with prices: 64
- First auction date: 2002-04-18
- Latest auction date: 2025-12-03
- Median realised price: $1,500
- Price range: $200 to $25,000

## Market Takeaway
Ralph Steiner shows solid auction liquidity with 107 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $1,500. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 7 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-12-03.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($1,500\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $1,100 and $2,750.
- Auction totals can include buyer premiums or fees depending on reporting, so compare like\-for\-like when possible.
- Condition, size, medium, provenance, and attribution confidence can move value materially versus median comps.

## Price Bands
- Under $1,000: 17.2% (11 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 78.1% (50 sales)
- $10,000\+: 4.7% (3 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 7
- Previous 12 months sales: 6
- Recent 12 months median: $400
- Previous 12 months median: $2,375
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-12-03
- Days since latest sale: 77
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Swann Auction Galleries: 31 lots
- Christie's: 30 lots
- Rago Arts and Auction Center: 9 lots
- Bonhams: 5 lots
- Kunsthaus Lempertz KG: 5 lots
- Phillips: 4 lots
- Chiswick Auctions: 3 lots
- Hindman: 3 lots
- Heritage Auctions: 2 lots
- RoGallery: 2 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-11-27 | Ralph Steiner \(1899\-1986\) An Archive of Contact Prints & Correspondence, 1984 | Chiswick Auctions | £1,800 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-ralph-steiner-1899-1986-an-archive-of-contact-prints-correspondence-1984-87-c-a8133c1e9c
2. 2024-09-26 | RALPH STEINER \(1899\-1986\) Fisheye, New York Trinity Church. Circa 1925. | Swann Auction Galleries | N/A
3. 2023-10-05 | RALPH STEINER \(1899\-1986\) American Rural Baroque. | Swann Auction Galleries | $2,750
4. 2025-12-03 | Ralph Steiner, American rural baroque, 1929 | Lempertz | N/A
5. 2025-11-29 | RALPH STEINER \(1899\-1986\) | John McInnis Auctioneers | $200
6. 2025-11-27 | Ralph Steiner \(1899\-1986\) Saratoga Coal Company, 1929 | Chiswick Auctions | £400
7. 2025-09-15 | Ralph Steiner \(American 1899 \- 1986\). S.J. Perelman with Gun and Rose, c. 1930 \- 1935. | Adams Amsterdam Auctions | N/A
8. 2025-05-22 | Ralph Steiner \(1899\-1986\) | Chiswick Auctions | N/A
9. 2025-03-04 | Ralph Steiner, American Rural Baroque | Los Angeles Modern Auctions | $550
10. 2025-02-13 | RALPH STEINER \(1899\-1986\) Fire escape. 1965; printed 1980. | Swann Auction Galleries | $2,750
11. 2024-12-17 | RALPH STEINER \(1899\-1986\) Lollipop. 1923; printed before 1977. | Swann Auction Galleries | $937
12. 2024-12-17 | RALPH STEINER \(1899\-1986\) American Rural Baroque. 1929; printed 1960s. | Swann Auction Galleries | N/A
13. 2024-10-31 | RALPH STEINER \(1899\-1986\) American Rural Baroque. 1929; printed 1979. | Swann Auction Galleries | $2,750
14. 2024-10-31 | RALPH STEINER \(1899\-1986\) Clothesline. 1925; printed circa 1980. | Swann Auction Galleries | $2,375
15. 2024-02-18 | Ralph Steiner "Pipe Study" Gelatin Silver Print | Auctions at Showplace | $1,000
16. 2023-05-06 | Ralph Steiner \(1899\-1986\) Nude with Mannequin, 1935/ Printed Later | Santa Monica Auctions | N/A
17. 2023-04-27 | RALPH STEINER \(1899\-1986\) Saratoga Coal Company. | Swann Auction Galleries | $1,500
18. 2023-04-27 | RALPH STEINER \(1899\-1986\) Clothesline. | Swann Auction Galleries | $1,375
19. 2023-02-23 | RALPH STEINER \(1899\-1986\) American Rural Baroque. | Swann Auction Galleries | $3,750
20. 2023-02-23 | RALPH STEINER \(1899\-1986\) Fire escape, from the Anthology Film Archive portfolio. | Swann Auction Galleries | $1,000
21. 2022-10-20 | RALPH STEINER \(1899\-1986\) A group of 6 interior views of the vacuum company Bissell, Inc., made for the Fortune magazine story "Bissell | Swann Auction Galleries | N/A
22. 2022-10-20 | RALPH STEINER \(1899\-1986\) Fire escape \* Posters \* Always Camels. | Swann Auction Galleries | $2,500
23. 2022-04-14 | RALPH STEINER \(1899\-1986\) Clothesline. | Swann Auction Galleries | $2,000
24. 2022-04-14 | RALPH STEINER \(1899\-1986\) Bicycle with Shadow \* Mozart \* At the Beach. | Swann Auction Galleries | $3,000

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