# Ray K. Metzker - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-04T13:42:28.244Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 51
- Lots with prices: 31
- First auction date: 2003-04-25
- Latest auction date: 2025-05-30
- Median realised price: $5,019
- Price range: $625 to $122,500

## Market Takeaway
Ray K. Metzker shows solid auction liquidity with 51 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $5,019. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 1 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-05-30.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($5,019\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $1,912 and $7,767.
- 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: 9.7% (3 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 74.2% (23 sales)
- $10,000\+: 16.1% (5 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 1
- Previous 12 months sales: 4
- Recent 12 months median: $2,200
- Previous 12 months median: $1,320
- Median shift: 66.7%
- Latest sale date: 2025-05-30
- Days since latest sale: 264
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Bonhams: 12 lots
- Phillips: 12 lots
- Sotheby's: 6 lots
- Swann Auction Galleries: 6 lots
- Capsule Gallery Auction: 3 lots
- Christie's: 2 lots
- Rago Arts and Auction Center: 2 lots
- Chiswick Auctions: 1 lots
- Dreweatts 1759: 1 lots
- Grisebach: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-05-30 | Ray K. Metzker, Northern Liberties, Philadelphia, 2007 | Lempertz | €2,200
2. 2024-10-31 | RAY K. METZKER \(1931\-2014\) Untitled, from the Philadelphia series. 1968; printed 1980s. | Swann Auction Galleries | N/A
3. 2024-10-02 | Philadelphia | Sotheby's | $1,320
4. 2024-10-02 | Philadelphia | Sotheby's | $5,040
5. 2024-07-29 | RAY K. METZKER \(USA, 1931\-2014\). Untitled. 1997. Photograph. Signed and dated on the back. | Setdart Auction House | N/A
6. 2023-10-06 | Ray K. Metzker \(1931\-2014\); Philadelphia; | Bonhams | $3,000
7. 2023-10-05 | RAY K. METZKER \(1931\-2014\) Chicago \(58N\-20\). | Swann Auction Galleries | $4,250
8. 2023-05-06 | Ray K. Metzker \(1931\-2014\) Reading Terminal Market, Philadelphia, PA, 1963 | Santa Monica Auctions | N/A
9. 2023-02-28 | Ray K. Metzker 1981 Gallery Poster | Old Kinderhook Auction Company | N/A
10. 2022-09-22 | RAY K. METZKER \- PHILADELPHIA, 2009 | Capsule Gallery Auction | $750
11. 2022-08-23 | Ray K. Metzker \(1931\-2014\); Pictus Interruptus, Greece; | Bonhams | $1,200
12. 2022-05-26 | RAY K. METZKER \- PHILADELPHIA, 2009 | Capsule Gallery Auction | $1,500
13. 2022-05-26 | RAY K. METZKER \- PHILADELPHIA, 2009 | Capsule Gallery Auction | N/A
14. 2021-08-31 | Ray K. Metzker \(1931\-2014\); City Whispers, Philadelphia; | Bonhams | N/A
15. 2021-06-17 | Ray K. Metzker, Chicago, 1958 | Kunsthaus Lempertz KG | N/A
16. 2021-06-09 | Ray K. Metzker \(i.e. Ray Krueger Metzker\) \- Philadelphia \(77FK28\), from the series ”Pictus Interruptus”, 1976–1980. 1977 | Grisebach | N/A
17. 2020-10-28 | Ray K. Metzker \(1931 – 2014\) | Chiswick Auctions | N/A
18. 2020-07-13 | RAY K. METZKER \- 66 FU \- 9, Atlantic City, 1966 | Phillips | $5,000
19. 2019-12-17 | Ray K. Metzker \(1931\-2014\); Frankfurt; | Bonhams | $5,000
20. 2019-10-17 | RAY K. METZKER \(1931\-2014\) Philadephia. | Swann Auction Galleries | $6,500
21. 2019-10-01 | RAY K. METZKER \- Gumball, 1966 | Phillips | $15,000
22. 2019-04-05 | Ray K. Metzker \(1931\-2014\) Untitled \(Diptych\) | Bonhams | N/A
23. 2019-04-05 | Ray K. Metzker \(1931\-2014\) Pictus Interruptus, Greece | Bonhams | N/A
24. 2019-04-05 | Ray K. Metzker \(1931\-2014\) City Whispers, Philadelphia | Bonhams | N/A

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