# Robert Birmelin - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-01T23:56:16.306Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 18
- Lots with prices: 16
- First auction date: 2003-01-09
- Latest auction date: 2025-05-16
- Median realised price: $400
- Price range: $50 to $3,400

## Market Takeaway
Robert Birmelin has 18 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $400. 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 \($400\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($200 to $750\) 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: 75% (12 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 25% (4 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 1
- Previous 12 months sales: 0
- Recent 12 months median: $500
- Previous 12 months median: $0
- Median shift: N/A
- Latest sale date: 2025-05-16
- Days since latest sale: 350
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Nadeau's Auction Gallery: 4 lots
- Heritage Auctions: 2 lots
- Andrew Jones Auctions: 1 lots
- Barridoff Auctions: 1 lots
- Brunk Auctions: 1 lots
- DuMouchelles: 1 lots
- Jackson's International: 1 lots
- Kaminski Auctions: 1 lots
- Material Culture: 1 lots
- Peachtree & Bennett: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-05-16 | Robert Birmelin \(American, 1933\-2003\) Pencil Sketch on Paper "Street Crime: Study for Event with Two Cops", H 22" W 30" | DuMouchelles | $500
2. 2024-04-11 | Robert Birmelin | Brunk Auctions | $50
3. 2023-08-19 | Robert Birmelin \(Am. b. 1933\), "3 Positions" 1969, Oil on canvas, framed | Barridoff Auctions | $600
4. 2023-08-16 | Robert Birmelin \(American, 1933\-2003\) | Material Culture | $300
5. 2023-04-26 | LARGE ORIGINAL ROBERT BIRMELIN PAINTING | Jackson's International | $1,200
6. 2023-02-25 | Robert Birmelin \(American, 1933 \- 2003\), graphite on paper, 'The Workman's Hand, 1983', pencil signed top lower left, 22 1/2" x 30". | Nadeau's Auction Gallery | $400
7. 2023-02-25 | Robert Birmelin \(American, 1933 \- 2003\), graphite on paper, 'The Kid and the Black Velvet Lag, 1983', pencil signed lower left "R. B. | Nadeau's Auction Gallery | $200
8. 2022-05-12 | August Robert Birmelin \(American, b. 1933\) Landscape, The Dalles, Oregon, 1974 A | Heritage Auctions | $2,200
9. 2022-05-12 | August Robert Birmelin \(American, b. 1933\) Landscape for Us, 1974 Acrylic on can | Heritage Auctions | N/A
10. 2022-02-05 | Robert Birmelin \(American, 1933\-2003\), Burning on Seventh Avenue, charcoal on paper, signed center left R. Birmelin, titled lower ri... | Nadeau's Auction Gallery | $200
11. 2021-11-19 | Robert Birmelin \(American, b. 1933\), Night Singles, 1985, acrylic on canvas, unframed 72 x 108in \(183 x 274cm\) | Andrew Jones Auctions | $750
12. 2021-05-01 | Robert Birmelin \(American, b. 1933\), Part of Subway, 1967\-1968, acrylic on canvas, signed lower left "Birmelin"; signed, titled, dated, and inscribed on the reverse, 24" x 24". | Nadeau's Auction Gallery | $275
13. 2018-06-02 | ROBERT BIRMELIN \(b. 1933\): MOVING THRU \- \(FOUR MOMENTS\) | STAIR | $3,400
14. 2018-04-08 | Robert Birmelin, Three Dogs, Etching | Kaminski Auctions | $75
15. 2018-03-10 | Robert Birmelin \(American 1933\- \) ‘Blue Rock’ | Peachtree & Bennett | $160
16. 2017-02-11 | Robert Birmelin \- Red Dress II | Peter Karbstein \- Kunst und Auktionshaus | N/A
17. 2010-05-15 | Robert Birmelin \(American, 1933\-2003\) City | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $2,806
18. 2003-01-09 | ROBERT BIRMELIN | Swann Auction Galleries | $400

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