# Robert Frederick Blum - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-04T19:17:16.714Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 60
- Lots with prices: 30
- First auction date: 1992-05-28
- Latest auction date: 2026-03-27
- Median realised price: $7,500
- Price range: $25 to $1,487,500

## Market Takeaway
Robert Frederick Blum has 60 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $7,500. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 3 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 \($7,500\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($1,599 to $19,200\) 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: 16.7% (5 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 43.3% (13 sales)
- $10,000\+: 40% (12 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 3
- Previous 12 months sales: 0
- Recent 12 months median: $687
- Previous 12 months median: $0
- Median shift: N/A
- Latest sale date: 2026-03-27
- Days since latest sale: 38
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Christie's: 13 lots
- Bonhams: 11 lots
- Sotheby's: 5 lots
- Toomey & Co. Auctioneers: 4 lots
- Eldred's: 3 lots
- Heritage Auctions: 3 lots
- Palm Beach Auction Gallery: 3 lots
- Freeman's: 2 lots
- Material Culture: 2 lots
- Nadeau's Auction Gallery: 2 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-06-25 | Robert Frederick Blum \(1857\-1903\) Painting | Material Culture | $950
2. 2023-12-05 | Robert Frederick Blum \(American, 1857–1903\) \- Portrait of Hilah Loyd Drake in Japanese Costume | Freeman's | N/A
3. 2022-04-12 | Robert Frederick Blum \(1857\-1903\) Street in Chinatown, San Francisco, New Years 17 x 14 in. framed 24 1/2 x 21 1/2 in. | Bonhams | $4,000
4. 2022-01-19 | Robert Frederick Blum \(1857\-1903\) \- A Venetian Canal | Christie's | $81,250
5. 2021-02-21 | ROBERT FREDERICK BLUM \(1857 \- 1903\): TWO WORKS | Abell Auction | $1,000
6. 2020-07-29 | Robert Frederick Blum \(1857\-1903\) Italian Market Scene 18 x 28 1/2in \(45.7 x 72.4cm\) \(Executed in 1888.\) | Bonhams | N/A
7. 2019-05-22 | Robert Frederick Blum \(1857\-1903\) Italian Market Scene 18 x 28 1/2in | Bonhams | N/A
8. 2018-11-19 | Robert Frederick Blum \(1857\-1903\) Opium Den, San Francisco, Chinatown 11 1/4 x 8 1/4in overall: 17 1/2 x 14 1/2in | Bonhams | N/A
9. 2018-11-19 | Robert Frederick Blum \(1857\-1903\) Japanese Girl with Fan 14 x 4in, image; 14 1/4 x 7 1/2in, sheet | Bonhams | N/A
10. 2017-05-15 | Robert Frederick Blum \(American, 1857\-1903\) Double\-Sided Oil Painting | Material Culture | N/A
11. 2016-10-06 | Robert Frederick Blum \(1857\-1903\) ETCHING | East Coast Books | $25
12. 2016-01-01 | Robert Frederick Blum \(N.Y./Ohio 1857\-1903\) | Copake Auction Inc. | $643
13. 2015-02-25 | ROBERT FREDERICK BLUM \(AMERICAN,1857\-1903\) | Palm Beach Auction Gallery | N/A
14. 2015-02-11 | ROBERT FREDERICK BLUM \(AMERICAN,1857\-1903\) | Palm Beach Auction Gallery | N/A
15. 2015-01-28 | ROBERT FREDERICK BLUM \(AMERICAN,1857\-1903\) | Palm Beach Auction Gallery | N/A
16. 2013-05-11 | ROBERT FREDERICK BLUM \(American, 1857\-1903\) Portrait of | Heritage Auctions | N/A
17. 2013-04-11 | ROBERT  FREDERICK  BLUM | Sotheby's | $10,000
18. 2013-03-02 | Robert Frederick Blum \(American, 1857\-1903\) "Gentleman in Costume," | Toomey & Co. Auctioneers | N/A
19. 2013-03-02 | Robert Frederick Blum \(American, 1857\-1903\) "Venetian Scene," | Toomey & Co. Auctioneers | N/A
20. 2013-01-01 | Robert Frederick Blum \(1857\-1903\) TWO GUANYINS watercolor signed lower right R. Blum sight size 12 1/2" x 8 1/2" | Nadeau's Auction Gallery | N/A
21. 2013-01-01 | Robert Frederick Blum \(1857\-1903\) STREET SCENE watercolor signed lower right R. Blum sight size 12 1/2" x 8 1/2"... | Nadeau's Auction Gallery | N/A
22. 2012-11-28 | Robert Frederick Blum \(1857\-1903\) | Christie's | N/A
23. 2012-05-15 | Robert Frederick Blum \(American, 1857\-1903\) | Bonhams | $7,500
24. 2011-11-30 | Robert Frederick Blum \(1857\-1903\) | Christie's | $86,500

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