# Ruth Root - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-01T01:39:29.570Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 22
- Lots with prices: 18
- First auction date: 2008-04-02
- Latest auction date: 2025-12-18
- Median realised price: $500
- Price range: $5 to $16,250

## Market Takeaway
Ruth Root has 22 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $500. 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 \($500\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($313 to $2,800\) 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: 61.1% (11 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 27.8% (5 sales)
- $10,000\+: 11.1% (2 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 1
- Previous 12 months sales: 0
- Recent 12 months median: $1,500
- Previous 12 months median: $0
- Median shift: N/A
- Latest sale date: 2025-12-18
- Days since latest sale: 133
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Christie's: 4 lots
- Leonard Joel: 4 lots
- Phillips: 3 lots
- Los Angeles Modern Auctions: 2 lots
- STAIR: 2 lots
- Sotheby's: 2 lots
- Ahlers & Ogletree Inc.: 1 lots
- EJ'S Auction & Appraisal: 1 lots
- Lawsons: 1 lots
- Rago Arts and Auction Center: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-12-18 | Ruth Root, Untitled | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $1,500
2. 2024-04-24 | Ruth Root, Lovely Lovely Piece Of | Los Angeles Modern Auctions | $450
3. 2024-04-24 | Ruth Root, American Pie of the Eye | Los Angeles Modern Auctions | $350
4. 2024-04-11 | Ruth Root \(b. 1967\): Untitled \(Yes Yes\) | STAIR | $75
5. 2024-04-11 | Ruth Root \(b. 1967\): Untitled \(Fine With Me\) | STAIR | $50
6. 2024-02-27 | RUTH ROOT \(1967 \-\) , Untitled \- 2001/02, oil on canvas, 81.5 x 101.5 cm | Lawsons | A$450
7. 2022-09-15 | RUTH ROOT, UNTITLED 2001\-2003, OIL ON CANVAS, 82 X 102CM PROVENANCE: ANDREW KREPS GALLERY, NEW YORK; LAWSONS\-MENZIES, 2002, LOT 31 | Leonard Joel | A$500
8. 2022-06-16 | RUTH ROOT, UNTITLED 2001\-2003, OIL ON CANVAS, 82 X 102CM PROVENANCE: ANDREW KREPS GALLERY, NEW YORK; LAWSONS\-MENZIES, 2002, LOT 31 | Leonard Joel | N/A
9. 2022-06-02 | RUTH ROOT, UNTITLED 2001\-2003, OIL ON CANVAS, 82 X 102CM PROVENANCE: ANDREW KREPS GALLERY, NEW YORK; LAWSONS\-MENZIES, 2002, LOT 31 | Leonard Joel | N/A
10. 2022-05-26 | RUTH ROOT, UNTITLED 2001\-2003, OIL ON CANVAS, 82 X 102CM PROVENANCE: ANDREW KREPS GALLERY, NEW YORK; LAWSONS\-MENZIES, 2002, LOT 31 | Leonard Joel | N/A
11. 2021-03-27 | RUTH ROOT, ABSTRACT PAINTING ON CANVAS, 2001 | Ahlers & Ogletree Inc. | $2,000
12. 2021-01-09 | Ruth Root S\-2 The Mtn Tribe Pot & HD Designs Vases | EJ'S Auction & Appraisal | $5
13. 2019-10-17 | Ruth Root, Untitled | Wright | $500
14. 2019-09-26 | RUTH ROOT \| Untitled | Sotheby's | $2,800
15. 2017-03-22 | Ruth Root \(B. 1967\) \- Untitled | Christie's | $12,500
16. 2016-12-08 | RUTH ROOT \- Untitled | Phillips | £16,250
17. 2016-09-20 | RUTH ROOT \| Untitled | Sotheby's | £4,500
18. 2013-03-08 | RUTH ROOT | Phillips | N/A
19. 2011-02-18 | Ruth Root | Phillips | £4,000
20. 2009-01-13 | Ruth Root \(American, b. 1967\) | Christie's | $313
21. 2009-01-13 | Ruth Root \(AMERICAN, b. 1967\) | Christie's | $125
22. 2008-04-02 | Untitled | Christie's | £750

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