# Sam Szafran - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-04T14:56:55.314Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 337
- Lots with prices: 249
- First auction date: 2002-06-27
- Latest auction date: 2025-12-04
- Median realised price: $2,755
- Price range: $50 to $1,200,000

## Market Takeaway
Sam Szafran shows deep auction liquidity with 340 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $3,000. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 19 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-12-04.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($3,000\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $1,100 and $18,500.
- 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: 21.8% (55 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 47.2% (119 sales)
- $10,000\+: 31% (78 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 19
- Previous 12 months sales: 22
- Recent 12 months median: $11,000
- Previous 12 months median: $1,100
- Median shift: 100%
- Latest sale date: 2025-12-04
- Days since latest sale: 76
- Market velocity: moderate

## Top Auction Houses
- Christie's: 118 lots
- Artcurial: 71 lots
- Cornette de Saint\-Cyr: 42 lots
- Sotheby's: 21 lots
- Piasa: 16 lots
- Millon & Associes: 10 lots
- Tajan: 9 lots
- Bonhams: 8 lots
- TGP Auction: 6 lots
- Hermitage Fine Art: 5 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-12-04 | SAM SZAFRAN \(1934\-2019\) Sans titre 2001 | Bonhams | N/A
2. 2025-12-04 | SAM SZAFRAN \(1934\-2019\) Sans titre 1974 | Bonhams | €50,000 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-sam-szafran-1934-2019-sans-titre-1974-40-c-1e622b211c
3. 2025-11-01 | Sam SZAFRAN | Artcurial | MAD 1,200,000
4. 2025-10-28 | Sam Szafran 1934–2019 | Artcurial Beurret Bailly Widmer | CHF 25,000
5. 2025-07-07 | Arbres | Sotheby's | €762
6. 2025-07-07 | L'escalier de la rue de Seine | Sotheby's | €10,160
7. 2025-06-05 | SAM SZAFRAN \(1934\-2019\) Plantes & lianes 1986 | Bonhams | N/A
8. 2025-05-27 | Sam Szafran \(1934\-2019\) Sans titre Sam Szafran \(1934\-2019\) Sans titre sign | Christie's | €35,280
9. 2025-05-27 | SAM SZAFRAN \(1934\-2019\) L'escalier, 2002 Lithographie en couleurs sur vélinSignée au crayon rouge et numérotée 1/60Cette planche a également servi de carte de voeux pour la Galerie Prouté44,5 x 28 cm Colour lithograph... | Bonhams | N/A
10. 2025-04-25 | Sam Szafran \(1934\-2019\) Philodendrons, gris, 1995 | Millon & Associes | €3,000 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-sam-szafran-1934-2019-philodendrons-gris-1995-467-c-34a481a8e1
11. 2025-04-25 | Sam Szafran \(1934\-2019\) L'escalier de la rue de Seine, 2003 | Millon & Associes | €3,200 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-sam-szafran-1934-2019-l-escalier-de-la-rue-de-seine-2003-466-c-61a435da14
12. 2025-04-25 | Sam Szafran \(1934\-2019\) Lilette à la chaise de Gaudi, 2007 | Millon & Associes | €2,400 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-sam-szafran-1934-2019-lilette-a-la-chaise-de-gaudi-2007-465-c-a7446409aa
13. 2025-04-25 | Sam Szafran \(1934\-2019\) Lilette à la chaise de Gaudi \(ép. unique\), 2007 | Millon & Associes | €1,300 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-sam-szafran-1934-2019-lilette-a-la-chaise-de-gaudi-ep-unique-2007-464-c-4e44954840
14. 2025-04-11 | Sam Szafran \(1934\-2019\). L'imprimerie Bellini avec le poète Fouad El Etr. f | Christie's | N/A
15. 2025-04-11 | Sam Szafran \(1934\-2019\). Sans titre. aquarelle sur assemblage de soie marou | Christie's | €63,000
16. 2025-04-02 | SAM SZAFRAN \(SAMUEL BERGER\) \(1934\-2019\) | Hermitage Fine Art | N/A
17. 2025-03-26 | SAM SZAFRAN \(1934\-2019\). Malakoff, Boulevard Montparnasse. graphite, aquare | Christie's | €37,800
18. 2025-03-19 | Sam Szafran \(1934\-2019\) Untitled, circa 1976\-1977 | Piasa | €11,000
19. 2025-02-20 | L’Atelier de la rue Crussol | Sotheby's | €36,000
20. 2024-12-19 | SAM SZAFRAN \(SAMUEL BERGER\) \(1934\-2019\) Orgue de la grange de la Besnardière | Hermitage Fine Art | N/A
21. 2024-12-05 | SAM SZAFRAN \(1934\-2019\) Vue d'escalier avec fenêtre | Bonhams | N/A
22. 2024-12-04 | Sam Szafran \(1934\-2019\). Escaliers. aquarelle sur soie 29.7 x 10.7 cm. Réal | Christie's | €37,800
23. 2024-11-20 | Sam Szafran \(1934\-2019\) Philodendrons, grey, 1995 | Millon & Associes | €1,800
24. 2024-11-20 | Sam Szafran \(1934\-2019\) Cinema, 1967 | Millon & Associes | €180

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