# Sandow Birk - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-01T23:56:05.059Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 18
- Lots with prices: 16
- First auction date: 2009-11-17
- Latest auction date: 2024-08-22
- Median realised price: $2,800
- Price range: $750 to $5,490

## Market Takeaway
Sandow Birk has 18 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $2,800. Category concentration is still broad. Recent 12-month volume is still light. 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 \($2,800\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($875 to $4,200\) 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: 25% (4 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 75% (12 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 0
- Previous 12 months sales: 1
- Recent 12 months median: $0
- Previous 12 months median: $0
- Median shift: N/A
- Latest sale date: 2024-08-22
- Days since latest sale: 617
- Market velocity: inactive

## Top Auction Houses
- Bonhams: 6 lots
- Hindman: 3 lots
- Heritage Auctions: 2 lots
- STAIR: 2 lots
- Abell Auction: 1 lots
- PBA Galleries Auctions & Appraisers: 1 lots
- Rago Arts and Auction Center: 1 lots
- Santa Fe Art Auction: 1 lots
- Weschler's: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2024-08-22 | Three signed proofs by Sandow Birk | PBA Galleries Auctions & Appraisers | N/A
2. 2024-04-12 | Sandow Birk \(American b. 1962\), American Qur'an/Sura 80, Acrylic, gouache and ink on paper, 2009, Sheet size: 15\-3/4 x 23\-3/4 in \(40 x 60.3 cm\) | Weschler's | $750
3. 2022-11-17 | Sandow Birk \(b. 1962\) Hollywood Revenge, 1990 Acrylic on velvet 24 x 54 inches \( | Heritage Auctions | $2,800
4. 2022-11-17 | Sandow Birk \(b. 1962\) Monument to the UN Declaration of Human Rights, 2008 Ink o | Heritage Auctions | $4,200
5. 2022-02-17 | Sandow Birk \(American, b. 1961\) Monument to the Constitution of the United States, 2012 | Hindman | $3,750
6. 2022-02-17 | Sandow Birk \(American, b. 1961\) American Qur'an/Sura 80\-81, 2009 | Hindman | $2,000
7. 2022-02-17 | Sandow Birk \(American, b. 1962\) In the Palace of Saddam, 2007 | Hindman | $3,250
8. 2021-07-01 | SANDOW BIRK \(B. 1962\): SCENE FROM THE DESOLATION | Abell Auction | $3,250
9. 2020-03-29 | Sandow Birk, Canto XII: Title Page, 2002 | Santa Fe Art Auction | N/A
10. 2017-09-13 | SANDOW BIRK \(b. 1962\): APARTMENT IN THE VILLAGE, NYC | STAIR | $1,500
11. 2017-06-03 | SANDOW BIRK \(b. 1962\): MERCEDES BENZ 300 CE | STAIR | $800
12. 2013-08-25 | Sandow Birk \(American, born 1962\) | Bonhams | $750
13. 2013-05-18 | Sandow Birk \(American, b. 1962\); Canto XXXIII: The | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $875
14. 2010-11-23 | Sandow Birk \(American, born 1962\) and Devin Flynn \(American, born 1970\) The Duel, 1996 43 x 54in | Bonhams | $4,270
15. 2010-05-03 | Sandow Birk \(American, born 1962\) Murder at Mobil \(3 Dead, Hollywood, March 1991\), 1991 53 x 68in | Bonhams | $5,490
16. 2010-05-03 | Sandow Birk \(American, born 1962\) Death in South Central \(Crips\), 1990 53 x 68in | Bonhams | $5,490
17. 2010-05-03 | Sandow Birk \(American, born 1962\) Death in South Central \(Bloods\), 1990 53 x 68in | Bonhams | $5,490
18. 2009-11-17 | Sandow Birk \(American, born 1962\) The Critic's Dream \(after "The Lawyer's Dream" by David Gilmour Blythe, 1860\), 1993 11 x 8 1/2in | Bonhams | $2,074

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