# Selma Hortense Burke - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-04T12:21:08.552Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 12
- Lots with prices: 7
- First auction date: 2007-05-20
- Latest auction date: 2025-11-19
- Median realised price: $2,000
- Price range: $150 to $42,500

## Market Takeaway
Selma Hortense Burke has 12 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $2,000. 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 \($2,000\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($1,200 to $21,000\) 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: 14.3% (1 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 57.1% (4 sales)
- $10,000\+: 28.6% (2 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 1
- Previous 12 months sales: 1
- Recent 12 months median: $150
- Previous 12 months median: $1,200
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-11-19
- Days since latest sale: 165
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Black Art Auction: 5 lots
- Gratz Gallery: 3 lots
- Abington Auction Gallery: 1 lots
- Grant Zahajko Auctions, LLC: 1 lots
- Rago Arts and Auction Center: 1 lots
- Toomey & Co. Auctioneers: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-11-19 | Selma Hortense Burke Signed & Numbered Lithograph | Grant Zahajko Auctions, LLC | $150
2. 2024-09-14 | Selma Hortense Burke, 1900\-1995, Gossiping Gourds | Black Art Auction | $1,200
3. 2022-06-04 | Selma Hortense Burke, 1900\-1995, untitled, Fish | Black Art Auction | $2,000
4. 2022-03-12 | Selma Hortense Burke, 1900\-1995, Red Torso | Black Art Auction | N/A
5. 2021-12-04 | Selma Hortense Burke, 1900\-1995, Resting Child | Black Art Auction | $21,000
6. 2021-12-04 | Selma Hortense Burke, 1900\-1995, Embrace | Black Art Auction | $42,500
7. 2019-06-30 | Selma Hortense Burke \(American, PA, NC, 1900 \- 1995\) | Gratz Gallery | N/A
8. 2019-03-17 | Selma Hortense Burke \(American, PA, NC, 1900 \- 1995\) | Gratz Gallery | N/A
9. 2018-05-27 | Selma Hortense Burke \(American, PA, NC, 1900 \- 1995\) | Gratz Gallery | N/A
10. 2018-03-29 | Selma Hortense Burke Signed Bronze Figure | Abington Auction Gallery | $1,600
11. 2011-12-04 | Selma Hortense Burke \(American, 1900\-1995\) "Mother | Toomey & Co. Auctioneers | N/A
12. 2007-05-20 | Selma Hortense Burke \(American, 1900\-1995\) Black Nude Reclining, 1950; Bronze; Signed and dated "SeLMA burke / 50" with foundry mark "Roman Bronze Works, N.Y."; 6 1/4" high; Foundry: Roman Bronze Works, New York; Provenance: Burke Art Center, | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $8,400

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