# Susan Meiselas - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-04T15:04:03.992Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 36
- Lots with prices: 25
- First auction date: 2004-04-24
- Latest auction date: 2025-10-09
- Median realised price: $1,800
- Price range: $44 to $5,000

## Market Takeaway
Susan Meiselas has 36 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $1,800. 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 \($1,800\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($400 to $2,500\) 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: 40% (10 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 60% (15 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 1
- Previous 12 months sales: 2
- Recent 12 months median: $2,794
- Previous 12 months median: $400
- Median shift: 100%
- Latest sale date: 2025-10-09
- Days since latest sale: 207
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- OstLicht Auctions: 8 lots
- Phillips: 6 lots
- Christie's: 5 lots
- Cambi Casa d'Aste: 4 lots
- Rago Arts and Auction Center: 3 lots
- Ader: 2 lots
- Bonhams: 2 lots
- Chiswick Auctions: 2 lots
- Botterweg Auctions Amsterdam: 1 lots
- Dreweatts 1759: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-10-09 | SUSAN MEISELAS \(B. 1948\). Lena on the Bally Box and Shortie on the Bally, B | Christie's | $2,794
2. 2024-10-25 | Susan Meiselas, Wedding, El Salvador | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $400
3. 2024-06-05 | SUSAN MEISELAS \(\*1948\) | OstLicht Auctions | €1,600
4. 2023-11-18 | SUSAN MEISELAS \(\*1948\) | OstLicht Auctions | €1,800
5. 2023-11-18 | SUSAN MEISELAS \(\*1948\) | OstLicht Auctions | €1,800
6. 2023-11-18 | SUSAN MEISELAS \(\*1948\) | OstLicht Auctions | €1,800
7. 2023-09-29 | Susan Meiselas \(b.1948\) | Chiswick Auctions | £180
8. 2023-06-02 | SUSAN MEISELAS \(\*1948\) | OstLicht Auctions | €2,200
9. 2022-08-23 | Susan Meiselas \(born 1948\); El Salvador; | Bonhams | $1,100
10. 2021-04-06 | SUSAN MEISELAS \(B. 1948\) \- Curtain Call, Essex Junction, Vermont, 1973 | Christie's | $2,500
11. 2020-03-30 | Susan Meiselas b.1948 | Chiswick Auctions | £44
12. 2019-11-13 | Susan Meiselas \(1948\), Mexico, earthquake, 1985 | Cambi Casa d'Aste | N/A
13. 2019-10-12 | SUSAN MEISELAS \(\* 1948\) Carnival Strippers, Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, New York 1976\* | OstLicht Auctions | €700
14. 2019-10-12 | SUSAN MEISELAS \(\* 1948\) ‘Backstage, Carlisle‘ \(from ‘Carnival Strippers’\), Pennsylvania 1975 | OstLicht Auctions | €3,800
15. 2019-10-12 | SUSAN MEISELAS \(\* 1948\) ‘Lena on the Bally Box‘ \(from ‘Carnival Strippers’\), Essex Junction, Vermont 1973 | OstLicht Auctions | €4,000
16. 2019-06-06 | Susan Meiselas \(1948\), Jeune sandiniste \[..\] 1968 | Cambi Casa d'Aste | €400
17. 2018-12-05 | Susan Meiselas \(1948\), Nicaragua, 1 sept 1978 | Cambi Casa d'Aste | N/A
18. 2018-12-05 | Susan Meiselas \(1948\), Nicaragua, 1 sept 1978 | Cambi Casa d'Aste | N/A
19. 2018-05-18 | SUSAN MEISELAS \- Matagalpa, Nicaragua, 1978 | Phillips | £5,000
20. 2017-04-05 | Susan Meiselas and Albie Sachs: photobook | Botterweg Auctions Amsterdam | N/A
21. 2015-06-12 | SUSAN MEISELAS \(\* 1948\) | WestLicht | N/A
22. 2014-09-19 | Susan Meiselas \(American, b. 1948\) Before the Show, Tunbridge, Vermont, from the series Carnival Strippers, 1974, printed 2008, edition | Skinner | $738
23. 2014-02-28 | Susan Meiselas \(b.1948\) and others \- Susan Meiselas, 1976 and other photobooks | Dreweatts 1759 | £248
24. 2013-05-18 | Susan Meiselas \(American, b. 1948\); Carnival | Rago Arts and Auction Center | N/A

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