# Sven Berlin - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-04T09:00:33.752Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 95
- Lots with prices: 54
- First auction date: 2002-01-22
- Latest auction date: 2025-12-11
- Median realised price: $550
- Price range: $30 to $7,560

## Market Takeaway
Sven Berlin shows solid auction liquidity with 95 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $550. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 6 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-12-11.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($550\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $220 and $1,900.
- 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: 61.1% (33 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 38.9% (21 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 6
- Previous 12 months sales: 4
- Recent 12 months median: $260
- Previous 12 months median: $140
- Median shift: 85.7%
- Latest sale date: 2025-12-11
- Days since latest sale: 69
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Bonhams: 29 lots
- Christie's: 17 lots
- Duke's: 13 lots
- Mallams: 7 lots
- Sotheby's: 6 lots
- Roseberys: 4 lots
- Sworders: 4 lots
- John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers: 3 lots
- Adam Partridge Auctioneers: 2 lots
- Bamfords Auctioneers and Valuers Ltd: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2024-12-17 | Sven Berlin \(1911\-1999\), wash on paper, Two Doves, 9cm x 14cm, signed “Sven” lower right, mounted, g | Burstow & Hewett | £30
2. 2025-12-11 | SVEN BERLIN \(1911\-1999\); a collection of artwork by the artist, including pencil drawings of a doe and of a tree, an ink drawing of an eagle and a carved alabaster model of a bird, also an acrylic on the back of a Delight Low Fat Butter Spread carton | Adam Partridge Auctioneers | £30
3. 2025-12-10 | Sven Berlin \(1911\-1999\) Self Portrait in Fur Hat oil on board signed 'Sven' 61cm x 51cm. Provenance: from the artist's estate. | Mallams | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-sven-berlin-1911-1999-self-portrait-in-fur-hat-oil-on-board-signed-sven-61cm-x-51cm-provenance-from-the-artist-s-estate-314-c-a3519ea63e
4. 2025-12-10 | Sven Berlin \(1911\-1999\) Mrs Hughes Smoking a Swiggler, 1954 oil on board signed lower right, signed, titled and dated to the reverse 31.5cm x 26cm. | Mallams | £1,900
5. 2025-12-10 | Sven Berlin \(1911\-1999\) Self Portrait 1947 signed and dated, pencil and watercolour 34.5 x 11cm \(irregular\) Provenance: acquired directly from the artist by the current vendor Exhibited: Falmouth Art Gallery; Tom Early and Friends | Mallams | £260
6. 2025-11-05 | SVEN BERLIN \(1911\-1999\); a collection of artwork by the artist, including pencil drawings of a doe and of a tree, an ink drawing of an eagle and a carved alabaster model of a bird, also an acrylic on the back of a Delight Low Fat Butter Spread carton | Adam Partridge Auctioneers | N/A
7. 2025-09-29 | Sven Berlin \(British 1911\-1999\) | Mallams | N/A
8. 2024-10-17 | SVEN BERLIN \(1911\-1999\). Boats in a Harbour, St Ives. oil and pencil on boa | Christie's | £7,560
9. 2024-09-26 | Sven Berlin \(1911\-1999\) Doves Preening signed, titled, pen and ink, 26cm x 29cm | Bamfords Auctioneers and Valuers Ltd | £140
10. 2024-03-12 | Sven Berlin,  British 1911\-1999 \-  Two doves;  ink wash on paper, signed | Roseberys | £220
11. 2023-11-29 | Sven Berlin \(1911\-1999\), a collection of three works, all figural studies, a self\-portrait, watercolour, 23" x | John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers | £60
12. 2023-05-11 | SVEN BERLIN \(1911\-1999\) | Sheppards | N/A
13. 2023-04-25 | Sven Berlin \(1911\-1999\) | Sworders | N/A
14. 2023-03-07 | Sven Berlin \(1911\-1999\) | Sworders | £30
15. 2022-12-15 | Sven Berlin \(1911\-1999\), two pencil portraits \(self\-portrait, dated 1961, and 'Paul'\), on paper, each circa 77 cm x 59 cm, together with a watercolour, 'Julia', signed and dated 1975, 53 cm x 34.5, all unframed. | Dawsons Auctioneers | N/A
16. 2022-11-10 | Horse's head | Sotheby's | £504
17. 2022-10-04 | Sven Berlin \(1911\-1999\) | Sworders | £200
18. 2022-10-04 | Sven Berlin \(1911\-1999\) | Sworders | £450
19. 2020-12-16 | Sven Berlin \(British, 1911\-1999\) Self\-Portrait | Bonhams | £220
20. 2019-04-09 | Sven Berlin \(1911\-1999\) Pietà alabaster, unique 43 ¼ in. \(109.9 cm.\) high | Christie's | £6,000
21. 2019-03-20 | SVEN BERLIN \| Dublin Bay Prawn | Sotheby's | £200
22. 2019-02-05 | SVEN BERLIN \| The Hawk | Sotheby's | £4,000
23. 2018-11-22 | SVEN BERLIN \(1911\-1999\) BRITISH, ST IVES Study of a horse's head, on black slate plinth base. Signed and Incised. Monogrammed on base. Circa. 1950's. Medium in Egyptian Green Stone. 8ins x 3.75ins. | John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers | £1,400
24. 2018-10-31 | Sven Berlin \(1911\-1999\) British. Study of a Horse's Head, Stone, Scratched Initials on Base, 8" x 8.5" x 3.75", on a Black Slate Base. | John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers | N/A

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