# Thurman Rotan - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-30T21:39:55.354Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 9
- Lots with prices: 5
- First auction date: 2003-04-24
- Latest auction date: 2024-09-26
- Median realised price: $2,813
- Price range: $1,434 to $8,125

## Market Takeaway
Thurman Rotan has 9 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $2,813. 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 \($2,813\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($1,434 to $3,120\) 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: 0% (0 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 100% (5 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: $3,120
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2024-09-26
- Days since latest sale: 581
- Market velocity: inactive

## Top Auction Houses
- Phillips: 3 lots
- Sotheby's: 3 lots
- Swann Auction Galleries: 2 lots
- Keith Delellis Gallery LLC: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2024-09-26 | THURMAN ROTAN \(1903\-1991\) Skyscrapers. 1932; printed 1970s. | Swann Auction Galleries | $3,120
2. 2021-02-27 | Thurman Rotan, San Antonio Tower \#1, 1984 | Keith Delellis Gallery LLC | N/A
3. 2018-10-18 | THURMAN ROTAN \(1903\-1991\) Fifth Avenue, N.Y. | Swann Auction Galleries | N/A
4. 2016-12-12 | THURMAN ROTAN \| 'Skyscrapers' | Sotheby's | N/A
5. 2015-04-01 | THURMAN ROTAN \| Skyscrapers | Sotheby's | $8,125
6. 2013-04-06 | THURMAN  ROTAN | Sotheby's | $2,813
7. 2003-04-26 | THURMAN ROTAN \(American, 1905\-1991\) LOWER NEW YORK stamped "PHOTOGRAPH BY / ROTAN" on verso titled, signed and dated "LOWER NEW YORK / Thurman Rotan / 1928" in pencil on verso gelatin silver print image: 3.5625 x 3.5625 in. \(9 x 9 cm\) paper: 4.1875 x | Phillips | $1,434
8. 2003-04-25 | THURMAN ROTAN | Phillips | $1,434
9. 2003-04-24 | THURMAN ROTAN | Phillips | N/A

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