# William Steig - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-05T00:26:08.930Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 55
- Lots with prices: 38
- First auction date: 2003-05-16
- Latest auction date: 2025-11-20
- Median realised price: $450
- Price range: $20 to $4,000

## Market Takeaway
William Steig shows solid auction liquidity with 54 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $450. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 4 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-09-25.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($450\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $200 and $650.
- 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: 81.6% (31 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 18.4% (7 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 4
- Previous 12 months sales: 5
- Recent 12 months median: $450
- Previous 12 months median: $1,375
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-09-25
- Days since latest sale: 146
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Swann Auction Galleries: 13 lots
- Skinner: 4 lots
- Bonhams: 3 lots
- Kensington Estate Auctions: 3 lots
- Quinn's Auction Galleries Central Virginia: 3 lots
- Cutler Bay Auctions: 2 lots
- Grant Zahajko Auctions, LLC: 2 lots
- Hill Auction Gallery: 2 lots
- Illustration House: 2 lots
- Antiques & Modern Auction Gallery: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-09-25 | William Steig, Washington Square Outdoor Art Exhibition, lithograph poster printed on card, 1933. | Swann Auction Galleries | $762
2. 2025-08-22 | William Steig, Nudes | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $200
3. 2025-06-23 | William Steig \(1907\-2003\) Original Published Drawing, DECLINE & FALL OF PRACTICALLY EVERYBODY, 1951 | Kensington Estate Auctions | $450
4. 2025-06-17 | WILLIAM STEIG \(1907 \- 2003\) Couple on street cartoon. | Swann Auction Galleries | $500
5. 2025-01-22 | William Steig \- Lonely Ones and Other | Grant Zahajko Auctions, LLC | $20 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-william-steig-lonely-ones-and-other-171a-c-c5f4df0967
6. 2024-12-12 | \(NEW YORKER\) WILLIAM STEIG \(1907\-2003\) "Who's a tyrant?" | Swann Auction Galleries | $2,860
7. 2024-06-27 | WILLIAM STEIG \- ILLUSTRATIONS, GROUP OF 4 | Capsule Gallery Auction | $2,100
8. 2024-06-20 | WILLIAM STEIG \(1907\-2003\) Archive of drawings and letters. | Swann Auction Galleries | $1,375
9. 2024-03-03 | William Steig "Home Restaurant" Mixed Media | Auctions at Showplace | $400
10. 2023-12-14 | WILLIAM STEIG "Questioning of Prisoner" | Swann Auction Galleries | $625
11. 2022-08-08 | William Steig \(1907\-2003\) Original Book Illustrations HOW TO BECOME EXTINCT \(4\) | Kensington Estate Auctions | $650
12. 2022-06-09 | WILLIAM STEIG \(1907\-2003\) "Reptiles I'm Always Meeting." | Swann Auction Galleries | N/A
13. 2022-06-09 | WILLIAM STEIG \(1907\-2003\) Hunting with hound. | Swann Auction Galleries | $617
14. 2022-06-09 | WILLIAM STEIG \(1907\-2003\) Diving and Swimming. | Swann Auction Galleries | $625
15. 2022-06-09 | WILLIAM STEIG \(1907\-2003\) Honey, I'm home! | Swann Auction Galleries | N/A
16. 2022-05-31 | William Steig \(1907\-2003\) | Material Culture | $175
17. 2022-05-18 | William Steig \(American, 1907 \- 2003\) | Vallot Auctioneers | $100
18. 2022-03-06 | WILLIAM STEIG \(AMERICAN, 1907\-2003\). | Clarke Auction Gallery | $500
19. 2021-11-19 | WILLIAM STEIG ORIGINAL NEW YORKER CARTOON DRAWING | Oakridge Auction Gallery | $475
20. 2021-06-24 | WILLIAM STEIG \(1907\-2003\) "'Bats and Barnacles!' Ebenezer exclaimed..." | Swann Auction Galleries | $4,000
21. 2021-02-05 | William Steig | Merrill's Auctioneers & Appraisers | $60
22. 2020-10-01 | William Steig \(1907 \- 2003\) I MIND MY OWN BUSINESS Vintage Print | Cutler Bay Auctions | N/A
23. 2020-08-11 | William Steig \(1907 \- 2003\) I MIND MY OWN BUSINESS Vintage Print | Cutler Bay Auctions | N/A
24. 2020-05-09 | William Steig \(1907\-2003\) 1942 Poster "Get in The Scrap" Rubber and Metal Collection Depot | Dana J. Tharp Auctions | $170

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