# Yousuf Karsh - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-06-19T01:46:59.461Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 545
- Lots with prices: 348
- First auction date: 1994-10-05
- Latest auction date: 2026-04-14
- Median realised price: $2,500
- Price range: $10 to $210,000

## Market Takeaway
Yousuf Karsh shows deep auction liquidity with 482 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $2,440. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 33 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-12-14.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($2,440\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $600 and $5,500.
- 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: 32.4% (99 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 58.2% (178 sales)
- $10,000\+: 9.5% (29 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 33
- Previous 12 months sales: 58
- Recent 12 months median: $480
- Previous 12 months median: $750
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-12-14
- Days since latest sale: 65
- Market velocity: high

## Top Auction Houses
- Sotheby's: 53 lots
- Bonhams: 48 lots
- Christie's: 44 lots
- Antiques & Modern Auction Gallery: 42 lots
- Waddington's: 37 lots
- Swann Auction Galleries: 35 lots
- Leonard Joel: 20 lots
- Thomaston Place Auction Galleries: 20 lots
- Phillips: 14 lots
- Kunsthaus Lempertz KG: 13 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-12-07 | YOUSUF KARSH 'JOHN F. KENNEDY' VINTAGE GRAVURE | Antiques & Modern Auction Gallery | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-yousuf-karsh-john-f-kennedy-vintage-gravure-834-c-c29d265556
2. 2025-02-25 | Yousuf Karsh \(1908\-2002\) George Bernard Shaw, Silver Print | Everard Auctions and Appraisals | $950 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-yousuf-karsh-1908-2002-george-bernard-shaw-silver-print-122-c-fc8438aba8
3. 2024-12-17 | YOUSUF KARSH \(1908\-2002\) Albert Einstein. 1948. | Swann Auction Galleries | $4,750 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-yousuf-karsh-1908-2002-albert-einstein-1948-28-c-7efd250e00
4. 2024-12-09 | FM Alexander of Tunis. Signed portrait by Yousuf Karsh | Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-fm-alexander-of-tunis-signed-portrait-by-yousuf-karsh-1-c-2124b438f2
5. 2024-10-29 | Yousuf Karsh \(1908\-2002\) George Bernard Shaw, Silver Print | Everard Auctions and Appraisals | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-yousuf-karsh-1908-2002-george-bernard-shaw-silver-print-49-c-176444d8d1
6. 2024-09-28 | YOUSUF KARSH 'RAVI SHANKAR' PHOTOGRAVURE | Antiques & Modern Auction Gallery | N/A
7. 2024-09-28 | YOUSUF KARSH 'NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV' PHOTOGRAVURE | Antiques & Modern Auction Gallery | N/A
8. 2024-09-28 | YOUSUF KARSH 'ROBERT FROST' PHOTOGRAVURE | Antiques & Modern Auction Gallery | N/A
9. 2024-09-28 | YOUSUF KARSH 'PRINCE CHARLES' PHOTOGRAVURE | Antiques & Modern Auction Gallery | N/A
10. 2024-09-28 | YOUSUF KARSH 'MARCEL MARCEAU' PHOTOGRAVURE | Antiques & Modern Auction Gallery | N/A
11. 2024-09-28 | YOUSUF KARSH 'JEAN\-PAUL RIOPELLE' PHOTOGRAVURE | Antiques & Modern Auction Gallery | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-yousuf-karsh-jean-paul-riopelle-photogravure-503-c-7f746b6925
12. 2024-09-28 | YOUSUF KARSH 'PABLO PICASSO' PHOTOGRAVURE | Antiques & Modern Auction Gallery | N/A
13. 2024-09-28 | YOUSUF KARSH 'VLADIMIR NABOKOV' PHOTOGRAVURE | Antiques & Modern Auction Gallery | N/A
14. 2024-09-28 | YOUSUF KARSH 'MARIAN ANDERSON' PHOTOGRAVURE | Antiques & Modern Auction Gallery | N/A
15. 2024-09-28 | YOUSUF KARSH 'MARTIN LUTHER KING' SIGNED GRAVURE | Antiques & Modern Auction Gallery | N/A
16. 2024-09-28 | YOUSUF KARSH 'IGOR STRAVINSKY' PHOTOGRAVURE | Antiques & Modern Auction Gallery | N/A
17. 2024-09-28 | YOUSUF KARSH 'HANS SELYE' PHOTOGRAVURE | Antiques & Modern Auction Gallery | N/A
18. 2024-09-28 | YOUSUF KARSH 'GEORGE BERNARD SHAW' PHOTOGRAVURE | Antiques & Modern Auction Gallery | N/A
19. 2024-06-07 | YOUSUF KARSH \(1908\-2002\) GELATIN SILVER PHOTOGRAPH | Dirk Soulis Auctions | $3,800 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-yousuf-karsh-1908-2002-gelatin-silver-photograph-75-c-0de4cb1b0f
20. 2024-06-04 | Yousuf Karsh, President and Mrs. John Kennedy, 1961 | Kunsthaus Lempertz KG | N/A
21. 2023-01-29 | YOUSUF KARSH "FIDEL CASTRO" GELATIN SILVER PRINT | Bradford's | $1,300 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-yousuf-karsh-fidel-castro-gelatin-silver-print-5017-c-629403da19
22. 2021-02-27 | Yousuf Karsh, Architect Frank Lloyd Wright, 1947 | Keith Delellis Gallery LLC | $800 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-yousuf-karsh-architect-frank-lloyd-wright-1947-142-c-86f45d59bc
23. 2021-01-21 | Yousuf Karsh \(Armenian/Canadian, 1908\-2002\) Mies van der Rohe, 1962 | Hindman | $313
24. 2020-10-22 | YOUSUF KARSH \- Georgia O'Keeffe, 1956 | Phillips | $7,000 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-yousuf-karsh-georgia-o-keeffe-1956-238-c-7304fefb6b

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