# Zulma Steele - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-05T00:28:14.391Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 16
- Lots with prices: 16
- First auction date: 2001-02-11
- Latest auction date: 2025-12-14
- Median realised price: $600
- Price range: $275 to $4,500

## Market Takeaway
Zulma Steele has 16 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $600. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 5 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 \($600\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($425 to $900\) 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: 75% (12 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 25% (4 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 5
- Previous 12 months sales: 4
- Recent 12 months median: $800
- Previous 12 months median: $425
- Median shift: 88.2%
- Latest sale date: 2025-12-14
- Days since latest sale: 141
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- James Cox Gallery: 10 lots
- Old Kinderhook Auction Company: 3 lots
- Butterscotch Auction Gallery LLC: 1 lots
- Rago Arts and Auction Center: 1 lots
- Toomey & Co. Auctioneers: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-12-14 | ZULMA STEELE \(AMERICAN, 1881 \- 1979\) | James Cox Gallery | $3,500
2. 2025-12-14 | ZULMA STEELE \(AMERICAN, 1881 \- 1979\) | James Cox Gallery | $1,100 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-zulma-steele-american-1881-1979-98-c-10de671a36
3. 2025-12-14 | ZULMA STEELE \(AMERICAN, 1881 \- 1979\) | James Cox Gallery | $800
4. 2025-12-14 | ZULMA STEELE \(AMERICAN, 1881 \- 1979\) | James Cox Gallery | $600
5. 2025-12-14 | ZULMA STEELE \(AMERICAN, 1881 \- 1979\) | James Cox Gallery | $300
6. 2025-03-23 | ZULMA STEELE \(American, 1881\-1979\) | Butterscotch Auction Gallery LLC | $900
7. 2024-07-02 | Zulma Steele, Mountain Landscape | Old Kinderhook Auction Company | $425
8. 2024-07-02 | Zulma Steele, River Valley Landscape | Old Kinderhook Auction Company | $725
9. 2024-07-02 | Zulma Steele, Valley Landscape | Old Kinderhook Auction Company | $375
10. 2023-05-21 | ZULMA STEELE \(1881 \- 1979\) | James Cox Gallery | $275
11. 2022-12-11 | ZULMA STEELE \(1881 \- 1979\) | James Cox Gallery | $450
12. 2021-12-12 | ZULMA STEELE \(1881\-1979\) | James Cox Gallery | $500
13. 2021-05-23 | ZULMA STEELE \(1881 \- 1979\) | James Cox Gallery | $4,500
14. 2015-10-17 | Zulma Steele \(1881 \- 1979\) | James Cox Gallery | $500
15. 2012-02-25 | ZULMA STEELE \(American 1881\-1979\); Botanical study | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $1,500
16. 2001-02-11 | Zulma Steele \(American, 1881\-1979\), "New York Landscape", c.1915; oil/board, 8" x 10", signed. | Toomey & Co. Auctioneers | $805

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