Karl Lagerfeld

French · 1933–2019 · Photographer

Karl Otto Lagerfeld was a German fashion designer, photographer, and creative director. (Wikipedia)

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203lots offered2019–2025years recorded99%sold (197)$1.6kSign up free to seemedian price

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PortfolioPalm Beach Modern Auctions · Apr 2019$8,450≈ £6,495≈ €7,511Sign up to see
Portfolio by Karl LagerfeldBonhams · Jun 2022$8,288≈ £6,635≈ €7,773Sign up to see
PortfolioPalm Beach Modern Auctions · Apr 2019$7,150≈ £5,496≈ €6,356Sign up to see

Karl Lagerfeld’s highest prices recorded at auction, ranked in US dollars at each sale-date exchange rate and shown in the currency of the sale (with the buyer’s premium where the house publishes it).

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Average price

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median $1.6kfree account

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Lots sold

197

of 200 offered · 2019–2025

Sell-through

99%

sold ÷ offered

Price trend

Each dot is a sold lot (price realized incl. premium where published, converted to USD at the sale-date rate; log scale). Dashed line: yearly median.

1 lot(s) catalogued with a qualifier (e.g. “attributed to”, “after”, “circle of”) are listed in the results but excluded from these statistics.

3 lot(s) offered at auction whose result the house did not publish are listed under “Also offered” on the results tab and excluded from these statistics.

By medium

Medium	Offered	Sold	Sell-through	Average	Median	High
Works on paper	192	192	100%	$1.9kSign up	$1.6kSign up	$8.4kSign up
Drawing	192	192	100%	$1.9kSign up	$1.6kSign up	$8.4kSign up
Prints & multiples	1	1	100%	$1.2kSign up	$1.2kSign up	$1.2kSign up
Print (other)	1	1	100%	$1.2kSign up	$1.2kSign up	$1.2kSign up
Photography	3	3	100%	$3.3kSign up	$1.1kSign up	$8.3kSign up
Photograph	3	3	100%	$3.3kSign up	$1.1kSign up	$8.3kSign up
Sculpture	2	1	50%	$6.4kSign up	$6.4kSign up	$6.4kSign up
Other	2	0	0%	—Sign up	—Sign up	—

Medium classes are derived from the medium text as published by each house; “Other” includes lots whose medium wasn’t stated.

By year

Year	Offered	Sold	Median
2025	3	3	$1.1kSign up
2023	2	0	—Sign up
2022	4	3	$6.4kSign up
2021	75	75	$1.4kSign up
2020	6	6	$1.2kSign up
2019	110	110	$1.7kSign up