William Helburn

American · 1924–2020 · Photographer

American photographer

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6auction results2016–2025years recorded83%sold (5)$3.6kSign up free to seemedian price

Record prices

  1. William Helburn, Red Canoe, 1957, Archival pigment print, printed laterRed CanoePhillips · $20,000≈ £14,013≈ €17,575Sign up to see
  2. William Helburn, Dovima under the El (Dior Creates Cosmopolitan Drama), 1956, Archival pigment print, printed laterDovima under the El (Dior Creates Cosmopolitan Drama)Phillips · $8,750≈ £6,131≈ €7,689Sign up to see
  3. William Helburn, Simone D'Aillencourt with Whippet, Penn Station, circa 1959, Gelatin silver print, printed laterSimone D'Aillencourt with Whippet, Penn StationPhillips · $3,556≈ £2,747≈ €3,292Sign up to see

William Helburn’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
median $3.6kfree account
High
auction record in database
Lots sold
5
of 6 offered · 2016–2025
Sell-through
83%
sold ÷ offered

Price trend

$1k$3k$10k$32k2017201820192020202120222023202420252016-04-04 · $20,0002016-04-04 · $8,7502021-02-05 · $2,5502025-02-19 · $3,3282025-04-02 · $3,556
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.

By medium

MediumOfferedSoldSell-throughAverageMedianHigh
Photography6583%$7.6kSign up$3.6kSign up$20kSign up
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Medium classes are derived from the medium text as published by each house; “Other” includes lots whose medium wasn’t stated.

By year

YearOfferedSoldMedian
202522$3.4kSign up
202121$2.5kSign up
201622$14.4kSign up

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