Social Realism
1929–1945
Figures in parentheses are Modern $USD.
- ArtistLifeAuction record(Modern $USD)
- Diego Rivera (Diego Rivera)1886–1957$3,375 to $578,500($4,640 to $849,000)
- Alice Neel (Neel)1900–1984$216,000 to $5,690,000($361,000 to $5,770,000)
- Jacob Lawrence1917–2000$69,300 to $6,200,000($90,200 to $8,320,000)
- Values are public auction results and are not complete records. They are not appraisals or offers.
- Modern $USD converts each price at the average exchange rate of its sale year, then adjusts for US inflation to September 2026, rounded to three figures.
- ≈ means the sale year is not known, so the figure uses the latest exchange rate with no inflation adjustment.
- “Up to” means only top sales were seen.
- “est.” marks pre-sale estimates, which are not sales.
- “(attr.)” marks works catalogued as attributed to the artist.
- “(prints)” means only prints were found.
- Contains information from the Union List of Artist Names® (ULAN) which is made available under the ODC Attribution License.

