# Alan Cotton - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-28T15:05:39.025Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 82
- Lots with prices: 59
- First auction date: 2004-09-23
- Latest auction date: 2025-12-06
- Median realised price: $550
- Price range: $35 to $3,500

## Market Takeaway
Alan Cotton shows solid auction liquidity with 82 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $550. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 4 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-12-06.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($550\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $408 and $900.
- 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: 79.7% (47 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 20.3% (12 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 4
- Previous 12 months sales: 0
- Recent 12 months median: $420
- Previous 12 months median: $0
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-12-06
- Days since latest sale: 74
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Bonhams: 26 lots
- Mallams: 16 lots
- Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood: 14 lots
- Piers Motley Auctions: 5 lots
- Bearne's: 4 lots
- Christie's: 4 lots
- GFL Fine Art: 3 lots
- Hargesheimer Kunstauktionen Düsseldorf: 3 lots
- Dreweatts 1759: 2 lots
- Byrne's Auctioneers & Valuers: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-12-06 | ALAN COTTON \- 'VENICE \- GOLD & SILVER REFLECTIONS' | Hargesheimer Kunstauktionen Düsseldorf | €800
2. 2025-12-06 | ALAN COTTON \- 'PROVENCE \- HARVEST FIELDS IN LATE EVENING LIGHT' | Hargesheimer Kunstauktionen Düsseldorf | €330
3. 2025-12-06 | ALAN COTTON \- 'PROVENCE CYPRESS TREES AGAINST THE CHAINE DES ALPILLES' | Hargesheimer Kunstauktionen Düsseldorf | €420
4. 2025-03-26 | Alan Cotton \(British, born 1936\) Connemara, Early Morning Light | Bonhams | £1,100
5. 2023-08-13 | ALAN COTTON \(ENGLAND\) \- BLOSSOM ORCHARD AT STROVE TUSCANY \- PASTEL ON COLOURED PAPER | GFL Fine Art | A$600
6. 2022-03-09 | Alan Cotton, 20/21st Century, Figures in an interior, pastel, signed, 8" x 5.5". | John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers | N/A
7. 2018-05-29 | ALAN COTTON \- TUSCAN LANDSCAPE \- EVENING LIGHT \- Pastel | GFL Fine Art | N/A
8. 2018-05-29 | ALAN COTTON \- BLOSSOM ORCHARD AND CHURCH AT STROVE TUSCANY \- Oil on canvas | GFL Fine Art | A$1,800
9. 2017-11-28 | Alan Cotton \(British, b. 1960\) \- Rolling clouds over Donegal; and Scudding clouds, Donegal | Christie's | £2,750
10. 2017-11-13 | Alan Cotton, River Otter, oil on canvas, 75 x 59 cm, framed | Piers Motley Auctions | £300
11. 2017-05-02 | Alan Cotton 1978 | Piers Motley Auctions | N/A
12. 2016-07-19 | Alan Cotton \(b1936\) \- 'Landscape at Mutters Moor', pastel on paper, signed | Potburys Auctions | £130
13. 2016-07-12 | \* Alan Cotton \[b.1936\]\- A Venetian backwater :\- signed pastel drawing 25 x | Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood | £100
14. 2015-12-10 | Alan Cotton \(British, b.1936\) Provence \- The Hill Town of Bonnieux in Sprin | Mallams | £620
15. 2015-07-14 | \* Alan Cotton \[b.1936\]\- Snowdonia IV:\- signed and | Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood | £550
16. 2015-05-13 | Alan Cotton \(British, b.1936\) Provence \- The Hill | Mallams | N/A
17. 2015-04-21 | \* Alan Cotton \[b.1936\]\- A Tuscan poppy field:\- sig | Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood | £250
18. 2015-02-02 | Alan Cotton, Hartland at Sunrise 1988, oil on canvas, 29 x 24cm | Piers Motley Auctions | £700
19. 2015-01-27 | \* Alan Cotton \[b.1936\]\- Otterton from The Meadows:\- signed further signed and inscribed on the stretcher oil on canvas 79 x 64cm. | Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood | £680
20. 2015-01-27 | \* Alan Cotton \[b.1936\]\- River Otter Weir:\- signed and dated 1974 further signed and inscribed on the stretcher oil on canvas 90 x 69cm. | Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood | £550
21. 2014-11-18 | Alan Cotton \(b. 1960\) Provence \- Among the wheat fields of Bonnieux, Autumn | Christie's | £625
22. 2014-11-18 | Alan Cotton \(b. 1960\) Venice \- Reflections of Sunlight Walls Autumn oil on | Christie's | £3,500
23. 2014-10-28 | \* Alan Cotton \[b.1936\]\- Morning Light on The Grand | Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood | £1,450
24. 2013-10-23 | \* Alan Cotton \[b.1938\]\- Florence from Piazzale | Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood | £1,750

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