# Albert E. Backus - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-28T15:21:26.177Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 34
- Lots with prices: 31
- First auction date: 1993-12-11
- Latest auction date: 2025-09-28
- Median realised price: $19,000
- Price range: $400 to $66,000

## Market Takeaway
Albert E. Backus has 34 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $19,000. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 1 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 \($19,000\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($8,500 to $29,000\) 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: 9.7% (3 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 16.1% (5 sales)
- $10,000\+: 74.2% (23 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 1
- Previous 12 months sales: 0
- Recent 12 months median: $29,000
- Previous 12 months median: $0
- Median shift: N/A
- Latest sale date: 2025-09-28
- Days since latest sale: 212
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Heritage Auctions: 7 lots
- Joshua Kodner: 6 lots
- Helmuth Stone: 3 lots
- Manor Auctions: 3 lots
- CRN Auctions: 2 lots
- Neal Auction Company: 2 lots
- New Orleans Auction Galleries: 2 lots
- Akiba Galleries: 1 lots
- Bill Hood & Sons Arts & Antiques Auctions: 1 lots
- Bonhams: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-09-28 | Albert E. Backus \(Florida, 1906 \- 1990\) | Helmuth Stone | $29,000 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-albert-e-backus-florida-1906-1990-15-c-ec946c2857
2. 2024-02-24 | ALBERT E. BACKUS \- BACKUS SKIFF SOUTH BEACH SHORE | Manor Auctions | $18,000
3. 2024-02-24 | ALBERT E. BACKUS "TENOR MAN" TWICE PUBLISHED | Manor Auctions | $29,000
4. 2024-02-13 | Albert E. Backus \(American, 1906\-1991\) Landscape Oil On Canvas | Akiba Galleries | $14,000
5. 2023-11-07 | Albert E. Backus \(1906\-1990\) Evening on the Marsh 29 3/4 x 39 3/8 in. \(75.6 x 100 cm.\) | Bonhams | $32,000
6. 2023-05-19 | Albert E. Backus \(American, 1906–1991\) Dunns River Beach, Jamaica | Hindman | $12,000
7. 2022-06-06 | ALBERT E. BACKUS \(AMERICAN, 1906–1991\) NORTH BEACH, FORT PIERCE \(FLORIDA\) | Freeman's \| Hindman | $32,500
8. 2022-05-10 | Albert E. Backus \(American, 1906\-1991\) Sunset on the Marsh, Florida, 1985 Oil on | Heritage Auctions | $38,000
9. 2021-11-05 | Albert E. Backus \(American, 1906\-1991\) Incoming Storm, 1978 Oil on canvas 24 x 3 | Heritage Auctions | $26,000
10. 2021-11-05 | Albert E. Backus \(American, 1906\-1991\) Marsh Scene Oil on canvas 20\-1/8 x 24 inc | Heritage Auctions | $30,000
11. 2021-11-05 | Albert E. Backus \(American, 1906\-1991\) Florida Marsh Landscape Oil on canvas 24 | Heritage Auctions | $16,000
12. 2021-06-06 | Albert E. Backus \(American/Florida, 1906\-1990\), "Marshland with a Horse and Herons " | New Orleans Auction Galleries | $24,000
13. 2021-04-11 | Albert E. Backus \(American, 1906\-1990\), "Beckers Ranch \[sic\], West of Stuart Florida"" | New Orleans Auction Galleries | $66,000 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-albert-e-backus-american-1906-1990-beckers-ranch-sic-west-of-stuart-florida-83-c-8154429851
14. 2020-08-29 | ALBERT E. BACKUS "BLUE HOLE" OIL ON CANVAS | Manor Auctions | $14,500
15. 2020-07-01 | Albert E. Backus \(American, 1906\-1991\) Palms in a Breeze Oil on canvas 24 x 30 i | Heritage Auctions | $28,000
16. 2020-07-01 | Albert E. Backus \(American, 1906\-1991\) Ocean Cottages Oil on canvas 24 x 30 inch | Heritage Auctions | $50,000
17. 2020-02-29 | Albert E. Backus \(AMERICAN, 1906–1991\) | Joshua Kodner | $4,400
18. 2019-12-15 | Albert E. Backus \(Florida, 1906 \- 1990\) | Helmuth Stone | $19,000
19. 2019-09-28 | Albert E. Backus \(American, 1906\-1991\) | Cowan's Auctions | $2,500
20. 2019-08-03 | Albert E. Backus \(AMERICAN, 1906–1991\) "Blue Hole" | Joshua Kodner | $8,000
21. 2019-07-28 | Albert E. Backus \(Florida, 1906 \- 1990\) | Helmuth Stone | N/A
22. 2019-06-10 | Albert E. Backus \(AMERICAN, 1906–1991\) drawings | Joshua Kodner | $400
23. 2019-06-10 | Albert E. Backus \(AMERICAN, 1906–1991\) drawings. | Joshua Kodner | $400
24. 2019-06-10 | Albert E. Backus \(AMERICAN, 1906–1991\) "Blue Hole" | Joshua Kodner | N/A

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