# Alton Pickens - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-28T16:19:01.583Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 22
- Lots with prices: 15
- First auction date: 2002-03-22
- Latest auction date: 2025-10-28
- Median realised price: $1,500
- Price range: $120 to $16,250

## Market Takeaway
Alton Pickens has 22 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $1,500. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 3 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 \($1,500\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($750 to $4,000\) 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: 33.3% (5 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 60% (9 sales)
- $10,000\+: 6.7% (1 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 3
- Previous 12 months sales: 3
- Recent 12 months median: $750
- Previous 12 months median: $300
- Median shift: 100%
- Latest sale date: 2025-10-28
- Days since latest sale: 182
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Rago Arts and Auction Center: 4 lots
- Toomey & Co. Auctioneers: 3 lots
- Bonhams: 2 lots
- Millea Bros Ltd: 2 lots
- Barridoff Auctions: 1 lots
- Christie's: 1 lots
- Cottone Auctions: 1 lots
- Curated Gallery Auctions: 1 lots
- Grant Zahajko Auctions, LLC: 1 lots
- Hindman: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-10-28 | Alton Pickens, Berthold Brecht | Toomey & Co. Auctioneers | $750
2. 2025-10-28 | Alton Pickens, Children of the Streets | Toomey & Co. Auctioneers | N/A
3. 2025-07-30 | Alton Pickens, Mother of God | Rago Arts and Auction Center | N/A
4. 2025-01-30 | Alton Pickens \(American, 1917\-1991\) "Fall of Icarus" | Cottone Auctions | N/A
5. 2024-12-08 | Alton Pickens \(1917 \- 1991\) Large Surreal Modernist Dogs and Figures Framed Oil Painting | Curated Gallery Auctions | $300
6. 2024-09-19 | ALTON PICKENS \(1917\-1991\) The Tour de Force. | Swann Auction Galleries | $2,500
7. 2023-12-14 | Lucien Alton Pickens \(American, 1917\-1991\) Picnic, c. 1980 | Hindman | $5,500
8. 2022-10-16 | Alton Pickens \(1917 \- 1991\) Oil on Canvas | Locati LLC | $3,700
9. 2022-09-29 | Alton Pickens, Head | Rago Arts and Auction Center | N/A
10. 2022-09-29 | Alton Pickens, Looking | Rago Arts and Auction Center | N/A
11. 2022-09-29 | Alton Pickens, Untitled | Rago Arts and Auction Center | N/A
12. 2020-12-10 | Alton Pickens, large sculpture, c. 1950s | Millea Bros Ltd | $900
13. 2020-07-29 | Alton Pickens \(1917\-1991\) Children Playing 3 1/2 x 5 1/2in \(8.9 x 14cm\) \(Painted in 1944.\) | Bonhams | $3,500
14. 2019-11-21 | Alton Pickens, oil on burlap, 1946 | Millea Bros Ltd | $4,000
15. 2018-12-13 | Alton Pickens Signed Etching | Grant Zahajko Auctions, LLC | $120
16. 2018-11-16 | ALTON PICKENS \(AMERICAN, 1917\-1991\) \- "THREE FIGU | Uniques & Antiques | $1,500
17. 2018-05-17 | Alton Pickens, Am. 1917\-1991, "Hermes and Ero, 1944", Oil on canvas, 29 x 20" | Barridoff Auctions | $8,540
18. 2015-10-24 | Alton Pickens oil | Rachel Davis Fine Arts | $1,000
19. 2011-10-04 | Alton Pickens \(AMERICAN, 1917\-1991\) | Christie's | $16,250
20. 2010-07-18 | Alton Pickens \(American, 1917\-1991\); Untitled \(Three figures\); | Bonhams | $122
21. 2009-12-06 | Alton Pickens \(American, 1917\-1991\) "Berthold | Toomey & Co. Auctioneers | N/A
22. 2002-03-22 | Lucien Alton Pickens \(American, b. 1917\) Speaking Signed and dated "Pickens '50" l.l., titled on the reverse. Oil and tempera on board, 46 1/2 x 32 in. \(118 x 81 cm\), framed. Condition: Good. | Skinner | $1,293

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