# Arthur Prince Spear - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-28T20:22:12.149Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 15
- Lots with prices: 12
- First auction date: 2002-03-06
- Latest auction date: 2025-06-05
- Median realised price: $1,080
- Price range: $175 to $6,000

## Market Takeaway
Arthur Prince Spear has 15 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $1,080. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 2 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 \($1,080\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($300 to $2,990\) 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: 41.7% (5 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 58.3% (7 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 2
- Previous 12 months sales: 0
- Recent 12 months median: $300
- Previous 12 months median: $0
- Median shift: N/A
- Latest sale date: 2025-06-05
- Days since latest sale: 327
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Thomaston Place Auction Galleries: 5 lots
- Eldred's: 2 lots
- Heritage Auctions: 2 lots
- James D. Julia: 2 lots
- Christie's: 1 lots
- Leighton Galleries: 1 lots
- Sloans & Kenyon: 1 lots
- Waddington's: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-06-05 | ARTHUR PRINCE SPEAR \(Mass/California, 1879\-1959\) | Leighton Galleries | N/A
2. 2025-04-29 | ARTHUR PRINCE SPEAR \(Massachusetts/California, 1879\-1959\), Portrait of a woman., Pastels on paper, 15" x 22". Framed 16" x 23'. | Eldred's | $300
3. 2021-08-29 | ARTHUR PRINCE SPEAR \(ME/MA/CA, 1879\-1959\) | Thomaston Place Auction Galleries | $1,400
4. 2021-03-11 | Arthur Prince Spear \(American, 1879\-1959\) River Nymph, 1921 Pastel on paper 19\-1 | Heritage Auctions | $2,600
5. 2019-08-08 | Arthur Prince Spear \(American, 1879\-1959\) River Nymph, 1921 Pastel on paper 19\-1 | Heritage Auctions | $4,600
6. 2018-03-11 | ARTHUR PRINCE SPEAR \(American, 1979\-1959\). PORTRAIT OF BOY WITH GUITAR, signd. Pastel on paper. | Sloans & Kenyon | N/A
7. 2015-08-29 | ARTHUR PRINCE SPEAR \(MA/CA/DC, 1879\-1959\) \- "Spring", oil on canvas, signed lower left "Arthur Spear", depicting a beautiful young woman reaching towards a butterfly, in the original gilt carved Arts & Crafts frame, O... | Thomaston Place Auction Galleries | $6,000
8. 2015-08-29 | ARTHUR PRINCE SPEAR \(MA/DC/CA, 1879\-1959\) \- Two Girls with Swan, signed lower left, in original gilt carved frame, 29 1/4" x 44 1/4", SS: 24 1/4" x 39 1/4". Fine craquelure. | Thomaston Place Auction Galleries | $6,000
9. 2011-06-14 | Arthur Prince Spear \(1879\-1959\), ISADORA DUNCAN ON THE BEACH, Colour pastel on brown paper; signed lower left, 23" x 19" \- 58.4 x 48.3 cm. | Waddington's | CA$1,080
10. 2007-08-28 | ARTHUR PRINCE SPEAR \(American 1879\-1959\) STUDY | James D. Julia | $2,990
11. 2004-01-09 | ARTHUR PRINCE SPEAR \(American, 1879\-1959\) "VIEW OF ANNISQUAM POINT MARCH 22d 1895" | James D. Julia | $540
12. 2003-07-31 | FRAMED PAINTING | Eldred's | N/A
13. 2003-07-26 | OOC | Thomaston Place Auction Galleries | $275
14. 2003-07-26 | OOC | Thomaston Place Auction Galleries | $175
15. 2002-03-06 | Arthur Prince Spear \(1879\-1959\) | Christie's | $411

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