# Austin Osman Spare - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-28T21:59:23.757Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 155
- Lots with prices: 140
- First auction date: 2001-07-26
- Latest auction date: 2025-10-23
- Median realised price: $2,640
- Price range: $380 to $35,280

## Market Takeaway
Austin Osman Spare shows deep auction liquidity with 155 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $2,640. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 6 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-10-23.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($2,640\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $1,500 and $5,000.
- 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: 11.4% (16 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 80% (112 sales)
- $10,000\+: 8.6% (12 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 6
- Previous 12 months sales: 4
- Recent 12 months median: $3,800
- Previous 12 months median: $2,800
- Median shift: 35.7%
- Latest sale date: 2025-10-23
- Days since latest sale: 118
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Christie's: 63 lots
- Bonhams: 58 lots
- Sotheby's: 16 lots
- Roseberys: 8 lots
- Capsule Gallery Auction: 2 lots
- Chiswick Auctions: 2 lots
- Gorringes: 2 lots
- Cheffins: 1 lots
- Forum Auctions \- UK: 1 lots
- Lots Road Auctions: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-10-23 | AUSTIN OSMAN SPARE \(1886\-1956\). Robed figures and pelican in a desolate lan | Christie's | £1,524
2. 2025-10-23 | AUSTIN OSMAN SPARE \(1886\-1956\). Robed figures in a landscape: four drawings | Christie's | £1,905
3. 2025-07-16 | Austin Osman Spare \(British, 1886\-1956\) Nude Torso | Bonhams | £3,800
4. 2025-07-16 | Austin Osman Spare \(British, 1886\-1956\) Derivation of Ginger Rogers | Bonhams | £5,500
5. 2025-03-20 | AUSTIN OSMAN SPARE \(1886\-1956\). Figures in a desolate landscape: four drawi | Christie's | £9,450
6. 2025-03-20 | AUSTIN OSMAN SPARE \(1886\-1956\). Figures in a blue landscape: four drawings | Christie's | £7,560
7. 2025-02-13 | AUSTIN OSMAN SPARE \(1886\-1956\). Nudes in a Nightmare Landscape. pencil, pas | Christie's | £8,190
8. 2024-07-17 | Austin Osman Spare \(British, 1886\-1956\) Dreamy Landscape | Bonhams | £1,200
9. 2024-03-27 | Austin Osman Spare \(British, 1886\-1956\) Babs, A Reclining Male Nude | Bonhams | £5,000
10. 2024-03-27 | Austin Osman Spare \(British, 1886\-1956\) Supine Nude \(Executed circa 1919\-1921\) | Bonhams | £2,800
11. 2023-12-14 | Austin Osman Spare \(1886\-1956\) Prayer | Forum Auctions \- UK | £4,000
12. 2023-10-03 | Austin Osman Spare \(British, 1886\-1956\), Two grotesques, pencil on paper, 25 x 19cm | Gorringes | £1,500
13. 2023-07-12 | Austin Osman Spare \(British, 1886\-1956\) The Moonlight Sonata | Bonhams | £1,500
14. 2023-07-12 | Austin Osman Spare \(British, 1886\-1956\) Babs, A Reclining Male Nude | Bonhams | N/A
15. 2023-07-12 | Austin Osman Spare \(British, 1886\-1956\) Out of the Sea Came Entity | Bonhams | £3,200 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-austin-osman-spare-british-1886-1956-out-of-the-sea-came-entity-32-c-9934738af4
16. 2023-07-12 | Austin Osman Spare \(British, 1886\-1956\) The Torment of Futurity; Illustration for The Starlit Mire | Bonhams | £1,800 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-austin-osman-spare-british-1886-1956-the-torment-of-futurity-illustration-for-the-starlit-mire-31-c-f944a11803
17. 2023-07-12 | Austin Osman Spare \(British, 1886\-1956\) Three Satyrs \(Executed circa 1952\) | Bonhams | £1,500
18. 2023-07-12 | Austin Osman Spare \(British, 1886\-1956\) Gaminerie | Bonhams | £2,200
19. 2023-03-22 | Austin Osman Spare \(British, 1886\-1956\) Haunted Avenue | Bonhams | £5,500
20. 2023-03-22 | Austin Osman Spare \(British, 1886\-1956\) Houses by the Arno | Bonhams | £3,000
21. 2023-03-22 | Austin Osman Spare \(British, 1886\-1956\) Red Roofs, Firenze \(with a further unfinished watercolour of a cityscape, on the reverse, by the same hand\) | Bonhams | £3,500
22. 2023-03-22 | Austin Osman Spare \(British, 1886\-1956\) Metamorphosis, Portrait of Oswell Blakeston \(with a further unfinished portrait in pencil, on the reverse, by the same hand\) | Bonhams | £14,000
23. 2023-03-22 | Austin Osman Spare \(British, 1886\-1956\) South London Man | Bonhams | £5,500
24. 2023-03-22 | Austin Osman Spare \(British, 1886\-1956\) Man from the Meat Market with Bowtie and Top Hat | Bonhams | £7,500

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