# Barry Humphries - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-28T19:04:56.328Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 95
- Lots with prices: 88
- First auction date: 2016-09-06
- Latest auction date: 2025-10-19
- Median realised price: $4,400
- Price range: $10 to $39,000

## Market Takeaway
Barry Humphries has 95 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $4,400. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 75 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 \($4,400\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($1,400 to $7,000\) 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: 17% (15 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 65.9% (58 sales)
- $10,000\+: 17% (15 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 75
- Previous 12 months sales: 4
- Recent 12 months median: $5,000
- Previous 12 months median: $13,860
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-10-19
- Days since latest sale: 191
- Market velocity: high

## Top Auction Houses
- Leonard Joel: 57 lots
- Gibson's: 14 lots
- Leski Auctions Pty Ltd: 11 lots
- Sydney Rare Book Auctions: 7 lots
- Christie's: 4 lots
- Chaucer Auctions: 1 lots
- The Book Merchant Jenkins: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-10-19 | BARRY HUMPHRIES \(1934\-2023\), Murray River 1993 | Gibson's | A$12,000 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-barry-humphries-1934-2023-murray-river-1993-42-c-adc11bb59b
2. 2025-10-19 | BARRY HUMPHRIES \(1934\-2023\), Self Portrait 1973 | Gibson's | A$6,000
3. 2025-10-19 | BARRY HUMPHRIES \(1934\-2023\), Skillogalee, Watervale, Clare Valley, South Australia 2005\-2006 | Gibson's | A$12,000
4. 2025-10-19 | BARRY HUMPHRIES \(1934\-2023\), Portrait of Rosalind 1966 | Gibson's | A$10,000
5. 2025-10-19 | BARRY HUMPHRIES \(1934\-2023\), 69 \(Self\-Portrait\) 1970 | Gibson's | A$6,000
6. 2025-10-19 | BARRY HUMPHRIES \(1934\-2023\), Portrait of David 1966 | Gibson's | A$1,700
7. 2025-10-19 | BARRY HUMPHRIES \(1934\-2023\), Pink Gin 1966 | Gibson's | A$3,800
8. 2025-10-19 | BARRY HUMPHRIES \(1934\-2023\), David Enjoying a Red 1977 | Gibson's | A$4,600
9. 2025-10-19 | BARRY HUMPHRIES \(1934\-2023\), Self Portrait 1979 | Gibson's | A$13,000
10. 2025-10-19 | BARRY HUMPHRIES \(1934\-2023\), Tucker Box 1972 | Gibson's | A$2,600
11. 2025-10-19 | BARRY HUMPHRIES \(1934\-2023\), The Painting Class, John Dutton and Dr Bonnen 1978 | Gibson's | N/A
12. 2025-10-19 | BARRY HUMPHRIES \(1934\-2023\), Bob Hogg \(Sunday Night Student\) 1979 | Gibson's | A$8,000
13. 2025-10-19 | BARRY HUMPHRIES \(1934\-2023\), Landed Gentry, Mr John Dutton \(Sunday night student\), 1979 | Gibson's | A$7,500
14. 2025-07-10 | BARRY HUMPHRIES \(1934\-2023\) Landscape Sketch pencil on paper 35.5 x 27cm \(unframed\) | Leonard Joel | A$400
15. 2025-07-10 | BARRY HUMPHRIES \(1934\-2023\) Sketch of a Woman \(Maro?\) pencil on paper 23 x 27cm \(unframed\) | Leonard Joel | A$650
16. 2025-07-10 | BARRY HUMPHRIES \(1934\-2023\) The Corporate Smile 2019 mixed media on canvas, triptych Each 95 x 67cm \(Each 98 x 70 x 7.5cm framed\) | Leonard Joel | A$3,400
17. 2025-06-03 | BARRY HUMPHRIES \(1934\-2023\) Steven Isserlis Playing the Cello pencil on paper 35 x 27cm \(51 x 44cm framed\) | Leonard Joel | A$1,400
18. 2025-06-03 | BARRY HUMPHRIES \(1934\-2023\) Someone Other Than Charlie Hindlip Painting pencil on paper 35 x 27cm \(unframed\) | Leonard Joel | A$1,100
19. 2025-06-03 | BARRY HUMPHRIES \(1934\-2023\) Provençale Landscape, St Jerome, Provence 2011 watercolour and ink on paper 29.5 x 41cm \(61.5 x 49.5cm f... | Leonard Joel | A$7,500
20. 2025-06-03 | BARRY HUMPHRIES \(1934\-2023\) LIAM, TIFFANY, COME HEEAH! 2010 watercolour and ink on paper 17 x 10.5cm, mount 31 x 24.5cm \(unframed\) | Leonard Joel | A$5,000
21. 2025-06-03 | BARRY HUMPHRIES \(1934\-2023\) There's Nothing You Can Do About It Now watercolour and ink on paper 11 x 18cm \(unframed\) | Leonard Joel | A$8,000
22. 2025-06-03 | BARRY HUMPHRIES \(1934\-2023\) Charlie Hindlip Drawing pencil on paper 27 x 35cm \(unframed\) | Leonard Joel | A$1,800
23. 2025-06-03 | BARRY HUMPHRIES \(1934\-2023\) Himself, 7AM ink on tinted envelope 25 x 17.5cm \(51 x 44cm framed\) | Leonard Joel | A$8,500
24. 2025-06-03 | BARRY HUMPHRIES \(1934\-2023\) 'Lovers', Flower Drum Restaurant 2012 ink and crayon on folded paper 21 x 30cm \(unframed\) | Leonard Joel | A$7,000

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