# Beauford Delaney - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-28T19:05:54.260Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 215
- Lots with prices: 163
- First auction date: 2004-10-21
- Latest auction date: 2025-12-13
- Median realised price: $15,000
- Price range: $150 to $1,524,000

## Market Takeaway
Beauford Delaney shows deep auction liquidity with 215 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $15,000. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 14 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-12-13.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($15,000\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $7,500 and $52,800.
- 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: 1.8% (3 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 35% (57 sales)
- $10,000\+: 63.2% (103 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 14
- Previous 12 months sales: 18
- Recent 12 months median: $7,500
- Previous 12 months median: $19,000
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-12-13
- Days since latest sale: 67
- Market velocity: moderate

## Top Auction Houses
- Swann Auction Galleries: 89 lots
- Christie's: 34 lots
- Black Art Auction: 18 lots
- Sotheby's: 8 lots
- Piasa: 7 lots
- Tajan: 6 lots
- Art\-Torg: 5 lots
- Artcurial: 4 lots
- Thomaston Place Auction Galleries: 4 lots
- Phillips: 3 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-02-23 | Beauford Delaney \(1901 \- 1979\) Antique American Modernist Abstract Seascape Original Oil Painting | Curated Gallery Auctions | $4,500
2. 2021-04-22 | BEAUFORD DELANEY \(1901 \- 1979\) Untitled \(Tent Interior\). | Swann Auction Galleries | $137,000
3. 2025-12-13 | Beauford Delaney, 1901\-1979, untitled | Black Art Auction | $5,500
4. 2025-12-13 | Beauford Delaney, 1901\-1979, untitled | Black Art Auction | $10,000
5. 2025-12-13 | Beauford Delaney, 1901\-1979, untitled | Black Art Auction | $40,000
6. 2025-12-07 | Beauford DELANEY \(1901\-1979\) Sans titre, 1961 | Osenat | €9,800
7. 2025-11-22 | Beauford Delaney \(1901\-1979\) Oil/Paper | Joshua Kodner | $265
8. 2025-11-17 | BEAUFORD DELANEY \(1901\-1979\). The Sage Black. oil on canvas35 ½ x 33 in. \(9 | Christie's | $1,524,000
9. 2025-09-12 | Beauford Delaney \(American, 1901\-1979\) Pastel on Paper, 1956, 'Portrait of a Woman', H 18.5" W 12.5" Frame Size: H 26" W 20" | DuMouchelles | $2,250
10. 2025-07-18 | BEAUFORD DELANEY \(1901\-1979\). Untitled \(Composition in Blue\). gouache on pa | Christie's | $21,420
11. 2025-07-17 | Beauford Delaney \(1901 \- 1979\), Oil on Board | Embassy Auctions International | $2,900
12. 2025-06-18 | BEAUFORD DELANEY \(1901\-1979\) | Tajan | N/A
13. 2025-04-03 | BEAUFORD DELANEY \(1901 \- 1979\) John Koenig. | Swann Auction Galleries | $40,000
14. 2025-03-15 | Beauford Delaney, 1901\-1979, untitled | Black Art Auction | $7,500
15. 2025-03-15 | Beauford Delaney, 1901\-1979, untitled | Black Art Auction | N/A
16. 2025-02-06 | BEAUFORD DELANEY \(1901 \- 1979\) Untitled \(Abstraction in Yellow, Blue and Red\). | Swann Auction Galleries | $20,000
17. 2025-02-06 | BEAUFORD DELANEY \(1901 \- 1979\) Untitled \(Clamart, Seine\). | Swann Auction Galleries | $57,500
18. 2025-01-09 | Beauford Delaney \(1901 \- 1979\), Oil on Board | Embassy Auctions International | $4,000
19. 2024-12-14 | Beauford Delaney, 1901\-1979, untitled | Black Art Auction | N/A
20. 2024-11-21 | BEAUFORD DELANEY \(1901\-1979\) Untitled \(Composition in Yellow, Orange and Red\) 52 5/8 x 37 7/8 in \(133.5 x 96 cm\) \(Painted circa 1958\) | Bonhams | $80,000
21. 2024-11-13 | Beauford Delaney, Untitled | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $16,000
22. 2024-10-03 | BEAUFORD DELANEY \(1901 \- 1979\) Untitled \(Greenwich Village Street, New York.\) | Swann Auction Galleries | $629,000
23. 2024-09-14 | Beauford Delaney, 1901\-1979, untitled | Black Art Auction | $18,000
24. 2024-09-14 | Beauford Delaney, 1901\-1979, Composition | Black Art Auction | $13,000

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