# Bernard Dunstan - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-28T19:03:07.609Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 166
- Lots with prices: 123
- First auction date: 2001-01-23
- Latest auction date: 2025-11-25
- Median realised price: $1,320
- Price range: $20 to $32,000

## Market Takeaway
Bernard Dunstan shows deep auction liquidity with 166 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $1,320. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 4 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-11-25.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($1,320\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $550 and $2,250.
- 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: 38.2% (47 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 61% (75 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0.8% (1 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 4
- Previous 12 months sales: 8
- Recent 12 months median: $400
- Previous 12 months median: $480
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-11-25
- Days since latest sale: 85
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Bonhams: 37 lots
- Sotheby's: 30 lots
- Gorringes: 11 lots
- Christie's: 10 lots
- John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers: 9 lots
- Mallams: 7 lots
- Dreweatts 1759: 6 lots
- Phillips: 5 lots
- Andrew Smith & Son: 4 lots
- Golding Young & Mawer: 4 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-10-19 | BERNARD DUNSTAN \(BRITISH, 1920\-2017\), Venice | Gibson's | A$1,000 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-bernard-dunstan-british-1920-2017-venice-57-c-adc36768ef
2. 2024-06-26 | Bernard Dunstan \(1920\-2017\) \- Girl before a mirror, pastel, signed with initials lower left, 14 x 17 | Andrew Smith & Son | N/A
3. 2025-11-25 | Bernard Dunstan,  British 1920\-2017, The Life Room;  lithograph in colou | Roseberys | £190
4. 2025-09-23 | Bernard Dunstan \(1920\-2017\) \- 'The Gabrielli Quartet rehearsing at Stourhead, Wiltshire', print | Andrew Smith & Son | N/A
5. 2025-02-25 | Bernard Dunstan \(British, 1920\-2017\) 'Children at Tea' Oil On Panel | Leonard Auction | $400
6. 2025-01-06 | Bernard Dunstan \(1920\-2017\) Brtitish, Oil on board, Figures within an interior. 52 cm x 42 cm. | Hannam's Auctioneers | £480
7. 2024-11-12 | Bernard Dunstan \(1920\-20017\), mother bathing her children in an interior, oil on board, signed with initials, | John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers | N/A
8. 2024-10-22 | Bernard Dunstan; British 1920\-2017; Nude in an Interior | Strauss & Co | ZAR 32,000
9. 2024-09-10 | Bernard Dunstan \(English, 1920\-2017\), ‘Sotheby’s’, oil on board, 20.5 x 29cm | Gorringes | £1,200
10. 2024-04-30 | BERNARD DUNSTAN \(1920 \- 2017\) | Sheppards | €550
11. 2024-04-30 | BERNARD DUNSTAN \(1920 \- 2017\) | Sheppards | €120
12. 2024-02-20 | Bernard Dunstan, a print of a female nude reclining on a bed, signed in pencil and numbered 8 of 195, image si | John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers | £45
13. 2023-03-12 | BERNARD DUNSTAN \- NUDE, NEW YEAR'S MORNING \- Oil on card | GFL Fine Art | A$1,400
14. 2023-01-28 | Bernard Dunstan \(1920 \- 2017\), oil on canvas, nude woman, initialed and dated lower right "BD 1948", 33" x 26". Provenance: Collecti... | Nadeau's Auction Gallery | $550
15. 2022-08-30 | BERNARD DUNSTAN \(BRITISH, 1920\-2017\). | Clarke Auction Gallery | $1,500
16. 2022-06-05 | BERNARD DUNSTAN \(BRITISH, 1920\-2017\). | Clarke Auction Gallery | N/A
17. 2022-06-05 | Bernard Dunstan \(British 1920 \- 2017\) Oil, "Women in Fields", Signed with Initials Titled Verso, 20 x 26 | 5th Avenue Auctioneers | N/A
18. 2021-12-22 | Bernard Dunstan \(1920\-2017\) British, A figure in a kitchen, lithograph, signed and numbered 16/240 in pencil, | John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers | N/A
19. 2021-09-18 | Bernard Dunstan \(British, 1920\-2017\), Getting Up \(Nude Stretching, Morning\) | Leland Little Auctions | $1,200
20. 2021-09-18 | Bernard Dunstan \(British, 1920\-2017\), Dark Morning, La Patoula | Leland Little Auctions | $3,600
21. 2021-03-05 | BERNARD DUNSTAN \(1920\-2017\), THE GABRIELI QUARTET AT STOURHEAD, 1987, signe | Elstob Auctioneers | £120
22. 2020-11-11 | Bernard Dunstan \(1920\-2017\) | Sworders | N/A
23. 2020-06-25 | Bernard Dunstan \(1920\-2017\) | Andrew Smith & Son | £80
24. 2020-06-12 | Bernard Dunstan \(1920\-2017\) British. 'Morning, Volterra', Oil on Board, Initialed on Front, Titled and Dated v | John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers | £1,300

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