# Bessie Harvey - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-28T19:04:33.122Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 30
- Lots with prices: 28
- First auction date: 2008-09-06
- Latest auction date: 2025-02-25
- Median realised price: $425
- Price range: $50 to $4,200

## Market Takeaway
Bessie Harvey has 30 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $425. Category concentration is still broad. Recent 12-month volume is still light. 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 \($425\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($300 to $750\) 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: 78.6% (22 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 21.4% (6 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 0
- Previous 12 months sales: 2
- Recent 12 months median: $0
- Previous 12 months median: $2,772
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-02-25
- Days since latest sale: 427
- Market velocity: inactive

## Top Auction Houses
- Material Culture: 16 lots
- Brunk Auctions: 3 lots
- Case Antiques, Inc. Auctions & Appraisals: 3 lots
- Clements: 2 lots
- Christie's: 1 lots
- Everard Auctions and Appraisals: 1 lots
- Ledbetter Auctions: 1 lots
- MBA Seattle Auction LLC: 1 lots
- Neal Auction Company: 1 lots
- Quinn's Auction Galleries Central Virginia: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-02-25 | Bessie Harvey \(TN, 1929\-1994\), Shimms, Painted Wood | Everard Auctions and Appraisals | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-bessie-harvey-tn-1929-1994-shimms-painted-wood-120-c-2b44d329bf
2. 2025-01-22 | BESSIE HARVEY \(1929\-1994\). UNTITLED. oil on wood48 ½ x 38 ¼ in.. | Christie's | $2,772
3. 2023-01-28 | BESSIE HARVEY, LONELY TEARDROP 1993, ABSTRACT MIXED MEDIA | Case Antiques, Inc. Auctions & Appraisals | $450
4. 2022-05-19 | Seven Days of the Week by Bessie Harvey | Clements | $4,200 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-seven-days-of-the-week-by-bessie-harvey-25-c-a114851864
5. 2022-05-19 | The Day the Earth Stood Still by Bessie Harvey | Clements | $3,000 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-the-day-the-earth-stood-still-by-bessie-harvey-10-c-26349809e7
6. 2022-03-19 | BESSIE HARVEY \(1929 \- 1994\) | Ledbetter Auctions | $3,250
7. 2022-03-09 | Bessie Harvey \(American/Georgia, 1928\-1994\) | Neal Auction Company | $2,500
8. 2020-05-07 | Bessie Harvey \(1929\-1994 American\) ''Warrior'' Sculpture Mixed Media 51''x11''. An assemblage of painted wood, beads, shells, and found jewelry. Unsigned. Missing some shells and applied pieces. Collection of Mark Bloome, Seattle. | MBA Seattle Auction LLC | $750
9. 2020-01-25 | TN Folk Art Sculpture by Bessie Harvey | Case Antiques, Inc. Auctions & Appraisals | $325
10. 2019-06-10 | Bessie Harvey \(1929\-1994\) "Walk With Me Lord", 1985 | Material Culture | $375
11. 2019-06-10 | Bessie Harvey \(American/Georgia, 1929\-1994\) Mixed Media Painting | Material Culture | $275
12. 2019-06-10 | Bessie Harvey \(American/Georgia, 1929\-1994\) "Rainbow of Faces" | Material Culture | $600
13. 2019-06-10 | Bessie Harvey \(1929\-1994\) "Queen With No Mercy", 1985 | Material Culture | $50
14. 2019-06-10 | Bessie Harvey \(1929\-1994\) Mixed media on paper, 1987 | Material Culture | $60
15. 2019-06-10 | Bessie Harvey \(1929\-1994\) Ink drawing on paper, 1986 | Material Culture | $250
16. 2019-06-10 | Bessie Harvey \(American/Georgia, 1929\-1994\) Nude | Material Culture | $100
17. 2019-06-10 | Bessie Harvey \(American/Georgia, 1929\-1994\) Mixed media painting on paper, 1986 | Material Culture | $425
18. 2019-06-10 | Bessie Harvey \(1929\-1994\) 2 Mixed Media Root Sculptures | Material Culture | $325
19. 2019-06-10 | Bessie Harvey \(1929\-1994\) Mixed media Root Sculpture | Material Culture | $550
20. 2019-06-10 | Bessie Harvey \(1929\-1994\) Mixed Media Root Sculpture | Material Culture | $1,000
21. 2019-06-10 | Bessie Harvey \(1929\-1994\) Mixed Media Root Sculpture, 1988 | Material Culture | $750
22. 2019-06-10 | Bessie Harvey \(1929\-1994\) Mixed Media Root Sculpture, 1986 | Material Culture | $400
23. 2019-06-10 | Bessie Harvey \(1929\-1994\) Mixed Media Root Sculpture | Material Culture | $425
24. 2019-06-10 | Bessie Harvey \(1929\-1994\) Pharoah, 1987 | Material Culture | $550

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