# Bette Hays - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-28T20:34:45.262Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 25
- Lots with prices: 22
- First auction date: 2015-05-21
- Latest auction date: 2025-11-02
- Median realised price: $160
- Price range: $20 to $600

## Market Takeaway
Bette Hays has 25 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $160. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 3 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 \($160\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($120 to $300\) 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: 100% (22 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 0% (0 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 3
- Previous 12 months sales: 4
- Recent 12 months median: $250
- Previous 12 months median: $220
- Median shift: 13.6%
- Latest sale date: 2025-11-02
- Days since latest sale: 177
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Leonard Joel: 9 lots
- Albion Antique Auction Centre: 3 lots
- Amanda Addams Auctions: 3 lots
- Bargain Hunt Auctions: 2 lots
- Lawsons: 2 lots
- Leski Auctions Pty Ltd: 2 lots
- Phillip Caldwell Auctioneers: 2 lots
- Chiswick Auctions: 1 lots
- Theodore Bruce Auctioneers & Valuers: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-11-02 | Bette Hays \(Australian 1922\-2004\) "Kite Flying" an… | Amanda Addams Auctions | A$350
2. 2025-11-02 | Bette Hays \(Australian 1922\-2004\) "Card Players" o… | Amanda Addams Auctions | A$250
3. 2025-05-25 | BETTE HAYES \(1922 \- 2004\), Facing Father, oil on board, signed lower right, titled verso, 75 x 81cm; framed 95 x 80cm. | Leski Auctions Pty Ltd | A$240
4. 2024-11-29 | BETTE HAYES \(1922\-2004\) \(Outback Scene with Dog\) oil on board 90 x 151cm; 107 x 168cm \(frame size\) | Leonard Joel | A$420
5. 2024-11-29 | BETTE HAYES \(1922\-2004\) \(Cowboys\) oil on board 60 x 44.5cm, 68 x 52.5cm \(frame size\) | Leonard Joel | A$140
6. 2024-11-29 | BETTE HAYES \(1922\-2004\) \(Outback Scene\) oil on board 75 x 59.5cm, 83 x 68cm \(frame size\) | Leonard Joel | A$220
7. 2024-06-02 | BETTE HAYES \(1922\-2004\) "COACH AND ESCORT" | Phillip Caldwell Auctioneers | A$550
8. 2024-03-17 | BETTE HAYES \(1922 \- 2004\) "COACH AND ESCORT" | Phillip Caldwell Auctioneers | A$600
9. 2023-12-03 | Bette Hays \(Australian 1922\-2004\) "Interior bar sc… | Amanda Addams Auctions | A$160
10. 2022-08-04 | BETTE HAYES OIL ON BOARD 'GARDEN PARTY' SOME MOULD DAMAGE | Albion Antique Auction Centre | A$55
11. 2022-08-04 | BETTE HAYES OIL ON BOARD 'PICNIC' 60 X 45CM | Albion Antique Auction Centre | A$200
12. 2022-08-04 | BETTE HAYES OIL ON BOARD PAINTING 'TWO LADIES' | Albion Antique Auction Centre | A$120
13. 2021-11-28 | BETTE HAYS \(1922 \- 2004\) Stockmen, acrylic on board, signed lower right, | Leski Auctions Pty Ltd | A$120
14. 2019-05-09 | BETTE HAYS, WOMEN AND FLOWER ARRNAGEMENT, OIL ON BOARD, 78 X 54CM | Leonard Joel | N/A
15. 2019-04-18 | BETTE HAYS, WOMEN AND FLOWER ARRNAGEMENT, OIL ON BOARD, 78 X 54CM | Leonard Joel | N/A
16. 2019-03-21 | Bette Hays \(1922 \- \) \- Summer Afternoon 19 x 24cm | Lawsons | A$130
17. 2018-06-05 | Bette Hays \(Australian b.1922\), a card game, untitled, oil on board, signed lower right, 29 x 40cm | Chiswick Auctions | £120
18. 2017-12-14 | BETTE HAYS, TAKING A REST, OIL ON BOARD, 44 X 60 CM | Leonard Joel | A$300
19. 2017-12-14 | BETTE HAYS, BROLGA DANCE, OIL ON BOARD, 44 X 60 CM | Leonard Joel | A$300
20. 2017-06-08 | Bette Hays \(1922 \- \) \- Brolgas 49 x 39cm | Lawsons | A$180
21. 2016-12-11 | Bette Hays, Summer Holiday, acrylic on board, signed lower right | Theodore Bruce Auctioneers & Valuers | A$50
22. 2016-07-23 | Bette Hays, 'Brolga Trio', acrylic on board, signed, undated, paper covering back of artwork is ripped, 39cm x 29cm | Bargain Hunt Auctions | A$30
23. 2016-07-09 | Bette Hays, 'Cranes', oil on board, signed, 39 x 29cm | Bargain Hunt Auctions | N/A
24. 2016-04-07 | BETTE HAYS, CHILDREN PLAYING, OIL ON BOARD, 24 X 19CM | Leonard Joel | A$20

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