# Betty Swanwick - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-28T23:39:18.776Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 36
- Lots with prices: 24
- First auction date: 2004-05-19
- Latest auction date: 2024-07-17
- Median realised price: $960
- Price range: $200 to $6,500

## Market Takeaway
Betty Swanwick has 36 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $960. 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 \($960\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($500 to $3,500\) 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: 50% (12 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 50% (12 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 0
- Previous 12 months sales: 1
- Recent 12 months median: $0
- Previous 12 months median: $850
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2024-07-17
- Days since latest sale: 650
- Market velocity: inactive

## Top Auction Houses
- Bonhams: 19 lots
- Christie's: 3 lots
- Dreweatts 1759: 3 lots
- Gorringes: 3 lots
- Sotheby's: 3 lots
- John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers: 2 lots
- Lyon & Turnbull: 2 lots
- Swann Auction Galleries: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2024-07-17 | Betty Swanwick \(British, 1915\-1989\) The Mercat Dream | Bonhams | £850
2. 2024-04-24 | BETTY SWANWICK \(1915\-1989\) | Lyon & Turnbull | £200
3. 2024-03-27 | Betty Swanwick \(British, 1915\-1989\) Preparatory Sketch for The Pool \(executed circa 1967together with a further pencil on paper drawing, Preparatory Sketch for 'Englische Bücher', by the same hand \(2\)\) | Bonhams | N/A
4. 2024-03-27 | Betty Swanwick \(British, 1915\-1989\) Romanoff Conservatory | Bonhams | £500
5. 2024-03-27 | Betty Swanwick \(British, 1915\-1989\) Study of the Artist's Cat Bewick \(Executed in the 1980stogether with a further pencil on paper, study of the Artist's dog Louis Swanwick, by the same hand\(2\)\) | Bonhams | £950
6. 2024-03-27 | Betty Swanwick \(British, 1915\-1989\) Design for a Cat Scarf | Bonhams | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-betty-swanwick-british-1915-1989-design-for-a-cat-scarf-126-c-a4346cf904
7. 2024-03-27 | Betty Swanwick \(British, 1915\-1989\) Preparatory Sketch for The Wilderness Regained \(Executed circa 1974\) | Bonhams | £420
8. 2024-03-27 | Betty Swanwick \(British, 1915\-1989\) The Black Shepherd | Bonhams | £5,000
9. 2024-03-27 | Betty Swanwick \(British, 1915\-1989\) Feeding the Flocks \(Executed circa 1983\) | Bonhams | £6,500 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-betty-swanwick-british-1915-1989-feeding-the-flocks-executed-circa-1983-123-c-2734ca295f
10. 2024-03-27 | Betty Swanwick \(British, 1915\-1989\) Preparatory Sketch for The Key of the Kingdom \(together with two further preparatory sketches for The Fields of Ennor and So They Ran Both Together\(3\)\) | Bonhams | N/A
11. 2024-03-27 | Betty Swanwick \(British, 1915\-1989\) Preparatory Sketch for The Parliament of the Yard \(together with a further preparatory sketch, The Parliament of the Yard Study for the Main Figure, by the same hand\(2\)\) | Bonhams | £3,500
12. 2024-03-27 | Betty Swanwick \(British, 1915\-1989\) Pandora | Bonhams | £5,500
13. 2023-09-20 | Betty Swanwick \(British, 1915\-1989\) The \(Grain of\) Mustard Seed 68.3 x 55.3 cm. \(26 7/8 x 21 3/4 in.\) \(sheet\); 62.7 x 44.7 cm. \(24 5/8 x 17 5/8 in.\) \(image\) \(Painted in 1981\) | Bonhams | £4,500
14. 2023-09-20 | Betty Swanwick \(British, 1915\-1989\) The Right Chair for the Occasion 60.5 x 50.2 cm, \(23 3/4 x 19 3/4 in.\) \(image\); 65 x 54.5 cm. \(25 1/2 x 21 3/8 in.\) \(sheet\) | Bonhams | £4,000
15. 2022-04-13 | Betty Swanwick \(British, 1915\-1989\) Sketch for The Folly | Bonhams | £2,500
16. 2017-04-25 | BETTY SWANWICK \(1915\-1989\) TO THE FARMS, 1936 a lithographic poster in colo | Bonhams | £875
17. 2017-04-25 | BETTY SWANWICK \(1915\-1989\) TO THE FIELDS, 1936 a lithographic poster in col | Bonhams | £575
18. 2016-10-25 | Betty Swanwick \(1915 \- 1989\) \- Christmas card design for the Celia Hammond Animal Trust | Dreweatts 1759 | N/A
19. 2015-09-03 | Betty Swanwick \(1915\-1989\) Portrait of a lady, 20 x 16in., unframed | Gorringes | £280
20. 2015-07-16 | Betty Swanwick \(1915\-1989\) \- Untitled | Dreweatts 1759 | N/A
21. 2014-11-26 | Betty Swanwick \(1915\-1989\) \- Untitled | Dreweatts 1759 | N/A
22. 2014-07-09 | Betty Swanwick \(1915\-1989\) British | John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers | N/A
23. 2014-07-09 | Betty Swanwick \(1915\-1989\) British | John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers | N/A
24. 2013-07-04 | Betty Swanwick \(1915\-1989\) Study for The Monaghan Shroud, c.1950, 13.5 x 19.5in. | Gorringes | N/A

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