# Bill Owens - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-15T17:56:47.891Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 72
- Lots with prices: 29
- First auction date: 2004-02-17
- Latest auction date: 2026-01-08
- Median realised price: $1,100
- Price range: $280 to $90,000

## Market Takeaway
Bill Owens shows solid auction liquidity with 64 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $1,100. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 2 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-10-16.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($1,100\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $650 and $1,984.
- 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: 42.9% (12 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 50% (14 sales)
- $10,000\+: 7.1% (2 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 2
- Previous 12 months sales: 5
- Recent 12 months median: $1,200
- Previous 12 months median: $1,500
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-10-16
- Days since latest sale: 125
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Christie's: 8 lots
- Gibson's: 8 lots
- Heritage Auctions: 7 lots
- PBA Galleries Auctions & Appraisers: 7 lots
- Rago Arts and Auction Center: 7 lots
- Dreweatts 1759: 6 lots
- Cornette de Saint\-Cyr: 5 lots
- Leclere \- Maison de ventes: 4 lots
- Phillips: 3 lots
- Piasa: 3 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-11-20 | Two variants signed by Bill Owens | PBA Galleries Auctions & Appraisers | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-two-variants-signed-by-bill-owens-117-c-bd57a49879
2. 2025-11-19 | Bill Owens \(1938\) Untitled \[Refrigerator\], from the series Suburbia, c. 1972. | Piasa | €650 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-bill-owens-1938-untitled-refrigerator-from-the-series-suburbia-c-1972-100-c-8a05a70450
3. 2025-10-16 | Bill Owens \(1938\) \- from the series "Suburbia", Last year I got…, 1972 | Finarte | N/A
4. 2025-02-19 | Bill Owens \(born 1938\) Untitled \[Suburbia series\], c. 1973 | Piasa | €1,200
5. 2025-02-11 | BILL OWENS \(BORN 1938\), Three Images From ‘Suburbia’ Series | Gibson's | A$1,500
6. 2025-02-11 | BILL OWENS \(BORN 1938\), Three Images From ‘Suburbia’ Series | Gibson's | A$1,600
7. 2025-02-11 | BILL OWENS \(BORN 1938\), Two Images From ‘Our Kind Of People’ Series, 1973\-75 | Gibson's | A$280
8. 2025-02-11 | BILL OWENS \(BORN 1938\), Three Images From ‘Suburbia’ Series | Gibson's | A$3,800
9. 2024-12-12 | Bill Owens, We're Really Happy | Los Angeles Modern Auctions | $650
10. 2023-11-19 | Bill Owens "I Enjoy Giving a Tupperware Party" | Auctions at Showplace | $400 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-bill-owens-i-enjoy-giving-a-tupperware-party-72-c-a6147d6ba9
11. 2023-09-12 | BILL OWENS \(BORN 1938\), Three Images From ‘Suburbia’ Series | Gibson's | N/A
12. 2023-09-12 | BILL OWENS \(BORN 1938\), Three Images From ‘Suburbia’ Series | Gibson's | N/A
13. 2023-09-12 | BILL OWENS \(BORN 1938\), Three Images From ‘Suburbia’ Series | Gibson's | N/A
14. 2023-09-12 | BILL OWENS \(BORN 1938\), Two Images From ‘Our Kind Of People’ Series, 1973\-75 | Gibson's | N/A
15. 2020-08-30 | Bill Owens \(1942\-2013\) Graphite on Paper \- 1996 | California Auctioneers | $1,100
16. 2020-08-30 | Bill Owens \(1942\-2013\) Graphite on Paper Drawing | California Auctioneers | $900
17. 2018-10-23 | BILL OWENS \(NE EN 1938\) SANS TITRE, 2009 Tirage argentique sur papier baryt | Cornette de Saint\-Cyr | €700
18. 2018-10-23 | BILL OWENS \(NE EN 1938\) SANS TITRE, 2008 Tirage argentique sur papier baryt | Cornette de Saint\-Cyr | €700
19. 2018-03-03 | BILL OWENS, Senza titolo | Art\-Rite | N/A
20. 2017-07-19 | BILL OWENS \(B. 1938\) \| Selected Images from 'Suburbia' | Sotheby's | N/A
21. 2017-05-18 | Bill Owens \(b.1938\) \- Bill Owens set box: Suburbia, 1973; Our Kind of People, 1975; Working, 1977 | Dreweatts 1759 | £1,240
22. 2016-04-06 | BILL OWENS \(NE EN 1938\) FROM SUBURBIA \(TUPPERWARE\), 1998 | Cornette de Saint\-Cyr | €300
23. 2016-03-03 | Bill Owens \(b.1938\) \- Bill Owens set box: Suburbia, 1973; Our Kind of People, 1975; Working, 1977 | Dreweatts 1759 | N/A
24. 2015-06-26 | BILL OWENS \(NE EN 1938\) | Cornette de Saint\-Cyr | €450

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