# Billy Thomas - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-15T19:34:21.170Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 18
- Lots with prices: 6
- First auction date: 2009-07-20
- Latest auction date: 2024-03-19
- Median realised price: $2,000
- Price range: $100 to $5,500

## Market Takeaway
Billy Thomas has 18 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $2,000. 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 \($2,000\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($400 to $4,320\) 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: 33.3% (2 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 66.7% (4 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 0
- Previous 12 months sales: 0
- Recent 12 months median: $0
- Previous 12 months median: $0
- Median shift: N/A
- Latest sale date: 2024-03-19
- Days since latest sale: 786
- Market velocity: inactive

## Top Auction Houses
- Casco Bay Auctions: 7 lots
- Deutscher and Hackett: 2 lots
- Lawsons: 2 lots
- Leonard Joel: 2 lots
- Sotheby's: 2 lots
- Bonhams: 1 lots
- Menzies: 1 lots
- Smith & Singer: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2024-03-19 | BILLY THOMAS \(1920\-2012\) \(Language group: Wangkajunga\) Untitled 1998 natural earth pigments and synthetic polymer paint on linen 140... | Leonard Joel | A$5,500
2. 2024-02-20 | Billy Thomas \(Born 1920\). Two Mixed Media Pieces. | Casco Bay Auctions | N/A
3. 2023-11-08 | BILLY THOMAS \(1920\-2012\) Waarlla 2001 Ochre on canvas 110 x 80cm | Leonard Joel | N/A
4. 2023-10-31 | Billy Thomas \(Born 1920\). Two Mixed Media Pieces. | Casco Bay Auctions | N/A
5. 2023-10-31 | Billy Thomas \(Born 1920\). Untitled \(White on White\) | Casco Bay Auctions | N/A
6. 2023-09-16 | Billy Thomas \(Born 1920\). Two Mixed Media Pieces. | Casco Bay Auctions | N/A
7. 2023-04-11 | Billy Thomas \(Born 1920\). Untitled \(White on White\) | Casco Bay Auctions | N/A
8. 2022-10-01 | Billy Thomas \(Born 1920\). Untitled \(White on White\) | Casco Bay Auctions | N/A
9. 2022-10-01 | Billy Thomas \(Born 1920\). Altered Grounds \# 240. | Casco Bay Auctions | $400
10. 2018-05-31 | Billy Thomas \(1920 \- \) \- Untitled 21 x 24.5cm | Lawsons | A$100
11. 2017-11-30 | Billy Thomas \(1920 \- \) \- Warla 100 x 80cm \(stretched & ready to hang\) | Lawsons | A$2,000
12. 2015-06-25 | BILLY THOMAS \(c1920\-2012\) Red Rock Art | Menzies | A$3,600
13. 2012-05-28 | Billy Thomas \(born circa 1920\) | Bonhams | N/A
14. 2010-07-27 | Billy Thomas, born circa 1920, LUDUN COUNTRY | Smith & Singer | N/A
15. 2010-07-21 | BILLY THOMAS \(JOONGOORRA\) Untitled, 1999 natural | Deutscher and Hackett | A$4,320
16. 2009-10-14 | BILLY THOMAS \(JOONGOORRA\) Untitled, 1998 natural | Deutscher and Hackett | N/A
17. 2009-07-20 | Billy Thomas circa 1920 WARLA synthetic polymer paint on canvas | Sotheby's | N/A
18. 2009-07-20 | Billy Thomas circa 1920 LUDUN COUNTRY natural earth pigments and synthetic binder on linen | Sotheby's | N/A

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