# Bruce Bernard - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-29T00:27:04.903Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 25
- Lots with prices: 16
- First auction date: 2002-10-23
- Latest auction date: 2025-07-15
- Median realised price: $2,880
- Price range: $140 to $7,860,000

## Market Takeaway
Bruce Bernard has 25 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $2,880. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 1 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 \($2,880\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($1,560 to $3,750\) 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: 12.5% (2 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 75% (12 sales)
- $10,000\+: 12.5% (2 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 1
- Previous 12 months sales: 0
- Recent 12 months median: $0
- Previous 12 months median: $0
- Median shift: N/A
- Latest sale date: 2025-07-15
- Days since latest sale: 287
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Sotheby's: 7 lots
- Christie's: 6 lots
- Bonhams: 4 lots
- Phillips: 4 lots
- Dreweatts 1759: 1 lots
- Hindman: 1 lots
- Sworders: 1 lots
- Vendu Rotterdam: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-07-15 | After Bruce Bernard | Sworders | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-after-bruce-bernard-395-c-cf44997ae2
2. 2023-11-28 | Bruce Bernard \(1928\-2000\) Lee Bowery and Nicola Bateman Posing for Lucien Freud's "And the Husband", 1993 | Hindman | $1,300
3. 2023-03-29 | Bruce Bernard \(British, 1928\-2000\) Francis Bacon In The Studio Doorway, 1983 | Bonhams | £950
4. 2017-05-18 | Bruce Bernard \(1928\-2000\) \- Lucian Freud in His Studio with Two Paintings of Late Bowery, 1993 | Dreweatts 1759 | N/A
5. 2016-11-03 | BRUCE BERNARD \- Lucian Freud with two portraits of Leigh Bowery, 1990 | Phillips | N/A
6. 2016-11-03 | BRUCE BERNARD \- Francis Bacon in his studio, Reece Mews, 1983 | Phillips | N/A
7. 2016-10-13 | Bruce Bernard \(1928\-2000\) Leigh Bowery and Nicola Bateman posing for 'And the husband' by Lucian Freud | Christie's | £3,000
8. 2016-10-13 | Bruce Bernard \(1928\-2000\) Sue Tilley in Lucian Freud's studio | Christie's | £1,875
9. 2016-05-19 | BRUCE BERNARD \- Lucian Freud with a portrait of Leigh Bowery, 1990 | Phillips | N/A
10. 2016-05-19 | BRUCE BERNARD \- Francis Bacon in his studio, Reece Mews, 1983 | Phillips | £3,750
11. 2014-11-13 | Bruce Bernard \(e.a.\). Lucian Freud. London, Jonat | Vendu Rotterdam | €140
12. 2012-05-17 | Bruce Bernard \(British, 1928\-2000\) | Bonhams | £3,750
13. 2012-05-17 | Bruce Bernard \(British, 1928\-2000\) | Bonhams | £3,750
14. 2009-07-01 | BRUCE BERNARD \(1928\-2000\) | Christie's | N/A
15. 2009-05-19 | Bruce Bernard \(1928\-2000\) , Lucien Freud with portrait of Leigh Bowery, 1990 | Sotheby's | N/A
16. 2008-11-26 | BRUCE BERNARD \(1928\-2000\) | Christie's | N/A
17. 2007-06-20 | Bruce Bernard | Christie's | £7,860,000 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-bruce-bernard-35-c-w7splo04j9
18. 2007-04-25 | Bruce Bernard \(British, 1928\-2000\) | Bonhams | N/A
19. 2005-05-17 | BRUCE BERNARD, 1928\-2000 'LUCIAN FREUD STANDING WITH PORTRAIT OF LEIGH BOWERY', 1990, PRINTED 1998 | Sotheby's | £1,800
20. 2004-07-08 | BRUCE BERNARD \(1928\-2000\) | Sotheby's | £1,560
21. 2003-11-19 | BRUCE BERNARD \(1928\-2000\) | Sotheby's | £2,880
22. 2003-11-19 | BRUCE BERNARD \(1928\-2000\) | Sotheby's | £2,400
23. 2003-11-19 | BRUCE BERNARD \(1928\-2000\) | Sotheby's | £3,840
24. 2003-11-19 | BRUCE BERNARD \(1928\-2000\) | Sotheby's | £3,120

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