# Cary Smith - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-29T00:36:50.607Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 14
- Lots with prices: 8
- First auction date: 2005-07-12
- Latest auction date: 2024-09-13
- Median realised price: $450
- Price range: $250 to $8,750

## Market Takeaway
Cary Smith has 14 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $450. 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 \($450\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($300 to $2,214\) 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: 62.5% (5 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 37.5% (3 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: $450
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2024-09-13
- Days since latest sale: 592
- Market velocity: inactive

## Top Auction Houses
- Skinner: 4 lots
- Winter Associates, Inc.: 3 lots
- RoGallery: 2 lots
- Christie's: 1 lots
- DuMouchelles: 1 lots
- Material Culture: 1 lots
- STAIR: 1 lots
- Sotheby's: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2024-09-13 | Cary Smith \(American B.1955\) Three Plate Aquatint Etchings on Wove Paper, 1992, Group of 3 H 21.25 W 21.1 \(Plate\) Views And Mirrors | DuMouchelles | $450
2. 2020-11-19 | Cary Smith, Not Now, Oil and Wax on Canvas | RoGallery | N/A
3. 2019-06-07 | Cary Smith \(b. 1955\): It is That Way | STAIR | $600
4. 2017-03-02 | CARY SMITH \| Blue Wonder Wheel \#9 | Sotheby's | $8,750
5. 2016-01-22 | Cary Smith \(American, b. 1955\), "What Was That?", Inscribed, dated, and titled "...1990..." on the stretcher, identified on a label fro | Skinner | $2,214
6. 2015-07-21 | Cary Smith, Not Now, Oil and Wax on Canvas | RoGallery | N/A
7. 2014-09-19 | Cary Smith \(American, b. 1955\) GREY PRINT SUITE/Three Works, 1998, edition of 27. Each signed, dated, titled, and numbered "CARY SMITH | Skinner | $369
8. 2014-09-19 | Cary Smith \(American, b. 1955\), Untitled \(Birthday Cake\), Signed and dated "C. SMITH\- '09" l.r., stamped "CARY SMITH" on the backing., | Skinner | N/A
9. 2014-09-19 | Cary Smith \(American, b. 1955\), Can you Hear Me, 1988\-93, Signed, dated, and titled "CARY SMITH. 1988\-93..." l.r., Condition: Tack hole | Skinner | N/A
10. 2013-11-17 | Cary Smith Watercolor, Untitled \#53 | Material Culture | N/A
11. 2009-12-07 | Cary Smith \(American, b. 1955\) contemporary gouache and watercolor on paper, Southwestern stylized landscape with birds, cacti and g... | Winter Associates, Inc. | $250
12. 2008-06-23 | Cary Smith \(American, b. 1955\) mixed media abstract geometric composition, signed lower right and dated "1982", framed under glass, ss: 8 1/2" h. x 30" w. \(Not examined out of frame\). | Winter Associates, Inc. | $300
13. 2007-12-10 | Cary Smith \(American, b. 1955\) mixed media abstract geometric composition, signed lower right and dated "1982", framed under glass, ss: 8 1/2" h. x 30" w. \(Not examined out of frame\). | Winter Associates, Inc. | N/A
14. 2005-07-12 | Cary Smith \(b. 1955\) | Christie's | $5,760

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