# Chesley Bonestell - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-29T03:30:37.069Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 49
- Lots with prices: 46
- First auction date: 2007-06-03
- Latest auction date: 2025-12-12
- Median realised price: $33,020
- Price range: $200 to $302,400

## Market Takeaway
Chesley Bonestell has 49 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $33,020. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 17 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 \($33,020\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($10,000 to $63,000\) 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: 2.2% (1 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 21.7% (10 sales)
- $10,000\+: 76.1% (35 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 17
- Previous 12 months sales: 19
- Recent 12 months median: $27,940
- Previous 12 months median: $88,200
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-12-12
- Days since latest sale: 137
- Market velocity: moderate

## Top Auction Houses
- Christie's: 32 lots
- Swann Auction Galleries: 6 lots
- Heritage Auctions: 3 lots
- Ripley Auctions: 2 lots
- Litchfield Auctions: 1 lots
- Pook & Pook Inc.: 1 lots
- Poster Auctions International Inc: 1 lots
- Profiles in History: 1 lots
- Quinn's Auction Galleries: 1 lots
- Sotheby's: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2023-02-09 | Chesley Bonestell, two block prints | Pook & Pook Inc. | $200
2. 2025-12-12 | CHESLEY BONESTELL \(1888\-1965\). OUR INTENSEST RAY. oil on board12 x 12 in. \( | Christie's | $11,430
3. 2025-12-12 | CHESLEY BONESTELL \(1888\-1986\). REENTRY OF THE BABY SPACE STATION. oil on bo | Christie's | $30,480
4. 2025-12-12 | CHESLEY BONESTELL \(1888\-1986\). LAUNCH VEHICLE'S WINGED THIRD STATE AND ITS | Christie's | $33,020
5. 2025-12-12 | CHESLEY BONESTELL \(1888\-1986\). RETURN OF THE ROCKET SHIP'S THIRD STAGE. oil | Christie's | $60,960
6. 2025-12-12 | CHESLEY BONESTELL \(1888\-1986\). SEPARATION OVER THE PACIFIC. oil on board20 | Christie's | $35,560
7. 2025-12-12 | CHESLEY BONESTELL \(1888\-1986\). THE 1976 VOYAGER MISSION ARRIVES AT SATURN, | Christie's | $33,020
8. 2025-12-12 | CHESLEY BONESTELL \(1888\-1986\). ZERO HOUR MINUS FIVE. oil on Masonite19 ½ x | Christie's | $60,960
9. 2025-12-12 | CHESLEY BONESTELL \(1888\-1986\). ROCKET TO THE MOON. oil on Masonite29 1/8 x | Christie's | $27,940
10. 2025-12-12 | CHESLEY BONESTELL \(1888\-1986\). EARLY STUDIES OF PLANETARY LANDSCAPES. 21 oi | Christie's | $25,400
11. 2025-12-12 | CHESLEY BONESTELL \(1888\-1986\). BATTLE OF GRAVITY. oil on board13 ¼ x 9 5/8 | Christie's | $12,065
12. 2025-12-12 | CHESLEY BONESTELL \(1888\-1986\). ATOMIC BOMBING OF NEW YORK. mixed media on p | Christie's | $9,525
13. 2025-12-12 | CHESLEY BONESTELL \(1888\-1986\). TARGET FOR METEORS. oil on board13 ¼ x 9 5/8 | Christie's | $7,620
14. 2025-12-12 | CHESLEY BONESTELL \(1888\-1986\). FORMATION OF THE EARTH. oil on board20 x 30 | Christie's | $44,450
15. 2025-12-12 | CHESLEY BONESTELL \(1888\-1986\). TWO WORKS: THE SURFACE OF MARS. each gouache | Christie's | $21,590
16. 2025-12-12 | CHESLEY BONESTELL \(1888\-1986\). MILKY WAY GALAXY. oil on board15 ½ x 29 ¾ in | Christie's | $33,020
17. 2025-07-22 | Chesley Bonestell, New York Central Building | Poster Auctions International Inc | $2,800
18. 2025-07-15 | Chesley Bonestell | Sotheby's | N/A
19. 2024-10-10 | CHESLEY BONESTELL \(1888\-1986\). NEW YORK CENTRAL BUILDING / AT THE GATEWAY TO A CONTINENT. 1930. 40¾x27 inches, 103½x68½ cm. Latham Lith | Swann Auction Galleries | $8,750 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-chesley-bonestell-1888-1986-new-york-central-building-at-the-gateway-to-a-continent-1930-403-4x27-inches-1031-2x681-2-cm-latham-lith-142-c-47a4a3b893
20. 2024-09-26 | CHESLEY BONESTELL \(1888\-1986\) New York Central Building / At the Gateway to a Continent. Circa 1929. | Swann Auction Galleries | $10,625 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-chesley-bonestell-1888-1986-new-york-central-building-at-the-gateway-to-a-continent-circa-1929-62-c-767446ba98
21. 2024-09-12 | CHESLEY BONESTELL \(1888\-1986\). TRANSIT OF THE EARTH. oil on board 9 ½ x 18 | Christie's | $52,920
22. 2024-09-12 | CHESLEY BONESTELL \(1888\-1986\). EXPLORING COPERNICUS. oil on board 14 ¾ x 26 | Christie's | $69,300
23. 2024-09-12 | CHESLEY BONESTELL \(1888\-1986\). THE MOON FALLS BACK ON THE EARTH. oil on boa | Christie's | $37,800
24. 2024-09-12 | CHESLEY BONESTELL \(1888\-1986\). TYCHO BRAHE LOCATES POSITION OF THE NOVA OF | Christie's | $63,000

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