# Chris Orr - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-15T18:57:16.219Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 31
- Lots with prices: 22
- First auction date: 2008-10-02
- Latest auction date: 2025-12-04
- Median realised price: $140
- Price range: $18 to $10,000

## Market Takeaway
Chris Orr shows developing auction liquidity with 31 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $140. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 5 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-12-04.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($140\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $80 and $420.
- 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: 86.4% (19 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 9.1% (2 sales)
- $10,000\+: 4.5% (1 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 5
- Previous 12 months sales: 0
- Recent 12 months median: $220
- Previous 12 months median: $0
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-12-04
- Days since latest sale: 76
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Canterbury Auction Galleries: 5 lots
- Forum Auctions \- UK: 4 lots
- Leonard Joel: 4 lots
- Phillips: 4 lots
- Bonhams: 2 lots
- Dreweatts 1759: 2 lots
- Mallams: 2 lots
- Bargain Hunt Auctions: 1 lots
- Dawsons Auctioneers: 1 lots
- Keys Fine Art Auctioneers: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2020-07-21 | Chris Orr \(b.1943\) Black Dog at Tower Bridge | Forum Auctions \- UK | £420
2. 2025-12-04 | CHRIS ORR, KEYBOARD WARRIOR, | Leonard Joel | A$500
3. 2025-10-16 | CHRISTOPHER ORR, SUFFOCATION 2000, | Leonard Joel | N/A
4. 2025-10-16 | CHRISTOPHER ORR, SUFFOCATION 2000, | Leonard Joel | A$220
5. 2025-09-11 | CHRISTOPHER ORR, LATE AFTERNOON COFFEE AT BRIGHTON 2007, | Leonard Joel | N/A
6. 2025-09-04 | Chris Orr \(b.1943\) D.I.Y. | Forum Auctions \- UK | £100
7. 2024-02-07 | Chris Orr \(British, b. 1943\) | Shapiro Auctioneers | N/A
8. 2022-01-26 | Chris Orr \(b. 1943\) The Christmas Mail Must Get Through | Forum Auctions \- UK | £70
9. 2021-11-25 | Chris Orr \(b.1943\), ‘Down on Mechanical Farm, \(Hot Summer\)’, 'unique' print on paper, 1991, 62 cm x 56 cm framed and glazed. | Dawsons Auctioneers | £260
10. 2021-04-14 | Chris Orr \(British 1943\-\), | Bargain Hunt Auctions | A$80
11. 2019-09-25 | Chris Orr \(b.1943\) Cyclone \- Coney Island | Forum Auctions \- UK | £100
12. 2018-10-06 | CHRISTOPHER ORR \| Golden Gift | Sotheby's | £6,000
13. 2018-04-11 | CHRISTOPHER ORR \- The Thin Air | Phillips | £10,000
14. 2018-04-11 | CHRISTOPHER ORR \- Geometry | Phillips | £9,000
15. 2016-11-02 | Chris Orr, 3 etchings. | Quinn's Auction Galleries | N/A
16. 2016-05-19 | Chris Orr \(British, b.1943\) 1796 and All That, 1996 30/100, signed, numbered, titled and dated in pencil lithograph | Mallams | £80
17. 2016-03-31 | Chris Orr \(b.1943\) \- A Chump at Oxford; The Angels of Bologne; John Ruskin \(\+ 3 works\) | Dreweatts 1759 | £273
18. 2015-05-13 | Chris Orr \(British, b.1943\) 'Britannia at Home', | Mallams | £160
19. 2014-10-03 | \[ PRINTS \] | Keys Fine Art Auctioneers | £18
20. 2012-12-13 | CHRISTOPHER ORR | Phillips | £875
21. 2011-10-13 | CHRISTOPHER ORR | Phillips | N/A
22. 2011-05-11 | Christopher Orr \(British, born 1943\) "Vermeer's Budgie, or Life in the Twentieth Century" | Bonhams | £108
23. 2011-03-30 | Christopher Orr \(British, born 1943\) "Vermeer's Budgie, or Life in the Twentieth Century" | Bonhams | N/A
24. 2010-10-28 | CHRIS ORR \(BRITISH, 1943\-\) A DEPARTMENT STORE; | Waddington's | N/A

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