# Chris Van Allsburg - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-28T17:56:00.187Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 23
- Lots with prices: 14
- First auction date: 2009-03-12
- Latest auction date: 2025-10-10
- Median realised price: $5,975
- Price range: $40 to $94,500

## Market Takeaway
Chris Van Allsburg has 23 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $5,975. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 3 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 \($5,975\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($350 to $31,000\) 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: 28.6% (4 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 28.6% (4 sales)
- $10,000\+: 42.9% (6 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 3
- Previous 12 months sales: 3
- Recent 12 months median: $47,880
- Previous 12 months median: $100
- Median shift: 100%
- Latest sale date: 2025-10-10
- Days since latest sale: 200
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- RoGallery: 8 lots
- Heritage Auctions: 7 lots
- Christie's: 2 lots
- Quinn's Auction Galleries Central Virginia: 2 lots
- Bonhams: 1 lots
- James D. Julia: 1 lots
- Kensington Estate Auctions: 1 lots
- Swann Auction Galleries: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-02-20 | CHRIS VAN ALLSBURG, AROUND THE GREEN GRAVEL, SCREENPRINT ON RIVES BFK | RoGallery | $350 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-chris-van-allsburg-around-the-green-gravel-screenprint-on-rives-bfk-213-c-3464503a72
2. 2025-10-10 | CHRIS VAN ALLSBURG, AROUND THE GREEN GRAVEL, SCREENPRINT ON RIVES BFK | RoGallery | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-chris-van-allsburg-around-the-green-gravel-screenprint-on-rives-bfk-238-c-8db428281d
3. 2025-06-10 | CHRIS VAN ALLSBURG \(B. 1949\). 'On Christmas Eve, many years ago, I lay quie | Christie's | $47,880
4. 2025-06-10 | CHRIS VAN ALLSBURG \(B. 1949\). 'It was wrapped in an apron of steam.' \(Cover | Christie's | $94,500
5. 2025-04-07 | Chris Van Allsburg \(American, b. 1949\) AROUND THE GREEN GRAVEL, 1990 | Kensington Estate Auctions | $100
6. 2025-01-25 | CHRIS VAN ALLSBURG, AROUND THE GREEN GRAVEL, SCREENPRINT ON RIVES BFK | RoGallery | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-chris-van-allsburg-around-the-green-gravel-screenprint-on-rives-bfk-1475-c-7794b16b64
7. 2024-03-23 | CHRIS VAN ALLSBURG, AROUND THE GREEN GRAVEL, SCREENPRINT ON RIVES BFK | RoGallery | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-chris-van-allsburg-around-the-green-gravel-screenprint-on-rives-bfk-996-c-2644d049ef
8. 2023-12-06 | Chris Van Allsburg, Around the Green Gravel, Screenprint on Rives BFK | RoGallery | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-chris-van-allsburg-around-the-green-gravel-screenprint-on-rives-bfk-453-c-6414497842
9. 2023-11-01 | Chris Van Allsburg \(American, born 1949\) Illustration for 'The E was slowly evaporating' from The Z Was Zapped 15 x 12 in. \(38.1 x 30.5 cm\) \(unframed\) | Bonhams | $1,600
10. 2023-07-27 | Chris Van Allsburg, Around the Green Gravel, Screenprint on Rives BFK | RoGallery | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-chris-van-allsburg-around-the-green-gravel-screenprint-on-rives-bfk-500-c-aba49b7a09
11. 2023-06-16 | CHRIS VAN ALLSBURG, AROUND THE GREEN GRAVEL, SCREENPRINT ON RIVES BFK | RoGallery | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-chris-van-allsburg-around-the-green-gravel-screenprint-on-rives-bfk-2048-c-2b148d7b94
12. 2023-05-12 | Chris Van Allsburg \(American, b. 1949\) The Garden of Abdul Gasazi, book cover, 1 | Heritage Auctions | $31,000
13. 2023-02-28 | CHRIS VAN ALLSBURG, AROUND THE GREEN GRAVEL, SCREENPRINT ON RIVES BFK | RoGallery | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-chris-van-allsburg-around-the-green-gravel-screenprint-on-rives-bfk-788-c-2424b3e9b2
14. 2022-11-04 | Chris Van Allsburg \(American, b. 1949\) White and Black Bird Canes \(pair\) Metal a | Heritage Auctions | $2,000
15. 2022-11-04 | Chris Van Allsburg \(American, b. 1949\) The Big Book for our Planet book cover, 1 | Heritage Auctions | $13,000
16. 2022-05-10 | Chris Van Allsburg \(American, b. 1949\) The Garden of Abdul Gasazi, pictoral titl | Heritage Auctions | $30,000
17. 2021-06-24 | CHRIS VAN ALLSBURG \(1949\- \) "The J was rather Jittery." \[CHILDRENS / ALPHABET\] | Swann Auction Galleries | $5,980
18. 2016-11-11 | Chris van Allsburg \(US/ Michigan, b. 1949\) Posters | Quinn's Auction Galleries Central Virginia | $40
19. 2016-11-11 | Chris Van Allsburg \(US/Michigan, b. 1949\). | Quinn's Auction Galleries Central Virginia | $110
20. 2016-08-24 | CHRIS VAN ALLSBURG \(American, b. 1949\) TWO ILLUSTRATIONS FROM "THE MISADVENTURES OF SWEETIE PIE". | James D. Julia | N/A
21. 2010-10-15 | CHRIS VAN ALLSBURG \(American, b. 1949\) Jumanji book illustration, 1980 Graphite on paper 15.5 x 17 in. Signed lower right This original drawing was included in Chris Van Allsburg's Caldecott Medal winning book, Jumanji, published by Houghton Mifflin | Heritage Auctions | $31,070
22. 2010-10-15 | CHRIS VAN ALLSBURG \(American, b. 1949\) Mysteries of Harris Burdick illustration, 1985 Charcoal on paper 26.25 x 37 in. Signed lower right This illustration was reproduced in The Mysteries of Harris Burdick c. 1984 by Chris Van Allsburg. From an | Heritage Auctions | $5,975
23. 2009-03-12 | CHRIS VAN ALLSBURG \(American b. 1949\) Book | Heritage Auctions | N/A

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