# Claude Ronald Bentley - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-29T03:30:36.820Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 23
- Lots with prices: 19
- First auction date: 2003-06-01
- Latest auction date: 2025-05-31
- Median realised price: $100
- Price range: $30 to $2,000

## Market Takeaway
Claude Ronald Bentley has 23 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $100. 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 \($100\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($75 to $225\) 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: 89.5% (17 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 10.5% (2 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 1
- Previous 12 months sales: 0
- Recent 12 months median: $2,000
- Previous 12 months median: $0
- Median shift: N/A
- Latest sale date: 2025-05-31
- Days since latest sale: 332
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Apple Tree Auction Center: 12 lots
- Bill Hood & Sons Arts & Antiques Auctions: 2 lots
- Heritage Auctions: 2 lots
- Sloans & Kenyon: 2 lots
- Abell Auction: 1 lots
- M.Klein Estate Auctions, LLC: 1 lots
- SUSANIN'S: 1 lots
- Santa Fe Art Auction: 1 lots
- Wright: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-05-31 | Claude Ronald Bentley, 1915\-1990, Eclipse | Abell Auction | $2,000
2. 2024-03-14 | Claude Ronald Bentley, Untitled, 1982 | Santa Fe Art Auction | $177
3. 2023-02-21 | Claude Ronald Bentley \(AMERICAN, 1915–1990\) Abstract \-BonamPak, oil on canvas, signed lower right, 37 1/2" x 51" | Bill Hood & Sons Arts & Antiques Auctions | $1,000
4. 2021-06-29 | Claude Ronald Bentley \(AMERICAN, 1915–1990\) oil on canvas, COMPOSITION with a heavy impasto, signed lower right, ca. 1968, canvas size 11 x 14 inches overall size 19 x 23 inches | Bill Hood & Sons Arts & Antiques Auctions | $300
5. 2014-09-21 | CLAUDE RONALD BENTLEY \(American, 1915\-1990\). UNTITLED \(ABSTRACT\), signed lower left and dated 1967 verso. Oil on canvas. | Sloans & Kenyon | $400
6. 2014-04-13 | CLAUDE RONALD BENTLEY \(American,\). UNTITLED \(ABSTRACT\), signed lower left and dated 1967 verso. Oil on canvas. | Sloans & Kenyon | N/A
7. 2014-04-05 | CLAUDE RONALD BENTLEY \(AMERICAN, 1915\-1990\) ABSTRACT COMPOSTION, 1968. | SUSANIN'S | $225
8. 2008-12-11 | CLAUDE RONALD BENTLEY \(American, 1915\-1990\) | Heritage Auctions | N/A
9. 2008-11-20 | CLAUDE RONALD BENTLEY \(American, 1915\-1990\) | Heritage Auctions | N/A
10. 2008-03-08 | CLAUDE RONALD BENTLEY \(1915 \- \* CHICAGO, IL\) PENCIL SIGNED LITHOGRAPH "INTROSPECT" SIGNED AND DATED 1948, UNFRAMED 17 1/2" X 14 1/2" | Apple Tree Auction Center | $75
11. 2008-03-08 | CLAUDE RONALD BENTLEY \(1915 \- \* CHICAGO, IL\) PENCIL SIGNED LITHOGRAPH "ANTHROPMORPHIE FIGURES" 16/16, SIGNED AND DATED 1947, UNFRAMED 16" X 12" | Apple Tree Auction Center | $85
12. 2008-03-08 | CLAUDE RONALD BENTLEY \(1915 \- \* CHICAGO, IL\) PENCIL SIGNED LITHOGRAPH "EAGLES" 15/15,SIGNED AND DATED 1947, UNFRAMED 17" X 14" | Apple Tree Auction Center | $55
13. 2008-03-08 | CLAUDE RONALD BENTLEY \(1915 \- \* CHICAGO, IL\) PENCIL SIGNED LITHOGRAPH "THE MOUNTAIN KING" 5/16, SIGNED AND DATED 1948, UNFRAMED 17 1/2" X 14" | Apple Tree Auction Center | $75
14. 2008-03-08 | CLAUDE RONALD BENTLEY \(1915 \- \* CHICAGO, IL\) PENCIL SIGNED LITHOGRAPH "RITUAL" 15/15, SIGNED AND DATED 1947, UNFRAMED 17" X 14 1/2" | Apple Tree Auction Center | $75
15. 2008-03-08 | CLAUDE RONALD BENTLEY \(1915 \- \* CHICAGO, IL\) PENCIL SIGNED LITHOGRAPH "FRENZY" 12/12, SIGNED, SIGNED AND DATED 1947, UNFRAMED 14" X 18" | Apple Tree Auction Center | $30
16. 2008-03-08 | CLAUDE RONALD BENTLEY \(1915 \- \* CHICAGO, IL\) PENCIL SIGNED LITHOGRAPH "AWAITING THE EVENTUAL" 10/10, SIGNED AND DATED 1948, UNFRAMED 14" X 11" | Apple Tree Auction Center | $30
17. 2008-03-08 | CLAUDE RONALD BENTLEY \(1915 \- \* CHICAGO, IL\) PENCIL SIGNED LITHOGRAPH "MELANCHOLY DEPARTURE" 12/12, SIGNED AND DATED 1946, UNFRAMED 12 1/2" X 16" | Apple Tree Auction Center | $30
18. 2008-03-08 | CLAUDE RONALD BENTLEY \(1915\- \* CHICAGO, IL\) PENCIL SIGNED LITHOGRAPH "PRICKLY PEAR" 15/15, SIGNED AND DATED 1947, UNFRAMED 17 1/2" X 14 1/2" | Apple Tree Auction Center | $110
19. 2008-03-08 | CLAUDE RONALD BENTLEY \(1915\- \* CHICAGO, IL\) PENCIL SIGNED LITHOGRAPH "PANTHERS" 6/6, SIGNED AND DATED 1947, UNFRAMED 17" X 14 1/2" | Apple Tree Auction Center | $75
20. 2008-03-08 | CLAUDE RONALD BENTLEY \(1915\- \* CHICAGO, IL\) PENCIL SIGNED LITHOGRAPH "ENTITIES OF MEDITATION PROOF", SIGNED AND DATED 1948, 24" X 18" | Apple Tree Auction Center | $100
21. 2008-03-08 | CLAUDE RONALD BENTLEY \(1915 \-\* CHICAGO, IL\) OIL ON BOARD, SELF PORTRAIT, SIGNED AND DATED 1945, 11 1/12" X 15 1/2" | Apple Tree Auction Center | $160
22. 2005-02-20 | Claude Ronald Bentley | M.Klein Estate Auctions, LLC | $125
23. 2003-06-01 | Claude Ronald Bentley \(1915\-1990\) | Wright | N/A

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