# Cletus Johnson - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-01T09:17:19.601Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 16
- Lots with prices: 13
- First auction date: 2005-07-12
- Latest auction date: 2025-02-11
- Median realised price: $1,200
- Price range: $200 to $6,985

## Market Takeaway
Cletus Johnson has 16 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $1,200. 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 \($1,200\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($800 to $1,920\) 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: 30.8% (4 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 69.2% (9 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 0
- Previous 12 months sales: 8
- Recent 12 months median: $0
- Previous 12 months median: $1,200
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-02-11
- Days since latest sale: 443
- Market velocity: inactive

## Top Auction Houses
- Rago Arts and Auction Center: 3 lots
- Pook & Pook Inc.: 2 lots
- Skinner: 2 lots
- Wright: 2 lots
- Christie's: 1 lots
- Clarke Auction Gallery: 1 lots
- Freeman’s \| Hindman: 1 lots
- Millea Bros Ltd: 1 lots
- STAIR: 1 lots
- Sloans & Kenyon: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-02-11 | Cletus Johnson, Rebus | Wright | $1,200 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-cletus-johnson-rebus-130-c-c81479eaee
2. 2025-02-11 | Cletus Johnson, Ariadne | Wright | $2,600
3. 2025-02-04 | Cletus Johnson \(American, b. 1941\) Untitled \(Illuminated Theater Stage Shadowbox\) | Freeman’s \| Hindman | $1,000
4. 2024-11-01 | Cletus Johnson, assemblage shadow box | Pook & Pook Inc. | $200
5. 2024-10-16 | Cletus Johnson, mixed media collage, 1988 | Millea Bros Ltd | $250
6. 2024-09-27 | Cletus Johnson, A Pantry Theater for Joseph Cornell | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $1,300
7. 2024-09-27 | Cletus Johnson, Wagner's Oasis | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $1,600
8. 2024-09-27 | Cletus Johnson, shadowbox | Pook & Pook Inc. | N/A
9. 2024-03-27 | Cletus Johnson, Cave of the Stars IV | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $3,800
10. 2024-03-04 | Beauregard | Sotheby's | $6,985
11. 2021-06-03 | Cletus Johnson \(b. 1941\): Tom Tom Drawings | STAIR | $200
12. 2019-12-15 | CLETUS JOHNSON \(American, b. 1941\). THE THORNTON ROAD, signed, dated '92 and titled verso. Mixed media sculpture assemblage. Electrifi | Sloans & Kenyon | $800
13. 2019-10-27 | CLETUS JOHNSON \(AMERICAN, b. 1941\). | Clarke Auction Gallery | $1,100
14. 2012-12-15 | Cletus Johnson \(American, b. 1941\), Moon, 1975, Identified on a label from A.M. Sachs Gallery, New York, affixed to the reverse., Condi | Skinner | $1,920
15. 2005-07-12 | Cletus Johnson \(b. 1941\) | Christie's | N/A
16. 2013-12-07 | Cletus Johnson \(American, b. 1941\) Moon, 1975 Identified on a label from A.M. Sachs Gallery, New York, affixed to the reverse. Mixed m | Skinner | N/A

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