# David Alexander Colville - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-29T01:01:00.228Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 23
- Lots with prices: 20
- First auction date: 2009-05-25
- Latest auction date: 2025-11-12
- Median realised price: $3,200
- Price range: $20 to $1,320,000

## Market Takeaway
David Alexander Colville has 23 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $3,200. 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 \($3,200\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($900 to $5,664\) 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% (6 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 60% (12 sales)
- $10,000\+: 10% (2 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 3
- Previous 12 months sales: 5
- Recent 12 months median: $3,200
- Previous 12 months median: $1,625
- Median shift: 96.9%
- Latest sale date: 2025-11-12
- Days since latest sale: 167
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Waddington's: 12 lots
- Sotheby's: 2 lots
- 4th Meridian Fine Art: 1 lots
- A. H. Wilkens Auctions & Appraisals: 1 lots
- Auctions at Showplace: 1 lots
- Bonhams: 1 lots
- Chaucer Auctions: 1 lots
- Hermann Historica GmbH: 1 lots
- Maynards Fine Art & Antiques: 1 lots
- South Bay Auctions Inc: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-02-21 | David Alexander signed Honouring D. W. Griffith FDC date stamped 1975. Good condition. All | Chaucer Auctions | N/A
2. 2024-10-31 | David Alexander \(Alex\) Colville \(1920\-2013\), SLEEPER, 1975 | Waddington's | CA$3,750
3. 2024-04-21 | Alex Colville "To Prince Edward Island" Lithograph | Auctions at Showplace | $2,250
4. 2025-11-12 | ALEX COLVILLE \(CANADIAN, 1920\-2013\) | A. H. Wilkens Auctions & Appraisals | CA$3,200
5. 2025-10-30 | Alex Colville \(1920\-2013\) & Helen J. Dow, THE ART OF ALEX COLVILLE, 1972 | Waddington's | CA$960
6. 2025-05-01 | David Alexander \(Alex\) Colville \(1920\-2013\), WILLOW, 2002 | Waddington's | CA$6,400
7. 2024-11-20 | Dog and Priest | Sotheby's | $1,320,000
8. 2024-10-31 | David Alexander \(Alex\) Colville \(1920\-2013\), THREE SHEEP, 1954\-1991 | Waddington's | CA$1,625
9. 2024-10-24 | Alex Colville \(Canadian, 1920\-2013\) \- Three Sheep | Westbridge Fine Art Auction House | CA$700
10. 2020-06-28 | Alex Colville, Moon and Cow, 1963 Art Print | 4th Meridian Fine Art | CA$20
11. 2019-04-13 | DAVID ALEXANDER COLVILLE \(Canadian\) | South Bay Auctions Inc | $325
12. 2017-03-30 | DAVID ALEXANDER \(ALEX\) COLVILLE \(CANADIAN, 1920\-2013\), SEVEN RAVENS, LIMITED EDITION PRINT; SIGNED, TITLED AND NUMBERED 574/950 WITH SIGNED CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY VERSO | Waddington's | CA$1,080
13. 2016-01-28 | DAVID ALEXANDER COLVILLE \(CANADIAN,1920\-2013\), KOLN EXPRESS \(CANCELLED PRINT\), COLOUR SERIGRAPH, INSCRIBED SPOILED TWICE \(RECTO\), Sheet sight 20.8" x 29.8" — 52.8 x 75.7 cm. | Waddington's | CA$900
14. 2015-03-10 | David Alexander Colville \(1920\-2013\), CAT ON THE FENCE, 1956, Colour silkscreen; signed and dated 1956 in pencil lower right, signed, titled, dated 1956 and annotated by the artist: "Serigraph edition of 20 only" in pencil verso., Image 21" x 28" \- | Waddington's | CA$7,800
15. 2015-03-10 | David Alexander Colville \(1920\-2013\), RAVEN, 1990, Colour silkscreen with letters; signed, dated 1990 and numbered 42/70 in pencil to margin, Image 29.5" x 18.75" \- 76.8 x 50.2 cm. | Waddington's | N/A
16. 2013-03-14 | DAVID ALEXANDER COLVILLE, R.C.A. | Waddington's | CA$3,600
17. 2012-04-24 | David Alexander, | Hermann Historica GmbH | €220
18. 2011-11-25 | DAVID ALEXANDER COLVILLE, R.C.A.PRIZE COW, colour serigraph; signed, dated 1977 and numbered 30/70 diameter 17 ins; 42.5 cms $2,000\-3,000 | Waddington's | CA$5,664
19. 2011-05-27 | DAVID ALEXANDER COLVILLE, R.C.A., STOVE, colour serigraph, 20 ins x 20 ins; 50 cms x 50 cms | Waddington's | CA$6,490
20. 2010-11-23 | DAVID ALEXANDER COLVILLE B.1920 | Sotheby's | CA$12,000
21. 2010-06-24 | DAVID ALEXANDER COLVILLE \(1920\-\) CANADIAN RAVEN | Waddington's | CA$3,330
22. 2010-04-13 | David Alexander \(Alex\) Colville Canadian \(1920\-\) | Maynards Fine Art & Antiques | CA$5,500
23. 2009-05-25 | David Alexander Colville \(Canadian, born 1920\) November | Bonhams | N/A

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