# David Butler - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-29T06:34:50.782Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 68
- Lots with prices: 63
- First auction date: 2003-01-27
- Latest auction date: 2025-10-18
- Median realised price: $1,600
- Price range: $300 to $62,500

## Market Takeaway
David Butler has 68 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $1,600. 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 \($1,600\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($750 to $5,292\) 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: 30.2% (19 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 52.4% (33 sales)
- $10,000\+: 17.5% (11 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 1
- Previous 12 months sales: 0
- Recent 12 months median: $800
- Previous 12 months median: $0
- Median shift: N/A
- Latest sale date: 2025-10-18
- Days since latest sale: 192
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Christie's: 24 lots
- Material Culture: 24 lots
- New Orleans Auction Galleries: 7 lots
- Heritage Auctions: 4 lots
- Millea Bros Ltd: 2 lots
- Black Art Auction: 1 lots
- Bonhams: 1 lots
- Charlton Hall: 1 lots
- Freeman's \| Hindman: 1 lots
- Ledbetter Auctions: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-10-18 | David Butler, 1898\-1997, untitled | Black Art Auction | $800
2. 2023-11-08 | David Butler \(American, 1898\-1997\) | Material Culture | $1,300
3. 2023-07-26 | David Butler, Folk Art sculpture, c. 1960s | Millea Bros Ltd | $475
4. 2023-05-18 | David Butler, Folk Art sculpture, c. 1960s | Millea Bros Ltd | N/A
5. 2023-01-18 | David Butler \(1898\-1997\) 'Rooster' Sculpture, Good Hope, Louisiana, c. 1980, painted sheet metal, unmarked, ht. 9 3/4 in.Provenance: The Outsider and Folk Art Collection of Gene and Judy Kohn. Purchased from the Gasperi Gallery, New Orleans, Louis... | Bonhams | $650
6. 2023-01-18 | DAVID BUTLER \(1898\-1997\) Three Kings paint and found objects on cut metal 2 | Christie's | $12,600
7. 2023-01-18 | DAVID BUTLER \(1898\-1997\) Nativity paint and found objects on cut metal 28 x | Christie's | $22,680
8. 2023-01-18 | DAVID BUTLER \(1898\-1997\) Untitled \(Jonah and the Whale\), double\-sided ename | Christie's | $5,292
9. 2022-11-04 | David Butler \(American, 1898\-1997\) Peacocks \(pair\), circa 1980 Metal, wire, and | Heritage Auctions | $2,400
10. 2022-11-04 | David Butler \(American, 1898\-1997\) Santa Claus and Three Reindeer, circa 1980 Me | Heritage Auctions | $1,500
11. 2022-11-04 | David Butler \(American, 1898\-1997\) Elephant, circa 1970 Metal, wire, and paint 1 | Heritage Auctions | $1,000
12. 2022-11-04 | David Butler \(American, 1898\) Turkey, circa 1980 Metal, wire, plastic, and paint | Heritage Auctions | $2,200
13. 2022-07-30 | David Butler \(American/Louisiana, 1898\-1997\), "Window Shade" | New Orleans Auction Galleries | $1,600
14. 2022-07-30 | David Butler \(American/Louisiana, 1898\-1997\), "Sea Reindeer and Bird" | New Orleans Auction Galleries | $2,800
15. 2022-03-19 | DAVID BUTLER \(1898 \- 1997\) | Ledbetter Auctions | $1,500
16. 2022-02-03 | DAVID BUTLER \(1898\-1997\) Fish paint and plastic on cut metal 8 5/8 x 17 1/ | Christie's | $11,875
17. 2022-02-03 | DAVID BUTLER \(1898\-1997\) Mermaid, circa 1975 paint and plastic on metal 13 | Christie's | $26,250
18. 2022-02-03 | DAVID BUTLER \(1898\-1997\) Animal, circa 1975 paint and plastic on cut metal | Christie's | $12,500
19. 2022-02-03 | DAVID BUTLER \(1898\-1997\) Skunk, circa 1975 paint and plastic on metal 6 1/2 | Christie's | $20,000
20. 2022-02-03 | DAVID BUTLER \(1898\-1997\) Camel, circa 1975 paint and plastic on metal 18 3/ | Christie's | $30,000
21. 2022-02-03 | DAVID BUTLER \(1898\-1997\) Miniature Whirligig, 1978 paint and found objects | Christie's | $22,500
22. 2022-02-03 | DAVID BUTLER \(1898\-1997\) Rabbit, circa 1975 paint and plastic on cut metal | Christie's | $20,000
23. 2022-02-03 | DAVID BUTLER \(1898\-1997\) Figure on Animal, 1982 paint and found objects wit | Christie's | $27,500
24. 2022-02-03 | DAVID BUTLER \(1898\-1997\) Fox and Rabbit, circa 1970 27 x 31 in. | Christie's | $6,875

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