# David Caton - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-29T00:38:06.874Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 29
- Lots with prices: 25
- First auction date: 2012-02-03
- Latest auction date: 2025-12-06
- Median realised price: $500
- Price range: $125 to $2,750

## Market Takeaway
David Caton has 29 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $500. 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 \($500\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($425 to $1,300\) 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: 72% (18 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 28% (7 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 1
- Previous 12 months sales: 3
- Recent 12 months median: $2,750
- Previous 12 months median: $425
- Median shift: 100%
- Latest sale date: 2025-12-06
- Days since latest sale: 143
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Simpson Galleries, LLC: 14 lots
- Heritage Auctions: 8 lots
- Skinner: 2 lots
- DOYLE Auctioneers & Appraisers: 1 lots
- Houston Auction Company: 1 lots
- Lewis & Maese Antiques & Auctions: 1 lots
- New Orleans Auction Galleries: 1 lots
- Vogt Galleries Texas: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2024-09-22 | DAVID CATON \(American/Texas b. 1955\) A DRAWING, "Canyonlands in a Storm," 20TH/21ST CENTURY | Simpson Galleries, LLC | $425
2. 2025-12-06 | DAVID CATON \(American/Texas b. 1955\) "Upper Frio," 2015, 40 x 60 in. \(101.6 x 152.4 cm.\), Frame: 48 x 68 in. \(121.9 x 172.7 cm.\) | Simpson Galleries, LLC | $2,750
3. 2024-09-22 | DAVID CATON \(American/Texas b. 1955\) A PAINTING, "Canyons," 20TH CENTURY | Simpson Galleries, LLC | $425
4. 2024-06-08 | DAVID CATON \(American/Texas b. 1955\) A DRAWING, "Two Trees, Sabinal River," 21ST CENTURY | Simpson Galleries, LLC | $200
5. 2024-03-23 | DAVID CATON \(American/Texas b. 1955\) A DRAWING, "Sunlight, Lost Maples," 21ST CENTURY | Simpson Galleries, LLC | $425
6. 2024-03-23 | DAVID CATON \(American/Texas b. 1955\) A PAINTING, "Botkin Ranch \#6," Circa 2012 | Simpson Galleries, LLC | $2,250
7. 2024-03-23 | DAVID CATON \(American/Texas b. 1955\) A DRAWING, "Schulenburg," 21ST CENTURY | Simpson Galleries, LLC | $900
8. 2023-12-02 | DAVID CATON \(American/Texas b. 1955\) A DRAWING, "Stream in Mountainscape," | Simpson Galleries, LLC | $550
9. 2023-11-12 | David Caton, Red Barn Watercolor | Vogt Galleries Texas | $500
10. 2023-09-13 | David Caton | DOYLE Auctioneers & Appraisers | $125
11. 2022-10-01 | DAVID CATON \(American/Texas b. 1955\) A PAINTING, "Boquillas \(Nature Trail\)," 1994, | Simpson Galleries, LLC | $1,900
12. 2022-10-01 | DAVID CATON \(American/Texas b. 1955\) A PAINTING, "Llano River," 1994, | Simpson Galleries, LLC | $1,300
13. 2022-02-12 | DAVID CATON \(American/Texas b.1955\) A PAINTING, "Houston, Texas Skyline: View of Buffalo Bayou," | Simpson Galleries, LLC | $1,700
14. 2020-11-14 | DAVID CATON \(American/Texas b. 1955\) A PAINTING, "Rock Formation in Lake Basin," | Houston Auction Company | $450
15. 2020-09-20 | DAVID CATON \(American/Texas b. 1955\) A PAINTING, "Mountain Ridges," | Simpson Galleries, LLC | N/A
16. 2020-06-07 | DAVID CATON \(American/Texas b. 1955\) A PAINTING, "Mountain Ridges," | Simpson Galleries, LLC | N/A
17. 2020-05-14 | David Caton \(American, b. 1955\) Desert Oasis Oil on canvas 48\-1/4 x 60 inches \(1 | Heritage Auctions | $220
18. 2020-05-14 | David Caton \(American, b. 1955\) Desert Cloud Oil on canvas 48\-1/4 x 60 inches \(1 | Heritage Auctions | $320
19. 2020-05-14 | David Caton \(American, b. 1955\) Chisos Morning Light Oil on canvas 48 x 64 inche | Heritage Auctions | $340
20. 2020-05-14 | David Caton \(American, b. 1955\) Formations in the Distance Oil on canvas 48\-1/4 | Heritage Auctions | $650
21. 2020-05-14 | David Caton \(American, b. 1955\) Sunset Mirage Oil on canvas 42\-1/4 x 72\-1/4 inch | Heritage Auctions | $200
22. 2020-05-14 | David Caton \(American, b. 1955\) Sunrise in the Canyon Oil on canvas 48\-1/4 x 66\- | Heritage Auctions | $750
23. 2019-09-21 | DAVID CATON \(American/Texas b. 1955\) A PAINTING, "Rock Formation in Lake Basin," | Simpson Galleries, LLC | $2,000
24. 2019-09-12 | David Caton \(American, b. 1955\) Sunrise in the Lowlands Oil on canvas 32 x 64 in | Heritage Auctions | $800

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