# David John Backhouse - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-29T06:34:51.630Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 22
- Lots with prices: 16
- First auction date: 2009-06-09
- Latest auction date: 2025-03-25
- Median realised price: $625
- Price range: $20 to $2,200

## Market Takeaway
David John Backhouse has 22 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $625. 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 \($625\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($325 to $1,200\) 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: 62.5% (10 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 37.5% (6 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 0
- Previous 12 months sales: 4
- Recent 12 months median: $0
- Previous 12 months median: $1,200
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-03-25
- Days since latest sale: 399
- Market velocity: inactive

## Top Auction Houses
- Bonhams: 7 lots
- Roseberys: 4 lots
- Alex Cooper: 2 lots
- Potteries Auctions: 2 lots
- South Bay Auctions Inc: 2 lots
- Capsule Gallery Auction: 1 lots
- Gorringes: 1 lots
- Lots Road Auctions: 1 lots
- Maison Jules Veilinghuis: 1 lots
- Sworders: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-03-25 | David Backhouse, British b.1941 \-  Torso With Raised Arms;  bronze, from an edition of 7, signed, | Roseberys | £1,200
2. 2024-06-11 | David Backhouse,  | Roseberys | N/A
3. 2024-06-11 | David Backhouse,  | Roseberys | N/A
4. 2024-06-11 | David Backhouse,  | Roseberys | £1,500
5. 2023-04-14 | David BACKHOUSE \(1941\). Nude 9. Drawing in pencil. Signed. Measures 28 x 23 cm. | Potteries Auctions | £20
6. 2023-03-11 | David BACKHOUSE \(1941\). Nude 9. Drawing in pencil. Signed. Measures 28 x 23 cm. | Potteries Auctions | £45
7. 2022-05-15 | David BACKHOUSE \(1941\) | Maison Jules Veilinghuis | €1,300
8. 2021-12-09 | DAVID BACKHOUSE \- MAN WITH HORSE | Capsule Gallery Auction | $1,000
9. 2020-09-30 | David Backhouse \(1941\-Present\), | Sworders | £110
10. 2017-06-24 | DAVID BACKHOUSE \(British, b.1941\) | South Bay Auctions Inc | $500
11. 2016-09-20 | David Backhouse \(British, born 1941\) Man and horse 39cm \(15 1/2in\)\(height\) | Bonhams | £625
12. 2016-06-11 | DAVID BACKHOUSE \(British, b.1941\), nude torso, bronze. | South Bay Auctions Inc | $800
13. 2013-09-22 | DAVID BACKHOUSE \(b.1941\), 'The balloon seller', | Lots Road Auctions | £2,200
14. 2012-11-28 | David Backhouse \(British, born 1941\) | Bonhams | £812
15. 2011-11-09 | David Backhouse \(British, born 1941\) Standing woman with outstretched arms 67 cm high | Bonhams | N/A
16. 2011-11-08 | David Backhouse \(British, born 1941\) Standing woman with outstretched arms 67 cm high | Bonhams | £1,625
17. 2011-08-30 | David Backhouse \(English, b. 1941\). Female Figure, bronze | Alex Cooper | $325
18. 2011-06-05 | David Backhouse \(English, b. 1941\). Female Figure, bronze | Alex Cooper | $475
19. 2011-03-23 | David Backhouse \(1941\-\), A bronze figure of a female nude, 14.5ins | Gorringes | N/A
20. 2010-07-07 | David Backhouse \(British, 1941\) Bronze Torso 15 x 8cm. | Bonhams | N/A
21. 2010-07-06 | David Backhouse \(British, 1941\) Bronze Torso 15 x 8cm. | Bonhams | N/A
22. 2009-06-09 | David Backhouse \(British, B. 1941\): A patinated and painted bronze figure of a shrouded man | Bonhams | £600

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