# Denis Smith - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-29T04:53:10.260Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 31
- Lots with prices: 27
- First auction date: 2008-06-21
- Latest auction date: 2025-10-22
- Median realised price: $275
- Price range: $75 to $1,200

## Market Takeaway
Denis Smith has 31 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $275. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 4 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 \($275\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($210 to $450\) 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: 96.3% (26 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 3.7% (1 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 4
- Previous 12 months sales: 5
- Recent 12 months median: $350
- Previous 12 months median: $150
- Median shift: 100%
- Latest sale date: 2025-10-22
- Days since latest sale: 188
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Material Culture: 23 lots
- ZQ Art & Auction: 4 lots
- Bonhams: 1 lots
- Hill Auction Gallery: 1 lots
- Sloans & Kenyon: 1 lots
- Winter Associates, Inc.: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2022-11-21 | Denis Smith \(Haitian, B.1954\) Painting | Material Culture | $175
2. 2025-10-22 | Denis Smith \(Haitian/Haiti\) Loa with Animal, Dated 1988 | Material Culture | $600
3. 2025-10-22 | Denis Smith \(Haitian/Haiti\) Horned Loa w/ Bird Spirit, 1985 | Material Culture | $350
4. 2025-10-22 | Denis Smith \(Haitian/Haiti\) Loa, 1988, Dated 1988 | Material Culture | $350
5. 2025-10-22 | Denis Smith \(Haitian/Haiti\) Loa, 1988, Dated 1988 | Material Culture | $550
6. 2025-03-31 | Denis Smith \(Haitian/Haiti\) Horned Loa w/ Bird Spirit, 1985 | Material Culture | N/A
7. 2025-03-31 | Denis Smith \(Haitian/Haiti\) Loas, Dated 1983 | Material Culture | $150
8. 2025-03-31 | Denis Smith \(Haitian/Haiti\) Two Lwa, Dated 1982 | Material Culture | $225
9. 2025-03-31 | Denis Smith \(Haitian/Haiti\) Possession, Dated 1981 | Material Culture | N/A
10. 2025-03-31 | Denis Smith \(Haitian/Haiti\) Loa with Birds, Dated 1981 | Material Culture | $75
11. 2024-02-01 | Denis Smith b.1954 Haitian Surrealist Painting | Hill Auction Gallery | $225
12. 2022-05-31 | Denis Smith \(Haitian, B.1954\) 2 Works | Material Culture | $475
13. 2022-05-31 | Denis Smith \(Haitian, B.1954\) | Material Culture | $400
14. 2022-01-25 | Denis Smith \(Haitian, born 1954\) Six Works: Portraits 32 x 24in; the rest 24 x 24in \(Painted in 1988, 1989, and 1990, respectively.\) | Bonhams | $1,200
15. 2021-04-29 | Denis Smith \(Haitian, b.1954\) | Material Culture | $325
16. 2021-04-29 | Denis Smith \(Haitian, b.1954\) | Material Culture | $275
17. 2021-01-28 | Denis Smith \(Haitian, b. 1954\) | Material Culture | $475
18. 2021-01-28 | Denis Smith \(Haitian, b. 1954\) | Material Culture | $475
19. 2021-01-28 | Denis Smith \(Haitian, b. 1954\) | Material Culture | $450
20. 2020-11-23 | Denis Smith \(Haitian, b.1954\) | Material Culture | $275
21. 2020-11-23 | Denis Smith \(Haitian, b.1954\) | Material Culture | $425
22. 2020-11-23 | Denis Smith \(Haitian, b.1954\) | Material Culture | $200
23. 2020-07-22 | Denis Smith \(Haitian, b. 1954\) | Material Culture | $250
24. 2020-07-22 | Denis Smith \(Haitian, b.1954\) | Material Culture | $250

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