# Desmond Heeley - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-29T01:15:42.001Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 17
- Lots with prices: 15
- First auction date: 2016-08-25
- Latest auction date: 2025-06-17
- Median realised price: $409
- Price range: $62 to $1,750

## Market Takeaway
Desmond Heeley has 17 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $409. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 9 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 \($409\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($252 to $768\) 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: 86.7% (13 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 13.3% (2 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 9
- Previous 12 months sales: 2
- Recent 12 months median: $468
- Previous 12 months median: $375
- Median shift: 24.8%
- Latest sale date: 2025-06-17
- Days since latest sale: 315
- Market velocity: moderate

## Top Auction Houses
- Waddington's: 11 lots
- Swann Auction Galleries: 3 lots
- Neal Auction Company: 2 lots
- Revere Auctions: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-06-17 | DESMOND HEELEY \(1931 \- 2016\) Two costume designs: Lady Froth and Court Lady. | Swann Auction Galleries | $468
2. 2025-06-12 | Desmond Heeley \(British Canadian, 1931\-2016\), COSTUME DESIGN FOR NICHOLAS PENNELL AS JACQUES IN SHAKESPEARE'S 'AS YOU LIKE IT', STRATFORD, 1983 | Waddington's | CA$409
3. 2025-06-12 | Desmond Heeley \(British Canadian, 1931\-2016\), COSTUME DESIGN FOR PAT GALLOWAY AS KATHERINE IN SHAKESPEARE'S 'THE TAMING OF THE SHREW', STRATFORD, 1973 | Waddington's | CA$62
4. 2025-06-12 | Desmond Heeley \(British Canadian, 1931\-2016\), TWO COSTUME DESIGNS FOR OLIVER GOLDSMITH'S 'SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER', STRATFORD, 1972 | Waddington's | CA$281
5. 2025-06-12 | Desmond Heeley \(British Canadian, 1931\-2016\), TWO COSTUME DESIGNS FOR CHARACTERS FROM ALEXANDRE DUMAS' 'THE THREE MUSKETEERS', 1968 | Waddington's | CA$937
6. 2025-06-12 | Desmond Heeley \(British Canadian, 1931\-2016\), TWO COSTUME DESIGNS FOR TCHAIKOVSKY'S 'SWAN LAKE' AS PERFORMED BY THE NATIONAL BALLET OF CANADA, TORONTO, 1967 | Waddington's | CA$187
7. 2025-06-12 | Desmond Heeley \(British Canadian, 1931\-2016\), COSTUME DESIGN FOR POWYS THOMAS AS OWEN GLENDOWER IN SHAKESPEARE'S 'HENRY IV', STRATFORD, 1965 | Waddington's | CA$537
8. 2025-06-12 | Desmond Heeley \(British Canadian, 1931\-2016\), COSTUME DESIGN FOR LEO CICERI AS ANTONIO IN SHAKESPEARE'S THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, STRATFORD, 1960 | Waddington's | CA$768
9. 2025-06-12 | Desmond Heeley \(British, 1931\-2016\), TWO COSTUME DESIGNS FOR OSCAR WILDE'S 'THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST' BY THE OLD VIC COMPANY, LONDON, 1959 | Waddington's | CA$1,375
10. 2024-10-03 | DESMOND HEELEY \(CANADIAN, 1931\-2016\), TEMPEST \("ADRIAN" AND "ATTENDANT"\) | Waddington's | CA$375
11. 2024-06-20 | DESMOND HEELEY \(1931\-2016\) Dame Margot Fonteyn as Hanna. | Swann Auction Galleries | $625
12. 2023-12-14 | DESMOND HEELEY "Act I Prologue" and "Carabosse." | Swann Auction Galleries | $1,750
13. 2022-08-11 | Desmond Heeley \(British/American, 1931\-2016\) | Neal Auction Company | $256
14. 2022-04-09 | Desmond Heeley \(British/American, 1931\-2016\) | Neal Auction Company | N/A
15. 2021-11-03 | Desmond Heeley 2 Shakespeare Costume Designs | Revere Auctions | $140
16. 2017-08-31 | DESMOND HEELEY \(CANADIAN, 1931\-2016\), “DON QUIOXTE” SHIRT \(NATIONAL BALLET OF CANADA\), ILLUSTRATION WATECOLOUR & PENCIL; SIGNED AND DATED ‘85 LOWER RIGHT; TITLED AT TOP \(Sight, 14.5” x 11”\) | Waddington's | CA$252
17. 2016-08-25 | DESMOND HEELEY \(BRITISH \- CANADIAN, 1931\-2016\), “DON QUIOXTE” SANCHO PANZA \(THE NATIONAL BALLET OF CANADA, MIXED MEDIA ON PAPER; TITLED AT TOP AND BOTTOM; SIGNED AND DATED ‘85 LOWER RIGHT \(Sight, 14.5” x 11”\) | Waddington's | N/A

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