# Don Whitman - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-28T21:05:40.024Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 4
- Lots with prices: 4
- First auction date: 2024-05-16
- Latest auction date: 2026-03-12
- Median realised price: $250
- Price range: $125 to $18,000

## Market Takeaway
Don Whitman has 4 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $250. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 3 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 \($250\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($125 to $2,500\) 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: 50% (2 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 25% (1 sales)
- $10,000\+: 25% (1 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 3
- Previous 12 months sales: 1
- Recent 12 months median: $2,500
- Previous 12 months median: $250
- Median shift: 100%
- Latest sale date: 2026-03-12
- Days since latest sale: 47
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Swann Auction Galleries: 2 lots
- Potter & Potter Auctions Inc.: 1 lots
- Waddington's: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2026-03-12 | Don Whitman \(American, 1917–1998\). Male Physique Wrestling Photographs. Denver: Western Photography Guild, late 1950s | Potter & Potter Auctions Inc. | $125 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-don-whitman-american-1917-1998-male-physique-wrestling-photographs-denver-western-photography-guild-late-1950s-254-c-230c8482a4
2. 2025-08-21 | Don Whitman, A vast album of over 400 male physique photographs from the Western Photography Guild featuring models in pairs, including wrestling and models posing en plein air and in the studio. Circa 1950s\-60s. | Swann Auction Galleries | $18,000
3. 2025-08-21 | Don Whitman, A collection of approximately 83 classically inspired "beefcake" physique photographs from the Western Photography Guild taken in the studio, outdoors, and in home settings. Circa 1960s. | Swann Auction Galleries | $2,500
4. 2024-05-16 | Don Whitman \(1917\-1998\), TWO PHOTOGRAPHS: JIM DEMETRIOS DARDANIS POSED IN THE GRASS; SHERMAN ALSOP IN A COLORADO ROCKY LANDSCAPE | Waddington's | CA$250

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## JSON Source
https://appraisily.com/api/scraper-search/artists/don-whitman/seo-profile