# Dorothy Preston - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-29T00:00:40.639Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 15
- Lots with prices: 9
- First auction date: 2008-04-19
- Latest auction date: 2025-02-14
- Median realised price: $200
- Price range: $70 to $850

## Market Takeaway
Dorothy Preston has 15 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $200. 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 \($200\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($120 to $300\) 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: 100% (9 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 0% (0 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 0
- Previous 12 months sales: 3
- Recent 12 months median: $0
- Previous 12 months median: $850
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-02-14
- Days since latest sale: 438
- Market velocity: inactive

## Top Auction Houses
- Potomack Company: 6 lots
- Sloans & Kenyon: 6 lots
- Leland Little Auctions: 1 lots
- Weschler's: 1 lots
- William Bunch Auctions & Appraisals: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-02-14 | DOROTHY PRESTON, AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D.C. 1917\-1993, WHALE \+ KANGAROO, AUSTRALIAN PETROGLYPHS, 1987, Oil on canvas, 48 x 84 in. \(121.9 x 213.4 cm.\) | Potomack Company | $850
2. 2024-11-19 | DOROTHY PRESTON, AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D.C. 1917\-1993, WHALE \+ KANGAROO, AUSTRALIAN PETROGLYPHS, 1987, Oil on canvas, 48 x 84 in. \(121.9 x 213.4 cm.\) | Potomack Company | N/A
3. 2024-06-27 | DOROTHY PRESTON, AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D.C. 1917\-1993, WHALE \+ KANGAROO, AUSTRALIAN PETROGLYPHS, 1987, Oil on canvas, 48 x 84 in. \(121.9 x 213.4 cm.\) | Potomack Company | N/A
4. 2021-07-30 | DOROTHY PRESTON \(American, 1917\-1993\). HAND STENCILS AND SERPENTS, signed, dated '87 and titled verso. Oil on canvas. | Sloans & Kenyon | $120
5. 2021-05-13 | DOROTHY PRESTON \(American, 1917\-1993\). PETRA SERIES \#1, signed, dated '89 and titled verso. Oil on canvas. | Sloans & Kenyon | $70
6. 2017-12-14 | DOROTHY PRESTON \(American, 1917\-1993\). HAND STENCILS AND SERPENTS, signed, dated '87 and titled verso. Oil on canvas. | Sloans & Kenyon | N/A
7. 2017-12-14 | DOROTHY PRESTON \(American, 1917\-1993\). PETRA SERIES \#1, signed, dated '89 and titled verso. Oil on canvas. | Sloans & Kenyon | N/A
8. 2017-09-26 | DOROTHY PRESTON \(AMERICAN, 1917\-1993\) BALINESE CIRCUS RIDER, 1986 Oil on canvas: 49 x 55 in. | Potomack Company | $300
9. 2017-09-26 | DOROTHY PRESTON \(AMERICAN, 1917\- 1993\) PHAROAH KHAFRAH Oil on canvas: 52 x 52 in. | Potomack Company | $200
10. 2017-09-23 | DOROTHY PRESTON \(American, 1917\-1993\). PETRA SERIES \#1, signed, dated '89 and titled verso. Oil on canvas. | Sloans & Kenyon | N/A
11. 2017-09-23 | DOROTHY PRESTON \(American, 1917\-1993\). HAND STENCILS AND SERPENTS, signed, dated '87 and titled verso. Oil on canvas. | Sloans & Kenyon | N/A
12. 2017-06-27 | Dorothy Preston \(American, 1917\-1993\), abstract watercolor on paper, "Elephant Foot", signed "D Preston" lower right, 17\-1/4" x 13\-1... | William Bunch Auctions & Appraisals | $70
13. 2013-10-06 | DOROTHY PRESTON \(AMERICAN, 1917\-1993\) DOUBLE WANDJINAS, MANNING CREEK, 1987 Oil canvas: 31 x 30 in. | Potomack Company | $250
14. 2009-03-21 | Dorothy Preston \(Am., 1917\-1993\), Circus Abstract, | Leland Little Auctions | $200
15. 2008-04-19 | Dorothy Preston \(American 1917\-1993\) | Weschler's | $600

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