# Earl Staley - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-29T04:54:16.658Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 46
- Lots with prices: 40
- First auction date: 2003-06-01
- Latest auction date: 2025-09-13
- Median realised price: $350
- Price range: $26 to $2,250

## Market Takeaway
Earl Staley has 46 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $350. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 2 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 \($350\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($175 to $550\) 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: 90% (36 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 10% (4 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 2
- Previous 12 months sales: 3
- Recent 12 months median: $250
- Previous 12 months median: $750
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-09-13
- Days since latest sale: 227
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Simpson Galleries, LLC: 27 lots
- Wright: 6 lots
- Lion and Unicorn: 3 lots
- Butterscotch Auction Gallery LLC: 2 lots
- Neal Auction Company: 2 lots
- Winter Associates, Inc.: 2 lots
- Austin Auction Gallery: 1 lots
- Bill Hood & Sons Arts & Antiques Auctions: 1 lots
- Heritage Auctions: 1 lots
- Lewis & Maese Antiques & Auctions: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2024-09-21 | EARL STALEY \(American/Texas/Houston School b. 1938\) A PAINTING, “Suzanna and the Elders IV,” 1980 | Simpson Galleries, LLC | $1,200 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-earl-staley-american-texas-houston-school-b-1938-a-painting-suzanna-and-the-elders-iv-1980-31-c-0d447c0b47
2. 2025-09-13 | EARL STALEY \(American/Texas b. 1938\) "Skull Composition 4," 2007, 11 x 14 in. \(27.9 x 35.6 cm.\) | Simpson Galleries, LLC | $600
3. 2025-09-13 | EARL STALEY \(American/Texas b. 1938\) "Purple Mountains \(Untitled\)," 1988, 13 1/2 x 17 1/2 in. \(34.3 x 44.5 cm.\), Frame: 19 1/4 x 25 1/4 in. \(48.9 x 64.1 cm.\) | Simpson Galleries, LLC | $250
4. 2025-02-08 | EARL STALEY \(American/Texas b. 1938\) THREE DRAWINGS, 1960 | Simpson Galleries, LLC | $750
5. 2025-02-08 | EARL STALEY \(American/Texas b. 1938\) TWO WATERCOLORS AND ONE LITHOGRAPH, 1970s | Simpson Galleries, LLC | $200
6. 2024-03-23 | EARL STALEY \(American/Texas b. 1938\) A PAINTING, "Warm Passage," 2011 | Simpson Galleries, LLC | $275
7. 2024-03-23 | EARL STALEY \(American/Texas b. 1938\) A PAINTING, "Running Man VIII," 1987 | Simpson Galleries, LLC | $350
8. 2023-12-02 | EARL STALEY \(American/Texas b. 1938\) A PAINTING, "Samson and Delilah," 1982 | Simpson Galleries, LLC | $475
9. 2023-12-02 | EARL STALEY \(American/Texas b. 1938\) A PAINTING, "Grotesquery with Four Landscapes," 1986 | Simpson Galleries, LLC | $800
10. 2023-12-02 | EARL STALEY \(American/Texas b. 1938\) A PAINTING "Grotesquery with Seven Deadly Sins," 1986 | Simpson Galleries, LLC | $2,250
11. 2023-12-02 | EARL STALEY \(American/Texas b. 1938\) A PAINTING, "Poles," JUNE 1974 | Simpson Galleries, LLC | $325
12. 2023-09-23 | EARL STALEY \(American/Texas b. 1938\) A PAINTING, "Clouds on the Desert, Big Bend," JULY 5, 1977 | Simpson Galleries, LLC | $550
13. 2023-09-22 | EARL STALEY \(TX, B.1938\) INK ON PAPER, EXHIBITED | Austin Auction Gallery | $350
14. 2023-05-20 | EARL STALEY \(American/Texas b. 1938\) A PAINTING, "West Texas Landscape," 1983 | Simpson Galleries, LLC | $400
15. 2023-05-20 | EARL STALEY \(American/Texas b. 1938\) A PAINTING, "Big Bend Landscape," 1983 | Simpson Galleries, LLC | $425
16. 2023-05-20 | EARL STALEY \(American/Texas b. 1938\) A PAINTING, "Big Bend," 1983 | Simpson Galleries, LLC | $350
17. 2023-02-25 | EARL STALEY \(American/Texas b. 1938\) A PRINT, "Volcano," SIGNED, 1989 | Simpson Galleries, LLC | $275
18. 2023-02-25 | EARL STALEY \(American/Texas b. 1938\) A PRINT, "Overflow," 1989 | Simpson Galleries, LLC | N/A
19. 2022-05-21 | EARL STALEY \(American/Texas b.1938\) A PAINTING, "Skull and Palm," 1990, | Simpson Galleries, LLC | $950
20. 2022-03-09 | Earl Staley \(American/Texas, b. 1938\) | Neal Auction Company | $90
21. 2022-03-09 | Earl Staley \(American/Texas, b. 1938\) | Neal Auction Company | $375
22. 2022-02-12 | EARL STALEY \(American b. 1938\) AND BOB CAMBLIN \(American/Texas 1928\-2010\) A COLLABORATIVE PRINT, "Vulture," | Simpson Galleries, LLC | $125
23. 2022-02-12 | EARL STALEY \(American b. 1938\) AND BOB CAMBLIN \(American/Texas 1928\-2010\) A COLLABORATIVE PRINT, "Bat," | Simpson Galleries, LLC | $75
24. 2021-09-25 | EARL STALEY \(American/Texas b. 1938\) A PAINTING, "Lilliad," SEPTEMBER 2004, | Simpson Galleries, LLC | $375

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