# Edward Howard Betts - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-29T09:53:03.452Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 12
- Lots with prices: 11
- First auction date: 2002-12-14
- Latest auction date: 2024-11-12
- Median realised price: $700
- Price range: $50 to $2,100

## Market Takeaway
Edward Howard Betts has 12 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $700. 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 \($700\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($400 to $750\) 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: 81.8% (9 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 18.2% (2 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 0
- Previous 12 months sales: 2
- Recent 12 months median: $0
- Previous 12 months median: $1,750
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2024-11-12
- Days since latest sale: 532
- Market velocity: inactive

## Top Auction Houses
- Bonhams: 1 lots
- Cottone Auctions: 1 lots
- Eldred's: 1 lots
- Kodner Galleries: 1 lots
- Skinner: 1 lots
- Sloans & Kenyon: 1 lots
- Swann Auction Galleries: 1 lots
- Thomaston Place Auction Galleries: 1 lots
- Toomey & Co. Auctioneers: 1 lots
- Weschler's: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2024-11-12 | EDWARD HOWARD BETTS \(1920 \- 2008, AMERICAN\) Distant Shore. | Swann Auction Galleries | $1,750
2. 2024-08-25 | EDWARD HOWARD BETTS \(ME/IL, 1920\-2008\) | Thomaston Place Auction Galleries | $2,100
3. 2022-05-26 | EDWARD HOWARD BETTS \(Illinois/Maine, 1920\-2008\), Fishing shack on a harbor., Watercolor on paper, 13.75" x 21" sight. Framed 24" x 31". | Eldred's | $700
4. 2021-01-20 | Edward Howard Betts \(1920 \- 2008\) | Kodner Galleries | $50
5. 2017-12-19 | Edward Howard Betts \(American, 1920\-2008\), abstract modern painting, acrylic on paper, signed "Betts", 22\-3/4" x 16\-3/4" sight, in a... | William Bunch Auctions & Appraisals | $700
6. 2017-12-07 | Edward Howard Betts \(American, 1920\-2008\) Still Life | Cottone Auctions | $500
7. 2015-09-20 | EDWARD HOWARD BETTS \(American, 1920\-2008\). BOAT HOUSES ALONG SHORE, signed lower right. Gouache. | Sloans & Kenyon | $400
8. 2013-12-07 | Edward Howard Betts | Toomey & Co. Auctioneers | N/A
9. 2008-09-15 | Edward Howard Betts \(American 1920\-2008\) two | Winter Associates, Inc. | $750
10. 2008-05-16 | Edward Howard Betts \(American, b. 1920\) Northcliff Signed "Betts" l.r., identified and... | Skinner | $593
11. 2007-05-20 | Edward Howard Betts \(American, b.1920\) | Bonhams | $720
12. 2002-12-14 | Edward Howard Betts \(American b. 1920\) Northcliff Signed Betts l.r. Mixed media on board 10 x 13\-1/2 in \(25.4 x 34.3 cm\) | Weschler's | $288

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