# Edward Melcarth - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-29T06:03:33.465Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 28
- Lots with prices: 24
- First auction date: 2009-04-21
- Latest auction date: 2025-10-25
- Median realised price: $350
- Price range: $10 to $6,000

## Market Takeaway
Edward Melcarth has 28 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $350. 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 \($350\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($160 to $840\) 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: 79.2% (19 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 20.8% (5 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 3
- Previous 12 months sales: 1
- Recent 12 months median: $2,400
- Previous 12 months median: $325
- Median shift: 100%
- Latest sale date: 2025-10-25
- Days since latest sale: 185
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Litchfield Auctions: 4 lots
- Butterscotch Auction Gallery LLC: 2 lots
- Heritage Auctions: 2 lots
- Millea Bros Ltd: 2 lots
- RoGallery: 2 lots
- Sloans & Kenyon: 2 lots
- Abell Auction: 1 lots
- Antique Arena Inc: 1 lots
- Bill Hood & Sons Arts & Antiques Auctions: 1 lots
- Casa d'aste ARCADIA: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-10-25 | Edward Melcarth "Picklight" Oil on Canvas | Circle Auction | $2,400
2. 2025-07-15 | Edward Melcarth \(American, 1914\-1973\) Portrait of John Steel, Oil on canvas, canvas 12 x 9 in. overall framed size 21 x 18 inches | Bill Hood & Sons Arts & Antiques Auctions | $6,000
3. 2025-04-30 | EDWARD MELCARTH \- HEROIC HEAD \- SIGNED | Litchfield Auctions | $275
4. 2024-06-15 | AMERICAN HEROIC HEAD SCULPTURE BY EDWARD MELCARTH | Antique Arena Inc | $325
5. 2023-12-12 | Edward Melcarth \(Louisville 1914\-Louisville 1972\) Cross Country Runners 1969 Oil painting on canvas 60x60 cm Signature at the top right "Melcarth". On the verse Reca signature, title and date "Melcarth, Cross Country Runners, Venice '69" | Casa d'aste ARCADIA | €1,100
6. 2023-11-15 | EDWARD MELCARTH "HEROIC HEAD" RESIN BUST SCULPTURE | Litchfield Auctions | $150 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-edward-melcarth-heroic-head-resin-bust-sculpture-581-c-b1c4a2284a
7. 2023-01-12 | EDWARD MELCARTH \(1914 \- 1973\): TWO MEN WRESTING | Abell Auction | $450
8. 2021-03-24 | Edward Melcarth \(1914\-1973\) American, 'the waiting game, Rome 1969', a scene of figures outside a classical bu | John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers | £480
9. 2020-06-04 | Edward Melcarth, oil on board | Millea Bros Ltd | $650
10. 2020-03-26 | Edward Melcarth, original illustration art | Millea Bros Ltd | $600
11. 2018-11-25 | Edward Melcarth, Am. Young Men on Motorcycles, Ink | Litchfield Auctions | $600
12. 2018-04-21 | EDWARD MELCARTH \(American, 1914\-1973\) | South Bay Auctions Inc | $2,400
13. 2017-09-24 | EDWARD MELCARTH \(American, 1914\-1973\). HEROIC HEAD, signed, dated '60 and stamped JC. Patinated composition sculpture. | Sloans & Kenyon | $200
14. 2017-03-19 | EDWARD MELCARTH \(American, 1914\-1973\) | Butterscotch Auction Gallery LLC | $160
15. 2016-12-09 | EDWARD MELCARTH \(1914\-1973\) OIL ON CANVAS | Dirk Soulis Auctions | $1,050
16. 2016-11-06 | EDWARD MELCARTH \(American, 1914\-1973\) | Butterscotch Auction Gallery LLC | N/A
17. 2016-05-26 | Edward Melcarth, 20thc Double Sided Drawing | Litchfield Auctions | $70
18. 2015-05-02 | EDWARD MELCARTH \(American, 1914\-1973\) Instant of Oblivi | Heritage Auctions | N/A
19. 2015-02-21 | EDWARD MELCARTH \(American, 1914\-1973\). HEROIC HEAD, signed, dated '68 and stamped JC. Patinated composition sculpture. | Sloans & Kenyon | $350
20. 2015-02-21 | EDWARD MELCARTH \(British, 1900\-1970\) Three Men, 1952 Wa | Heritage Auctions | $937
21. 2015-02-07 | EDWARD MELCARTH \- Sculpture of a Head Size : 12 1/2" T | Greater London Auctions, LLC | $200
22. 2014-12-10 | Edward Melcarth, Male Portrait Cold Cast Bronze Sculpture | RoGallery | N/A
23. 2012-07-27 | Edward Melcarth \(1914\-1973\): Hercules and Antaeus | STAIR | $50
24. 2012-05-24 | Edward Melcarth, Cold Cast Bronze Sculpture | RoGallery | N/A

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