# Ernest Smith - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-29T08:00:17.313Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 33
- Lots with prices: 24
- First auction date: 2006-07-31
- Latest auction date: 2025-10-19
- Median realised price: $400
- Price range: $30 to $4,800

## Market Takeaway
Ernest Smith has 33 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $400. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 1 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 \($400\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($170 to $600\) 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: 1
- Previous 12 months sales: 2
- Recent 12 months median: $1,100
- Previous 12 months median: $140
- Median shift: 100%
- Latest sale date: 2025-10-19
- Days since latest sale: 192
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Kerleys Auctions: 7 lots
- Leonard Joel: 7 lots
- Lawsons: 6 lots
- Aalders Auctions: 2 lots
- Artvisory: 2 lots
- Bay East Auctions: 2 lots
- Gibson's: 2 lots
- Amanda Addams Auctions: 1 lots
- Colville Auctions: 1 lots
- Lyon & Turnbull: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-10-19 | ERNEST SMITH \(BORN 1928\), Bathers | Gibson's | A$1,100
2. 2025-03-17 | Ernest Smith \(Seneca Indian New York, 1907\-1975\) Seneca Indian "The Medicine Mask" Watercolor FRAMED | One Source Auctions | $140
3. 2024-07-14 | Ernest Smith \(Australian 1928\-\) "In the Real\-World… | Amanda Addams Auctions | A$325
4. 2024-02-25 | Ernest Smith "Man in Surrealism" Oil | Kerleys Auctions | A$1,100
5. 2023-09-21 | ERNEST WALTER SMITH, FIGURAL COMPOSITION, OIL ON CANVAS LAID ON BOARD, INITIALLED LOWER RIGHT, 29 X 38.5CM, FRAME SIZE: 52 X 62CM ... | Leonard Joel | A$500
6. 2023-09-21 | ERNEST WALTER SMITH, PORTRAIT OF A MAN, OIL ON BOARD, INITIALLED LOWER RIGHT, 39 X 31CM, FRAME SIZE: 54.5 X 46.5 PROVENANCE: LAWSO... | Leonard Joel | A$600
7. 2023-06-28 | ERNEST SMITH \(BORN 1928\), Bathers 2000 | Gibson's | A$2,000
8. 2023-02-26 | Ernest Walter Smith, Australia b.1928\- Junior persons series no 1 oil on board initialled lower right | Artvisory | A$460
9. 2023-02-26 | Ernest Walter Smith, Australia b.1928\- Junior persons series no 3 oil on board initialled lower left | Artvisory | A$460
10. 2022-07-14 | ERNEST SMITH, COMPASSION 1953, OIL ON CANVAS, 84.5 X 83CM, FRAME SIZE: 89 X 89CM INITIALLED LOWER RIGHT | Leonard Joel | N/A
11. 2022-03-27 | Ernest Smith \(b. 1928\) “Abstract” Oil, 1963 | Kerleys Auctions | A$300
12. 2021-12-12 | Ernest Smith \(Australian, b. 1928\), Oil on Board | Kerleys Auctions | A$280
13. 2021-12-12 | Ernest Smith \(Australian, b.1928\), Oil on Board | Kerleys Auctions | A$170
14. 2021-11-14 | Ernest Walter Smith \(Australian, b.1928\), Charcoal Drawing | Kerleys Auctions | A$310
15. 2021-11-14 | Ernest Walter Smith \(B. 1928, Australia\) “Atago Composition”, Oil on Board | Kerleys Auctions | A$400
16. 2021-10-03 | Ernest Smith \(b. 1928\), Oil on Board, Untitled | Kerleys Auctions | A$4,800
17. 2020-02-24 | Ernest Walter Smith \(1928\-\) Australia \- Composition | Colville Auctions | A$1,500
18. 2019-04-03 | ERNEST SMITH \(1876\-1967\) ARTS & CRAFTS MAHOGANY CABINET, CIRCA 1930 61cm wide, 126cm high, 43cm deep | Lyon & Turnbull | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-ernest-smith-1876-1967-arts-crafts-mahogany-cabinet-circa-1930-61cm-wide-126cm-high-43cm-deep-265-c-0c6487ea4c
19. 2018-08-23 | ERNEST SMITH \(born 1928\) Portrait Oil on board | Leonard Joel | A$400
20. 2017-06-22 | ERNEST SMITH, COMPOSITION 1, OIL ON CANVAS, 98 X 98 CM | Leonard Joel | N/A
21. 2016-02-21 | Ernest Smith \(1928 \-\) | Aalders Auctions | A$160
22. 2015-12-17 | ERNEST SMITH, PORTRAIT, OIL ON BOARD, 20 X 13.5CM | Leonard Joel | A$160
23. 2015-10-25 | Ernest Smith \(1928 \-\) | Aalders Auctions | A$350
24. 2014-09-24 | Ernest Walter Smith \(1928 \- \) Australia Interplay oil on board | Theodore Bruce | N/A

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