# Ethel Spears - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-29T09:28:47.323Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 16
- Lots with prices: 12
- First auction date: 2005-09-15
- Latest auction date: 2025-06-18
- Median realised price: $350
- Price range: $59 to $6,000

## Market Takeaway
Ethel Spears has 16 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $350. 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 \($350\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($175 to $1,500\) 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: 66.7% (8 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 33.3% (4 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 1
- Previous 12 months sales: 1
- Recent 12 months median: $200
- Previous 12 months median: $175
- Median shift: 14.3%
- Latest sale date: 2025-06-18
- Days since latest sale: 314
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Heritage Auctions: 5 lots
- Toomey & Co. Auctioneers: 3 lots
- Hindman: 2 lots
- Swann Auction Galleries: 2 lots
- Freeman’s \| Hindman: 1 lots
- Leonard Auction: 1 lots
- Rachel Davis Fine Arts: 1 lots
- Wright: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2016-10-22 | Ethel Spears woodcut | Rachel Davis Fine Arts | $350
2. 2025-06-18 | Ethel Spears, Untitled | Wright | $200
3. 2024-12-08 | Ethel Spears \(American, 1903\-1974\) Woodblock Prints | Leonard Auction | $175
4. 2023-02-10 | Ethel Spears \(American, 1903\-1974\) Galena | Freeman’s \| Hindman | $1,500
5. 2023-02-10 | Ethel Spears \(American, 1903\-1974\) Punch and Judy, Tuilleries Gardens, Paris | Hindman | $400
6. 2023-02-10 | Ethel Spears \(American, 1903\-1974\) Department Store | Hindman | $6,000
7. 2010-05-23 | Ethel Spears \(American, 1903\-1974\) "Ukraine | Toomey & Co. Auctioneers | N/A
8. 2008-12-07 | Ethel Spears \(American, 1903\-1974\) "Still Life," | Toomey & Co. Auctioneers | N/A
9. 2007-09-09 | Ethel Spears \(American, 1903\-1974\), "At the Zoo," | Toomey & Co. Auctioneers | $200
10. 2006-12-02 | ETHEL SPEARS \(1903\-1974\) | Heritage Auctions | $59
11. 2006-12-02 | ETHEL SPEARS \(1903\-1974\) | Heritage Auctions | $59
12. 2006-12-02 | ETHEL SPEARS \(1903\-1974\) | Heritage Auctions | $478
13. 2006-12-02 | ETHEL SPEARS \(1903\-1974\) | Heritage Auctions | $3,346
14. 2006-12-02 | ETHEL SPEARS \(1903\-1974\) | Heritage Auctions | $2,987
15. 2005-09-15 | ETHEL SPEARS | Swann Auction Galleries | N/A
16. 2005-09-15 | ETHEL SPEARS | Swann Auction Galleries | N/A

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