# Francis Tansey - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-15T21:33:27.948Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 43
- Lots with prices: 29
- First auction date: 2003-04-29
- Latest auction date: 2025-09-16
- Median realised price: $1,900
- Price range: $180 to $5,500

## Market Takeaway
Francis Tansey has 43 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $1,900. 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 \($1,900\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($900 to $2,900\) 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: 27.6% (8 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 72.4% (21 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 2
- Previous 12 months sales: 3
- Recent 12 months median: $800
- Previous 12 months median: $2,000
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-09-16
- Days since latest sale: 241
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Adam's: 19 lots
- Whyte's: 16 lots
- Bonhams: 2 lots
- Christie's: 2 lots
- Sheppards: 2 lots
- Morgan O'Driscoll: 1 lots
- Ross's Auctioneers & Valuers: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-09-16 | FRANCIS TANSEY \(B. 1959\) | Sheppards | €800 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-francis-tansey-b-1959-137-c-da34c149e0
2. 2025-06-24 | FRANCIS TANSEY \(Irish, born 1959\) Subjective Color Reality | Bonhams | N/A
3. 2025-02-04 | FRANCIS TANSEY \(B. 1959\) | Sheppards | €2,000
4. 2024-10-22 | FRANCIS TANSEY \(B.1959\) Complementary Saturation Acrylic on canvas, 60.9 x 60.9cm Signed; signed, titled and dated 1991 verso Provenance: with Solomon Gallery, Dublin, label verso | Adam's | €900
5. 2024-10-22 | FRANCIS TANSEY \(B.1959\) Complementary Saturation II Acrylic on canvas, 60.9 x 60.9cm Signed; signed, titled and dated 1990 verso Provenance: with Solomon Gallery, label verso | Adam's | €2,200
6. 2023-09-27 | Francis Tansey \(b.1959\) Complimentary Planes No. 2 Oil on canvas, 45.5 x 45.5cm \(18 x 18\) Signed, inscribed and dated \(19\)'88 | Adam's | €850
7. 2023-05-09 | FRANCIS TANSEY \(B.1959\) Study in Translucence \(1995\) Acrylic on canvas, 86 x 86cm \(33¾ x 33¾\) Signed, inscribed and dated \(19\)'95 verso | Adam's | €1,800
8. 2023-04-18 | Francis Tansey \(b.1959\) Corrigated Red \(1987\) | Morgan O'Driscoll | N/A
9. 2023-03-06 | Francis Tansey \(b.1959\) CONVERSATION WITH P.M., 1995 | Whyte's | N/A
10. 2023-03-06 | Francis Tansey \(b.1959\) CIRCULAR TRANSLUCENCE, 2022 | Whyte's | N/A
11. 2022-11-28 | Francis Tansey \(b.1959\) MONOLITH I, 1993 | Whyte's | N/A
12. 2022-05-10 | FRANCIS TANSEY \( b. 1959\) Horizontal Tubes Oil on canvas, 138 x 106.5cm Signed and inscribed verso | Adam's | €3,200
13. 2021-09-27 | Francis Tansey \(b.1959\) COMPLEMENTARY SATISFACTION, 1990 | Whyte's | €1,900
14. 2021-09-27 | Francis Tansey \(b.1959\) SMOULDERING RED IN ASYMMETRIC BLUE | Whyte's | €1,900
15. 2021-03-22 | Francis Tansey \(b.1959\) CELTIC SYMETTRY, 2018 | Whyte's | €1,800
16. 2021-03-22 | Francis Tansey \(b.1959\) SPECTRAL, 1999 | Whyte's | €2,400
17. 2020-02-18 | FRANCIS TANSEY \(B. 1959\) Complementary Dialogue No. 1 | Christie's | £2,000
18. 2019-11-19 | FRANCIS TANSEY \(B.1959\)Study with MagentaOil on canvas, 76 x 76cm \(30 x 30''\)Signed, inscribed and dated \(19\)'95Provenance: From the Antoinette & Patrick J. Murphy Collection. | Adam's | €2,400
19. 2019-10-23 | Francis Tansey \(b.1959\)Study in Blue IVAcrylic on canvas, 61 x 46cm \(24 x 18¼\)Signed, inscribed and dated 1988 versoProvenance: With the Solomon Gallery, Dublin, September 1988. | Adam's | €800
20. 2019-10-23 | Francis Tansey \(b.1959\)Red on RedAcrylic on canvas, 61 x 61cm \(24 x 24\)Signed, inscribed and dated \(19\)97 versoExhibited: 'Kilkenny Colourists Exhibition', Kilkenny c.1990 | Adam's | €1,200
21. 2018-11-26 | Francis Tansey \(b.1959\) LIGHTING ORANGE, 2008 | Whyte's | €1,400
22. 2017-09-27 | Francis Tansey \(b.1959\)Tubular Composition No.2Acrylic on canvasSigned, inscribed and dated 6/88 verso | Adam's | €1,500
23. 2017-09-27 | Francis Tansey \(b.1959\)Mandela is FreeAcrylic on canvas, 112 x 112cm \(44 x 44''\)Signed, inscribed and dated 2/90 verso | Adam's | €1,500
24. 2014-10-01 | Francis Tansey \(b.1959\) Bike Path Boogie Woogie II | Adam's | €300

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