# Frank Hurley - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-29T06:02:08.087Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 63
- Lots with prices: 41
- First auction date: 2001-09-25
- Latest auction date: 2025-06-26
- Median realised price: $5,593
- Price range: $30 to $54,896

## Market Takeaway
Frank Hurley shows solid auction liquidity with 63 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $5,593. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 3 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-06-26.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($5,593\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $240 and $10,625.
- Auction totals can include buyer premiums or fees depending on reporting, so compare like\-for\-like when possible.
- Condition, size, medium, provenance, and attribution confidence can move value materially versus median comps.

## Price Bands
- Under $1,000: 31.7% (13 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 34.1% (14 sales)
- $10,000\+: 34.1% (14 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 3
- Previous 12 months sales: 3
- Recent 12 months median: $100
- Previous 12 months median: $60
- Median shift: 66.7%
- Latest sale date: 2025-06-26
- Days since latest sale: 237
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Christie's: 38 lots
- Sydney Rare Book Auctions: 4 lots
- Chiswick Auctions: 3 lots
- Gibson's: 3 lots
- Lawsons: 2 lots
- Leonard Joel: 2 lots
- Ahlers & Ogletree Inc.: 1 lots
- Arenberg Auctions: 1 lots
- Capo Auction: 1 lots
- Dynasty: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-06-26 | Frank Hurley \- A Photographer's Life | Lawsons | A$30
2. 2025-06-08 | Frank Hurley: Pearls and Savages | The Book Merchant Jenkins | A$100
3. 2025-05-25 | FRANK HURLEY \(1885 \- 1962\), HILL 60 \- LARCH WOOD TUNNEL ADVANCED DRESSING STATION, original silver gelatin photograph, dated verso Oct.30 1917, with copyright handstamp and official label explaining that this is an "Official Australian photograph t | Leski Auctions Pty Ltd | A$160 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-frank-hurley-1885-1962-hill-60-larch-wood-tunnel-advanced-dressing-station-original-silver-gelatin-photograph-dated-verso-oct-30-1917-with-copyright-handstamp-and-official-label-explaining-that-this-is-an-official-australian-photograph-t-827-c-8d54a33bca
4. 2024-11-19 | Frank Hurley \(1885\-1962\) | Chiswick Auctions | N/A
5. 2024-05-19 | Frank Hurley in Papua | Sydney Rare Book Auctions | A$60
6. 2024-03-19 | FRANK HURLEY, Hunt of the Wild Duck, Northern Territory | Gibson's | A$1,100
7. 2023-04-24 | Frank Hurley | Sydney Rare Book Auctions | A$90
8. 2023-02-15 | Frank Hurley \- The Holy City \- A book of photographs in an album edition. London, 1949 | Dynasty | $150
9. 2022-11-04 | FRANK HURLEY | Sydney Rare Book Auctions | A$70
10. 2022-02-04 | Frank Hurley | Sydney Rare Book Auctions | A$300
11. 2021-05-25 | Frank Hurley \(1885\-1962\) – Three Photographs of Australian Soldiers in the WWI Palestine Campaign – Photograph of Australian Soldiers at the Temple Mount | Kedem Public Auction House Ltd | N/A
12. 2020-10-28 | Frank Hurley \(1885\-1962\) | Chiswick Auctions | £400
13. 2020-10-16 | Bomb damage at Ypres. | Arenberg Auctions | €240
14. 2020-06-15 | FRANK HURLEY \(1885\-1962\)Looking Towards the Western Mounts on a Calm Evening | Gibson's | A$1,000
15. 2020-06-15 | FRANK HURLEY \(1885\-1962\)Haunt of the Wild Duck, Northern Territory 1914 | Gibson's | N/A
16. 2019-11-28 | Frank Hurley \(1885 \- 1962\) \- Cape Denison \- Antartica 15.5 x 44.5 cm | Lawsons | N/A
17. 2019-05-16 | Frank Hurley \(1885\-1962\) | Chiswick Auctions | £187
18. 2019-03-17 | Frank Hurley \- Almost Overwhelmed | New England Auctions | $4,750
19. 2019-02-21 | FRANK HURLEY \(1885\-1962\) South Pole flight. | Swann Auction Galleries | N/A
20. 2018-06-24 | Frank Hurley, Wreck of the Endurance, 1915 Photo | Ahlers & Ogletree Inc. | N/A
21. 2018-03-01 | FRANK HURLEY \(1885\-1962\) I've Got My Eyes on You silver bromide photograph | Leonard Joel | N/A
22. 2017-12-07 | FRANK HURLEY \(1885\-1962\) I've Got My Eyes on You silver bromide photograph | Leonard Joel | N/A
23. 2017-10-31 | FRANK HURLEY \(1885\-1962\) \| Dr Leonard Hussey lifting Samson; The Endurance in the pack ice, Weddell Sea, December 1914 | Sotheby's | N/A
24. 2016-10-22 | Pair of Photographs After Frank Hurley | Capo Auction | $100

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