# Gene Zesch - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-26T08:04:16.596Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 35
- Lots with prices: 34
- First auction date: 2014-07-13
- Latest auction date: 2025-12-10
- Median realised price: $1,400
- Price range: $200 to $5,500

## Market Takeaway
Gene Zesch has 35 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $1,400. 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 \($1,400\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($825 to $2,750\) 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: 32.4% (11 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 67.6% (23 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 2
- Previous 12 months sales: 11
- Recent 12 months median: $625
- Previous 12 months median: $2,500
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-12-10
- Days since latest sale: 163
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Jackson Hole Art Auction: 14 lots
- Altermann Galleries: 6 lots
- Bradford's: 3 lots
- Clars Auctions: 2 lots
- SebastianCharles Auctions: 2 lots
- Vogt Galleries Texas: 2 lots
- Austin Auction Gallery: 1 lots
- Clarke Auction Gallery: 1 lots
- Heritage Auctions: 1 lots
- J Levine Auction & Appraisal LLC: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-12-10 | Gene Zesch "Country Gone To Town" Bronze Sculpture | SebastianCharles Auctions | $825 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-gene-zesch-country-gone-to-town-bronze-sculpture-4-c-d31fea9c4a
2. 2025-12-10 | Gene Zesch "Have A Nice Day" Bronze & Wood Sculpture | SebastianCharles Auctions | $625 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-gene-zesch-have-a-nice-day-bronze-wood-sculpture-3-c-6b4523a305
3. 2025-02-14 | Gene Zesch \(1932\- \), The Liar, 1987 | Jackson Hole Art Auction | $1,600
4. 2025-02-14 | Gene Zesch \(1932\- \), The Rodeo Has Made Me What I Am Today | Jackson Hole Art Auction | $1,500
5. 2025-02-14 | Gene Zesch \(1932\- \), Gunslinger | Jackson Hole Art Auction | $1,400
6. 2025-05-07 | Gene Zesch, A Sticky Situation | Santa Fe Art Auction | $1,920
7. 2025-02-14 | Gene Zesch \(1932\- \), Country Gone To Town | Jackson Hole Art Auction | $2,750
8. 2025-02-14 | Gene Zesch \(1932\- \), We Know You're in There and We Know You're Smoking! | Jackson Hole Art Auction | $3,500
9. 2024-09-14 | Gene Zesch \(1932\- \), No, It's Not an Antique \- I Never Could Afford a New One | Jackson Hole Art Auction | $2,500
10. 2024-09-14 | Gene Zesch \(1932\- \), Model T / End of the Line, 1982 | Jackson Hole Art Auction | $3,000
11. 2024-09-14 | Gene Zesch \(1932\- \), This Ranch Has Made Me What I Am Today | Jackson Hole Art Auction | $2,000
12. 2024-09-14 | Gene Zesch \(1932\- \), My Success Didn't Come Easy, 2003 | Jackson Hole Art Auction | $5,000
13. 2024-09-14 | Gene Zesch \(1932\- \), I See by Your Outfit That You Are a Cowboy | Jackson Hole Art Auction | $5,500
14. 2023-02-18 | Gene Zesch \(1932\-\), This Ranch Has Made Me What I Am Today | Jackson Hole Art Auction | $4,000
15. 2023-02-18 | Gene Zesch \(1932\-\), Oh, What a Beautiful Morning | Jackson Hole Art Auction | $750
16. 2023-02-18 | Gene Zesch \(1932\-\), Meditatin' | Jackson Hole Art Auction | $700
17. 2023-02-18 | Gene Zesch \(1932\-\), Always Tell the Truth, Even if You Have To Lie a Little | Jackson Hole Art Auction | $1,000
18. 2022-06-25 | GENE ZESCH \(TX, B.1932\) BRONZE COWBOYS AT THE BAR | Austin Auction Gallery | $1,900 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-gene-zesch-tx-b-1932-bronze-cowboys-at-the-bar-756-c-0db428e980
19. 2022-06-05 | Gene Zesch \(U S Born 1932\) Bronze Sculpture | Clarke Auction Gallery | $1,200
20. 2021-09-12 | GENE ZESCH "TANGLED FISHERMAN" BRONZE SCULPTURE ON WOOD BASE | Bradford's | $360
21. 2021-09-12 | GENE ZESCH "SEZ HERE PEOPLE PAY MONEY TO DO THIS" BRONZE SCULPTURE | Bradford's | $1,800
22. 2020-02-16 | Gene Zesch "This Ranch Has Made Me What I Am Today" | Bradford's | $520
23. 2019-11-01 | Gene Zesch \(American, b. 1932\) Never Let the Truth Interfere with a Good Story P | Heritage Auctions | $3,600
24. 2019-04-27 | Gene Zesch \(b. 1932\), bronze, "Elliot Feels that to Paint the Cowboy Authentically, He Must Become One", signed and numbere... | Nadeau's Auction Gallery | $800

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