# George Ernest Colby - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-29T08:52:29.223Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 32
- Lots with prices: 25
- First auction date: 2004-05-23
- Latest auction date: 2025-08-30
- Median realised price: $150
- Price range: $50 to $1,600

## Market Takeaway
George Ernest Colby has 32 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $150. 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 \($150\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($100 to $450\) 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: 88% (22 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 12% (3 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 1
- Previous 12 months sales: 2
- Recent 12 months median: $150
- Previous 12 months median: $100
- Median shift: 50%
- Latest sale date: 2025-08-30
- Days since latest sale: 241
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Eldred's: 4 lots
- Sarasota Estate Auction: 3 lots
- King Galleries: 2 lots
- Leland Little Auctions: 2 lots
- Neal Auction Company: 2 lots
- Toomey & Co. Auctioneers: 2 lots
- Aspire Auctions Fine Art & Antiques: 1 lots
- Bill Hood & Sons Arts & Antiques Auctions: 1 lots
- Burchard Galleries Inc: 1 lots
- Caza Sikes: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-08-30 | George Ernest Colby watercolor on paper depicting the Amalfi Coast | King Galleries | $150
2. 2025-04-18 | George Ernest Colby \(American, 1859\-1922\) Watercolor on Paper, 'Dutch Riverscape' H 8" W 11.5" | DuMouchelles | $100
3. 2024-08-17 | George Ernest Colby pastel drawing on paper painting wooded landscape | King Galleries | $150
4. 2022-09-07 | George Ernest Colby \(1859\-1922\) Watercolor | Caza Sikes | $50
5. 2019-11-30 | GEORGE ERNEST COLBY "VIEW OF THE ROCKIES" | Wiederseim Associates, Inc. | $1,600
6. 2019-09-28 | George Ernest Colby \(1859 \- 1922\) American, O?C | Sarasota Estate Auction | $125
7. 2019-09-02 | George Ernest Colby \(MN/IL, 1859\-1922\), Two Landscapes | Leland Little Auctions | $75
8. 2019-08-02 | GEORGE ERNEST COLBY, Illinois, Minnesota, 1859\-1922, "Colorado River, Colo. 1883"., Oil on canvas, 30" x 48". Framed 39" x 57". | Eldred's | $450
9. 2019-06-29 | George Ernest Colby \(American, 1859\-1922\), Landscape with Broad Vista | Leland Little Auctions | $375
10. 2019-01-13 | George Ernest Colby \(1859 \- 1922\) Watercolor | Sarasota Estate Auction | $70
11. 2017-12-30 | George Ernest Colby \(1859\-1922\) Watercolor | EJ'S Auction & Appraisal | $110
12. 2017-11-11 | George Ernest Colby with Incredible Arts and Crafts Period Frame | Revere Auctions | $100
13. 2017-01-28 | George Ernest Colby, Landscape with birch trees. | Quinn's Auction Galleries | $950
14. 2016-03-10 | GEORGE ERNEST COLBY \(AMERICAN, 1859\-1913\), HOMEWARD BOUND, WATERCOLOUR; SIGNED LOWER L;EFT \(Sight, 17.8” x 25.5”\) | Waddington's | CA$96
15. 2016-02-27 | George Ernest Colby \(1859 \- 1922\) Watercolor | Sarasota Estate Auction | N/A
16. 2015-01-01 | George Ernest Colby \(Ill./MN1859 \- 1922\) | Copake Auction Inc. | $263
17. 2014-11-05 | GEORGE ERNEST COLBY, American, 1859\-1922, Birches along a forest stream., Watercolor on paper, 12" x 19" sight. | Eldred's | $120
18. 2012-11-10 | GEORGE ERNEST COLBY \(1859\-1922\) ILLINOIS WATERCOLOR | Dirk Soulis Auctions | $100
19. 2012-08-02 | GEORGE ERNEST COLBY, American, 1859\-1922, Forest landscape., Oil on canvas, 12" x 18". Framed. | Eldred's | N/A
20. 2011-07-24 | GEORGE ERNEST COLBY WATERCOLOR LANDSCAPE PAINTING | Burchard Galleries Inc | $150
21. 2011-05-22 | George Ernest Colby | Toomey & Co. Auctioneers | N/A
22. 2010-11-18 | George Ernest Colby \(American, 1859\-1922\) Forest | Aspire Auctions Fine Art & Antiques | $218
23. 2010-07-18 | George Ernest Colby \(American, 1859\-1922\), | Neal Auction Company | $836
24. 2010-07-18 | George Ernest Colby \(American, 1859\-1922\), "Dark | Neal Auction Company | $1,015

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