# Gerard Dillon - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-29T03:57:58.627Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 582
- Lots with prices: 399
- First auction date: 2001-03-13
- Latest auction date: 2025-11-26
- Median realised price: $3,000
- Price range: $15 to $192,000

## Market Takeaway
Gerard Dillon shows very deep auction liquidity with 582 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $3,000. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 17 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-11-26.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($3,000\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $1,100 and $11,500.
- 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: 22.1% (88 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 49.9% (199 sales)
- $10,000\+: 28.1% (112 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 17
- Previous 12 months sales: 19
- Recent 12 months median: $5,400
- Previous 12 months median: $3,800
- Median shift: 42.1%
- Latest sale date: 2025-11-26
- Days since latest sale: 84
- Market velocity: moderate

## Top Auction Houses
- Whyte's: 207 lots
- Adam's: 162 lots
- Ross's Auctioneers & Valuers: 57 lots
- Morgan O'Driscoll: 30 lots
- Sotheby's: 29 lots
- deVeres: 27 lots
- Christie's: 25 lots
- Bonhams: 14 lots
- Sheppards: 11 lots
- Gormleys Art Auctions: 6 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2024-09-25 | Gerard Dillon \(1916\-1971\) The Music Teacher \(Portrait of Thomas Davidson\) Oil on board, 51 x 37cm \(20 x 14\_''\) Signed Provenance: Sale, Gormley's Fine Art, RDS, Dublin, 2006 where purchased by the present owner; By repute, the sitter's family | Adam's | €18,000
2. 2025-11-26 | Gerard Dillon \(1916\-1971\) King and Queen of Spades Timber sculpture \(objets trouvé\) | Adam's | €3,400
3. 2025-11-26 | Gerard Dillon \(1916\-1971\) Female Bather Watercolour, 40 x 56cm \(15¾ x 22\) Signed Provenance: With Solomon Gallery, Dublin label verso | Adam's | N/A
4. 2025-11-26 | Gerard Dillon \(1916\-1971\) Inishmore Lads Oil on board, 40 x 32.5cm \(15¾ x 12¾\) Signed Provenance: with J. Leger & Son, 13 Old Bond St., London, September 1945, gallery label verso; Private Collection, Dublin A newspaper cutting on | Adam's | €32,000
5. 2025-09-29 | Gerard Dillon \(1916\-1971\) MOON BIRDS | Whyte's | €5,000
6. 2025-09-29 | Gerard Dillon \(1916\-1971\) COTTAGE BY A LAKE, WEST OF IRELAND | Whyte's | €4,200
7. 2025-09-29 | Gerard Dillon \(1916\-1971\) SLEEPING CAT | Whyte's | €2,800
8. 2025-09-24 | Gerard Dillon \(1916\-1971\) Turf Cutters Oil on board, 40 x 60cm \(15¾ x 23½\) Signed Encouraged by positive responses to his 1950 solo exhibition with Victor Waddington, Dillon rented a cottage in Inishlacken in 1951 and became fascinated | Adam's | €24,000
9. 2025-09-24 | Gerard Dillon \(1916\-1971\) Oneness Mixed Media on paper, 20.5 x 42cm \(8 x 16½''\) Signed Provenance: With The Dawson Gallery, Dublin, label verso | Adam's | €8,500
10. 2025-09-24 | Gerard Dillon \(1916\-1971\) Bathers Gouache and ink on paper, 36 x 54cm \(14 x 21''\) Signed Provenance: With The Dawson Gallery, Dublin, label verso; With Peppercanister Gallery, Dublin, label verso | Adam's | N/A
11. 2025-05-28 | Gerard Dillon \(1916\-1971\) Artist in a Landscape Mixed media, 36.5 x 54cm \(14¼ x 21¼''\) Signed | Adam's | €13,000
12. 2025-05-28 | Gerard Dillon \(1916\-1971\) Evening Light Etching, 16 x 17.5cm \(6¼ x 6¾''\) Artists Proof, Signed and inscribed | Adam's | €700
13. 2025-05-28 | Gerard Dillon \(1916\-1971\) Sailors Oil on board, 27 x 22cm \(10½ x 8½''\) Signed Sailors shows a group of men in their uniforms in jubilant mood, smoking, conversing and drinking stout around tables in the well\-known gay bar, Du\-Barry’s i | Adam's | €7,500
14. 2025-03-26 | Gerard Dillon \(1916\-1971\) Abstract by Night Oil on Masonite, 122 x 183cm \(48 x 72''\) Signed; inscribed verso 'FOR IRISH EXHIBITION OF LIVING ART' and numbered '24' | Adam's | €7,500
15. 2025-03-18 | GERARD DILLON \(1916 \-1971\) | Sheppards | €4,600
16. 2025-03-03 | Gerard Dillon \(1916\-1971\) CAT IN COTTAGE INTERIOR | Whyte's | €5,400
17. 2025-03-03 | Gerard Dillon \(1916\-1971\) WEST OF IRELAND LANDSCAPE | Whyte's | €7,000
18. 2025-03-03 | Gerard Dillon \(1916\-1971\) CLOWNS | Whyte's | €4,600
19. 2024-12-02 | Gerard Dillon \(1916\-1971\) THE OLD ABBEY, DROGHEDA, COUNTY LOUTH | Whyte's | €2,300
20. 2024-11-19 | GERARD DILLON \(1916\-1971\). Three Men in a Bog. oil on board 20 x 24 in. \(50 | Christie's | £40,320
21. 2024-11-15 | Cows and Crows | Sotheby's | £24,000
22. 2024-10-01 | Gerard Dillon \(1916 \- 1971\) Kitchen Dresser Ink and watercolour laid on card, 34 x 23.5cm Provenance: Purchased at his exhibition at the CEMA Gallery, 1950s | Adam's | €1,800
23. 2024-09-30 | Gerard Dillon \(1916\-1971\) A STRANGE WORLD | Whyte's | N/A
24. 2024-09-30 | Gerard Dillon \(1916\-1971\) PIERROT WITH A PAINTING OF A PHOENIX, c.1966 | Whyte's | €3,800

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