# Gordon Ellis - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-01T10:30:46.375Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 36
- Lots with prices: 19
- First auction date: 2001-01-11
- Latest auction date: 2023-10-18
- Median realised price: $1,080
- Price range: $40 to $3,800

## Market Takeaway
Gordon Ellis has 36 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $1,080. Category concentration is still broad. Recent 12-month volume is still light. 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 \($1,080\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($480 to $2,340\) 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: 47.4% (9 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 52.6% (10 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 0
- Previous 12 months sales: 0
- Recent 12 months median: $0
- Previous 12 months median: $0
- Median shift: N/A
- Latest sale date: 2023-10-18
- Days since latest sale: 926
- Market velocity: inactive

## Top Auction Houses
- Bonhams: 17 lots
- Cato Crane & Company: 3 lots
- Sotheby's: 3 lots
- Adam Partridge Auctioneers & Valuers: 2 lots
- Dreweatts 1759: 2 lots
- Lawsons: 2 lots
- Tennants: 2 lots
- Christie's: 1 lots
- John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers: 1 lots
- Martel Maides: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2023-10-18 | Gordon Ellis \(British, 1921\-1979\) Mersey shipping waiting for the tide; Mersey shipping the deck cargo, a pair each 32 x 54cm \(12 5/8 x 21 1/4in\) \(2\) | Bonhams | £1,300
2. 2023-10-18 | Gordon Ellis \(British, 1921\-1979\) The Claughton and other shipping off Liverpool pier head | Bonhams | N/A
3. 2022-10-05 | Gordon Ellis \(1920\-1978\) British, 'Clarkson Vessels at Rotterdam', oil on board, signed, Boydell Galleries lab | John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers | N/A
4. 2020-05-26 | Gordon Ellis \(British, 1921\-1979\) Royal Yacht Bloodhound sailing off Skye | Bonhams | £1,500
5. 2018-12-09 | G. ELLIS \(Waya Ditka\) \- Covered Wagon Scene | Santa Fe Art Auction | $400
6. 2018-07-25 | GORDON ELLIS, FRAMED OIL ON BOARD\- SHIPPING IN THE MERSEY, CIRCA 1925, APPR | Cato Crane & Company | £520
7. 2017-07-04 | GORDON ELLIS, FRAMED OIL ON CANVAS DEPICTING THE MERSEY RIVER WITH LIVERPOO | Cato Crane & Company | £640
8. 2017-07-04 | GORDON ELLIS, FRAMED OIL ON CANVAS\- ROYAL RESEARCH SHIP 'BRANSFIELD' OFF TH | Cato Crane & Company | £480
9. 2015-11-12 | Gordon Ellis \(1920 \- 1978\) \- Tramp Signalling For Pilot, 1946 41 x 56cm | Lawsons | N/A
10. 2015-11-12 | Gordon Ellis \(1920 \- 1978\) \- S.S. Runswick of Whitby, 1947 45 x 61cm | Lawsons | N/A
11. 2014-10-01 | GORDON ELLIS; two limited edition prints ''Early | Adam Partridge Auctioneers & Valuers | £40
12. 2013-01-04 | Gordon Ellis \(1920\-1978\), ''The sinking of the | Tennants | £300
13. 2013-01-04 | Gordon Ellis \(1920\-1978\) ''Reina del Mar'' off | Tennants | £600
14. 2012-10-20 | Gordon Ellis, British 1920\-1978\- "M.V. New Zealand | Roseberys | N/A
15. 2012-04-11 | Gordon Ellis \(1920\-1978\), oil on board "The | Adam Partridge Auctioneers & Valuers | £2,900
16. 2008-10-22 | Gordon Ellis \(1921\-1979\) Liverpool Oil on | Dreweatts 1759 | £1,080
17. 2008-09-11 | Gordon Ellis \(British 1920\-1978\) The Golden Spur off the Sark coast | Martel Maides | £1,300
18. 2008-06-24 | Gordon Ellis \(1921\-1979\) Liverpool Oil on | Dreweatts 1759 | N/A
19. 2004-10-13 | GORDON ELLIS 1921\-1979 | Sotheby's | N/A
20. 2004-05-10 | GORDON ELLIS, BRITISH 1921\-1979 | Sotheby's | N/A
21. 2004-02-19 | Gordon Ellis \(1921\-1979\) | Christie's | £896
22. 2004-01-21 | GORDON ELLIS, BRITISH 1921\-1979 | Sotheby's | £3,240
23. 2003-01-22 | Gordon Ellis \(British, 1921\-1979\) Clearing Rain \- River Mersey signed 'Gordon Ellis' \(lower right\), oil on board 53.3 x 82cm. \(21 x 32 1/4in.\) Provenance:\- Boydell Galleries. | Bonhams | N/A
24. 2010-09-21 | Gordon Ellis \(British, 1921\-1979\) Niagra Falls, Ontario | Bonhams | N/A

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