# Hal Foster - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-30T20:13:15.742Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 22
- Lots with prices: 14
- First auction date: 2007-06-02
- Latest auction date: 2025-10-30
- Median realised price: $100
- Price range: $40 to $26,000

## Market Takeaway
Hal Foster has 22 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $100. 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 \($100\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($80 to $12,075\) 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: 57.1% (8 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 14.3% (2 sales)
- $10,000\+: 28.6% (4 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 1
- Previous 12 months sales: 2
- Recent 12 months median: $0
- Previous 12 months median: $100
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-10-30
- Days since latest sale: 210
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Artcurial: 3 lots
- Old Kinderhook Auction Company: 3 lots
- Paul Arsenault Auctioneers: 2 lots
- Weiss Auctions: 2 lots
- DuMouchelles: 1 lots
- Finarte: 1 lots
- Guernsey's: 1 lots
- Illustration House: 1 lots
- Keystone Auctions LLC: 1 lots
- Nate D Sanders Auctions: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-10-30 | HAL FOSTER, Canadian/American 1892\-1982, Prince Valiant, \#2208, ink and graphite on conjoined sections of Bristol board, 19 1/2 x 13 1/2 in. \(49.5 x 34.3 cm.\) \(sight\), Frame: 20 1/4 x 14 1/4 x 1 in. \(51.4 x 36.2 x 2.5 cm | Shannon's | N/A
2. 2024-10-06 | First Edition Numbered Copy 359/1500 "Prince Valiant, An American Epic Volume One: 1937" By Hal Foster | Paul Arsenault Auctioneers | $100 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-first-edition-numbered-copy-359-1500-prince-valiant-an-american-epic-volume-one-1937-by-hal-foster-33-c-2cc442cb97
3. 2024-10-06 | First Edition Numbered Copy 359/1500 "Prince Valiant, An American Epic Volume Two: 1938" By Hal Foster | Paul Arsenault Auctioneers | $100 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-first-edition-numbered-copy-359-1500-prince-valiant-an-american-epic-volume-two-1938-by-hal-foster-22-c-2984df3956
4. 2023-06-13 | Hal Foster, Prince Valiant and King Arthur | Old Kinderhook Auction Company | $100
5. 2023-02-28 | Hal Foster, Prince Valiant and King Arthur | Old Kinderhook Auction Company | $50
6. 2022-10-22 | Hal Foster \- Prince Valiant \- A King Earns a Throne, 1967 | Finarte | €3,200
7. 2022-09-29 | Hal Foster Signed ' "Classic Episodes in Hal Foster's Prince Valiant" \* Oversize Soft Cover Book\- Personalized to Artist Bob Bindig | One of a Kind Collectibles Auctions, LLC | N/A
8. 2022-03-29 | Hal Foster, Prince Valiant and King Arthur | Old Kinderhook Auction Company | $80
9. 2019-11-23 | Hal FOSTER | Artcurial | €26,000
10. 2019-10-29 | HAL FOSTER "PRINCE VALIANT" SIGNED PEN AND INK DRAWING. | Uniques & Antiques | N/A
11. 2019-10-23 | Hal Foster, Prince Valiant's Son Signed Print | Weiss Auctions | N/A
12. 2019-10-23 | Hal Foster, Prince Valiant & Horse Signed Print | Weiss Auctions | $50
13. 2019-07-13 | Hal Foster autographed book | Keystone Auctions LLC | N/A
14. 2019-02-20 | Hal Foster, Cartoonist, Prince Valiant. | Guernsey's | $275
15. 2016-11-20 | HAL FOSTER \(AMERICAN 1892\-1982\), PEN & INK ON PAPER, IMAGE: H 11", W 24", "PRINCE VALIANT IN THE DAYS OF KING ARTHUR" | DuMouchelles | $3,750
16. 2016-11-18 | Hal FOSTER 1892\-1982 Prince Valiant | Artcurial | N/A
17. 2016-11-11 | Hal Foster \(Canada/US, 1892\-1982\) Signed Print. | Quinn's Auction Galleries Central Virginia | $40
18. 2016-04-23 | HAL FOSTER CANADIAN/AMERICAN 1892\-1982 | Trinity International Auctions & Appraisals, LLC | N/A
19. 2015-12-11 | Hal Foster “Tarzan” 1\-8\-33 Egyptian Sequence. | Profiles in History | $13,000 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-hal-foster-tarzan-1-8-33-egyptian-sequence-95-c-fa44d29941
20. 2014-11-22 | Hal FOSTER | Artcurial | N/A
21. 2014-09-25 | Hal Foster ''Prince Valiant'' Sunday Strip \-\- Twice\-Signed and Inscribed to Ray Bradbury \-\- From the Bradbury Estate | Nate D Sanders Auctions | $21,175
22. 2007-06-02 | Hal Foster \(1892\-1982\) | Illustration House | $12,075

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