# Harry Benson - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-29T23:25:12.850Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 35
- Lots with prices: 19
- First auction date: 2015-04-29
- Latest auction date: 2025-10-21
- Median realised price: $1,500
- Price range: $150 to $13,000

## Market Takeaway
Harry Benson has 35 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $1,500. 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 \($1,500\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($350 to $3,500\) 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: 36.8% (7 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 52.6% (10 sales)
- $10,000\+: 10.5% (2 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 2
- Previous 12 months sales: 0
- Recent 12 months median: $1,400
- Previous 12 months median: $0
- Median shift: N/A
- Latest sale date: 2025-10-21
- Days since latest sale: 190
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Swann Auction Galleries: 6 lots
- Bonhams: 4 lots
- Capo Auction: 4 lots
- Finarte: 4 lots
- STAIR: 4 lots
- Guernsey's: 2 lots
- Westport Auction: 2 lots
- Abell Auction: 1 lots
- Adam's: 1 lots
- Auctionata US: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2022-10-26 | Harry Benson b.1929 Beatles Pillow Fight '64 Photo | Hill Auction Gallery | $13,000
2. 2025-10-21 | HARRY BENSON \(B.1929\) Halston Waves C\-print colour nphotogarph, 33 x 49cm Edition 5/35 Signed, inscribed and dated 1978 Provenance: With Holden Luntz Gallery, Florida, label verso | Adam's | N/A
3. 2025-05-01 | Harry Benson, Mia Farrow and Frank Sinatra, at Truman Capote's "Black and White" Ball at the Plaza Hotel, New York | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $1,400
4. 2024-02-22 | Harry Benson \(B. 1929\): Julie and Goldie on Set of Shampoo | Abell Auction | $150
5. 2023-04-20 | Harry Benson \(b. 1929\): Frank & Mia, New York, 1966 | STAIR | $4,250
6. 2023-04-20 | Harry Benson \(b. 1929\): Cecil Beaton at Truman Capote's Black and White Ball at the Plaza Hotel | STAIR | $350
7. 2022-08-23 | Harry Benson \(born 1929\); The Beatles, Pillow Fight, George V Hotel, Paris; | Bonhams | $2,500
8. 2022-04-07 | Harry BENSON \(Né en 1929\) PAUL1964 Impression numérique d’art sur papier Fuji Crystal Archive Matte | Cornette de Saint\-Cyr | €200
9. 2021-12-02 | Harry Benson \(1930\-1998\): Francis Bacon, Metropolitan Museum, NYC | STAIR | $900
10. 2021-08-31 | Harry Benson \(born 1929\); Andy \(Warhol\); | Bonhams | $3,500
11. 2021-08-31 | Harry Benson \(born 1929\); The Beatles and Cassius Clay; | Bonhams | $1,500
12. 2021-02-25 | Harry Benson \(British, born 1929\); Sir Winston Churchill at Harrow School; | Bonhams | N/A
13. 2020-12-03 | Harry Benson \(1930\-1998\): The Godfather, New York 1971 | STAIR | $1,700
14. 2020-10-22 | HARRY BENSON \(1929\- \) Sir Winston Churchill at Harrow School. | Swann Auction Galleries | $2,375
15. 2020-10-22 | HARRY BENSON \(1929\- \) The Beatles, Pillow Fight, Paris. | Swann Auction Galleries | $7,250
16. 2020-07-06 | Harry Benson \- George and Patty | Finarte | N/A
17. 2020-07-06 | Harry Benson \- Miami Beach | Finarte | N/A
18. 2020-06-18 | Harry Benson \- George and Patty | Finarte | N/A
19. 2020-06-18 | Harry Benson \- Miami Beach | Finarte | N/A
20. 2019-10-27 | HARRY BENSON ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPH PEOPLE MAGAZINE | Westport Auction | N/A
21. 2019-09-08 | HARRY BENSON ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPH PEOPLE MAGAZINE | Westport Auction | N/A
22. 2018-05-19 | Harry Benson \(American/Scottish, b.1929\) | Capo Auction | $300
23. 2018-04-27 | Harry Benson signed pigment print of Princess Diana | Great Gatsby's Auction Gallery, Inc. | N/A
24. 2017-10-19 | HARRY BENSON \(1929\- \) Jackie\-\-London. | Swann Auction Galleries | N/A

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