# Helen LaFrance - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-29T06:21:32.500Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 28
- Lots with prices: 28
- First auction date: 2014-07-19
- Latest auction date: 2024-10-29
- Median realised price: $3,100
- Price range: $600 to $20,000

## Market Takeaway
Helen LaFrance has 28 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $3,100. 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 \($3,100\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($1,900 to $5,376\) 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: 7.1% (2 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 85.7% (24 sales)
- $10,000\+: 7.1% (2 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 0
- Previous 12 months sales: 1
- Recent 12 months median: $0
- Previous 12 months median: $5,376
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2024-10-29
- Days since latest sale: 546
- Market velocity: inactive

## Top Auction Houses
- Case Antiques, Inc. Auctions & Appraisals: 20 lots
- Bill Hood & Sons Arts & Antiques Auctions: 1 lots
- Black Art Auction: 1 lots
- Bonhams: 1 lots
- Caza Sikes: 1 lots
- Christie's: 1 lots
- Cowan's Auctions: 1 lots
- Hill Auction Gallery: 1 lots
- Jacksons Auction & Real Estate Company: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2024-10-29 | "Viola Station" Large Oil by Helen LaFrance | Caza Sikes | $5,376
2. 2023-11-30 | Helen LaFrance 1919\-2020 Folk Art Figural Painting | Hill Auction Gallery | $3,750
3. 2023-10-28 | Helen LaFrance \(1919\-2020\) | Jacksons Auction & Real Estate Company | $3,100
4. 2023-07-08 | Helen LaFrance O/C African Landscape with Zebras | Case Antiques, Inc. Auctions & Appraisals | $600
5. 2023-07-08 | Helen LaFrance O/C Panoramic Flood Scene Painting | Case Antiques, Inc. Auctions & Appraisals | $5,000 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-helen-lafrance-o-c-panoramic-flood-scene-painting-143-c-53a4a62802
6. 2023-05-20 | Helen LaFrance, 1919\-2020, Church Gathering | Black Art Auction | $7,500
7. 2023-01-28 | HELEN LAFRANCE OIL PAINTING, "MOVING DAY" | Case Antiques, Inc. Auctions & Appraisals | $11,000
8. 2023-01-28 | HELEN LAFRANCE OIL PAINTING, CHURCH PICNIC | Case Antiques, Inc. Auctions & Appraisals | $20,000
9. 2022-10-08 | Helen LaFrance Oil Painting, Tornado | Case Antiques, Inc. Auctions & Appraisals | $8,000
10. 2022-05-17 | Helen LaFrance O/C Southern Church Picnic | Bill Hood & Sons Arts & Antiques Auctions | $9,000
11. 2021-10-23 | Helen LaFrance Painting, African Scene | Case Antiques, Inc. Auctions & Appraisals | $7,000 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-helen-lafrance-painting-african-scene-105-c-178427e9fc
12. 2021-07-24 | Helen LaFrance Oil on Board Panoramic Farm Scene | Case Antiques, Inc. Auctions & Appraisals | $6,500
13. 2020-09-23 | Helen LaFrance \(American, b. 1919\) | Cowan's Auctions | $850
14. 2020-01-25 | Helen LaFrance Painting, Quilts on a Line | Case Antiques, Inc. Auctions & Appraisals | $1,900
15. 2020-01-17 | Helen LaFrance \(b. 1919\) Steeplechase, 1997 oil on canvas 17 ½ x 35 ½ in. | Christie's | $1,000
16. 2019-05-22 | Helen LaFrance \(born 1919\) Church Fair 25 1/4 x 32in | Bonhams | $5,325
17. 2018-07-14 | Helen LaFrance, O/C, Family in Mule Wagon | Case Antiques, Inc. Auctions & Appraisals | $1,200
18. 2018-07-14 | Helen LaFrance, O/B, Classroom Scene | Case Antiques, Inc. Auctions & Appraisals | $1,100
19. 2018-07-14 | Helen LaFrance, O/C, River Baptism | Case Antiques, Inc. Auctions & Appraisals | $1,400
20. 2018-07-14 | Helen LaFrance, O/C, Summer Farm Scene | Case Antiques, Inc. Auctions & Appraisals | $2,100
21. 2018-01-27 | Helen LaFrance, O/B, Farm Scene | Case Antiques, Inc. Auctions & Appraisals | $3,400
22. 2018-01-27 | Helen LaFrance, O/C, "Laundry Day," exhibited | Case Antiques, Inc. Auctions & Appraisals | $2,700
23. 2018-01-27 | Helen LaFrance, O/C, "The General Store" | Case Antiques, Inc. Auctions & Appraisals | $2,400
24. 2018-01-27 | Helen LaFrance, Church Picnic | Case Antiques, Inc. Auctions & Appraisals | $5,200 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-helen-lafrance-church-picnic-105-c-02b4775b50

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