# Herbert Ward - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-29T04:38:50.425Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 18
- Lots with prices: 15
- First auction date: 2003-11-27
- Latest auction date: 2025-12-03
- Median realised price: $4,000
- Price range: $50 to $50,000

## Market Takeaway
Herbert Ward has 18 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $4,000. 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 \($4,000\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($2,500 to $16,250\) 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: 20% (3 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 53.3% (8 sales)
- $10,000\+: 26.7% (4 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 1
- Previous 12 months sales: 2
- Recent 12 months median: $0
- Previous 12 months median: $50
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-12-03
- Days since latest sale: 146
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Bonhams: 4 lots
- Christie's: 4 lots
- Dreweatts 1759 Fine Sales: 2 lots
- Sotheby's: 2 lots
- Abell Auction: 1 lots
- Alexandre Landre: 1 lots
- Eldred's: 1 lots
- HVMC \- Hôtel des Ventes de Monte\-Carlo: 1 lots
- Leclere \- Maison de ventes: 1 lots
- Millea Bros Ltd: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-12-03 | HERBERT WARD \(1863\-1919\), BRONZE 'AFRICAN HEAD', EARLY 20TH CENTURY | Dreweatts 1759 Fine Sales | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-herbert-ward-1863-1919-bronze-african-head-early-20th-century-544-c-3d17d5eaad
2. 2024-05-14 | HERBERT WARD \(1863\-1919\), AFRICAN HEAD | Dreweatts 1759 Fine Sales | £750 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-herbert-ward-1863-1919-african-head-182-c-3ba46fcbcc
3. 2023-06-08 | Herbert Ward \(British, 1863\-1919\) The charm doctor | Bonhams | £8,000 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-herbert-ward-british-1863-1919-the-charm-doctor-125-c-7d948d8823
4. 2023-06-08 | Herbert Ward \(British, 1863\-1919\) A Congo type | Bonhams | £3,000 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-herbert-ward-british-1863-1919-a-congo-type-124-c-fe640be94b
5. 2021-02-10 | Herbert Ward \(British, 1863\-1919\) A patinated bronze of a native African man, | Bonhams | £8,500 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-herbert-ward-british-1863-1919-a-patinated-bronze-of-a-native-african-man-103-c-5bd47f78b5
6. 2019-01-30 | Herbert Ward \(British, 1863\-1919\): A patinated bronze bust of a native African head entitled 'An Aruimi Type' with direct provenance to Herbert and Sarita Ward | Bonhams | £50,000 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-herbert-ward-british-1863-1919-a-patinated-bronze-bust-of-a-native-african-head-entitled-an-aruimi-type-with-direct-provenance-to-herbert-and-sarita-ward-596-c-4a241819ce
7. 2024-07-16 | Herbert Ward, watercolor on paper | Millea Bros Ltd | $50
8. 2022-12-09 | HERBERT WARD \(Rhode Island, 1896\-1967\), Cross\-country skiing., Watercolor on paper, 6.75" x 9.25" sight. Framed 11.5" x 14.25". | Eldred's | $175
9. 2021-04-25 | Herbert WARD \(1863\-1919\). Buste africain de femme … | Alexandre Landre | €3,500
10. 2020-10-18 | HERBERT WARD \(1862 \- 1919\): "THE SORCERER" | Abell Auction | $5,000
11. 2019-05-04 | HERBERT WARD \(1863\-1919\) Les Bantous | HVMC \- Hôtel des Ventes de Monte\-Carlo | €27,000
12. 2017-07-11 | Herbert Ward \(1863\-1919\) \- The Charm Doctor Dancing | Christie's | £16,250
13. 2015-12-16 | HERBERT WARD \| The idol maker | Sotheby's | £27,500
14. 2014-03-12 | Herbert Ward \(1863\-1919\) | Christie's | £4,000
15. 2010-04-02 | Herbert Ward \(1863\-1919\) « Tête d'Africain ». Sujet en bronze à patine noire sursocle en onyx vert marbré. Dépatiné et légers chocs surle socle. Signé. H. : 16 cm. \(avec le socle\). | Leclere \- Maison de ventes | €2,500
16. 2010-03-17 | Herbert Ward \(1863\-1919\) | Christie's | N/A
17. 2006-05-31 | HERBERT WARD \(1863\-1919\) | Christie's | €3,600
18. 2003-11-27 | HERBERT WARD 1863\-1919 | Sotheby's | N/A

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