# Horace Clifford Westermann - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-29T04:56:18.226Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 30
- Lots with prices: 28
- First auction date: 2002-02-19
- Latest auction date: 2025-10-24
- Median realised price: $8,125
- Price range: $350 to $118,750

## Market Takeaway
Horace Clifford Westermann shows developing auction liquidity with 30 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $8,125. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 3 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-10-24.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($8,125\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $3,000 and $22,800.
- Auction totals can include buyer premiums or fees depending on reporting, so compare like\-for\-like when possible.
- Condition, size, medium, provenance, and attribution confidence can move value materially versus median comps.

## Price Bands
- Under $1,000: 14.3% (4 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 39.3% (11 sales)
- $10,000\+: 46.4% (13 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 3
- Previous 12 months sales: 1
- Recent 12 months median: $8,125
- Previous 12 months median: $7,200
- Median shift: 12.8%
- Latest sale date: 2025-10-24
- Days since latest sale: 117
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Christie's: 10 lots
- Sotheby's: 8 lots
- Bonhams: 2 lots
- Hindman: 2 lots
- Leonard Auction: 2 lots
- Swann Auction Galleries: 2 lots
- Clars Auctions: 1 lots
- Dirk Soulis Auctions: 1 lots
- Santa Fe Art Auction: 1 lots
- Tajan: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-10-24 | H. C. WESTERMANN \(1922\-1981\). See America First: three prints. Largest Shee | Christie's | $889
2. 2025-09-30 | H. C. WESTERMANN \(1922\-1981\). Billy Al 67X. sugar pine, vermillion and bras | Christie's | $25,400
3. 2025-06-26 | HORACE CLIFFORD WESTERMANN \(1922 \- 1981\) Death Ship of No Port, \(Sketch for Sculpture\). | Swann Auction Galleries | $8,125
4. 2024-09-30 | Six Lithographs | Sotheby's | $7,200
5. 2022-12-10 | H. C. WESTERMANN \(1922\-1981\) PENCIL SIGNED LITHO | Dirk Soulis Auctions | $750
6. 2022-09-14 | HORACE CLIFFORD WESTERMANN \(1922\-1981\) Ex Boxer and a Death Ship, 1974 | Bonhams | $5,000
7. 2022-09-14 | HORACE CLIFFORD WESTERMANN \(1922\-1981\) Autumn on Mohawk St: Chicago '67, 1978 | Bonhams | $3,200
8. 2022-07-24 | H. C. Westermann Posters | Leonard Auction | $800
9. 2022-07-24 | H. C. Westermann \(American, 1922\-1981\) Illustrated Letter | Leonard Auction | $350
10. 2022-07-20 | H. C. WESTERMANN \(1922\-1981\) Hummingbird Letter ink and watercolor on paper | Christie's | $11,970
11. 2021-09-28 | H. C. Westermann \(American, 1922\-1981\) Merry Xmas 62 & A Happy New Year with Disasters in the Sky \# 1, 1962 \(Christmas Card to the Artist's sister Martha Renner\) | Hindman | $2,500
12. 2021-09-28 | H. C. Westermann \(American, 1922\-1981\) Dear Ruthie..., 1963 \(two page letter drawing to the Artist's maternal aunt Ruth Marchant\) | Hindman | $8,000
13. 2020-12-03 | HORACE CLIFFORD WESTERMANN \(1922 \- 1981, AMERICAN\) Untitled, \(Alternate Catalog Cover\). | Swann Auction Galleries | $42,500
14. 2020-03-29 | H. C. Westermann, See America First XIII, 1968 | Santa Fe Art Auction | $3,000
15. 2019-09-27 | H. C. Westermann \(1934\-2004\) \- Sometimes I Think He's Lost Interest In Us | Christie's | $5,250
16. 2016-11-18 | H. C. WESTERMANN \| Defoliated | Sotheby's | $60,000
17. 2016-03-03 | H. C. WESTERMANN \| Blue Roses | Sotheby's | $20,000
18. 2016-02-21 | Horace Clifford Westermann \(American 1922\-1981\), See America First 5 from See America First Portfolio, 1968, screenprint, pencil sig... | Clars Auctions | $2,142
19. 2015-03-06 | H. C. Westermann \(1922\-1981\) The Black Death Train R.F.K. ink, watercolor a | Christie's | $8,125
20. 2015-03-06 | H. C. Westermann \(1922\-1981\) Dust Pan, 30/5 galvanized iron, brass and cher | Christie's | $11,250
21. 2014-05-14 | H. C. Westermann \(1922\-1981\) | Christie's | $118,750
22. 2011-07-18 | Horace Clifford Westermann \(1922\-1981\) | Christie's | N/A
23. 2010-11-10 | H. C. WESTERMANN | Sotheby's | N/A
24. 2007-05-17 | Mother | Christie's | $36,000

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