# Ian Smith - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-30T02:22:47.130Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 21
- Lots with prices: 10
- First auction date: 2004-08-23
- Latest auction date: 2025-09-16
- Median realised price: $250
- Price range: $80 to $1,560

## Market Takeaway
Ian Smith has 21 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $250. 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 \($250\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($190 to $300\) 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: 90% (9 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 10% (1 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 1
- Previous 12 months sales: 4
- Recent 12 months median: $250
- Previous 12 months median: $300
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-09-16
- Days since latest sale: 225
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Lawsons: 7 lots
- Shapiro Auctioneers: 5 lots
- Raffan Kelaher & Thomas: 4 lots
- Bay East Auctions: 2 lots
- Christie's: 1 lots
- Leonard Joel: 1 lots
- Mossgreen Auctions: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2024-12-13 | IAN SMITH \(British/Australian 1948\-\), a stoneware vase with painted decoration by Anne Smith, initialled 'AS', and incised mark to b. | Raffan Kelaher & Thomas | A$300 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-ian-smith-british-australian-1948-a-stoneware-vase-with-painted-decoration-by-anne-smith-initialled-as-and-incised-mark-to-b-121-c-8674ac589b
2. 2024-10-01 | IAN SMITH \(British/Australian 1948\-\), a stoneware vase with painted decoration by Anne Smith, incised mark to base. Height: 32 cm. | Raffan Kelaher & Thomas | A$400 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-ian-smith-british-australian-1948-a-stoneware-vase-with-painted-decoration-by-anne-smith-incised-mark-to-base-height-32-cm-23-c-3b84f7f9c6
3. 2025-09-16 | IAN SMITH \(born 1950\) What If So What 1990 mixed media on canvas 140 x 110cm | Leonard Joel | A$250
4. 2025-03-11 | IAN SMITH \(1950 \- \), untitled \(Abstract Tree\), 2007, pastel on paper, signed and dated lower left, plate 41 x 59cm, framed 63 x 80.5... | Raffan Kelaher & Thomas | N/A
5. 2024-12-13 | IAN SMITH \(Australian 1948\-\), a bottle form stoneware vase with shino, iron oxide and ash glaze, incised mark to base. Height: 34 cm. | Raffan Kelaher & Thomas | A$220
6. 2024-02-07 | Ian Smith \(b.1950\) | Shapiro Auctioneers | N/A
7. 2024-02-07 | Ian Smith \(b.1950\) | Shapiro Auctioneers | N/A
8. 2022-09-13 | Ian Smith \(b. 1950\) | Shapiro Auctioneers | N/A
9. 2019-12-05 | Ian Smith \(1950 \- \) \- Group Sitting, 1972 123 x 151cm | Lawsons | A$80
10. 2019-11-28 | Ian Smith \(1950 \- \) \- Group Sitting, 1972 123 x 151cm | Lawsons | N/A
11. 2019-09-26 | Ian Smith \(1950 \- \) \- Group Sitting, 1972 123 x 151cm | Lawsons | N/A
12. 2019-03-21 | Ian Smith \(1950 \- \) \- Bowler, Cat & Bird, 1980 107 x 155.5cm | Lawsons | A$190
13. 2018-05-15 | Ian Smith \(b. 1950\) | Shapiro Auctioneers | N/A
14. 2017-06-07 | IAN SMITH \(BORN 1950\) Honey Dripper 1974 mixed media and collage | Mossgreen Auctions | A$297
15. 2016-09-29 | Ian Smith \(1950 \- \) \- In Honour of Blue Abstractions, 1998 70 x 100cm | Lawsons | A$160
16. 2015-02-26 | Ian Smith \(1950 \-\) \- Visitation at Thirroul \(After Dickens\), diptych mixed media on linen | Lawsons | N/A
17. 2014-11-27 | Ian Smith \(1950 \-\) \- Visitation at Thirroul \(After Dickens\), diptych mixed media on linen | Lawsons | N/A
18. 2014-05-07 | Ian Smith \(b. 1950\) Sin Against the Loobian Creed | Shapiro Auctioneers | N/A
19. 2010-03-21 | Ian Smith \(born 1950\), \(Untitled\) 1987 | Bay East Auctions | A$288
20. 2010-03-21 | Ian Smith \(born 1950\), Ray Hughes Getting his Desserts 2000 | Bay East Auctions | A$1,560
21. 2004-08-23 | IAN SMITH \(B. 1950\) | Christie's | N/A

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