# James Dexter Havens - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-29T14:09:09.690Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 38
- Lots with prices: 22
- First auction date: 2006-09-09
- Latest auction date: 2025-03-23
- Median realised price: $225
- Price range: $50 to $850

## Market Takeaway
James Dexter Havens has 38 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $225. 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 \($225\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($127 to $500\) 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: 100% (22 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 0% (0 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 0
- Previous 12 months sales: 11
- Recent 12 months median: $0
- Previous 12 months median: $222
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-03-23
- Days since latest sale: 402
- Market velocity: inactive

## Top Auction Houses
- Skinner: 9 lots
- California Historical Design, Inc: 7 lots
- RoGallery: 5 lots
- Jacksons Auction & Real Estate Company: 3 lots
- Eldred's: 2 lots
- John Moran Auctioneers: 2 lots
- Charlton Hall: 1 lots
- Concept Art Gallery: 1 lots
- Cottone Auctions: 1 lots
- Merrill's Auctioneers & Appraisers: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-03-23 | James Dexter Havens \(1900\-1960\) Color Woodcut "Sumac" 1951. | California Historical Design, Inc | $425
2. 2025-03-22 | James Dexter Havens \(1900\-1960\) Woodcut "Balance" 1940 | California Historical Design, Inc | $100
3. 2025-02-02 | James Dexter Havens | Jacksons Auction & Real Estate Company | N/A
4. 2025-02-02 | James Dexter Havens | Jacksons Auction & Real Estate Company | N/A
5. 2025-02-02 | James Dexter Havens | Jacksons Auction & Real Estate Company | N/A
6. 2024-12-07 | James Dexter Havens \(1900\-1960\) Color Woodcut “Bombus on Anchusa” 1938 | California Historical Design, Inc | $225
7. 2024-12-07 | James Dexter Havens \(1900\-1960\) Woodcut "Balance" 1940 | California Historical Design, Inc | N/A
8. 2024-11-12 | James Dexter Havens \(American 1900\-1960\), Winter Morning, 1951, Wood Engraving, Signed l.r., titled l.l., Frame: 14 3/4 x 12 1/2 in. \(37.5 x 31.8 cm.\) | Weschler's | $125
9. 2024-09-21 | James Dexter Havens \(1900\-1960\) Color Woodcut "Sumac" 1951. | California Historical Design, Inc | N/A
10. 2024-07-16 | James Dexter Havens \(1900\-1960\), "Shy Veery," 1949 | John Moran Auctioneers | $222
11. 2024-06-29 | James Dexter Havens \(1900\-1960\) Color Woodcut "Wind and Snow" 1938 | California Historical Design, Inc | $250
12. 2023-12-09 | James Dexter Havens \(1900\-1960\) Color Woodcut "Wind and Snow" 1938 | California Historical Design, Inc | N/A
13. 2023-12-06 | James Dexter Havens \(1900\-1960\), "Shy Veery," 1949, Woodcut in colors on laid paper, Image: 9.5" H x 8" W; Sheet: 12.75" H x 10.5" W | John Moran Auctioneers | $127
14. 2023-10-19 | JAMES DEXTER HAVENS \(New York, 1900\-1960\), "PSHAW \(Portrait of George Bernard Shaw\)", 1935., Color woodcut, 5" x 4.5". | Eldred's | $175
15. 2023-04-01 | James Dexter Havens, Plum Broke, Woodcut, signed and numbered in pencil | RoGallery | $220
16. 2022-11-04 | JAMES DEXTER HAVENS \(New York, 1900\-1960\), Four color woodblocks:, From 5.5” x 5.75” to 9.5” x 8”. All but one matted, the largest 16” x 13”. | Eldred's | $550
17. 2021-11-30 | James Dexter Havens, Plum Broke, Woodcut | RoGallery | N/A
18. 2021-03-06 | James Dexter Havens, Plum Broke, Woodcut | RoGallery | N/A
19. 2021-01-01 | James Dexter Havens \(1900\-1960\) "Bald Head" Cliff York, Maine Oil on Board Painting FRAMED | One Source Auctions | $850
20. 2020-12-05 | James Dexter Havens 1939 ptg. of Martha's Vineyard | Concept Art Gallery | $500
21. 2017-10-05 | James Dexter Havens \(1900\-1960\), LATE LIGHT, 1934, Oil on board; signed and dated 1934 lower right, signed and titled to exhibition label versoTogether with:SCARLET RUNNER BEANS, 1957Colour woodcut on Japon paper; signed, titled, dated 1957 and | Waddington's | CA$660
22. 2017-06-10 | James Dexter Havens wood engraving | Rachel Davis Fine Arts | $60
23. 2017-02-25 | James Dexter Havens\(American 1900\-1960\) Beach Rock Martha's Vinyard | Merrill's Auctioneers & Appraisers | $100
24. 2015-07-22 | James Dexter Havens, Plum Broke, Woodcut | RoGallery | N/A

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