# James Kay - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-01T00:35:40.756Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 47
- Lots with prices: 35
- First auction date: 2001-01-23
- Latest auction date: 2025-07-09
- Median realised price: $1,625
- Price range: $60 to $12,000

## Market Takeaway
James Kay shows developing auction liquidity with 47 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $1,625. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 2 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-07-09.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($1,625\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $540 and $4,800.
- 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: 28.6% (10 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 62.9% (22 sales)
- $10,000\+: 8.6% (3 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 2
- Previous 12 months sales: 5
- Recent 12 months median: $300
- Previous 12 months median: $400
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-07-09
- Days since latest sale: 224
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Sotheby's: 20 lots
- Christie's: 5 lots
- Bonhams: 3 lots
- Gorringes: 3 lots
- Sheppards: 2 lots
- Aspire Auctions Fine Art & Antiques: 1 lots
- Dreweatts 1759: 1 lots
- Ewbank's: 1 lots
- Flanders Auctions: 1 lots
- Freeman’s \| Hindman: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-07-09 | James Kay, RSA RSW,  Scottish 1858\-1942\-  Sweet Summertime;  oil on canva | Roseberys | £3,300
2. 2025-06-16 | James Kay \(Scottish, 1858\-1942\) City Market | Freeman’s \| Hindman | $300
3. 2024-10-26 | 2 James Kay Watercolor Paintings | Palm Beach Modern Auctions | $450
4. 2024-09-24 | James Kay, RWS 1858\-1942, beach scene, watercolour, 28 x 43cm frame size 42 x 57cm | Lawsons | A$425
5. 2024-09-11 | James KAY \(1858\-1942\) 'Harbor View'. \(W:64 x H:77 cm\) | Flanders Auctions | €400
6. 2024-06-21 | James Kay \(1858\-1942\) Watercolour, Figures by the steam. Image 28 cm x 20 cm. | Hannam's Auctioneers | £60
7. 2024-04-23 | JAMES KAY \(1858\-1942\) Glasgow | Bonhams | N/A
8. 2023-06-18 | James KAY \(1858\-1942\) Vue d'un port Aquarelle et réhauts de gouache blanche sur papier Signé | Osenat | €227
9. 2021-02-21 | James Kay \(1858 \- 1942\) Exhibited Painting | Helmuth Stone | $8,500
10. 2018-07-26 | James Kay \(Scottish, 1858\-1942\), pair of coastal p | Ewbank's | £280
11. 2016-11-22 | JAMES KAY, R.S.A., R.S.W. \| Greenock | Sotheby's | N/A
12. 2016-09-30 | JAMES KAY \(SCOTTISH, 1848\-1942\) | Sheppards | €3,000
13. 2016-04-26 | JAMES KAY \(ENGLISH, 1858\-1942\) | Sheppards | €4,000
14. 2015-10-20 | JAMES KAY \| The Pier and Le Havre: Two Watercolors | Sotheby's | $1,625
15. 2015-09-03 | James Kay \(Scottish, 1858\-1942\) | Aspire Auctions Fine Art & Antiques | $1,207
16. 2014-10-23 | James Kay \(1858\-1942\) 'First Snows', 9.5 x 13.5in. | Gorringes | £1,000
17. 2013-06-15 | James Kay \(Scottish, 1858\-1942\), Two Girls | Leland Little Auctions | $1,000
18. 2012-06-28 | James Kay \(1858\-1942\) Galleons in battle, 9.5 x 11.75in. | Gorringes | N/A
19. 2012-05-10 | JAMES  KAY,  RSW | Sotheby's | N/A
20. 2011-12-08 | James Kay \(1858\-1942\) Steam train entering a station, 7.5 x 10in. unframed. | Gorringes | £550
21. 2010-01-29 | JAMES KAY | Sotheby's | $8,750
22. 2009-09-30 | James Kay, RSW , 1858\-1942 Sunday Morning, Exeter Cathedral oil on canvas | Sotheby's | £10,000
23. 2009-07-25 | JAMES KAY \(1858 \-1942\) Beach Scene oil on canvas, | McTear's | N/A
24. 2009-02-11 | James Kay \(1858\-1942\) Horse and cart before a town | Dreweatts 1759 | £2,040

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