# James Kirk Merrick - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-29T22:41:50.617Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 17
- Lots with prices: 10
- First auction date: 2004-04-03
- Latest auction date: 2024-07-16
- Median realised price: $60
- Price range: $15 to $690

## Market Takeaway
James Kirk Merrick has 17 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $60. 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 \($60\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($30 to $175\) 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% (10 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: 2
- Recent 12 months median: $0
- Previous 12 months median: $30
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2024-07-16
- Days since latest sale: 652
- Market velocity: inactive

## Top Auction Houses
- Barry S. Slosberg Inc: 3 lots
- J Levine Auction & Appraisal LLC: 2 lots
- John Moran Auctioneers: 2 lots
- Skinner: 2 lots
- Charlton Hall: 1 lots
- Eldred's: 1 lots
- Leland Little Auctions: 1 lots
- Millea Bros Ltd: 1 lots
- Nye & Company: 1 lots
- Old Kinderhook Auction Company: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2024-07-16 | James Kirk Merrick \(1917\-1979\), Untitled, seashells | John Moran Auctioneers | N/A
2. 2024-05-07 | James Kirk Merrick, Abstract with Logs | Old Kinderhook Auction Company | $30
3. 2024-04-16 | James Kirk Merrick \(1917\-1979\), Untitled, seashells | John Moran Auctioneers | N/A
4. 2024-03-27 | James Kirk Merrick, Abstracts | Barry S. Slosberg Inc | $15
5. 2024-01-10 | James Kirk Merrick, Abstracts | Barry S. Slosberg Inc | N/A
6. 2023-07-26 | James Kirk Merrick, watercolor on paper | Millea Bros Ltd | $60
7. 2019-05-07 | James Kirk Merrick, 20th C. American, "Green Boat Next to Dock House", watercolor on paper, signed lower right, 18\-1/2" x 26\-1/2" si... | William Bunch Auctions & Appraisals | $110
8. 2017-03-26 | James Kirk Merrick Signed Watercolors | Barry S. Slosberg Inc | $30
9. 2016-03-19 | JAMES KIRK MERRICK, Pennsylvania, 1905\-1985, Figures and boats by the shore with a lighthouse in the distance., Watercolor on paper,... | Eldred's | N/A
10. 2012-03-17 | James Kirk Merrick \(PA, 1905\-1985\), Distant Blue | Leland Little Auctions | $175
11. 2011-09-24 | James Kirk Merrick \(1905 \- 1985\) Village Scene \- Watercolor | J Levine Auction & Appraisal LLC | N/A
12. 2011-09-24 | James Kirk Merrick \(1905 \- 1985\) Church Street \- Watercolor | J Levine Auction & Appraisal LLC | $150
13. 2009-07-15 | James Kirk Merrick \(American, b. 1905\) Provincetown, edition of 100. Signed "Merrick" in pencil l.r., numbered "10/100" in pencil l.l. | Skinner | $59
14. 2009-03-06 | James Kirk Merrick \(American, b. 1905\) Provincetown, edition of 100. Signed "Merrick" in penci... | Skinner | N/A
15. 2008-02-02 | James Kirk Merrick | Charlton Hall | $690
16. 2005-06-09 | A WATERCOLOR ON PAPER;depicting a large still\-life of flower | Nye & Company | N/A
17. 2004-04-03 | James Kirk Merrick | Outer Cape Art Auctions | $655

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