# James Surls - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-30T15:55:27.993Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 32
- Lots with prices: 26
- First auction date: 2006-10-11
- Latest auction date: 2025-12-05
- Median realised price: $3,556
- Price range: $20 to $30,000

## Market Takeaway
James Surls has 32 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $3,556. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 4 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 \($3,556\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($750 to $9,760\) 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: 34.6% (9 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 42.3% (11 sales)
- $10,000\+: 23.1% (6 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 4
- Previous 12 months sales: 1
- Recent 12 months median: $4,500
- Previous 12 months median: $2,000
- Median shift: 100%
- Latest sale date: 2025-12-05
- Days since latest sale: 146
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Heritage Auctions: 6 lots
- Neal Auction Company: 4 lots
- Bonhams: 3 lots
- Simpson Galleries, LLC: 3 lots
- Lewis & Maese Antiques & Auctions: 2 lots
- Los Angeles Modern Auctions: 2 lots
- Rago Arts and Auction Center: 2 lots
- Austin Auction Gallery: 1 lots
- Austin York LLC: 1 lots
- Eldred's: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2023-12-02 | JAMES SURLS \(American/Texas b. 1943\) A SCULPTURE, "Fox Tail Wheel \(Untitled\)," | Simpson Galleries, LLC | $20,000
2. 2025-12-05 | James Surls, Building | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $350
3. 2025-11-01 | James Surls \(b. 1943\), Knife Flower, 1981, carved and burned wood, 20 x 41 x 22 inches | Lone Star Art Auction | $10,000
4. 2025-10-05 | JAMES SURLS "MAKING THE TURN" WOODEN SCULPTURE | Lewis & Maese Antiques & Auctions | $4,500
5. 2025-09-13 | JAMES SURLS \(American/Texas b. 1943\) "Diamond and Flower," 2002, 46 1/2 x 22 x 22 in. \(118.1 x 55.9 x 55.9 cm.\) | Simpson Galleries, LLC | $27,000
6. 2024-05-15 | James Surls, oversize woodcut, 1987/1988 | Millea Bros Ltd | $2,000
7. 2023-09-13 | JAMES SURLS \(B. 1943\) Untitled | Bonhams | N/A
8. 2022-09-22 | JAMES SURLS \(Texas/Colorado, b. 1943\), “Two Bridges”, 1998., Lithograph on chine collé, sheet size 29” x 22.5”. Unframed. | Eldred's | $750
9. 2022-05-21 | JAMES SURLS \(American/Texas b. 1943\) A PRINT, "Looking Across the Diamond," 2000, | Simpson Galleries, LLC | $850
10. 2022-05-05 | JAMES SURLS & ERNST NEIZVESTNY SIGNED PUBLICATIONS | Austin York LLC | $20
11. 2022-04-23 | JAMES SURLS "SEEING THROUGH" A. P. | Lewis & Maese Antiques & Auctions | $1,600
12. 2022-03-09 | James Surls \(American/Texas, b. 1943\) | Neal Auction Company | $375
13. 2022-02-22 | James Surls, Knife Flower | Los Angeles Modern Auctions | $12,000
14. 2022-02-18 | JAMES SURLS \(B. 1943\) Axe, 1985 | Bonhams | $16,000
15. 2022-02-17 | James Surls \(American, b. 1943\) Look Away, 1989 | Hindman | $4,500
16. 2021-03-23 | James Surls, On The Bridge I | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $5,000
17. 2021-03-20 | James Surls, Look Out, 1993 | Santa Fe Art Auction | N/A
18. 2021-02-06 | James Surls \(American/Texas, b. 1943\) | Neal Auction Company | $9,760
19. 2021-02-05 | James Surls \(American/Texas, b. 1943\) | Neal Auction Company | $4,800
20. 2020-09-11 | James Surls \(American/Texas, b. 1943\) | Neal Auction Company | N/A
21. 2018-06-02 | JAMES SURLS \(b. 1943\): STARFLOWER | STAIR | $3,750
22. 2016-01-23 | James Surls \(American, b. 1943\) | New Orleans Auction Galleries | $937
23. 2015-05-17 | See in the Door | Los Angeles Modern Auctions | $500
24. 2015-02-22 | JAMES SURLS \(American, b. 1943\) Bridge, 1999 Double\-sid | Heritage Auctions | $687

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