# Jim Nutt - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-28T23:44:55.671Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 59
- Lots with prices: 54
- First auction date: 2013-10-26
- Latest auction date: 2025-12-11
- Median realised price: $37,800
- Price range: $100 to $516,500

## Market Takeaway
Jim Nutt has 59 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $37,800. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 3 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 \($37,800\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($3,750 to $100,000\) 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: 5.6% (3 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 25.9% (14 sales)
- $10,000\+: 68.5% (37 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 3
- Previous 12 months sales: 8
- Recent 12 months median: $240,000
- Previous 12 months median: $16,000
- Median shift: 100%
- Latest sale date: 2025-12-11
- Days since latest sale: 138
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Christie's: 25 lots
- Hindman: 10 lots
- Sotheby's: 5 lots
- Bonhams: 4 lots
- Freeman’s \| Hindman: 4 lots
- Wright: 4 lots
- Leonard Auction: 3 lots
- Phillips: 3 lots
- Clars Auctions: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2022-10-16 | Jim Nutt \(American, b.1938\) and Related Ephemera Assortment | Leonard Auction | $100
2. 2022-07-24 | Jim Nutt \(American, b.1938\) and Related Ephemera Assortment | Leonard Auction | $550
3. 2025-12-11 | Jim Nutt, soft touch me | Wright | N/A
4. 2025-11-19 | JIM NUTT \(B. 1938\) New things are a foot. 23 1/4 x 21 1/4 in \(59.1 x 54 cm\) \(Painted in 1983\) | Bonhams | $240,000
5. 2025-07-18 | JIM NUTT \(B. 1938\). Drawing for Gulf. graphite on paper13 x 13 in. \(33 x 33 | Christie's | N/A
6. 2025-02-27 | JIM NUTT \(B. 1938\). Untitled. graphite on paper15 1/8 x 14 in. \(38.4 x 35.6 | Christie's | $50,400
7. 2025-02-20 | Jim Nutt, Back Scratch | Wright | $1,800
8. 2024-12-11 | Jim Nutt \(American, b. 1938\) You're so Coarse \(tish tish\), 1979 | Freeman’s \| Hindman | $1,900
9. 2024-09-25 | Jim Nutt \(American, b. 1938\) "Needless to say its rude to...!", 1983 | Freeman’s \| Hindman | $16,000
10. 2024-06-18 | Jim Nutt, seams Straight! | Wright | $4,200
11. 2024-05-17 | JIM NUTT \(B. 1938\) Perhaps You Should colored pencil and graphite on paper | Christie's | $75,600
12. 2024-05-17 | JIM NUTT \(B. 1938\) There Are Reasons colored pencil and graphite on paper 1 | Christie's | $56,700
13. 2024-05-15 | JIM NUTT \(B. 1938\) Loam 26 1/2 x 25 1/2 in \(67.31 x 64.77 cm\) \(Painted in 1995\-1996\) | Bonhams | $400,000
14. 2023-09-29 | JIM NUTT \(B. 1938\) Untitled graphite on paper 15 x 14 in. \(38.1 x 35.6 cm.\) | Christie's | $60,480
15. 2023-07-12 | Jim Nutt, Back Scratch | Wright | $4,000
16. 2023-03-10 | JIM NUTT \(B. 1938\) Untitled graphite on paper 23 3/8 x 22 3/8 in. \(59.4 x 5 | Christie's | $107,100
17. 2023-03-09 | JIM NUTT \(B. 1938\) Drawing for Plume graphite on paper 13 1/8 x 11 1/8 in. | Christie's | $37,800
18. 2023-03-09 | JIM NUTT \(B. 1938\) Plume acrylic on canvas and wood overall: 25 1/2 x 21 1/ | Christie's | $478,800
19. 2022-07-24 | Jim Nutt \(American, b.1938\) 'I've Been Waiting' Lithograph and 'Who Chicago?' Clam Shell Book | Leonard Auction | $2,400
20. 2022-05-13 | JIM NUTT \(B. 1938\) Quick Twittle Twittle colored pencil on paper 10 3/4 x 9 | Christie's | $75,600
21. 2022-05-11 | Jim Nutt \(American, b. 1938\) Do you See Something?, 1985 | Hindman | $45,000
22. 2021-11-12 | JIM NUTT \(B. 1938\) I Can't! acrylic and paper collage on paper mounted on a | Christie's | $100,000
23. 2021-09-16 | JIM NUTT \(B. 1938\) your so coarse \(tish tish\), from M.C.A.'s first BIG 10 y | Christie's | $1,125
24. 2021-09-16 | JIM NUTT \(B. 1938\) oh! my goodness \(No No\) Image: 9 7/8 x 11 7/8 in. \(251 x | Christie's | $750

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