# Joan Nelson - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-28T23:44:08.680Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 51
- Lots with prices: 27
- First auction date: 2001-05-16
- Latest auction date: 2025-12-03
- Median realised price: $1,100
- Price range: $150 to $19,120

## Market Takeaway
Joan Nelson has 51 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $1,100. 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 \($1,100\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($800 to $2,160\) 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: 37% (10 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 55.6% (15 sales)
- $10,000\+: 7.4% (2 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 4
- Previous 12 months sales: 6
- Recent 12 months median: $850
- Previous 12 months median: $650
- Median shift: 30.8%
- Latest sale date: 2025-12-03
- Days since latest sale: 146
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Christie's: 19 lots
- Millea Bros Ltd: 6 lots
- Sotheby's: 6 lots
- RoGallery: 5 lots
- Heritage Auctions: 2 lots
- Sloans & Kenyon: 2 lots
- Abell Auction: 1 lots
- Bonhams: 1 lots
- District Auction: 1 lots
- Hindman: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-12-03 | Joan Nelson, B. 1958, Untitled | Abell Auction | $850
2. 2025-09-17 | Joan Nelson, Pair of Lithographs, Untitled, 1986 | Santa Fe Art Auction | $1,024
3. 2025-08-10 | JOAN NELSON "UNTITLED \#2" COLOR DIRECT GRAVURE | District Auction | $350
4. 2025-07-15 | Untitled | Sotheby's | N/A
5. 2024-10-16 | Joan Nelson, mixed media on paper, 1985 | Millea Bros Ltd | $650
6. 2024-08-03 | JOAN NELSON \(B. 1958\). Untitled. oil, acrylic, wax crayon and marker ink on | Christie's | N/A
7. 2024-07-18 | Joan Nelson, oil and wax on panel, 1987 | Millea Bros Ltd | $850
8. 2024-07-16 | Joan Nelson, tempera and plaster on board, 1984 | Millea Bros Ltd | $400
9. 2024-06-19 | JOAN NELSON \- UNTITLED \- OIL/WAX ON WOOD | Litchfield Auctions | $1,000
10. 2024-05-15 | Joan Nelson, tempera and plaster on board, 1984 | Millea Bros Ltd | N/A
11. 2023-12-15 | Untitled | Sotheby's | $1,905
12. 2023-12-15 | Untitled | Sotheby's | $7,620
13. 2023-04-12 | JOAN NELSON \(B. 1958\) Untitled \(\#69\), 1986 | Bonhams | $800
14. 2022-09-08 | Joan Nelson \(American, 1958\) Untitled \(\#194\), 1988 Oil on panel 25 x 20 inches \( | Heritage Auctions | $1,700
15. 2021-04-09 | Joan Nelson \(American, b. 1958\) Untitled \(\#114\), 1986 | Hindman | $2,125
16. 2021-04-08 | Joan Nelson \(American, b. 1958\) Untitled, 1989 Oil on paper 4 x 4\-1/4 inches \(10 | Heritage Auctions | $550
17. 2020-12-01 | JOAN NELSON SIGNED LITHO | Jackson's International | $150
18. 2019-09-19 | Joan Nelson, Building, Egg Tempera & Plaster Painting | RoGallery | N/A
19. 2019-05-17 | Joan Nelson, painting, 1989 | Millea Bros Ltd | $800
20. 2019-05-17 | Joan Nelson, mixed media, 1985 | Millea Bros Ltd | $1,100
21. 2018-01-24 | Joan Nelson, Building Backyard, Egg Tempera & Plaster Painting | RoGallery | N/A
22. 2017-09-16 | JOAN NELSON \(American, b.1958\) | South Bay Auctions Inc | $500
23. 2016-11-05 | Joan NELSON \- Works | SBI Art Auction Co., Ltd. | N/A
24. 2016-04-28 | Joan Nelson, Building Backyard, Egg Tempera & Plaster Painting | RoGallery | N/A

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