# John B. Lear - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-01T12:49:53.548Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 30
- Lots with prices: 26
- First auction date: 2009-04-22
- Latest auction date: 2025-11-16
- Median realised price: $800
- Price range: $86 to $3,640

## Market Takeaway
John B. Lear has 30 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $800. 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 \($800\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($450 to $1,500\) 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: 57.7% (15 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 42.3% (11 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 4
- Previous 12 months sales: 1
- Recent 12 months median: $1,400
- Previous 12 months median: $3,640
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-11-16
- Days since latest sale: 166
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Rago Arts and Auction Center: 5 lots
- Sloans & Kenyon: 4 lots
- Swann Auction Galleries: 3 lots
- William Bunch Auctions & Appraisals: 3 lots
- Ashcroft and Moore: 2 lots
- Freeman’s \| Hindman: 2 lots
- Weschler's: 2 lots
- Barry S. Slosberg Inc: 1 lots
- Capsule Gallery Auction: 1 lots
- Freeman's \| Hindman: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-11-16 | John B. LEAR \(1910\-2008\) Mixed Media | Locati LLC | $150
2. 2025-09-30 | Acrobat | Sotheby's | N/A
3. 2025-06-25 | John B. Lear \(American, 1910\-2008\) Standing Male Nude, 1999 | Freeman’s \| Hindman | $1,400
4. 2025-06-25 | John B. Lear \(American, 1910\-2008\) Figures, 1987 | Freeman’s \| Hindman | $3,000
5. 2024-08-22 | JOHN B. LEAR \(1910\-2008\) Stilted Existence. | Swann Auction Galleries | $3,640
6. 2024-01-10 | John B. Lear, Make Figures | Barry S. Slosberg Inc | $1,900
7. 2023-12-05 | John B. Lear \(American, 1910–2008\) \- Man Standing | Freeman's \| Hindman | $1,500
8. 2023-11-14 | JOHN B. LEAR \(20TH C, PENNSYLVANIA\) PENCIL DRAWING | Ashcroft and Moore | $550
9. 2023-09-21 | JOHN B. LEAR \(20TH C, PENNSYLVANIA\) PENCIL DRAWING | Ashcroft and Moore | $475
10. 2022-12-06 | John B. Lear \(American 1910\-2008\), Coastal View with White Church, watercolor on paper, dated 97, Sight size: 13 x 19 in. \(33.02 x 48.26 cm.\) | Weschler's | $100
11. 2022-10-25 | John B. Lear \(American 1910\-2008\), Coastal View with White Church, watercolor on paper, dated 97 Sight size: 13 x 19 in. \(33.02 x 48.26 cm.\) | Weschler's | N/A
12. 2022-08-18 | JOHN B. LEAR \(1910\-2008\) Airborne. | Swann Auction Galleries | N/A
13. 2022-08-18 | JOHN B. LEAR \(1910\-2008\) Nude with Classical Column. | Swann Auction Galleries | $1,500
14. 2022-06-16 | JOHN B. LEAR \(American, 1910\-2008\). Recumbent Man, \[LGBTQ\+ INTEREST\]. Oil on canvas. Signed lower right hand corner. Framed. Not examin | Sloans & Kenyon | $1,400
15. 2022-06-16 | JOHN B. LEAR \(American, 1910\-2008\). Adam, \[LGBTQ\+ INTEREST\]. Pencil drawing. Titled and signed at base. Framed. Not examined out of fr | Sloans & Kenyon | $850
16. 2022-04-28 | John B. Lear \- Portrait of an Acrobat | Capsule Gallery Auction | $3,600
17. 2020-07-10 | ART | Houser Auctioneers | $900
18. 2018-06-26 | John B. Lear, 20th C American, gouache painting of 2 men on a boat, mixed media on paper, signed "John Lear '99", 9" x 11\-1/4" sight.. | William Bunch Auctions & Appraisals | $345
19. 2018-06-26 | John B. Lear, 20th C American, harbor scene painting, "Cornish Harbor", acrylic on board, signed "John Lear '04", gallery label on b.. | William Bunch Auctions & Appraisals | $277
20. 2018-06-26 | John B. Lear, 20th C American, gouache landscape painting with house, mixed media on paper, signed "John Lear '99", 10\-1/2" x 13\-1/.. | William Bunch Auctions & Appraisals | $86
21. 2018-02-03 | JOHN B. LEAR \(American, 1910\-2008\). MALE NUDE IN TREE, pencil. | Sloans & Kenyon | $400
22. 2018-02-03 | JOHN B. LEAR \(American, 1910\-2008\). TWO MALE NUDES and A MALE AND FEMALE NUDE: TWO WORKS, one signed lower left. Pencil. | Sloans & Kenyon | $1,200
23. 2016-09-24 | JOHN B. LEAR \(1910\-2008\): FLOWEY GENT WITH PLUSHY CHAIR | STAIR | $800
24. 2014-11-15 | John B. Lear \(American, 1910\-2008\) | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $1,625

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