# John Barger - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-30T13:47:23.984Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 20
- Lots with prices: 12
- First auction date: 2013-07-13
- Latest auction date: 2025-09-02
- Median realised price: $1,500
- Price range: $400 to $4,750

## Market Takeaway
John Barger has 20 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $1,500. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 1 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 \($1,500\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($750 to $2,000\) 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: 33.3% (4 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 66.7% (8 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 1
- Previous 12 months sales: 0
- Recent 12 months median: $750
- Previous 12 months median: $0
- Median shift: N/A
- Latest sale date: 2025-09-02
- Days since latest sale: 240
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Simpson Galleries, LLC: 5 lots
- Austin Auction Gallery: 4 lots
- Sarasota Estate Auction: 4 lots
- Bill Hood & Sons Arts & Antiques Auctions: 2 lots
- Houston Auction Company: 2 lots
- Altermann Galleries: 1 lots
- Lewis & Maese Antiques & Auctions: 1 lots
- Southeast Shows & Auctions: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-09-02 | JOHN BARGER \(American/Texas b. 1953\) oil on canvas, "Texas Hillside in Spring" signed lower left. Signed and titled on verso, Quote from artist on bottom of verso, "WHERE BLUE AND YELLOW MAKE GREEN" Unframed 30 x 24 inches | Bill Hood & Sons Arts & Antiques Auctions | $750
2. 2022-10-30 | John Barger \(b 1953\) American, Large Oil on Board | Sarasota Estate Auction | $2,000
3. 2022-10-01 | JOHN BARGER \(American/Texas b. 1953\) A PAINTING, "Evening Path," | Simpson Galleries, LLC | $1,000
4. 2022-07-24 | John Barger \(b 1953\) American, Large Oil on Board | Sarasota Estate Auction | N/A
5. 2021-12-14 | John Barger \(Texas Born 1953\) oil on canvas, Evening on the Guadalupe, signed lower left. 30 x 40 inches | Bill Hood & Sons Arts & Antiques Auctions | $425
6. 2021-08-28 | JOHN BARGER \(B.1953\) TEXAS BUCK \- ALWAYS ALERT O/C | Austin Auction Gallery | N/A
7. 2021-08-28 | JOHN BARGER \(B.1953\) SPRINGTIME IN TEXAS O/C | Austin Auction Gallery | $2,250
8. 2019-07-27 | JOHN BARGER "EVENING IN SPRING" OIL ON CANVAS | Lewis & Maese Antiques & Auctions | N/A
9. 2019-06-22 | JOHN BARGER \(B.1953\) BLUEBONNET LANDSCAPE PAINTING | Austin Auction Gallery | $4,750
10. 2019-06-22 | JOHN BARGER \(B.1953\) TEXAS BLUEBONNET LANDSCAPE | Austin Auction Gallery | $850
11. 2019-01-13 | John Barger \(born 1953\) Oil on Canvas | Sarasota Estate Auction | $400
12. 2017-08-12 | John Barger \| Winterscape | Altermann Galleries | N/A
13. 2016-11-13 | JOHN BARGER \(American/Texas b. 1953\) A PAINTING, "Texas Bluebonnets in the Evening," | Houston Auction Company | $1,600
14. 2016-09-11 | JOHN BARGER \(American/Texas b. 1953\) A PAINTING, "Texas Bluebonnets in the Evening," | Simpson Galleries, LLC | $1,500
15. 2016-05-15 | JOHN BARGER \(American/Texas b. 1953\) A PAINTING, "Texas Bluebonnets in the Evening" | Houston Auction Company | N/A
16. 2016-04-30 | John Barger \(Texas, born 1953\) | Sarasota Estate Auction | N/A
17. 2016-03-06 | JOHN BARGER \(American/Texas b. 1953\) A PAINTING, "Texas Bluebonnets in the Evening" | Simpson Galleries, LLC | N/A
18. 2016-03-05 | JOHN BARGER \(American/Texas b. 1953\) A PAINTING, "Texas Bluebonnet Landscape," | Simpson Galleries, LLC | $1,500
19. 2014-09-28 | JOHN BARGER \(American/Texas b. 1953\) A PAINTING, "Texas Bluebonnets," | Simpson Galleries, LLC | $3,000
20. 2013-07-13 | John Barger, Oil on Canvas, 40" x 60". | Southeast Shows & Auctions | N/A

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