# John Behan - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-30T13:48:00.116Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 48
- Lots with prices: 34
- First auction date: 2006-10-24
- Latest auction date: 2025-11-05
- Median realised price: $2,500
- Price range: $85 to $23,750

## Market Takeaway
John Behan shows developing auction liquidity with 48 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $2,500. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 2 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-11-05.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($2,500\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $720 and $5,500.
- Auction totals can include buyer premiums or fees depending on reporting, so compare like\-for\-like when possible.
- Condition, size, medium, provenance, and attribution confidence can move value materially versus median comps.

## Price Bands
- Under $1,000: 29.4% (10 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 52.9% (18 sales)
- $10,000\+: 17.6% (6 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 2
- Previous 12 months sales: 1
- Recent 12 months median: $2,000
- Previous 12 months median: $85
- Median shift: 100%
- Latest sale date: 2025-11-05
- Days since latest sale: 105
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Sotheby's: 11 lots
- Gormleys Art Auctions: 9 lots
- Adam's: 6 lots
- deVeres: 5 lots
- Morgan O'Driscoll: 4 lots
- Sheppards: 4 lots
- Bonhams: 2 lots
- Purcell Auctioneers: 2 lots
- Roseberys: 2 lots
- Bamfords Auctioneers and Valuers Ltd: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-11-05 | John Behan, RHA, b.1938, Flight Of Birds. On a black Kilkenny marble base. | Purcell Auctioneers | €2,000
2. 2025-11-05 | John Behan, RHA, b.1938, Turf Cutter. On a simple wooden base. Total weight | Purcell Auctioneers | €2,500
3. 2024-09-26 | John Behan \(b. 1938\-\) Self Portrait signed, dated 1966, 33/80, lithograph, 50cm x 32cm | Bamfords Auctioneers and Valuers Ltd | £85
4. 2023-03-01 | John Behan \(b.1932\) Fish Welded steel on granite, 56 x 66 x 48cm \(22 x 26 x 18¾\) | Adam's | €3,400
5. 2022-12-14 | John Behan \(Irish, born 1938\) Two female nudes | Bonhams | £650
6. 2022-12-07 | John Behan \(b.1938\) A Flight of Birds Bronze on a limestone base, 63.8cm high overall \(25\) | Adam's | €3,000
7. 2021-09-28 | JOHN BEHAN | Sheppards | €170
8. 2021-09-28 | JOHN BEHAN | Sheppards | €320
9. 2020-01-21 | John Behan \(b.1938\) Birds in Flight | Forum Auctions \- UK | £1,100
10. 2019-06-11 | John Behan, Irish b.1938\- Death and the Maiden; ink and watercolour, signed and dated 69, 30x25 | Roseberys | N/A
11. 2019-03-12 | John Behan, Flight of Birds | Gormleys Art Auctions | N/A
12. 2017-11-28 | John Behan \- Flight of Birds | Gormleys Art Auctions | N/A
13. 2017-09-27 | JOHN BEHAN, R.H.A. \| Bull | Sotheby's | £10,000
14. 2017-09-05 | John Behan \- Famine Ship | Gormleys Art Auctions | £6,000
15. 2017-03-29 | John Behan \(b.1938\)Cú ChulainnBronze, uniqueSigned and dated 02, 91.5 x 40cm \(35½ x 15¼\)Cú Chulainn is the hero of the ancient saga Táin Bó Cúailnge, the oldest vernacular epic in Western literature. This ancient tale is the centre of the Uslte | Adam's | €13,000
16. 2016-09-13 | JOHN BEHAN, R.H.A. \| Canal Bull II | Sotheby's | N/A
17. 2016-03-02 | John Behan \(Irish, b. 1938\) | Sheppards | €200
18. 2015-10-21 | JOHN BEHAN, R.H.A. \| Rod Bull | Sotheby's | £12,250
19. 2015-10-21 | JOHN BEHAN, R.H.A. \| Cú Chulainn | Sotheby's | £11,875
20. 2015-03-10 | John Behan | Gormleys Art Auctions | N/A
21. 2014-10-14 | John Behan \- Famine Ship | Gormleys Art Auctions | £2,300
22. 2014-09-16 | John Behan | Gormleys Art Auctions | £3,900
23. 2014-09-16 | John Behan | Gormleys Art Auctions | £2,100
24. 2013-09-25 | John Behan \(b.1938\) Flight of Birds Bronze, 115cm | Adam's | €1,100

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