# John Bolam - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-30T15:24:13.301Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 20
- Lots with prices: 14
- First auction date: 2007-09-26
- Latest auction date: 2026-03-25
- Median realised price: $190
- Price range: $30 to $500

## Market Takeaway
John Bolam has 20 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $190. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 2 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 \($190\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($150 to $300\) 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: 100% (14 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 0% (0 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 2
- Previous 12 months sales: 2
- Recent 12 months median: $30
- Previous 12 months median: $160
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2026-03-25
- Days since latest sale: 36
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Roseberys: 4 lots
- Chiswick Auctions: 3 lots
- Bonhams: 2 lots
- Halls Fine Art: 2 lots
- John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers: 2 lots
- Cheffins: 1 lots
- Chorley's: 1 lots
- Dreweatts 1759: 1 lots
- Gorringes: 1 lots
- Mallams: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2026-03-25 | John Bolam \(1922\-2009\) To Roam, mixed media, 64 x 50cm | Mallams | £30 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-john-bolam-1922-2009-to-roam-mixed-media-64-x-50cm-631-c-905b5cfb14
2. 2025-06-03 | John Bolam,  Discovery  | Roseberys | £300
3. 2024-09-11 | John Bolam,  Awakening, 1961;  | Roseberys | £300
4. 2024-06-11 | John Bolam,  | Roseberys | £160
5. 2019-12-03 | JOHN BOLAM \(B. 1922\) | Chiswick Auctions | £325
6. 2018-06-28 | JOHN BOLAM \(1922\-2009\) | Chiswick Auctions | £150
7. 2018-06-28 | JOHN BOLAM \(1922\-2009\) | Chiswick Auctions | £312
8. 2017-11-22 | JOHN BOLAM \(1922\-2009\) British \(AR\) Exploring II Gouache Inscribed to verso | Rowley Fine Art Auctioneers and Valuers | N/A
9. 2017-05-24 | John Bolam \(British 1922\-2009\)/Thanks to the Son \(on digging up an acorn\)/inscribed and monogrammed verso/mixed media, 57cm x 33cm | Chorley's | £190
10. 2017-02-01 | John Bolam \(1922\-2009\) British. "Birth", Watercolour, Crayon, Pen and Ink, Signed with Monogram, 9" x 21.5". | John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers | £120
11. 2015-10-22 | John Bolam \(1922\-2009\) 'The Sea Monster', 8.25 x 11in. Provenance: Barry Keene Gallery, Henley\-on\-Thames | Gorringes | N/A
12. 2015-03-24 | John Bolam, British 1922\-2009\- ''Welsh Stay 17''; | Roseberys | £160
13. 2014-11-19 | John Bolam | Sotheby's | £500
14. 2014-02-12 | John Bolam \(1922\-2009\) \- Birth II, | Dreweatts 1759 | N/A
15. 2013-12-11 | John Bolam \(b.1922\) British. 'Home of the Otorm | John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers | N/A
16. 2011-06-09 | John Bolam \(British, 1922\-2009\) \- Abstract \- oil on board | Cheffins | £280
17. 2008-04-02 | John Bolam \(b.1922\) 'A still life with bowl and | Halls Fine Art | N/A
18. 2008-04-02 | John Bolam \(b. 1922\) 'The bird table', oil on | Halls Fine Art | N/A
19. 2007-09-26 | John Bolam \(British, born 1922\) | Bonhams | £192
20. 2007-09-26 | John Bolam \(British, born 1922\) | Bonhams | £96

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