# John Longstaff - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-29T15:27:40.219Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 31
- Lots with prices: 21
- First auction date: 2004-05-20
- Latest auction date: 2025-11-30
- Median realised price: $4,400
- Price range: $717 to $50,000

## Market Takeaway
John Longstaff has 31 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $4,400. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 3 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 \($4,400\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($2,000 to $8,500\) 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: 9.5% (2 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 66.7% (14 sales)
- $10,000\+: 23.8% (5 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 3
- Previous 12 months sales: 1
- Recent 12 months median: $5,500
- Previous 12 months median: $5,000
- Median shift: 10%
- Latest sale date: 2025-11-30
- Days since latest sale: 150
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Leonard Joel: 14 lots
- Lawsons: 4 lots
- Bonhams: 3 lots
- Christie's: 2 lots
- Theodore Bruce Auctioneers & Valuers: 2 lots
- Carvajal SVV: 1 lots
- GFL Fine Art: 1 lots
- Gibson's: 1 lots
- Leski Auctions Pty Ltd: 1 lots
- Menzies: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-11-30 | JOHN LONGSTAFF \(1862\-1941\), \(portrait of a lady\), oil on canvas, signed upper left "Jo. Longstaff, 1901", with title beneath signature \(illegible\), 67 x 55cm, 82 x 70cm overall | Leski Auctions Pty Ltd | A$5,500
2. 2025-07-24 | JOHN LONGSTAFF \(1862\-1941\) Mountain Stream oil on canvas 44.5 x 34cm | Leonard Joel | N/A
3. 2025-06-24 | JOHN LONGSTAFF \(1862\-1941\) Mountain Stream oil on canvas 44.5 x 34cm | Leonard Joel | N/A
4. 2025-03-18 | JOHN LONGSTAFF \(1862\-1941\) Mentone Beach Foreshore c.1887 oil on canvas 29 x 39cm | Leonard Joel | A$5,000
5. 2024-03-13 | John Campbell Longstaff, oil on canvas, still life of weapons, signed & dated 1883, 75 x 57 cm | Woodlands Auctions | A$1,000
6. 2023-11-28 | John Longstaff \(1861\-1941\) A Pair of Portraits:Portrait of Mrs R.C. Broomfield, 1890 \(Portrait of a Lady | Bonhams | A$8,500
7. 2023-05-23 | JOHN LONGSTAFF \- PORTRAIT OF EVE GREY \- OIL ON CANVAS | GFL Fine Art | A$24,000
8. 2023-03-09 | JOHN LONGSTAFF \(1862\-1941\) Portrait \(believed to be of Jessica Harcourt\) oil on canvas laid on board | Leonard Joel | N/A
9. 2022-12-01 | JOHN LONGSTAFF \(1862\-1941\) Portrait \(believed to be of Jessica Harcourt\) oil on canvas laid on board | Leonard Joel | N/A
10. 2022-10-25 | JOHN LONGSTAFF \(1862\-1941\) Portrait \(believed to be of Jessica Harcourt\) oil on canvas laid on board | Leonard Joel | N/A
11. 2022-10-20 | JOHN LONGSTAFF \(1861 \- 1941\) \- Untitled \(Self\-Portrait\) oil on canvas with added highlights by Ernest Buckmaster 75 x 63 cm \(frame:... | Lawsons | N/A
12. 2022-10-16 | JOHN LONGSTAFF \(ATTRIBUTED\), Still Life | Gibson's | A$1,800
13. 2022-03-31 | JOHN LONGSTAFF \(1862\-1941\), Miss Ida Fowler 1898 | Menzies | A$4,400
14. 2021-11-25 | JOHN LONGSTAFF \(1862 \- 1944\) \- Miss Goung Ming, 1915 oil on canvas 51 x 40.5 cm \(frame: 57 x 47 x 6 cm\) | Lawsons | A$7,500
15. 2021-08-26 | JOHN LONGSTAFF \(1862 \- 1941\) Untitled \(Coastal View & Cliffside\) oil on canvas 45 x 37 cm \(frame: 60 x 51 x 3 cm\) signed verso | Lawsons | A$3,250
16. 2021-08-24 | John Longstaff \(1861\-1941\) Master Rupert Ryan, 1898 Frame: Original, John Thallon, Melbourne \(label attached verso\) | Bonhams | A$50,000
17. 2021-08-24 | John Longstaff \(1861\-1941\) Jeune Mere, c.1891 | Bonhams | A$18,000
18. 2019-08-29 | John Campbell Longstaff \(1862 \- 1941\) \- Leur Mère, 1891 23.5 x 33.5cm | Lawsons | A$5,000
19. 2018-03-20 | JOHN LONGSTAFF \(1862\-1941\) Seascape 1891 oil on canvas | Leonard Joel | A$2,200
20. 2017-07-08 | John Longstaff \( 1862\-1941\) Madame Russell à Belle Ile en mer \- 1889 | Carvajal SVV | €38,000
21. 2016-10-16 | John Campbell Longstaff \(1862\-1941\) Michael Stirling Grant 1923 Oil on canvas | Theodore Bruce Auctioneers & Valuers | A$1,900
22. 2014-06-17 | JOHN LONGSTAFF \(1862\-1941\) | Leonard Joel | A$2,600
23. 2013-06-17 | JOHN LONGSTAFF \(1862\-1941\) Launching Place oil on board | Leonard Joel | A$2,000
24. 2012-12-09 | JOHN LONGSTAFF \(1862\-1941\) Study for Portrait of Sir John Sulman oil on canvas | Leonard Joel | A$900

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