# John Napper - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-28T23:43:17.408Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 38
- Lots with prices: 22
- First auction date: 2004-01-20
- Latest auction date: 2024-10-15
- Median realised price: $550
- Price range: $85 to $4,750

## Market Takeaway
John Napper has 38 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $550. Category concentration is still broad. Recent 12-month volume is still light. 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 \($550\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($300 to $1,410\) 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: 63.6% (14 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 36.4% (8 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 0
- Previous 12 months sales: 3
- Recent 12 months median: $0
- Previous 12 months median: $220
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2024-10-15
- Days since latest sale: 560
- Market velocity: inactive

## Top Auction Houses
- Christie's: 6 lots
- John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers: 5 lots
- Sotheby's: 4 lots
- Bonhams: 3 lots
- Chiswick Auctions: 3 lots
- Gorringes: 3 lots
- Roseberys: 2 lots
- Shapiro Auctions LLC: 2 lots
- Burchard Galleries Inc: 1 lots
- Butterscotch Auction Gallery LLC: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2024-10-15 | John Napper \(1916\-2001\), a pair of oil on canvas scenes of figures on a beach, each signed and dated 68, 8" x | John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers | N/A
2. 2024-09-17 | John Napper \(1916\-2001\), a pair of oil on canvas scenes of figures on a beach, each signed and dated 68, 8" x | John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers | N/A
3. 2024-09-11 | John Napper,  Cat with Kittens;  | Roseberys | £220
4. 2024-03-12 | John Napper,  British 1916\-2001 \-  Study of Highgrove House: Seen from the | Roseberys | £200
5. 2023-07-11 | John Napper \(1916\-2001\) The Kiss | Piasa | €220
6. 2021-11-21 | JOHN NAPPER \(English, 1916\-2001\) | Butterscotch Auction Gallery LLC | $850
7. 2020-06-12 | John Napper \(1916\-2001\) Irish. 'Windy Sky', Watercolour, Signed and Inscribed on a label on the reverse, 11" x | John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers | £85
8. 2020-01-29 | John Napper \(1916\-2001\) Irish. "Sketch of a Kneeling Lady", Ink, Signed, Inscribed 'Rue de Tournon, Paris', and Dated 1958, 13.75" x 10.5". | John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers | N/A
9. 2020-01-29 | John Napper \(1916\-2001\) Irish. "Windy Sky", Watercolour, Signed, and Inscribed on a label on the reverse, 11" x 15.25". | John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers | N/A
10. 2019-08-14 | JOHN NAPPER \(1916\-2001\) | Chiswick Auctions | £300
11. 2019-07-13 | JOHN NAPPER \(BRITISH 1916\-2001\), Set of 4 Landscapes by the Water, Watercolor Drawings | Shapiro Auctions LLC | N/A
12. 2018-12-12 | JOHN NAPPER \(1916\-2001\) | Chiswick Auctions | N/A
13. 2018-04-10 | JOHN NAPPER \(1916\-2001\) Portrait of Peter Gurney signed and dated 'NAPPER/48' \(lower left\) oil on canvas  191/2 x 13 1/2 in. \(49.5 x 34.2 cm.\) Provenance: Commissioned by the sitter, gifted to the owner and thence by descent.  Private collection, | Chiswick Auctions | £2,500
14. 2016-07-14 | John Napper \(1916\-2001\) Summer garden | Christie's | £2,625
15. 2015-02-22 | JOHN NAPPER LITHOGRAPH FLOWERING CHESTNUT | Burchard Galleries Inc | N/A
16. 2015-02-21 | John Napper \(1916\-2001\), Floral Subject | Copake Auction Inc. | $300
17. 2013-12-05 | John Napper \(1916\-2001\) Green Crab, 1960 oil on | Dreweatts 1759 | N/A
18. 2013-05-22 | John Napper \(British, 1916\-2001\) | Mallams | £2,000
19. 2012-11-14 | John NAPPER \(1916\-2001\) Sans titre, 1966 Huile sur | Millon & Associes | N/A
20. 2012-10-10 | John Napper \(1916\-2001\) | Christie's | £4,750
21. 2011-03-27 | John NAPPER \(1916\-2001\) Nu debout, 1964Huile sur toile signée en bas à droite. 6 | Hôtel des Ventes d'Enghien | €550
22. 2010-07-13 | John Napper \(British, 1916\-2001\) 'Girl Reading' | Bonhams | N/A
23. 2010-07-13 | John Napper \(British, 1916\-2001\) Sleeping figure | Bonhams | £456
24. 2009-12-10 | John Napper \(1916\-2001\) Portrait of the artist's wife 10.5 x 9in. | Gorringes | N/A

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