# John Nesta - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-28T23:44:20.889Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 39
- Lots with prices: 12
- First auction date: 2008-05-10
- Latest auction date: 2025-10-09
- Median realised price: $244
- Price range: $150 to $1,100

## Market Takeaway
John Nesta has 39 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $244. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 4 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 \($244\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($160 to $900\) 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: 91.7% (11 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 8.3% (1 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 4
- Previous 12 months sales: 6
- Recent 12 months median: $950
- Previous 12 months median: $0
- Median shift: N/A
- Latest sale date: 2025-10-09
- Days since latest sale: 201
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- RoGallery: 15 lots
- Sloans & Kenyon: 11 lots
- Kaminski Auctions: 4 lots
- Gray's Auctioneers: 3 lots
- Thomaston Place Auction Galleries: 2 lots
- Alex Cooper: 1 lots
- Casco Bay Auctions: 1 lots
- Charlton Hall: 1 lots
- James D. Julia: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-10-09 | JOHN NESTA \(American, 1945 – 2017\). The Schooner Westward in Dry Dock, 2009, Oil on Canvas. Signed lower left hand corner. Verso signed | Sloans & Kenyon | N/A
2. 2025-07-17 | JOHN NESTA \(American, 1945 – 2017\). The Schooner Westward in Dry Dock, 2009, Oil on Canvas. Signed lower left hand corner. Verso signed | Sloans & Kenyon | N/A
3. 2025-05-15 | JOHN NESTA \(American, 1945 \- 2017\). Gloucester Marine Paint Manufactory, Rocky Neck, 2008, Oil on Canvas. Signed lower left hand corner | Sloans & Kenyon | $950
4. 2025-05-15 | JOHN NESTA \(American, 1945 – 2017\). The Schooner Westward in Dry Dock, 2009, Oil on Canvas. Signed lower left hand corner. Verso signed | Sloans & Kenyon | N/A
5. 2024-11-21 | JOHN NESTA \(American, 1945 \- 2017\). Gloucester Marine Paint Manufactory, Rocky Neck, 2008, Oil on Canvas. Signed lower left hand corner | Sloans & Kenyon | N/A
6. 2024-11-21 | JOHN NESTA \(American, 1945 – 2017\). The Schooner Westward in Dry Dock, 2009, Oil on Canvas. Signed lower left hand corner. Verso signed | Sloans & Kenyon | N/A
7. 2024-08-08 | JOHN NESTA \(American, 1945 – 2017\). The Schooner Westward in Dry Dock, 2009, Oil on Canvas. Signed lower left hand corner. Verso signed | Sloans & Kenyon | N/A
8. 2024-08-08 | JOHN NESTA \(American, 1945 \- 2017\). Gloucester Marine Paint Manufactory, Rocky Neck, 2008, Oil on Canvas. Signed lower left hand corner | Sloans & Kenyon | N/A
9. 2024-06-27 | JOHN NESTA \(American, 1945 – 2017\). The Schooner Westward in Dry Dock, 2009, Oil on Canvas. Signed lower left hand corner. Verso signed | Sloans & Kenyon | N/A
10. 2024-06-27 | JOHN NESTA \(American, 1945 \- 2017\). Gloucester Marine Paint Manufactory, Rocky Neck, 2008, Oil on Canvas. Signed lower left hand corner | Sloans & Kenyon | N/A
11. 2024-03-17 | John Nesta, Gloucester Harbor Fall | Kaminski Auctions | $1,100
12. 2023-10-07 | John Nesta, Two Dories, Painting | RoGallery | N/A
13. 2023-06-16 | JOHN NESTA, ARBELLA, OIL ON CANVAS | RoGallery | N/A
14. 2023-04-22 | JOHN NESTA, SCHOONER, OIL ON CANVAS | RoGallery | N/A
15. 2023-04-22 | JOHN NESTA, GLOUCESTER, OIL ON CANVAS | RoGallery | N/A
16. 2022-11-12 | John Nesta, Tugboat Revere, Oil on Board | Kaminski Auctions | $150
17. 2022-05-01 | John Nesta, Tug Luna at Roses Wharf | Kaminski Auctions | $400
18. 2020-10-22 | JOHN NESTA \(American, 1948\-2017\). FISHING BOATS IN SNOW, signed lower left and dated 2007 verso. Oil on canvas. | Sloans & Kenyon | $160
19. 2019-11-23 | John Nesta \(1945\-2017\). Smiths Cove Snow, 2008. | Casco Bay Auctions | $150
20. 2019-03-03 | John Nesta, Oil on Canvas | Kaminski Auctions | $950
21. 2019-01-31 | John Nesta, Ernestina, Oil Painting | RoGallery | N/A
22. 2018-03-29 | John Nesta, Schooner, Oil on Canvas | RoGallery | N/A
23. 2018-03-29 | John Nesta, Gloucester Street, Oil on Canvas, signed | RoGallery | N/A
24. 2018-02-28 | John Nesta, Two Dories, Oil Painting, signed l.r. | RoGallery | N/A

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