# Joy Hester - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-30T02:22:27.841Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 59
- Lots with prices: 36
- First auction date: 2005-11-22
- Latest auction date: 2025-11-19
- Median realised price: $8,000
- Price range: $1,000 to $260,000

## Market Takeaway
Joy Hester has 59 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $8,000. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 8 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 \($8,000\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($5,400 to $16,000\) 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: 0% (0 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 55.6% (20 sales)
- $10,000\+: 44.4% (16 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 8
- Previous 12 months sales: 0
- Recent 12 months median: $6,000
- Previous 12 months median: $0
- Median shift: N/A
- Latest sale date: 2025-11-19
- Days since latest sale: 161
- Market velocity: moderate

## Top Auction Houses
- Menzies: 18 lots
- Leonard Joel: 11 lots
- Deutscher and Hackett: 8 lots
- Lawsons: 8 lots
- Gibson's: 4 lots
- Shapiro Auctioneers: 3 lots
- Bonhams: 2 lots
- Smith & Singer: 2 lots
- Christie's: 1 lots
- Raffan Kelaher & Thomas: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-11-19 | JOY HESTER \(1920\-1960\), Sleep 1948 | Menzies | A$5,500
2. 2025-10-19 | JOY HESTER \(1920\-1960\), Untitled \(Face\) circa 1946 | Gibson's | A$5,000
3. 2025-10-19 | JOY HESTER \(1920\-1960\), I Fled in Terror of the Night circa 1945 | Gibson's | A$6,000
4. 2025-09-23 | Joy Hester, Danila, c.1945 | Deutscher and Hackett | N/A
5. 2025-08-20 | JOY HESTER \(1920\-1960\), Seated Woman | Menzies | A$14,000
6. 2025-08-20 | JOY HESTER \(1920\-1960\), Head of a Woman | Menzies | A$16,000
7. 2025-05-25 | JOY HESTER \(1920\-1960\), Untitled \(Face\) circa 1946 | Gibson's | N/A
8. 2025-05-25 | JOY HESTER \(1920\-1960\), I Fled in Terror of the Night circa 1945 | Gibson's | N/A
9. 2023-10-10 | JOY HESTER, TWO WOMEN, C.1941 | Deutscher and Hackett | A$6,000
10. 2023-08-16 | JOY HESTER, STREET SCENE II, C.1941 | Deutscher and Hackett | A$48,000
11. 2023-06-27 | JOY HESTER \(1920\-1960\) \(Portrait of a Girl\) 1956 ink wash, pencil and charcoal on paper 34.5 x 25.5cm | Leonard Joel | N/A
12. 2023-03-29 | JOY HESTER \(1920\-1960\), Nude Leaning on a Chair c1943 | Menzies | A$15,000
13. 2022-12-01 | JOY HESTER, WOMAN AND ROSE, 1957 | Deutscher and Hackett | N/A
14. 2022-09-14 | JOY HESTER, MOTHER AND CHILD, C.1950S | Deutscher and Hackett | N/A
15. 2022-07-27 | JOY HESTER, FACES, C.1948 | Deutscher and Hackett | A$16,000
16. 2022-06-29 | JOY HESTER \(1920\-1960\), Man in Chair | Menzies | A$13,500
17. 2022-06-29 | JOY HESTER \(1920\-1960\), Man | Menzies | A$7,000
18. 2022-06-29 | JOY HESTER \(1920\-1960\), Woman | Menzies | A$5,000
19. 2022-03-22 | JOY HESTER \(1920\-1960\) Man with Beard 1955 ink on paper | Leonard Joel | A$17,000
20. 2021-12-01 | JOY HESTER \(1920\-1960\), The Greek c1945 | Menzies | A$14,000
21. 2021-11-10 | JOY HESTER, LOVERS WITH ROSE, c.1950 | Deutscher and Hackett | A$36,000
22. 2021-10-19 | JOY HESTER \(1920\-1960\) Man with Beard 1955 ink on paper | Leonard Joel | N/A
23. 2021-07-29 | JOY HESTER \(1920 \- 1960\) The Witch, 1943 ink and charcoal on paper 51 x 36 cm \(frame: 68 x 53 x 4 cm\) signed lower right | Lawsons | A$1,000
24. 2021-06-30 | JOY HESTER \(1920\-1960\), Face 1947\-48 | Menzies | A$9,500

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