# Ken Auster - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-29T05:06:22.690Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 31
- Lots with prices: 26
- First auction date: 2009-05-04
- Latest auction date: 2025-10-26
- Median realised price: $800
- Price range: $50 to $3,500

## Market Takeaway
Ken Auster has 31 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $800. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 1 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 \($800\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($625 to $1,464\) 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: 65.4% (17 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 34.6% (9 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 1
- Previous 12 months sales: 0
- Recent 12 months median: $500
- Previous 12 months median: $0
- Median shift: N/A
- Latest sale date: 2025-10-26
- Days since latest sale: 184
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Morris and Whiteside Auctions LLC: 13 lots
- John Moran Auctioneers: 4 lots
- Bonhams: 2 lots
- Broward Auction Gallery LLC: 2 lots
- Everard Auctions and Appraisals: 2 lots
- O'Gallerie: 2 lots
- Turner Auctions \+ Appraisals: 2 lots
- Abell Auction: 1 lots
- Hill Auction Gallery: 1 lots
- North American Auction Company: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-10-26 | Ken Auster \(CA,1949\-2016\) oil painting | Broward Auction Gallery LLC | $500
2. 2024-02-08 | Ken Auster \(1949\-2016\): View from the Roof, Catalina | Abell Auction | $1,800
3. 2023-11-12 | Ken Auster \(CA,1949\-2016\) oil painting | Broward Auction Gallery LLC | $625
4. 2023-06-03 | Ken Auster \(1949\-2016\) The Art of a Peel c. 2003 | North American Auction Company | $150
5. 2023-03-28 | KEN AUSTER \(1949\-2016\) OIL ON CANVAS | Robert Slawinski Auctioneers, Inc. | $2,900
6. 2022-10-18 | KEN AUSTER \(CA, 1949\-2016\), BUONA MATTINE, O/C | Everard Auctions and Appraisals | $1,600
7. 2021-06-08 | Ken Auster \(California, 1949\-2016\), Landscape, O/B | Everard Auctions and Appraisals | $700
8. 2021-03-31 | Ken Auster 1949\-2016 Plein Air Racetrack Painting | Hill Auction Gallery | $900
9. 2018-06-02 | Ken Auster \(1949\-2016\) | Turner Auctions \+ Appraisals | N/A
10. 2017-11-18 | Ken Auster \(1949\-2016\) | Turner Auctions \+ Appraisals | N/A
11. 2017-10-07 | Ken Auster, Too Much Pepper | Morris and Whiteside Auctions LLC | $700
12. 2017-10-07 | Ken Auster, Surf Check | Morris and Whiteside Auctions LLC | $900
13. 2017-10-07 | Ken Auster, Air Temp 80/Water Temp 80 | Morris and Whiteside Auctions LLC | $800
14. 2017-10-07 | Ken Auster, Girl Surfing | Morris and Whiteside Auctions LLC | $800
15. 2017-10-07 | Ken Auster, On Speed | Morris and Whiteside Auctions LLC | $400
16. 2017-10-07 | Ken Auster, Over the Edge | Morris and Whiteside Auctions LLC | $500
17. 2017-10-07 | Ken Auster, Right on the Nose | Morris and Whiteside Auctions LLC | $900
18. 2017-10-07 | Ken Auster, Left on the Nose | Morris and Whiteside Auctions LLC | $900
19. 2017-05-16 | KEN AUSTER \(AMERICAN, BORN 1949\) Flower market by the sea signed | Bonhams | $3,500
20. 2017-03-21 | Ken Auster \(1949\-2016 Los Angeles, CA\) | John Moran Auctioneers | $732
21. 2016-10-25 | Ken Auster \(1949\-2016 Laguna Beach, CA\) | John Moran Auctioneers | $1,320
22. 2016-07-16 | Ken Auster \- All Dressed Up and Nowhere To Go | Morris and Whiteside Auctions LLC | $1,200
23. 2015-10-10 | Ken Auster \- Order Up | Morris and Whiteside Auctions LLC | N/A
24. 2015-10-10 | Ken Auster \- Refuel | Morris and Whiteside Auctions LLC | N/A

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