# Ken Searle - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-01T08:28:00.970Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 21
- Lots with prices: 17
- First auction date: 2008-08-24
- Latest auction date: 2025-12-09
- Median realised price: $600
- Price range: $10 to $12,000

## Market Takeaway
Ken Searle has 21 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $600. 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 \($600\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($300 to $900\) 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: 76.5% (13 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 17.6% (3 sales)
- $10,000\+: 5.9% (1 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 1
- Previous 12 months sales: 2
- Recent 12 months median: $12,000
- Previous 12 months median: $160
- Median shift: 100%
- Latest sale date: 2025-12-09
- Days since latest sale: 143
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Shapiro Auctioneers: 10 lots
- Aalders Auctions: 4 lots
- Leonard Joel: 3 lots
- Theodore Bruce Auctioneers & Valuers: 2 lots
- Bay East Auctions: 1 lots
- Deutscher and Hackett: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-12-09 | Ken Searle, Newtown II, 1999 | Deutscher and Hackett | A$12,000
2. 2024-11-16 | Ken Searle \(born 1951\), | Aalders Auctions | A$160
3. 2024-08-28 | Ken Searle \(b. 1951\), | Aalders Auctions | N/A
4. 2023-03-12 | Ken Searle \(b. 1951\), | Aalders Auctions | A$220
5. 2022-10-29 | Ken Searle \(born 1951\), | Aalders Auctions | N/A
6. 2022-02-23 | KENNETH SEARLE \(born 1951\) WEST Number 8 1990\-91 oil on canvas | Leonard Joel | A$8,500
7. 2022-02-15 | Ken Searle \(b. 1951\) | Shapiro Auctioneers | A$750
8. 2021-09-28 | Ken Searle \(b. 1951\) | Shapiro Auctioneers | A$600
9. 2019-12-15 | Ken Searle \(b.1951\) Sunday Morning \+ Kentucky Flying Chicken \[2\] Oil on canvas | Theodore Bruce Auctioneers & Valuers | A$10
10. 2019-12-01 | Ken Searle \(b.1951\) Sunday Morning \+ Kentucky Flying Chicken \[2\] Oil on canvas | Theodore Bruce Auctioneers & Valuers | N/A
11. 2019-08-20 | Ken Searle \(b.1951\) | Shapiro Auctioneers | A$300
12. 2019-08-20 | Ken Searle \(b.1951\) | Shapiro Auctioneers | A$540
13. 2019-03-20 | Ken Searle \(b. 1951\) | Shapiro Auctioneers | A$198
14. 2019-03-20 | Ken Searle \(b. 1951\) | Shapiro Auctioneers | A$720
15. 2019-03-20 | Ken Searle \(b. 1951\) | Shapiro Auctioneers | A$720
16. 2019-03-20 | Ken Searle \(b. 1951\) | Shapiro Auctioneers | A$1,140
17. 2019-03-20 | Ken Searle \(b. 1951\) | Shapiro Auctioneers | A$900
18. 2017-09-01 | KENNETH SEARLE \(born 1951\) Composition Sketch for West No. 5 pencil on paper | Leonard Joel | A$600
19. 2017-08-29 | Ken Searle \(b. 1951\) | Shapiro Auctioneers | N/A
20. 2011-11-27 | Ken Searle \(born 1951\) Eternal Flame 1989 acrylic on canvas | Bay East Auctions | A$360
21. 2008-08-24 | Ken Searle \(born 1951\) Otway Ranges Winter | Leonard Joel | A$3,600

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