# Ken Unsworth - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-26T02:11:05.383Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 25
- Lots with prices: 8
- First auction date: 2004-08-23
- Latest auction date: 2025-01-13
- Median realised price: $597
- Price range: $25 to $12,500

## Market Takeaway
Ken Unsworth has 25 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $597. 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 \($597\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($70 to $6,600\) 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: 50% (4 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 37.5% (3 sales)
- $10,000\+: 12.5% (1 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 0
- Previous 12 months sales: 6
- Recent 12 months median: $0
- Previous 12 months median: $25
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-01-13
- Days since latest sale: 496
- Market velocity: inactive

## Top Auction Houses
- Leonard Joel: 5 lots
- Lawsons: 4 lots
- Christie's: 3 lots
- Deutscher and Hackett: 3 lots
- Theodore Bruce Auctioneers & Valuers: 3 lots
- Ozbid Auctions: 2 lots
- Shapiro Auctioneers: 2 lots
- Bonhams: 1 lots
- Raffan Kelaher & Thomas: 1 lots
- Woodlands Auctions: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-01-13 | Ken Unsworth, Sculpture as Ritual & Burial Piece, One Central St., Original Silkscreen Exhibition Poster | Theodore Bruce Auctioneers & Valuers | A$25
2. 2024-11-13 | KEN UNSWORTH \(B.1931\) Breaking Free bitumen and aluminium based paint on paper 99 x 69cm \(124 x 99cm framed\) | Leonard Joel | N/A
3. 2024-11-04 | KEN UNSWORTH \(Australian 1931\-\), untitled, assembled driftwood. Height: 156 cm. Width: 33 cm. | Raffan Kelaher & Thomas | N/A
4. 2024-09-30 | Ken Unsworth, Sculpture as Ritual & Burial Piece, One Central St., Original Silkscreen Exhibition Poster | Theodore Bruce Auctioneers & Valuers | N/A
5. 2024-08-26 | Ken Unsworth, Sculpture as Ritual & Burial Piece, One Central St., Original Silkscreen Exhibition Poster | Theodore Bruce Auctioneers & Valuers | N/A
6. 2024-06-13 | Ken Unsworth \(one of Australia’s great contemporary artists\) by Anthony Bond | Lawsons | A$70
7. 2023-09-21 | KEN UNSWORTH \(1931 \- \) Untitled Bitumen based paint and mixed media on paper 71 x 94 cm \(frame: 84 x 106 x 5 cm\) signed lower right | Lawsons | N/A
8. 2023-09-21 | KEN UNSWORTH \(1931 \- \) Rocking Horse mixed media on paper 75 x 101 cm \(frame: 89 x 114 x 5 cm\) signed lower right | Lawsons | N/A
9. 2022-11-03 | KEN UNSWORTH, UNTITLED 1962, OIL ON CANVAS, SIGNED LOWER RIGHT, 54 X 43 CM, FRAME SIZE: 67 X 57 CM | Leonard Joel | A$400
10. 2022-08-21 | KEN UNSWORTH \(AUS\) "Untitled" | Ozbid Auctions | N/A
11. 2022-08-21 | KEN UNSWORTH \(AUS\) "Rocking Horse" | Ozbid Auctions | N/A
12. 2021-08-22 | Ken Unsworth, Villa des Vergessens V 1987, Lithograph | Woodlands Auctions | N/A
13. 2021-03-21 | Ken Unsworth \(born 1931\) Untitled, 2007 | Bonhams | A$3,000
14. 2020-11-04 | Ken Unsworth \(b. 1931\) | Shapiro Auctioneers | N/A
15. 2020-10-07 | Ken Unsworth \(b. 1931\) | Shapiro Auctioneers | N/A
16. 2019-08-28 | KEN UNSWORTH, born 1931, FREE FALL SERIES II – STONE CUBE, 1976, river stones and steel | Deutscher and Hackett | A$12,500
17. 2019-04-10 | KEN UNSWORTH, born 1931, STONES AGAINST THE SKY, 1983, river stones and wood | Deutscher and Hackett | A$7,500
18. 2017-08-17 | KEN UNSWORTH, MIXED MEDIA ON PAPER, LANDSCAPE, 42 X 59CM | Leonard Joel | N/A
19. 2015-08-06 | KEN UNSWORTH, ABSTRACT FIGURE IN LANDSCAPE 1962, OIL ON CANVAS, 56 X 46CM | Leonard Joel | N/A
20. 2015-07-30 | KEN UNSWORTH, ABSTRACT FIGURE IN LANDSCAPE 1962, OIL ON CANVAS, 56 X 46CM | Leonard Joel | N/A
21. 2013-08-28 | Ken Unsworth born 1931 UNTITLED cut twigs and painted steel | Deutscher and Hackett | A$6,600
22. 2011-02-23 | KEN UNSWORTH \(born 1931\) \- Untitled \(Suspended Stone Series\) mixed media | Lawsons | N/A
23. 2005-05-24 | KEN UNSWORTH \(B. 1931\) | Christie's | A$597
24. 2005-05-24 | KEN UNSWORTH \(B. 1931\) | Christie's | N/A

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