# Ken Whisson - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-29T14:02:46.815Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 125
- Lots with prices: 84
- First auction date: 2002-05-02
- Latest auction date: 2025-09-04
- Median realised price: $17,500
- Price range: $170 to $70,000

## Market Takeaway
Ken Whisson shows solid auction liquidity with 125 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $17,500. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 6 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-09-04.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($17,500\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $1,700 and $27,000.
- Auction totals can include buyer premiums or fees depending on reporting, so compare like\-for\-like when possible.
- Condition, size, medium, provenance, and attribution confidence can move value materially versus median comps.

## Price Bands
- Under $1,000: 8.3% (7 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 34.5% (29 sales)
- $10,000\+: 57.1% (48 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 6
- Previous 12 months sales: 5
- Recent 12 months median: $1,700
- Previous 12 months median: $25,000
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-09-04
- Days since latest sale: 167
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Shapiro Auctioneers: 38 lots
- Deutscher and Hackett: 22 lots
- Leonard Joel: 17 lots
- Menzies: 13 lots
- Bonhams: 11 lots
- Lawsons: 8 lots
- Smith & Singer: 5 lots
- Christie's: 4 lots
- Lawson~Menzies: 3 lots
- Sotheby's: 2 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-09-04 | KEN WHISSON, THREE WORLD FACES 1991, | Leonard Joel | N/A
2. 2025-08-28 | KEN WHISSON, THREE WORLD FACES 1991, | Leonard Joel | N/A
3. 2025-08-27 | Ken Whisson, Two aeroplanes and one or two birds, 1975 | Deutscher and Hackett | A$22,000
4. 2025-08-27 | Ken Whisson \(1927\-2022\) Aeroplanes and Grey Horses, 1984 | Bonhams | A$1,100
5. 2025-08-20 | KEN WHISSON \(1927\-2022\), Contemporary Face, Sally McMurphy 2000\-02 | Menzies | A$18,000
6. 2025-05-05 | KEN WHISSON \(born 1927\) Summer's Day 2002 ink on paper 38 x 50cm | Leonard Joel | A$1,700
7. 2024-12-03 | Ken Whisson \(1927\-2022\) Flag for a Small Industrial Suburb \(Flag of My Disposition No. 6\), 1979 | Bonhams | A$17,500
8. 2024-11-20 | KEN WHISSON \(1927\-2022\), Lines and Landscape 2004 | Menzies | A$25,000
9. 2024-08-28 | KEN WHISSON, FROM HERE AND FROM THERE, 2001 | Deutscher and Hackett | A$40,000 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-ken-whisson-from-here-and-from-there-2001-43-c-1d549d796d
10. 2024-08-27 | Ken Whisson \(1927\-2022\) Country Race Meeting, 1975 | Bonhams | A$45,000
11. 2024-05-07 | Ken Whisson \(1927\-2022\) Flag for a Small Industrial Suburb \(Flag of My Disposition No. 6\), 1979 | Bonhams | N/A
12. 2024-02-13 | KEN WHISSON, PEOPLE AND BOATS, 2004 | Deutscher and Hackett | A$1,500
13. 2023-11-29 | KEN WHISSON \(1927\-2022\), Window and Aeroplane \(for Paul Nash\) 1999\-2000 | Menzies | N/A
14. 2023-11-29 | KEN WHISSON \(1927\-2022\), Prepositions and Adverbs of Time c1980 | Menzies | A$28,000 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-ken-whisson-1927-2022-prepositions-and-adverbs-of-time-c1980-11-c-70f44279a5
15. 2023-10-24 | KEN WHISSON \(1927\-2022\) For the Moment of Porto Alegre 2000\-01 oil on Belgian linen 89.5 x 119cm | Leonard Joel | N/A
16. 2023-08-23 | § KEN WHISSON 1927\-2022 Country Sleep 1980 oil on canvas 100 x 120 cm | Smith & Singer | A$30,000
17. 2023-08-16 | KEN WHISSON, EARTH AND SKY OR HEAVEN AND EARTH, C.1965 | Deutscher and Hackett | A$15,000
18. 2023-06-28 | KEN WHISSON \(1927\-2022\), Memory Traces 1989 | Menzies | A$12,500
19. 2023-05-23 | Ken Whisson \(1927\-2020\) | Shapiro Auctioneers | A$2,000
20. 2023-05-23 | Ken Whisson \(1927\-2020\) | Shapiro Auctioneers | N/A
21. 2023-05-02 | KEN WHISSON 1927\-2022 Car and Driver 1974 oil on composition board | Smith & Singer | N/A
22. 2023-03-21 | Ken Whisson \(1927\-2020\) | Shapiro Auctioneers | A$370
23. 2023-03-21 | KEN WHISSON \(1927\-2022\) With A Nod Towards Arshile Gorky 2000\-01 oil on linen | Leonard Joel | N/A
24. 2023-03-16 | KEN WHISSON \(1927 \- 2020\) Back of Nowhere, 1994 ink on paper 49.5 x 70 cm \(frame: 73 x 92 x 3 cm\) Legge Gallery label verso | Lawsons | A$1,700

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