# Kermit Oliver - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-15T21:47:18.027Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 46
- Lots with prices: 44
- First auction date: 2009-01-24
- Latest auction date: 2025-12-06
- Median realised price: $5,000
- Price range: $300 to $112,500

## Market Takeaway
Kermit Oliver has 46 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $5,000. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 6 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 \($5,000\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($2,000 to $11,000\) 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: 15.9% (7 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 56.8% (25 sales)
- $10,000\+: 27.3% (12 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 6
- Previous 12 months sales: 6
- Recent 12 months median: $9,500
- Previous 12 months median: $9,000
- Median shift: 5.6%
- Latest sale date: 2025-12-06
- Days since latest sale: 160
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Simpson Galleries, LLC: 27 lots
- Swann Auction Galleries: 7 lots
- Austin Auction Gallery: 2 lots
- Heritage Auctions: 2 lots
- New Orleans Auction Galleries: 2 lots
- Antique Arena Inc: 1 lots
- EJ'S Auction & Appraisal: 1 lots
- Freeman's: 1 lots
- Lewis & Maese Antiques & Auctions: 1 lots
- Neal Auction Company: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-09-13 | KERMIT OLIVER \(American/Texas b. 1943\) “Equinox,” LATE 20TH CENTURY, 13 5/8 x 19 3/8 in. \(34.6 x 49.2 cm.\), Frame: 22 x 27 3/4 in. \(55.9 x 70.5 cm.\) | Simpson Galleries, LLC | $17,000
2. 2025-12-06 | KERMIT OLIVER \(American/Texas b. 1943\) "Fog," 1975, Framed: 44 1/2 x 26 in. \(113 x 66 cm.\) | Simpson Galleries, LLC | $20,000
3. 2025-12-06 | KERMIT OLIVER \(American/Texas b. 1943\) "Br'er Rabbit with Turtle Eyeing White Mexican Poppy," 2006, 15 1/8 x 8 3/4 in. \(38.4 x 22.2 cm.\), Frame: 31 1/2 x 24 1/2 in. \(80 x 62.2 cm.\) | Simpson Galleries, LLC | $14,000
4. 2025-05-17 | KERMIT OLIVER \(American/Texas b. 1943\) "Para Adumah, the Red Cow," 1995, 6 1/2 x 9 1/2 in. \(16.5 x 24.1 cm.\), Frame: 14 1/2 x 17 1/2 in. \(36.8 x 44.5 cm.\) | Simpson Galleries, LLC | $9,500
5. 2025-05-17 | KERMIT OLIVER \(American/Texas b. 1943\) "A Saintly Monkey Took Pity on an Ogress," 2020, 12 1/4 x 17 in. \(31.1 x 43.2 cm.\), Frame: 17 3/4 x 22 1/2 in. \(45.1 x 57.2 cm.\) | Simpson Galleries, LLC | $6,500
6. 2025-05-17 | KERMIT OLIVER \(American/Texas b. 1943\) "Jacob," 2014, 9 3/4 x 20 in. \(24.8 x 50.8 cm.\), Frame: 21 x 27 in. \(53.3 x 68.6 cm.\) | Simpson Galleries, LLC | $900
7. 2025-02-08 | KERMIT OLIVER \(American/Texas b. 1943\) "Sketch for an Arcadian," 1979 | Simpson Galleries, LLC | $9,000
8. 2025-01-19 | VINTAGE FRENCH HERMES PARIS SILK SCARF BY KERMIT OLIVER | Antique Arena Inc | $375 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-vintage-french-hermes-paris-silk-scarf-by-kermit-oliver-236-c-e47411baba
9. 2024-10-03 | KERMIT OLIVER \(1943 \- \) Pomegranates. | Swann Auction Galleries | $13,750
10. 2024-09-21 | KERMIT OLIVER \(American/Texas b. 1943\) A PAINTING, "Monkey Presenting a Small Book of Hours," 2000 | Simpson Galleries, LLC | $11,000
11. 2024-06-08 | KERMIT OLIVER \(American/Texas b. 1943\) A PAINTING, "Monkey Presenting a Small Book of Hours," 1999 | Simpson Galleries, LLC | $22,500
12. 2024-06-08 | KERMIT OLIVER \(American/Texas b. 1943\) A PRINT, "Sacred Conversation," 1988 | Simpson Galleries, LLC | $1,700
13. 2024-04-04 | KERMIT OLIVER \(1943 \- \) Hay Rolls. | Swann Auction Galleries | $112,500
14. 2024-03-23 | KERMIT OLIVER \(American/Texas b. 1943\) A PAINTING, "Hanging Meat," 20TH CENTURY | Simpson Galleries, LLC | $6,000
15. 2023-04-06 | KERMIT OLIVER \(1943 \- \) Blue Sweater. | Swann Auction Galleries | N/A
16. 2022-12-11 | KERMIT OLIVER DRAWING CONTI ON PAPER | Lewis & Maese Antiques & Auctions | $12,000
17. 2022-10-06 | KERMIT OLIVER \(1943 \- \) Burnt Church. | Swann Auction Galleries | $18,750
18. 2022-10-01 | KERMIT OLIVER \(American/Texas b. 1943\) A HAND\-CORORED PRINT, "Garlanded Sheep," 1998, | Simpson Galleries, LLC | $3,000
19. 2022-06-07 | KERMIT OLIVER \(AMERICAN, B. 1943\) UNTITLED \(BEACH MENAGERIE\) | Freeman's | $9,500
20. 2022-05-21 | KERMIT OLIVER \(American/Texas b. 1943\) A PAINTING, "Beelzebub Lighted Upon a Lit Bartlett," 1992, | Simpson Galleries, LLC | $5,000
21. 2022-05-21 | KERMIT OLIVER \(American/Texas b. 1943\) A PAINTING, "New Orleans Street Scene," 20TH/21ST CENTURY, | Simpson Galleries, LLC | $7,500
22. 2022-05-21 | KERMIT OLIVER \(American/Texas b. 1943\) A PAINTING, "The Hesperides," 1993, | Simpson Galleries, LLC | $4,750
23. 2022-02-12 | KERMIT OLIVER \(American/Texas b. 1943\) A PRINT, "Garlanded Sheep," PRESENTATION PROOF, 1998, | Simpson Galleries, LLC | $2,000
24. 2022-02-12 | KERMIT OLIVER \(American/Texas b. 1943\) A PRINT, "Young Arcadian," PRESENTATION PROOF, 1998, | Simpson Galleries, LLC | $1,500

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