# Kevin Best - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-30T16:55:52.487Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 196
- Lots with prices: 153
- First auction date: 2008-01-20
- Latest auction date: 2025-12-09
- Median realised price: $700
- Price range: $10 to $12,500

## Market Takeaway
Kevin Best shows deep auction liquidity with 196 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $700. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 6 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-12-09.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($700\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $400 and $1,300.
- 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: 66% (101 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 33.3% (51 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0.7% (1 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 6
- Previous 12 months sales: 8
- Recent 12 months median: $750
- Previous 12 months median: $700
- Median shift: 7.1%
- Latest sale date: 2025-12-09
- Days since latest sale: 71
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Lawsons: 93 lots
- Bargain Hunt Auctions: 23 lots
- Raffan Kelaher & Thomas: 14 lots
- Aalders Auctions: 11 lots
- Danielle Elizabeth Antique & Estate Auctioneers: 10 lots
- Barsby Auctions: 7 lots
- Kim's Auction: 7 lots
- Theodore Bruce Auctioneers & Valuers: 6 lots
- Art Invest: 5 lots
- Leonard Joel: 5 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-12-09 | KEVIN JOHN BEST \(1932\-2012\), 'On the Trail of the Dingo', oil on board, signed lower right, 39.5 x 49.5 cm, framed 56 x 66 cm. Title. | Raffan Kelaher & Thomas | A$1,000
2. 2025-12-09 | KEVIN JOHN BEST \(1932\-2012\), 'Hardly a Sound', oil on canvas board, signed lower left, 40 x 49.5 cm, framed 57 x 67 cm. Titled verso. | Raffan Kelaher & Thomas | A$1,500
3. 2025-12-09 | KEVIN JOHN BEST \(1932\-2012\), 'The Prospector', oil on canvas board, signed lower left, 24 x 30 cm. Artist label and titled verso. | Raffan Kelaher & Thomas | A$750
4. 2025-09-06 | Kevin John Best \(1932\-2012\), | Aalders Auctions | A$60
5. 2025-05-04 | Kevin Best \(1932\-2012\) Huge Original Oil Painting on Canvas "Decisions Decisions' | Kim's Auction | A$4,000 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-kevin-best-1932-2012-huge-original-oil-painting-on-canvas-decisions-decisions-208-c-56a48a7bd5
6. 2025-03-11 | KEVIN JOHN BEST \(1932\-2012\), 'After the Storm Windsor', oil on canvas board, signed lower right, 49 x 60 cm, framed 67 x 77 cm. Titl. | Raffan Kelaher & Thomas | A$350
7. 2024-11-07 | KEVIN BEST, SHOWERS AT SUNSET, | Leonard Joel | A$700
8. 2024-09-29 | KEVIN BEST, GUMS, OIL ON BOARD, 39 X 49CM | Lawsons | A$2,000
9. 2024-03-23 | Kevin John Best \(1932\-2012\), | Aalders Auctions | N/A
10. 2024-03-23 | Kevin John Best \(1932\-2012\), | Aalders Auctions | N/A
11. 2024-03-23 | Kevin John Best \(1932\-2012\), | Aalders Auctions | A$600
12. 2024-03-23 | Kevin John Best \(1932\-2012\), | Aalders Auctions | N/A
13. 2024-03-23 | Kevin John Best \(1932\-2012\), | Aalders Auctions | N/A
14. 2024-03-23 | Kevin John Best \(1932\-2012\), | Aalders Auctions | N/A
15. 2024-01-28 | Kevin Best \(1932\-2012\)\- Farmers | Kim's Auction | A$1,800
16. 2023-09-26 | KEVIN JOHN BEST \(Australia 1932\- 2012\), 'Not Out of the Woods Yet', oil on board, signed lower right, 20 x 40 cm, framed 39 x 59 cm.. | Raffan Kelaher & Thomas | A$600
17. 2023-09-26 | KEVIN JOHN BEST \(Australia 1932\-2012\) 'Grazing in the Morning Sun', 1984, oil on board, signed and dated lower left, 50 cm x 40 cm,.. | Raffan Kelaher & Thomas | A$950
18. 2023-09-26 | KEVIN JOHN BEST \(1932\-2012\), 'Hauling the Wool', oil on board, signed lower right, 60cm x 75cm, frame 79cm x 95cm. | Raffan Kelaher & Thomas | A$2,200
19. 2023-08-06 | Kevin John Best \(1932\-2012\) Australia, The Stragglers, oil on board, signed lower right, approx 59 cm x 90 cm | Vickers & Hoad | A$800
20. 2023-03-28 | KEVIN BEST \(Australia 1932\-2012\), 'The Mountain Man', oil on board, signed lower left, 40 x 50 cm, framed 62.5 x 72 cm. | Raffan Kelaher & Thomas | A$700
21. 2023-03-16 | KEVIN BEST \(1932 \- 2012\) \- The Gold Panner oil on canvas 90 x 120 cm \(frame: 114 x 130 x 4 cm\) | Lawsons | A$2,000
22. 2023-02-16 | KEVIN BEST \(1932 \- 2012\) When the Tailor Run, Anglers at Jibbon Beach, Bundeena oil on board 18 x 38 cm \(frame: 40 x 60 x 4 cm\) sign... | Lawsons | N/A
23. 2023-01-19 | KEVIN BEST \(1932 \- 2012\) 3 Mile Crossing at Sunrise, Kosciuszko National Park oil on board 34 x 44 cm \(frame: 55 x 65 x 4 cm\) signed... | Lawsons | A$1,200
24. 2022-09-15 | KEVIN BEST \(1923 \- 2012\) Untitled \(The Siege\) oil on canvas 35 x 45 cm \(frame: 60 x 70 x 4 cm\) signed lower right | Lawsons | A$475

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