# Lawrence Nelson Wilbur - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-29T14:12:17.745Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 43
- Lots with prices: 23
- First auction date: 2002-02-13
- Latest auction date: 2025-12-05
- Median realised price: $650
- Price range: $20 to $19,975

## Market Takeaway
Lawrence Nelson Wilbur shows developing auction liquidity with 43 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $650. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 2 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-12-05.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($650\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $200 and $1,800.
- 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: 56.5% (13 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 39.1% (9 sales)
- $10,000\+: 4.3% (1 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 2
- Previous 12 months sales: 5
- Recent 12 months median: $500
- Previous 12 months median: $170
- Median shift: 100%
- Latest sale date: 2025-12-05
- Days since latest sale: 75
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Cutler Bay Auctions: 9 lots
- Litchfield Auctions: 5 lots
- Christie's: 3 lots
- Gray's Auctioneers: 3 lots
- Rago Arts and Auction Center: 3 lots
- Barridoff Auctions: 2 lots
- Butterscotch Auction Gallery LLC: 2 lots
- Rachel Davis Fine Arts: 2 lots
- Sotheby's: 2 lots
- 4th Meridian Fine Art: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-12-05 | Lawrence Nelson Wilbur \(1897 \- 1989\) Oil Painting; | Lusher Fine Art & Auctions | $600
2. 2025-11-07 | Lawrence Nelson Wilbur \(American, 1897\-1988\) Tepoztlán, Mexico, 1945 | Freeman’s | $500
3. 2024-11-14 | Lawrence Nelson Wilbur, Union Square | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $1,500
4. 2024-11-14 | Lawrence Nelson Wilbur, Times Square Subway | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $1,300
5. 2024-09-22 | Lawrence Nelson Wilbur \(1897\-1988\), World War II, Pencil Drawing Studies for Drypoint | Peterborough Auctions | $170
6. 2024-03-13 | 3 WORKS BY LAWRENCE NELSON WILBUR SIGNED | Austin York LLC | $20
7. 2024-02-29 | Lawrence Nelson Wilbur \(1897 \- c. 1988/89\) American | Cutler Bay Auctions | N/A
8. 2023-09-14 | Lawrence Nelson Wilbur \(1897 \- c. 1988/89\) | Cutler Bay Auctions | N/A
9. 2023-07-01 | Lawrence Nelson Wilbur \(1897 \- c. 1988/89\) | Cutler Bay Auctions | N/A
10. 2023-05-25 | Lawrence Nelson Wilbur \(1897 \- c. 1988/89\) | Cutler Bay Auctions | N/A
11. 2023-03-11 | Lawrence Nelson Wilbur \(1897 \- c. 1988/89\) American | Cutler Bay Auctions | N/A
12. 2022-11-20 | Lawrence Nelson Wilbur \(American 1897\-1988\) oil on paperboard, Untitled "Fisherman throwing a lifesaver" | 4th Meridian Fine Art | N/A
13. 2022-10-30 | Lawrence Nelson Wilbur \(1897 \- c. 1988/89\) American | Cutler Bay Auctions | $200
14. 2022-09-21 | Lawrence Nelson Wilbur \(1897 \- c. 1988/89\) American | Cutler Bay Auctions | N/A
15. 2022-08-16 | Lawrence Nelson Wilbur \(1897 \- c. 1988/89\) American | Cutler Bay Auctions | N/A
16. 2022-08-16 | Lawrence Nelson Wilbur \(1897 \- c. 1988/89\) American | Cutler Bay Auctions | N/A
17. 2022-03-19 | Lawrence Nelson Wilbur, Am. 1897\-1988, Gloucester Harbor, 1951, Oil on canvas, framed, 25" x 30" actual, 36" x 40 7/8" framed | Barridoff Auctions | $600
18. 2021-11-21 | LAWRENCE NELSON WILBUR \(American, 1897\-1988\) | Butterscotch Auction Gallery LLC | $1,300
19. 2021-11-21 | LAWRENCE NELSON WILBUR \(American, 1897\-1988\) | Butterscotch Auction Gallery LLC | $4,200
20. 2021-07-09 | LAWRENCE NELSON WILBUR \(NY/MA, 1897\-1988\) | Thomaston Place Auction Galleries | N/A
21. 2020-10-24 | Lawrence Nelson Wilbur etching | Rachel Davis Fine Arts | $225
22. 2018-11-25 | Lawrence Nelson Wilbur, Exotic Birds, 3 Drawings | Litchfield Auctions | $70
23. 2018-10-27 | Lawrence Nelson Wilbur \(1897 \- c. 1988/89\) | Sarasota Estate Auction | N/A
24. 2017-11-25 | Lawrence Nelson Wilbur, Landscape w/ Houses, O/C | Litchfield Auctions | N/A

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