# Lester Joseph Chaney - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-01T09:37:44.032Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 15
- Lots with prices: 9
- First auction date: 2002-06-21
- Latest auction date: 2024-05-17
- Median realised price: $375
- Price range: $225 to $1,600

## Market Takeaway
Lester Joseph Chaney has 15 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $375. 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 \($375\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($300 to $550\) 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: 88.9% (8 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 11.1% (1 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 0
- Previous 12 months sales: 1
- Recent 12 months median: $0
- Previous 12 months median: $350
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2024-05-17
- Days since latest sale: 713
- Market velocity: inactive

## Top Auction Houses
- Toomey & Co. Auctioneers: 4 lots
- California Historical Design, Inc: 3 lots
- Weschler's: 2 lots
- Austin Auction Gallery: 1 lots
- Charlton Hall: 1 lots
- DuMouchelles: 1 lots
- Freeman's: 1 lots
- Gray's Auctioneers: 1 lots
- Pacific Galleries: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2024-05-17 | Lester Joseph Chaney \(American, 1907\-1998\) Oil on Canvas, Ca. 1960s, "Crashing Waves Off the Maine Coast", H 22" W 28" | DuMouchelles | $350
2. 2020-12-12 | Lester Joseph Chaney Painting California Coastal 1947 | California Historical Design, Inc | N/A
3. 2019-06-08 | Lester Joseph Chaney Painting of California Sand Dunes | California Historical Design, Inc | $550
4. 2019-04-14 | LESTER JOSEPH CHANEY \(D.1998\) SEASCAPE PAINTING | Austin Auction Gallery | $300
5. 2018-12-08 | Lester Joseph Chaney Painting of California Sand Dunes | California Historical Design, Inc | $550
6. 2011-09-17 | Lester Joseph Chaney \(American b. 1907\), Rocky Coast with Breaking Surf, oil on canvas, 25\-1/4 x 30\-1/4 in | Weschler's | $375
7. 2011-01-09 | LESTER JOSEPH CHANEY \(1907\- , Illinois\) OIL ON BOARD \- Signed seascape with sailboat titled "Full Sail Good Ship Torrens" \- An exhib... | Pacific Galleries | $225
8. 2010-07-29 | Lester Joseph Chaney \(American, b. 1907\), Michigan Dunes, Oil on Canvas, | Gray's Auctioneers | N/A
9. 2010-03-07 | Lester Joseph Chaney \(American, b. 1907\) "Coastal | Toomey & Co. Auctioneers | N/A
10. 2009-12-06 | Lester Joseph Chaney \(American, b. 1907\) "Coastal | Toomey & Co. Auctioneers | N/A
11. 2009-05-03 | Lester Joseph Chaney \(American, b. 1907\) "Coastal | Toomey & Co. Auctioneers | $250
12. 2008-12-07 | Lester Joseph Chaney \(American, b. 1907\) "Coastal | Toomey & Co. Auctioneers | $1,600
13. 2008-09-07 | Lester Joseph Chaney | Charlton Hall | $427
14. 2004-09-18 | Lester Joseph Chaney \(American b. 1907\), Rocky Coa | Weschler's | N/A
15. 2002-06-21 | LESTER JOSEPH CHANEY \(American b. 1907\) WAVES CRASHING AGAINST THE ROCKS | Freeman's | N/A

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