# Lyle Sopel - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-04T10:40:19.627Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 46
- Lots with prices: 41
- First auction date: 2009-11-15
- Latest auction date: 2025-07-26
- Median realised price: $1,088
- Price range: $100 to $60,080

## Market Takeaway
Lyle Sopel shows developing auction liquidity with 46 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $1,088. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 5 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-07-26.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($1,088\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $600 and $1,600.
- 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: 48.8% (20 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 48.8% (20 sales)
- $10,000\+: 2.4% (1 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 5
- Previous 12 months sales: 4
- Recent 12 months median: $325
- Previous 12 months median: $2,176
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-07-26
- Days since latest sale: 207
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Dreweatts 1759: 8 lots
- Hill Auction Gallery: 4 lots
- Akiba Galleries: 2 lots
- Link Auction Galleries: 2 lots
- Locati LLC: 2 lots
- Quinn's Auction Galleries: 2 lots
- Simpson Galleries, LLC: 2 lots
- Sloans & Kenyon: 2 lots
- Waddington's: 2 lots
- William Bunch Auctions & Appraisals: 2 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-01-31 | LYLE SOPEL \(CANADIAN, B. 1951\) | Selkirk Auctioneers & Appraisers | $600
2. 2025-07-26 | LYLE SOPEL \(CANADIAN, B. 1951\) CARVED NEPHRITE MUSKOX SCULPTURE. | Amelia Jeffers | $1,700
3. 2025-07-02 | Lyle Sopel \(b.1951\) Eagle In Flight Jade Sculpture | Hill Auction Gallery | $2,000
4. 2025-05-09 | Lyle Sopel signed Jade Bear | Schultz Auctioneers | $325
5. 2025-04-13 | Lyle Sopel \(Born 1951\) Jade Canada Goose Sculpture | Locati LLC | $200
6. 2025-03-30 | Lyle Sopel \(Attribution\) Carved Jade Bear Sculpture | Main Auction Galleries | $100
7. 2024-11-07 | Lyle Sopel \(Canadian, b.1951\), EAGLE OVER A ROCKY PRECIPICE | Waddington's | CA$2,250
8. 2024-09-13 | Lyle Sopel \(Canadian, b.1951\) | Martel Maides | £2,200 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-lyle-sopel-canadian-b-1951-1388-c-c7e43debb2
9. 2024-07-18 | Lyle Sopel \(b. 1951\), WHALE | Waddington's | CA$2,176
10. 2024-01-21 | Lyle Sopel \(b. 1951\) | Leon Gallery | ₱60,080
11. 2023-10-03 | Lyle Sopel \(b. 1951\), "Northern Lights," Carved semiprecious stone, 14" H x 10" W x 6" D | John Moran Auctioneers | $2,750
12. 2023-03-29 | Lyle Sopel b.1951 Carved Jade Stone Wolf Sculpture | Hill Auction Gallery | $475
13. 2023-03-29 | Lyle Sopel b.1951 Carved Jade Stone Bear Sculpture | Hill Auction Gallery | $650
14. 2022-10-16 | Lyle Sopel "Polar Bear" Nephrite Sculpture | Auctions at Showplace | $700
15. 2022-09-13 | Lyle Sopel \(British Columbia, Canada, b. 1951\) Carved Green Nephrite Jade Bear on a partially rough/part polished green nephrite jade base. Signed "Sopel" and numbered 2600. 6 1/2" h. | Bill Hood & Sons Arts & Antiques Auctions | $650
16. 2022-07-26 | LYLE SOPEL \(British Columbia, Canada, b. 1951\), Carved mottled green nephrite bear on a rockery base., Height 6.75”. | Eldred's | $750
17. 2022-03-26 | Lyle Sopel | Wooten & Wooten Auctioneers | $475 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-lyle-sopel-52-c-7cc4c09b58
18. 2021-10-16 | Lyle Sopel \(b. 1951\) Nephrite Jade Dolphins Group | Circle Auction | $1,200
19. 2020-11-14 | Lyle Sopel \(1951\- , Canadian\), "Fish Swimming Upstream," 20th c., carved Nephrite jade, on a partially polished "wave" slab base, si... | Crescent City Auction Gallery | $1,088
20. 2020-02-26 | Lyle Sopel \(Canadian, b.1951\) Jade Eagle Sculpture | Hill Auction Gallery | $1,400
21. 2019-06-25 | Lyle Sopel jade carved bear | Akiba Galleries | $700
22. 2019-01-26 | Lyle Sopel, Nephrite Eagle. | Quinn's Auction Galleries | $1,500
23. 2019-01-26 | Lyle Sopel, Nephrite Bear. | Quinn's Auction Galleries | $1,300
24. 2019-01-13 | LYLE SOPEL SCULPTURE: | White's Auctions | $1,350 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-lyle-sopel-sculpture-44-c-4594f4e9d1

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