# Martin Battersby - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-01T12:30:42.837Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 46
- Lots with prices: 36
- First auction date: 2000-11-29
- Latest auction date: 2025-02-06
- Median realised price: $956
- Price range: $70 to $18,000

## Market Takeaway
Martin Battersby has 46 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $956. 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 \($956\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($500 to $2,560\) 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: 50% (18 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 47.2% (17 sales)
- $10,000\+: 2.8% (1 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 0
- Previous 12 months sales: 3
- Recent 12 months median: $0
- Previous 12 months median: $2,800
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-02-06
- Days since latest sale: 449
- Market velocity: inactive

## Top Auction Houses
- Christie's: 12 lots
- Bonhams: 7 lots
- Akiba Galleries: 4 lots
- Bellmans Auctioneers: 3 lots
- Gorringes: 3 lots
- Jackson's International: 2 lots
- Roseberys: 2 lots
- Wilkinson's Auctioneers: 2 lots
- Abell Auction: 1 lots
- Carroll's Auctioneers & Appraisers: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-02-06 | Martin Battersby \(British, 1914ñ1982\), A still life with nasturtium and Art Nouveau chalice | Sloane Street Auctions | £2,800 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-martin-battersby-british-1914n1982-a-still-life-with-nasturtium-and-art-nouveau-chalice-496-c-32e409c92b
2. 2019-11-13 | Martin Battersby \(1914\-1982\) Trompe l'oeil of bookshelves oil on board 43 ½ x 55 in. \(110.5 x 139.5 cm.\) | Christie's | £5,250
3. 2024-10-24 | Martin Battersby \(1914\-1982\) Watchers of the Night \(Trompe\-l'œil\) 15 3/4 x 20 in. \(40 x 50.8 cm\) | Bonhams | $6,000
4. 2024-10-24 | Martin Battersby \(1914\-1982\) Small Sphinx; Harlequin Sphinx, circa 1960; Sphinx \(Three Works\) sizes to 9 1/4 x 10 1/4 in. \(23.5 x 20 cm\) | Bonhams | N/A
5. 2024-01-01 | Martin Battersby \(British 1914 \- 1982\), "Italian Men Trompe l'Oeil", Oil on canvas, 18" x 16", Provenance: Grosvenor Gallery, London, catalogue number 13, label on verso, "The Mortimer and Mimi Levitt Estate, founders... | Nadeau's Auction Gallery | $2,560
6. 2023-11-28 | Martin Battersby \(British 1914\-1982\) "Tabac de St Vincent" Oil Painting | Akiba Galleries | $600
7. 2023-11-28 | Martin Battersby \(British 1914\-1982\) Oil Painting | Akiba Galleries | N/A
8. 2023-07-18 | Martin Battersby \(British 1914\-1982\) "Tabac de St Vincent" Oil Painting | Akiba Galleries | $700
9. 2023-07-18 | Martin Battersby \(British 1914\-1982\) Oil Painting | Akiba Galleries | $1,100
10. 2023-06-01 | Martin Battersby \(British, 1914\-1982\) A Gentleman of Leisure | Bonhams | €3,800
11. 2022-11-21 | Martin Battersby \(English, 1914\-1982\) "Intermezzo: act one, scene two," trompe l'oeil painting | Material Culture | $250
12. 2022-07-19 | MARTIN BATTERSBY \(1914\-1982\) Le Billet Doux goauche on card 9 x 13 1/2 in. | Christie's | £630
13. 2022-07-19 | MARTIN BATTERSBY \(1914\-1982\) Medusa \(i\); Pompeii \(ii\) goauche on card 6 7/ | Christie's | £882
14. 2022-07-19 | MARTIN BATTERSBY \(1914\-1982\) Trompe l'oeil \(Sphinx\) oil on canvas 22 x 24 | Christie's | £4,410
15. 2022-01-09 | MARTIN BATTERSBY \(BRITISH, 1914\-1982\). | Clarke Auction Gallery | $1,900
16. 2020-11-19 | MARTIN BATTERSBY \(1914 \- 1982\): TROMPE L'OEIL STILL LIFE | Abell Auction | $1,400
17. 2020-08-20 | Martin Battersby \(British, 1914\-1982\) A pair of still lifes with mannequin and ribbons | Christie's | $8,125
18. 2020-02-11 | Martin Battersby, British 1914\-1982\- Small Feathered Sphinx; gouache on p | Roseberys | £1,100
19. 2019-11-20 | Martin Battersby \(British, 1914\-1982\) A trompe l'oeil | Bonhams | £1,700
20. 2019-11-20 | Martin Battersby \(British, 1914\-1982\) Small Sphinx \(together with a similarly framed photographic print of a 'Harlequin' sphinx \(2\)\) | Bonhams | £1,100
21. 2018-05-15 | Martin Battersby \(British, 1914\-1982\), pair of gouache paintings of portrait plaques, watercolor gouache on paper, signed "Martin Ba... | William Bunch Auctions & Appraisals | $450
22. 2017-11-29 | Martin Battersby \(1914\-1982\) Pierrot & butterflies 17 x 12in. | Gorringes | £480
23. 2016-07-20 | MARTIN BATTERSBY \(BRITISH, 1914 \- 1982\) ‘SPHYNX’ TROMPE L’OEIL, CIRCA 196 | Christie's | £3,000
24. 2014-02-08 | Martin Battersby, British 1916\-1982\- ''Archaic | Roseberys | £180

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