# Maxwell Bennett Bates - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-01T08:25:57.112Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 19
- Lots with prices: 14
- First auction date: 2007-12-12
- Latest auction date: 2016-11-21
- Median realised price: $2,925
- Price range: $280 to $22,420

## Market Takeaway
Maxwell Bennett Bates shows developing auction liquidity with 19 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $2,925. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 0 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2016-11-21.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($2,925\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $450 and $5,760.
- 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: 42.9% (6 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 42.9% (6 sales)
- $10,000\+: 14.3% (2 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 0
- Previous 12 months sales: 0
- Recent 12 months median: $0
- Previous 12 months median: $0
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2016-11-21
- Days since latest sale: 3,376
- Market velocity: inactive

## Top Auction Houses
- Waddington's: 10 lots
- Heffel: 2 lots
- Maynards Fine Art & Antiques: 2 lots
- Bonhams: 1 lots
- Hodgins Art Auctions Ltd.: 1 lots
- Joyner: 1 lots
- Keys Fine Art Auctioneers: 1 lots
- Walker's: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2016-11-21 | MAXWELL BENNETT BATES, R.C.A., EVICTION, watercolour and ink, 21.5 ins x 15 ins; 35.6 cms x 53.3 cms | Waddington's | CA$5,760
2. 2016-03-10 | MAXWELL BENNETT BATES \(CANADIAN, 1906\-1980\), UNTITLED \(LOVE BIRDS\), MONOPRINT; SIGNED AND DATED 1961 LOWER RIGHT \(Sight, 18” x 24”\) | Waddington's | CA$720
3. 2013-11-27 | MAXWELL BENNETT BATES, R.C.A., WOMAN OF NICE, oil on canvas, 36 ins x 30 ins; 91.4 cms x 76.2 cms | Waddington's | CA$22,420
4. 2012-05-25 | MAXWELL BENNETT BATES, R.C.A. CLASSICAL BALL, watercolour and ink; signed and dated 1974 14 ins x 19.5 ins; 35 cms x 48.8 cms Provenance: Private Collection, Vancouver. Note: Bates moved from Calgary to Victoria in 1962 and became a member of the | Waddington's | CA$7,670
5. 2011-05-27 | MAXWELL BENNETT BATES, R.C.A., HUSBAND AND WIFE, watercolour and graphite, 18 1/2 ins x 13 ins; 46.3 cms x 32.5 cms | Waddington's | CA$4,248
6. 2011-03-24 | MAXWELL BENNETT BATES, R.C.A. AT THE BEACH, | Waddington's | N/A
7. 2010-11-12 | MAXWELL BENNETT BATES, ASA, CGP, SCPWC, RCA | Keys Fine Art Auctioneers | £280
8. 2010-06-10 | MAXWELL BENNETT BATES, R.C.A. DANCERS, lithograph, | Waddington's | CA$450
9. 2010-06-10 | MAXWELL BENNETT BATES, R.C.A. BALLET, lithograph, | Waddington's | CA$450
10. 2010-06-10 | MAXWELL BENNETT BATES, R.C.A. FORTUNE TELLER, | Waddington's | CA$372
11. 2010-05-05 | Maxwell Bennett Bates, ARCA, CSW, CGP, ASA | Maynards Fine Art & Antiques | CA$800
12. 2009-11-24 | MAXWELL BENNETT BATES, R.C.A.,  MASQUERADE, watercolour and gouache, 18 3/4 ins x 20 ins; 46.9 cms x 50 cms | Waddington's | CA$3,700
13. 2009-05-25 | Maxwell Bennett Bates | Hodgins Art Auctions Ltd. | N/A
14. 2008-11-27 | Maxwell Bennett Bates \(1906\-1980 RCA CGP ASA\) | Walker's | CA$5,750
15. 2008-11-27 | Maxwell Bennett Bates 1906 ~\- 1980 Canadian | Heffel | CA$2,925
16. 2008-11-27 | Maxwell Bennett Bates 1906 ~\- 1980 Canadian oil on | Heffel | N/A
17. 2008-11-25 | MAXWELL BENNETT BATES, R.C.A PICNIC NEAR THE SEA | Joyner | CA$19,550
18. 2007-12-12 | Maxwell Bennett Bates, ARCA, CSW, CGP, ASWA FIGURE | Maynards Fine Art & Antiques | N/A
19. 2008-02-16 | Maxwell Bennett Bates \(Canadian, 1906\-1980\) Boats on the shore, | Bonhams | N/A

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