# Merlin James - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-01T20:15:08.583Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 25
- Lots with prices: 22
- First auction date: 2008-10-07
- Latest auction date: 2025-10-21
- Median realised price: $2,800
- Price range: $280 to $6,000

## Market Takeaway
Merlin James has 25 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $2,800. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 5 sales. 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 \($2,800\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($1,984 to $3,800\) 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: 9.1% (2 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 90.9% (20 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 5
- Previous 12 months sales: 2
- Recent 12 months median: $2,600
- Previous 12 months median: $2,000
- Median shift: 30%
- Latest sale date: 2025-10-21
- Days since latest sale: 191
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Adam's: 7 lots
- Fondaco Aste: 5 lots
- Bonhams: 4 lots
- Mallams: 3 lots
- Rago Arts and Auction Center: 2 lots
- Antenor Auction: 1 lots
- Millea Bros Ltd: 1 lots
- STAIR: 1 lots
- Wright: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-10-21 | MERLIN JAMES \(B.1960\) Fire on Stage \(Viewer\) Acrylic on canvas, 43.2 x 58.4cm Signed, inscribed and dated \(20\)'08 verso Provenance: with Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, label verso | Adam's | €2,600
2. 2025-10-21 | MERLIN JAMES \(B.1960\) A Fire Acrylic on canvas, 42 x 49cm Signed, inscribed and dated \(20\)'04 \-'08 verso Provenance: with Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, label verso | Adam's | €2,600
3. 2025-10-21 | MERLIN JAMES \(B.1960\) Bird 17 Acrylic on canvas, 45.7 x 55.9cm Signed, inscribed and dated \(20\)'07\-8 verso Provenance: With Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, label verso | Adam's | N/A
4. 2025-10-21 | MERLIN JAMES \(B.1960\) Birds Acrylic on canvas, 41 x 61cm Signed, inscribed and dated \(20\)'08 Provenance: with Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, label verso | Adam's | €3,600
5. 2025-05-28 | Merlin James, Cloud \+ Foliage | Wright | $3,800
6. 2025-02-14 | Merlin James, graphite on paper, 2019 | Millea Bros Ltd | $2,000
7. 2024-09-27 | Merlin James, Canal | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $5,500
8. 2023-06-29 | Merlin James | Fondaco Aste | €3,200
9. 2023-06-29 | Merlin James | Fondaco Aste | €2,800
10. 2023-06-29 | Merlin James | Fondaco Aste | €3,000
11. 2023-06-29 | Merlin James | Fondaco Aste | €2,400
12. 2023-06-29 | Merlin James | Fondaco Aste | €1,600
13. 2022-11-08 | MERLIN JAMES \(B.1960\) BOX Oil on canvas, 34 x 39cm Signed, inscribed and dated 1986\-c.1997 verso | Adam's | N/A
14. 2022-06-07 | MERLIN JAMES \(1960\) | Antenor Auction | €4,000
15. 2022-05-10 | MERLIN JAMES \(B.1960\) Another Fire on Stage \(2006\-07\) Acrylic on canvas, 32 x 38cm Signed, inscribed and dated verso Unframed Provenance: With Kerlin Gallery, Dublin; Private Collection, Dublin | Adam's | €3,200
16. 2021-06-02 | Merlin James \(b. 1960\): A Courtyard | STAIR | $4,250
17. 2021-04-27 | MERLIN JAMES \(B. 1960\) 49 1997 | Bonhams | £1,900
18. 2021-04-27 | MERLIN JAMES \(B. 1960\) House \(Mirror\) 1994\-1996 | Bonhams | £3,800
19. 2021-01-27 | MERLIN JAMES \(B. 1960\) House 1995 | Bonhams | £6,000
20. 2021-01-27 | MERLIN JAMES \(B. 1960\) Easel Painting 1993 | Bonhams | £4,800
21. 2014-05-21 | Merlin James \(British, b.1960\) | Mallams | £1,300
22. 2014-05-21 | Merlin James \(British, b.1960\) | Mallams | £400
23. 2013-12-12 | Merlin James \(British, b.1960\) Houses by the Sea, | Mallams | £280
24. 2011-05-14 | Merlin James \(British, b. 1960\) Shelves, 1995; | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $1,984

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