# Merrill Dean Mahaffey - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-01T16:51:52.099Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 17
- Lots with prices: 16
- First auction date: 2008-05-17
- Latest auction date: 2025-11-07
- Median realised price: $400
- Price range: $30 to $12,300

## Market Takeaway
Merrill Dean Mahaffey shows developing auction liquidity with 17 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $400. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 1 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-11-07.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($400\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $100 and $800.
- 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: 75% (12 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 18.8% (3 sales)
- $10,000\+: 6.3% (1 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 1
- Previous 12 months sales: 0
- Recent 12 months median: $12,300
- Previous 12 months median: $0
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-11-07
- Days since latest sale: 103
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- EJ'S Auction & Appraisal: 7 lots
- Simpson Galleries, LLC: 5 lots
- Heritage Auctions: 1 lots
- Nadeau's Auction Gallery: 1 lots
- Potomack Company: 1 lots
- Santa Fe Art Auction: 1 lots
- Sloans & Kenyon: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-11-07 | Merrill Dean Mahaffey, Bright Angel Afternoon | Santa Fe Art Auction | $12,300
2. 2024-01-27 | Merrill Dean Mahaffey \(b.1937\) Signed & Numbered Lithograph | EJ'S Auction & Appraisal | $170
3. 2024-01-27 | Merrill Dean Mahaffey \(b.1937\) Signed & Numbered Lithograph | EJ'S Auction & Appraisal | $170
4. 2024-01-20 | Merrill Dean Mahaffey Signed & Numbered Print | EJ'S Auction & Appraisal | $75
5. 2024-01-13 | Merrill Dean Mahaffey Signed Artist Proof Lithograph | EJ'S Auction & Appraisal | $30
6. 2024-01-13 | Merrill Dean Mahaffey Signed & Numbered Lithograph | EJ'S Auction & Appraisal | $100
7. 2024-01-13 | Merrill Dean Mahaffey Signed & Numbered Lithograph | EJ'S Auction & Appraisal | $45
8. 2023-09-23 | MERRILL DEAN MAHAFFEY \(American b. 1937\) A PAINTING, "Luminous Cliff," 1960 | Simpson Galleries, LLC | $400
9. 2022-05-21 | MERRILL DEAN MAHAFFEY \(American b. 1937\) A PAINTING, "Illuminated Cliff," 1961, | Simpson Galleries, LLC | $800
10. 2021-04-10 | Merrill Dean Mahaffey \(b.1937\) Mix Media On Paper | EJ'S Auction & Appraisal | $160
11. 2021-02-06 | MERRILL DEAN MAHAFFEY \(American b. 1937\) A PAINTING, "Afternoon by the Rocky Formation with Evergreens," | Simpson Galleries, LLC | $800
12. 2020-06-07 | MERRILL DEAN MAHAFFEY \(American b. 1937\) A PAINTING, "Willow Lake Series \#3: Granite Reefs Reflection," | Simpson Galleries, LLC | $500
13. 2020-02-15 | MERRILL DEAN MAHAFFEY \(American b. 1937\) A PAINTING, "North Wall \(Colo. Nat'l Mon.\)," | Simpson Galleries, LLC | $2,500
14. 2018-06-08 | MERRILL DEAN MAHAFFEY \(AMERICAN, B. 1937\) SPRING SNOW \- SPRING THAW, 1981 ACRYLI | Heritage Auctions | $500
15. 2018-01-01 | Merrill Dean Mahaffey \(American, b. 1937\), acrylic on canvas, "Cape Royal and Vishnu Temple", signed lower right: Merrill Mahaffey, ... | Nadeau's Auction Gallery | $1,600
16. 2013-02-17 | MERRILL DEAN MAHAFFEY \(American, b. 1937\). DESERT SUNSET, signed lower left and titled and stating that "Painted March 1960, Glenwood S | Sloans & Kenyon | N/A
17. 2008-05-17 | MERRILL DEAN MAHAFFEY \(AMERICAN, 1937\) DYNASTIC CORNER, LAKE POWELL Acrylic on canvas: 30 x 24 in. | Potomack Company | $2,000

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