# Mervyn Peake - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-30T23:51:15.601Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 68
- Lots with prices: 60
- First auction date: 2001-06-19
- Latest auction date: 2025-12-10
- Median realised price: $1,250
- Price range: $35 to $13,750

## Market Takeaway
Mervyn Peake shows solid auction liquidity with 68 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $1,250. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 4 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-12-10.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($1,250\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $598 and $2,214.
- 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: 40% (24 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 58.3% (35 sales)
- $10,000\+: 1.7% (1 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 4
- Previous 12 months sales: 4
- Recent 12 months median: $450
- Previous 12 months median: $500
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-12-10
- Days since latest sale: 70
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Christie's: 30 lots
- Bonhams: 13 lots
- Roseberys: 6 lots
- Chiswick Auctions: 4 lots
- Martel Maides: 2 lots
- Sotheby's: 2 lots
- Cheffins: 1 lots
- Dreweatts 1759: 1 lots
- Ewbank's: 1 lots
- Leonard Joel: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-12-10 | Mervyn Peake,  Profile of a young girl;  | Roseberys | £200
2. 2025-09-12 | Mervyn Peake \(British, 1911\-1968\) | Martel Maides | £3,500
3. 2025-07-09 | Mervyn Peake \(1911\-1968\) Portrait of a lady, wearing a florally patterned dress and turban, possibly Maeve Gilmore \(1917\-1983\) \(the artist's wife\), inscribed to the remains of an old label verso, oil on panel, 18.5 x 16cm | Mallams | £4,600
4. 2025-05-19 | Mervyn PEAKE \(1911–1968\) A woman in bed surprised by an aroused satyr Red chalk 17 x 12.5cm | Leonard Joel | A$450
5. 2024-11-27 | Mervyn Peake,  Portrait of Ithell Colquhoun, 1939  | Roseberys | £1,200
6. 2024-07-17 | Mervyn Peake \(British, 1911\-1968\) A Portrait of Fabian Peake | Bonhams | £1,700
7. 2024-06-27 | Mervyn Peake \(1911\-1968\), STUDY FOR CHRISTINA HOLE'S WITCHCRAFT IN ENGLAND, CA. 1945 | Waddington's | CA$500
8. 2024-02-27 | Mervyn Peake: Archive | Chiswick Auctions | £460
9. 2024-02-06 | MERVYN PEAKE \- Nude from behind | Subastas Segre | €350
10. 2023-09-12 | Mervyn Peake, Grotesque | Roseberys | £1,500
11. 2023-06-29 | Mervyn Peake \(1911 \- 1961\), A portrait monotype | Sloane Street Auctions | £220
12. 2022-05-25 | Mervyn Peake, British 1911–1968 | Roseberys | £1,100
13. 2019-07-04 | MERVYN PEAKE \(1911\-1968\) | Chiswick Auctions | £575
14. 2019-07-04 | MERVYN PEAKE \(1911\-1968\) | Chiswick Auctions | £1,250
15. 2019-04-09 | Mervyn Peake \(1911\-1968\) The red room oil on canvas 30 x 20 in. \(76.2 x 50.8 cm.\) | Christie's | £13,750
16. 2018-12-12 | MERVYN PEAKE \(1911\-1968\) | Chiswick Auctions | £320
17. 2018-09-26 | Mervyn Peake, British 1911\-1968\- Girl in Pain;ink, wash and heightening on | Roseberys | £1,500
18. 2018-06-22 | Mervyn Peake, 'The Cormenghast Trilogy', hardback | Ewbank's | £35
19. 2016-09-27 | Mervyn Peake \(Jiujiang 1911\-1968 Burcot\) Studies of centaurs pe | Christie's | £4,750
20. 2016-09-27 | Mervyn Peake \(Jiujiang 1911\-1968 Burcot\) David Jones pastel 11 | Christie's | £5,250
21. 2015-03-19 | Mervyn Peake \(British, 1911\-1968\) 'Snow\-rythms on the road to Little Sark, Winter 1947'charcoal and watercolour, | Martel Maides | £800
22. 2011-12-01 | MERVYN PEAKE \(BRITISH 1911\-1968\) ORIENTAL FIGURE WITH A DRAGON 36.5cm x 26.5cm \(14.4in x 10.4in\) | Lyon & Turnbull | £1,400
23. 2010-06-30 | Mervyn Peake \(1911\-1968\) Head study of a woman Ink | Dreweatts 1759 | £720
24. 2009-07-14 | Mervyn Peake \(British, 1911\-1968\) Still life with potted plant | Bonhams | N/A

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