# Michael Tain - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-16T03:56:45.889Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 33
- Lots with prices: 29
- First auction date: 2007-12-06
- Latest auction date: 2019-06-26
- Median realised price: $170
- Price range: $20 to $1,100

## Market Takeaway
Michael Tain has 33 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $170. 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 \($170\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($90 to $245\) 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: 96.6% (28 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 3.4% (1 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 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: N/A
- Latest sale date: 2019-06-26
- Days since latest sale: 2,511
- Market velocity: inactive

## Top Auction Houses
- John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers: 22 lots
- Bonhams: 4 lots
- Gorringes: 3 lots
- Chiswick Auctions: 2 lots
- Dreweatts 1759: 1 lots
- Holloway's: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2019-06-26 | Michael Tain \(1927 \) British. "View from Burano", Oil on Canvas, Signed, and Signed, Inscribed and Dated 1965 on reverse, 34" x 44". Provenance: John Whibley Gallery. | John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers | £20
2. 2019-01-22 | Michael Tain \(British, B.1927\), 'Winter Moon' | Chiswick Auctions | N/A
3. 2019-01-22 | Michael Tain \(British, B.1927\), 'Evening, Venice, Guidecca' | Chiswick Auctions | £90
4. 2018-03-28 | Michael Tain \(1927 \) British. "Setting Sun, Provence", Oil on Board, Inscribed on reverse, 18" x 54". Provenance: John Whibley Gallery. | John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers | £240
5. 2018-03-28 | Michael Tain \(1927 \) British. "Provence, Sunset", Oil on Board, Signed, and Inscribed on the reverse, 18" x 54". | John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers | £190
6. 2018-03-28 | Michael Tain \(1927 \) British. A Reclining Nude, Oil on Board, Signed and Dated '62, and Signed and Dated on the reverse, 24" x 51". | John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers | £380
7. 2018-03-28 | Michael Tain \(1927 \) British. A Reclining Nude, with a Witch's Hat and Broom and a Black Cat, Oil on Canvas, Signed, 50" x 25". | John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers | £1,100
8. 2018-03-28 | Michael Tain \(1927 \) British. A Coastal Landscape, Oil on Canvas, Signed, 30" x 30". | John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers | £200
9. 2018-03-28 | Michael Tain \(1927 \) British. "Suy\-Lin", Portrait of a Lady, Oil on Canvas, Signed, and Inscribed on the reverse and Dated 1971, 30" x 22". | John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers | £170
10. 2018-03-28 | Michael Tain \(1927 \) British. A Harvest Scene, Oil on Board, Signed, 30" x 54". | John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers | £280
11. 2018-03-28 | Michael Tain \(1927 \) British. "Chioggia", A Coastal Scene, Oil on Canvas, Signed, and Signed, Inscribed and Dated '65 on reverse, 40" x 30". | John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers | £170
12. 2018-03-28 | Michael Tain \(1927 \) British. "Village Perchee, Provence", Oil on Board, Signed, Inscribed on a label on reverse, 39" x 60". Provenance John Whibley Gallery, London. | John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers | £400
13. 2018-03-28 | Michael Tain \(1927 \) British. 'Autumn Shining Through', Oil on Canvas, Signed, 30" x 30". | John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers | £120
14. 2018-03-28 | Michael Tain \(1927 \) British. "Collage D'Or", Oil on Canvas, Signed, and Inscribed on the reverse, 40" x 30". | John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers | £260
15. 2018-03-28 | Michael Tain \(1927 \) British. "The Semi\-Naked Cowgirl holding a Whip", Oil on Board, Signed, 60" x 24". | John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers | £245
16. 2018-03-28 | Michael Tain \(1927 \) British. A Standing Female Nude, Oil on Canvas, Signed, 40" x 30". | John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers | £200
17. 2018-03-28 | Michael Tain \(1927 \) British. "Plague de Pampelonne", Oil on Board, Signed, 25" x 36". Provenance: John Whibley Gallery, London. | John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers | £220
18. 2018-03-28 | Michael Tain \(1927 \) British. "Rainstorm\- Berkshire Downs", Oil on Canvas, Signed, and Inscribed and Dated 1967 on the reverse, 30" x 40". | John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers | £360
19. 2018-03-28 | Michael Tain \(1927 \) British. "Maura", Study of a Standing Female Nude, Oil on Canvas, Signed, and Inscribed and Dated 1968 on reverse, 40" x 30". | John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers | £160
20. 2018-03-28 | Michael Tain \(1927 \) British. A Sunset Landscape, Oil on Canvas, Signed, 30" x 40". | John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers | £100
21. 2018-03-28 | Michael Tain \(1927 \) British. "View from Burano", Oil on Canvas, Signed, and Signed, Inscribed and Dated 1965 on reverse, 34" x 44". Provenance: John Whibley Gallery. | John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers | £40
22. 2018-03-28 | Michael Tain \(1927 \) British. Study of a Nude, Pencil and Crayon, Signed, 11.25" x 11.5". Provenance: Betram Atkins. | John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers | £35
23. 2018-03-28 | Michael Tain \(1927 \) British. A Seated Female Nude, Pencil, Signed, 19.5" x 15". | John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers | £30
24. 2018-03-28 | Michael Tain \(1927 \) British. A Reclining Female Nude, Pencil and Crayon, Signed, 16.5" x 22.5". | John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers | £40

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