# Nelson Shanks - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-01T20:37:38.320Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 24
- Lots with prices: 21
- First auction date: 2002-12-08
- Latest auction date: 2025-12-12
- Median realised price: $2,800
- Price range: $750 to $22,500

## Market Takeaway
Nelson Shanks has 24 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $2,800. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 1 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 \($2,100 to $5,313\) 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: 14.3% (3 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 76.2% (16 sales)
- $10,000\+: 9.5% (2 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 1
- Previous 12 months sales: 2
- Recent 12 months median: $750
- Previous 12 months median: $4,000
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-12-12
- Days since latest sale: 140
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Freeman's: 5 lots
- Capsule Gallery Auction: 2 lots
- Gratz Gallery: 2 lots
- Alderfer Auction: 1 lots
- Artcurial: 1 lots
- Broward Auction Gallery LLC: 1 lots
- Clarke Auction Gallery: 1 lots
- DOYLE Auctioneers & Appraisers: 1 lots
- Freeman's \| Hindman: 1 lots
- James Cox Gallery: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-12-12 | Nelson Shanks \(American 1937\-2015\), Untitled \(Nude\), Oil on panel, 16 x 9\-1/2 in \(40.6 x 24.1 cm\); Frame: 22 x 15 in \(55.9 x 38.1 cm\) | Weschler's | $750
2. 2024-12-08 | NELSON SHANKS \(AMERICAN, 1937 \- 2015\) | James Cox Gallery | $4,000
3. 2024-10-23 | Nelson Shanks \(American, 1937 \- 2015\) | DOYLE Auctioneers & Appraisers | $5,000
4. 2023-11-09 | Nelson Shanks \(1937\-2015\): In the American Embassy Residence, Paris | STAIR | $4,750
5. 2023-09-13 | Nelson Shanks, Oil on Canvas, The Parrot | Nye & Company | $22,500
6. 2023-05-18 | Nelson Shanks, Untitled | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $2,400
7. 2023-02-19 | NELSON SHANKS \(AMERICAN, 1937\-2015\). | Clarke Auction Gallery | $2,200
8. 2021-06-15 | Nelson Shanks \(American, 1937\-2015\), PA Artist, Female Nude Study, pastel on paper, singed Shanks, copy of letter on back from previ... | William Bunch Auctions & Appraisals | $900
9. 2021-03-31 | NELSON SHANKS \- SUSPENDERS | Capsule Gallery Auction | $2,100
10. 2020-12-08 | Nelson Shanks \(American, 1937–2015\), , Female Nude | Freeman's \| Hindman | N/A
11. 2020-11-18 | NELSON SHANKS \- RECLINING NUDE | Capsule Gallery Auction | $850
12. 2018-08-23 | Nelson Shanks \(American, 1937\- 2015\) | Alderfer Auction | $2,250
13. 2018-06-03 | Nelson Shanks \(PA,1937\-2015\) oil on canvas | Broward Auction Gallery LLC | N/A
14. 2018-05-27 | Nelson Shanks \(American, PA, 1937 \- 2015\) | Gratz Gallery | $8,500
15. 2018-05-27 | Nelson Shanks \(American, PA, 1937 \- 2015\) | Gratz Gallery | $9,000
16. 2016-09-17 | Nelson Shanks \(America/Pennsylvania, 1937\-2015\). | Quinn's Auction Galleries Central Virginia | $2,800
17. 2015-03-28 | NELSON SHANKS \(American, b.1937\), guitarist, oil o | South Bay Auctions Inc | $15,000
18. 2013-10-30 | Nelson Shanks \(American, b. 1937\) | Keno Auctions | $2,600
19. 2012-10-05 | Nelson SHANKS | Artcurial | N/A
20. 2008-11-02 | NELSON SHANKS \(AMERICAN B. 1937\) SEATED FEMALE | Freeman's | $5,313
21. 2004-12-05 | NELSON SHANKS | Freeman's | $1,645
22. 2004-06-25 | NELSON SHANKS | Freeman's | $6,463
23. 2003-12-07 | NELSON SHANKS | Freeman's | $3,500
24. 2002-12-08 | NELSON SHANKS \(American b. 1937\)'SCOTT' \(PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST'S SON\) signed 'Nelson Shanks' upper left, titled and dated '1970' upper right, oil on board 16 x 11 7/8 in. \(40.6 x 30.2 cm\). Estimate | Freeman's | $1,645

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