# Patrick Swift - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-01T22:14:14.559Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 65
- Lots with prices: 53
- First auction date: 2002-05-08
- Latest auction date: 2025-03-26
- Median realised price: $6,250
- Price range: $300 to $32,000

## Market Takeaway
Patrick Swift has 65 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $6,250. 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 \($6,250\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($1,400 to $14,000\) 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: 22.6% (12 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 43.4% (23 sales)
- $10,000\+: 34% (18 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 0
- Previous 12 months sales: 3
- Recent 12 months median: $0
- Previous 12 months median: $11,500
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-03-26
- Days since latest sale: 401
- Market velocity: inactive

## Top Auction Houses
- Adam's: 25 lots
- Whyte's: 15 lots
- Sotheby's: 10 lots
- Christie's: 6 lots
- Bonhams: 2 lots
- Morgan O'Driscoll: 2 lots
- deVeres: 2 lots
- Chorley's: 1 lots
- Ross's Auctioneers & Valuers: 1 lots
- Sloane Street Auctions: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2022-03-30 | Patrick Swift \(1927\-1983\) Monte Gordo.\*\*\*PLEASE NOTE MEASUREMENT IN PRINTED CATALOGUE SHOULD READ 70 x 110cm\*\*\* | Adam's | €16,000 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-patrick-swift-1927-1983-monte-gordo-please-note-measurement-in-printed-catalogue-should-read-70-x-110cm-80-c-2174e02b38
2. 2017-03-29 | Patrick Swift \(1927\-1983\)Girl in a Garden \(c.1951/2\)Oil on canvas, 134.5 x 106.5cm \(53 X 42”\)Signed; title inscribed on label versoExhibited: “Patrick Swift: An Irish Painter in Portugal” exhibition, Palácio Foz, Lisbon, Oct/Nov 2001; The Crawfo | Adam's | €32,000
3. 2010-05-06 | PATRICK SWIFT | Sotheby's | £20,000
4. 2008-12-03 | Patrick Swift \(1927\-1983\) The Springs, Ashwell Oil | Adam's | €14,000 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-patrick-swift-1927-1983-the-springs-ashwell-oil-182-c-gs47vhbjfs
5. 2025-03-26 | Patrick Swift \(1927\-1983\) Positano Oil on canvas, 76 x 51cm \(28 x 20\) Exhibited: Dublin, 1993, Irish Museum of Modern Art label verso, Belfast, Ulster Museum One of the best and most interesting Irish painters of the 20th century, Patrick | Adam's | €28,000
6. 2024-09-30 | Patrick Swift \(1927\-1983\) THROUGH THE TREES IN LONDON | Whyte's | €11,500
7. 2024-09-19 | Patrick Swift \(Irish, 1927 \- 1983\), Nude | Sloane Street Auctions | £300
8. 2022-12-07 | Patrick Swift \(1927 \- 1983\) Pegasus \(circa 1980\) Watercolour and ink on paper, 21 x 29.5cm \(8.3 x 11.6\) Patrick Kavanagh poem verso Provenance: The artist's family Exhibited: Patrick Swift Retrospective, IMMA, Dec 1993\-Feb 1994, catalogue | Adam's | €1,300
9. 2022-03-30 | Patrick Swift \(1927\-1983\) Green Wood, c.1958 Oil on canvas, 56 x 70cm \(22 x 27½''\) Exhibited: IMMA & Ulster Museum No. 31 as 'Trees' Patrick Swift trained as an artist at the National College of Art in the late 1940s, while working for the Dubl | Adam's | €18,000
10. 2022-03-07 | Patrick Swift \(1927\-1983\) FRENCH LANDSCAPE | Whyte's | €2,100
11. 2021-12-08 | Patrick Swift \(1927\-1983\) Portrait of Lucian Freud in Patrick Swift's Hatch Street Studio Oil on canvas, 69 x 94cm \(27¼ x 37''\) Signed Provenance: The Artist's Family Between 1948 and 1956, when he was a frequent visitor to Ireland, Lu | Adam's | N/A
12. 2019-12-04 | Patrick Swift \(1927\-1983\)Still LifeOil on canvas, 91 x 71cm \(35¾ x 28''\)Signed and dated 1957Provenance: The artist's family, by descent. | Adam's | €14,000
13. 2019-09-25 | Patrick Swift \(1927\-1983\)Hatch Street GardenOil on canvas, 63 x 76cm \(24.8 x 30\)Signed and dated 1951Provenance: The artist's family, by descent.Hatch Street garden dates to 1951 and forms part of an interesting body of early work created in | Adam's | €6,000
14. 2019-03-27 | Patrick Swift \(1927\-1983\)Country Village SceneWatercolour, 21 x 34cm \(8¼ x 13¼''\)Signed | Adam's | N/A
15. 2018-11-12 | Patrick Swift \(1927\-1983\) Dead Plover \(c.1950\) | Morgan O'Driscoll | €7,500
16. 2018-09-11 | PATRICK SWIFT \| Portrait of Patrick Pye | Sotheby's | £5,500
17. 2018-02-26 | Patrick Swift \(1927\-1983\) SELF PORTRAIT | Whyte's | €1,400
18. 2017-11-27 | Patrick Swift \(1927\-1983\) CHURCH STREET, DUBLIN, OCTOBER 1948 | Whyte's | €1,700
19. 2017-09-27 | Patrick Swift \(1927\-1983\)Portuguese HousesWatercolour, 42 x 61cm \(16½ x 24''\)Signed | Adam's | €1,900
20. 2017-05-24 | Patrick Swift \(Irish 1927\-1983\)/A tin glazed earthenware charger painted with a bird on a window ledge, signed P Swift, Porches, 39cm diameter | Chorley's | £380
21. 2016-11-28 | Patrick Swift \(1927\-1983\) STILL LIFE, c.1960\-1961 | Whyte's | €6,800
22. 2015-12-02 | Patrick Swift \(1927\-1983\)Portrait of a Girl IIPottery charger | Adam's | €950
23. 2015-12-02 | Patrick Swift \(1927\-1983\)Portrait of a GirlPottery charger | Adam's | €850
24. 2015-12-02 | Patrick Swift \(1927\-1983\)View of a Girl Through a CurtainPottery charger | Adam's | €750 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-patrick-swift-1927-1983-view-of-a-girl-through-a-curtainpottery-charger-204-c-d8e4ea39e1

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