# Paul Black - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-01T13:35:45.963Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 17
- Lots with prices: 14
- First auction date: 2016-08-28
- Latest auction date: 2025-11-06
- Median realised price: $1,800
- Price range: $475 to $6,250

## Market Takeaway
Paul Black has 17 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $1,800. 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 \($1,800\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($800 to $2,925\) 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: 28.6% (4 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 71.4% (10 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 1
- Previous 12 months sales: 1
- Recent 12 months median: $750
- Previous 12 months median: $0
- Median shift: N/A
- Latest sale date: 2025-11-06
- Days since latest sale: 176
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Thomaston Place Auction Galleries: 10 lots
- Barridoff Auctions: 2 lots
- Simpson Galleries, LLC: 2 lots
- Butterscotch Auction Gallery LLC: 1 lots
- Eldred's: 1 lots
- Grogan & Company: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-11-06 | PAUL BLACK \(Maine, 1951\-2014\), Boston street scene., Oil on canvas, 15" x 30". Framed 20.5" x 35.5". | Eldred's | $750 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-paul-black-maine-1951-2014-boston-street-scene-oil-on-canvas-15-x-30-framed-20-5-x-35-5-4558-c-02a67b55cf
2. 2025-03-29 | Paul Black \(Am. 1951\-2014\), White Chair by the Lake, Oil on canvas, framed | Barridoff Auctions | N/A
3. 2021-08-14 | Paul Black, Am. 1951\-2014, Stream View in Frankfort, ME, 1993, Oil on canvas, framed, 24" x 29 15/16" actual, 32 1/4" x 38 1/4" framed | Barridoff Auctions | $800
4. 2021-05-02 | PAUL BLACK, American 1951\-2014, Somesville Harbor, 1990, oil on canvas, 32 x 46 in., frame: 35 x 49 in. | Grogan & Company | $6,250
5. 2021-02-28 | PAUL BLACK \(ME, 1951\-2014\) | Thomaston Place Auction Galleries | $5,500
6. 2021-02-28 | PAUL BLACK \(ME, 1951\-2014\) | Thomaston Place Auction Galleries | $1,800
7. 2020-08-30 | PAUL BLACK \(ME, 1951\-2014\) | Thomaston Place Auction Galleries | $1,300
8. 2020-08-30 | PAUL BLACK \(ME, 1951\-2014\) | Thomaston Place Auction Galleries | $1,800
9. 2020-08-30 | PAUL BLACK \(ME, 1951\-2014\) | Thomaston Place Auction Galleries | $2,000
10. 2019-08-23 | PAUL BLACK \(ME, 1951\-2014\) | Thomaston Place Auction Galleries | $3,200
11. 2019-08-23 | PAUL BLACK \(ME, 1951\-2014\) | Thomaston Place Auction Galleries | $2,000
12. 2018-07-22 | PAUL BLACK \(American, 20th C.\) | Butterscotch Auction Gallery LLC | $1,100
13. 2018-06-03 | PAUL BLACK \(ME, 1951\-2014\) | Thomaston Place Auction Galleries | N/A
14. 2017-08-25 | PAUL BLACK \(ME, 1951\-2014\) | Thomaston Place Auction Galleries | N/A
15. 2016-09-11 | PAUL BLACK \(American 20th Century\) A PAINTING, "Serenity," | Simpson Galleries, LLC | $475
16. 2016-09-10 | PAUL BLACK \(American 20th Century\) A PAINTING, "The Pond," | Simpson Galleries, LLC | $475
17. 2016-08-28 | PAUL BLACK \(ME, 1952\-2014\) \-Northeast Harbor Scene, oil on canvas, signed lower left, dated '87, in molded weathered frame, OS: 39 1/2" x 51 1/2", SS: 35 1/2" x 47 1/2". Good condition. | Thomaston Place Auction Galleries | $2,925

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