# Paul Cadmus - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-30T18:10:50.255Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 511
- Lots with prices: 454
- First auction date: 1992-09-23
- Latest auction date: 2026-04-16
- Median realised price: $2,800
- Price range: $50 to $2,430,000

## Market Takeaway
Paul Cadmus shows deep auction liquidity with 499 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $2,800. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 38 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-12-12.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($2,800\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $1,300 and $6,000.
- 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: 16.5% (73 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 69% (305 sales)
- $10,000\+: 14.5% (64 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 38
- Previous 12 months sales: 37
- Recent 12 months median: $2,000
- Previous 12 months median: $2,750
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-12-12
- Days since latest sale: 68
- Market velocity: high

## Top Auction Houses
- Swann Auction Galleries: 87 lots
- Christie's: 52 lots
- Bonhams: 42 lots
- Sotheby's: 31 lots
- Clarke Auction Gallery: 29 lots
- Heritage Auctions: 17 lots
- Revere Auctions: 17 lots
- Kensington Estate Auctions: 15 lots
- Rachel Davis Fine Arts: 13 lots
- STAIR: 13 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-12-12 | Paul Cadmus, Warren Chappell | Los Angeles Modern Auctions | $1,100
2. 2025-12-12 | Paul Cadmus, Self Portrait, Study for David and Goliath/Ralph McWilliams | Los Angeles Modern Auctions | $2,000
3. 2025-12-12 | Paul Cadmus, Preliminary Study for the Three Dancers Resting | Los Angeles Modern Auctions | $1,800
4. 2025-12-04 | Paul Cadmus, 1904\-1999, Nude | Abell Auction | $6,000
5. 2025-11-20 | Paul Cadmus "Waiting for Rehearsal" Etching | Auctions at Showplace | $500 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-paul-cadmus-waiting-for-rehearsal-etching-77-c-e53cf67f2a
6. 2025-11-19 | PAUL CADMUS \(1904\-1999\). Going South. Image: 9 ¾ x 5 in. \(245 x 128 mm.\)She | Christie's | $2,286
7. 2025-11-18 | PAUL CADMUS \(1904\-1999\) Male Nude \(NM 272 A\) 25 1/2 x 19 5/8 in. \(64.7 x 49.8 cm.\) \(Executed in 1996.\) | Bonhams | $7,500
8. 2025-11-14 | Paul Cadmus, Aspects of Suburban Life: Polo Spill | Toomey & Co. Auctioneers | $750
9. 2025-11-14 | Paul Cadmus, Mr. Smythe Reading | Toomey & Co. Auctioneers | $1,100
10. 2025-11-06 | Paul Cadmus \(American, 1904\-1999\), Dancers in a Classroom, lithograph, signed lower right. Illustrated in The Drawings of Paul Cadmu... | Clars Auctions | $1,600 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-paul-cadmus-american-1904-1999-dancers-in-a-classroom-lithograph-signed-lower-right-illustrated-in-the-drawings-of-paul-cadmu-8405-c-16962c9c16
11. 2025-10-30 | Paul Cadmus \(1904\-1999\), WAITING FOR REHEARSAL, 1984 \[D. 56\] | Waddington's | CA$1,000
12. 2025-10-30 | Paul Cadmus \(1904\-1999\), TEDDO, 1985 \[D. 59\] | Waddington's | CA$1,000
13. 2025-10-30 | Paul Cadmus \(1904\-1999\), NUDO \#3, 1984 \[D. 58\] | Waddington's | CA$1,250
14. 2025-10-30 | Paul Cadmus \(1904\-1999\), TWO BOYS ON A BEACH \#2, 1939 | Waddington's | CA$2,816
15. 2025-10-30 | Paul Cadmus \(1904\-1999\), TWO BOYS ON A BEACH \#1, 1938 \[D. 42\] | Waddington's | CA$1,536
16. 2025-10-09 | Paul Cadmus \(1904\-1999\), FEMALE NUDE B4, CA. 1935\-39 | Waddington's | N/A
17. 2025-09-18 | Paul Cadmus "Waiting for Rehearsal" Etching | Auctions at Showplace | $550
18. 2025-09-17 | Paul Cadmus "Teddo" Lithograph 1985 | Revere Auctions | $800
19. 2025-08-21 | Paul Cadmus serigraph Mobile 1963. | Swann Auction Galleries | $1,750
20. 2025-08-20 | Paul Cadmus \(American, 1904\-1999\), Two figure studies, ink and colored pencil on paper, larger 16 x 7 1/2 in \(41 x 19 cm\) | Andrew Jones Auctions | $700
21. 2025-08-01 | Paul Cadmus, Nude Z \#25 | Los Angeles Modern Auctions | $1,000
22. 2025-08-01 | Paul Cadmus, Jared French Reclining, Mallorca | Los Angeles Modern Auctions | $3,200
23. 2025-08-01 | Paul Cadmus, Portrait | Los Angeles Modern Auctions | $1,100
24. 2025-06-26 | PAUL CADMUS \(1904 \- 1999\) Male Nude \(NM 159\). | Swann Auction Galleries | $13,750

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