# Philip Townsend - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-16T04:51:05.849Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 23
- Lots with prices: 16
- First auction date: 2012-05-22
- Latest auction date: 2026-04-16
- Median realised price: $420
- Price range: $150 to $9,700

## Market Takeaway
Philip Townsend has 23 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $420. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 6 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 \($420\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($250 to $600\) 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: 75% (12 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 25% (4 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 6
- Previous 12 months sales: 2
- Recent 12 months median: $500
- Previous 12 months median: $0
- Median shift: N/A
- Latest sale date: 2026-04-16
- Days since latest sale: 23
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Bonhams: 6 lots
- Roseberys: 3 lots
- AAG Auctioneers: 2 lots
- Chiswick Auctions: 2 lots
- Ewbank's: 2 lots
- Sloane Street Auctions: 2 lots
- Cheffins: 1 lots
- Dreweatts 1759: 1 lots
- Lots Road Auctions: 1 lots
- Sotheby's: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2026-04-16 | Philip Townsend,  The Rolling Stones  | Roseberys | £600 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-philip-townsend-the-rolling-stones-289-c-27c5a30eec
2. 2026-04-16 | Philip Townsend,  Twiggy  | Roseberys | £500 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-philip-townsend-twiggy-288-c-445c1eb677
3. 2026-03-12 | Philip Townsend \(British, 1940\-2016\), Three photographic prints of the Rolling Stones | Sloane Street Auctions | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-philip-townsend-british-1940-2016-three-photographic-prints-of-the-rolling-stones-457-c-a3d9394d4b
4. 2025-12-05 | Philip Townsend \(British, 1940\-2016\), Three photographic prints of the Rolling Stones | Sloane Street Auctions | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-philip-townsend-british-1940-2016-three-photographic-prints-of-the-rolling-stones-695-c-eb74ab711b
5. 2025-09-17 | Philip Townsend,  Winston Churchill and Aristotle Onassis at Hôtel de Paris, Monte Carlo, 1961  | Roseberys | £420
6. 2025-07-13 | Philip Townsend | Tiroche Auction House | $1,500
7. 2024-09-26 | Philip Townsend \(1940\-2016\) \- Winston Churchill an | Ewbank's | N/A
8. 2024-08-29 | Philip Townsend \(1940\-2016\) \- Winston Churchill an | Ewbank's | N/A
9. 2022-09-23 | Nico | Sotheby's | £504
10. 2022-03-03 | Philip Townsend \(1940\-2016\) Twiggy, 1960s unframed | Bonhams | £220
11. 2022-03-03 | Philip Townsend \(1940\-2016\) The Rolling Stones, 1963 unframed | Bonhams | £500
12. 2021-11-17 | Philip Townsend \(British, 1940\-2016\): Mick Jagger and Keith Richards on stage, circa 1963, | Bonhams | £280
13. 2021-11-17 | Philip Townsend \(British, 1940\-2016\): The Rolling Stones, circa 1963, | Bonhams | £350
14. 2021-11-17 | PHILIP TOWNSEND \(BRITISH, 1940\-2016\): The Rolling Stones, circa 1962, | Bonhams | £150
15. 2021-11-17 | PHILIP TOWNSEND \(BRITISH, 1940\-2016\): John Lennon and George Harrison Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's ashram in India, circa 1968, | Bonhams | £250
16. 2020-04-29 | Philip Townsend \(British, 1940–2016\) | Chiswick Auctions | £1,125
17. 2019-02-07 | Philip Townsend \(British, 1940–2016\), The Rolling Stones, | Cheffins | £1,100
18. 2017-03-07 | PHILIP TOWNSEND \(BRITISH 1940\-2016\). A collection of seven black and white silver gelatin print photographs, to include one signed in pen by Philip Townsend, with studio blind stamp, plus two by Philip Townsend, signed and numbered 1/150 in pen with studio blind stamp, and one of Twiggy by Philip Townsend, unsigned, together with a black and white silver gelatin print photograph of Frank Sinatra, signed and numbered 1/150 in pen by Joe Bangay, with studio blind stamp, and an unsigned photo of Helen Mirren, and one of Michael Flatley. \(Twiggy: sheet 60.5cm x 50.5cm, Frank Sinatra: sheet 57.5cm x 40.5cm\). | Chiswick Auctions | £190
19. 2016-10-20 | Philip Townsend \(1940\-2016\) \- The Rolling Stones, 1962 | Dreweatts 1759 | N/A
20. 2015-05-31 | PHILIP TOWNSEND \(British, b. 1940\) Stones first ph | Lots Road Auctions | £250
21. 2013-07-01 | Philip Townsend \(England 1940\) | AAG Auctioneers | N/A
22. 2013-07-01 | Philip Townsend \(England 1940\) | AAG Auctioneers | N/A
23. 2012-05-22 | Philip Townsend, Nico | Stockholms Auktionsverket | SEK 9,700

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