# Quentin Blake - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-01T19:12:08.097Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 673
- Lots with prices: 560
- First auction date: 2005-06-29
- Latest auction date: 2025-07-09
- Median realised price: $1,125
- Price range: $14 to $50,000

## Market Takeaway
Quentin Blake shows very deep auction liquidity with 602 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $1,250. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 2 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-07-09.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($1,250\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $625 and $2,500.
- 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: 37.3% (188 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 60.9% (307 sales)
- $10,000\+: 1.8% (9 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 2
- Previous 12 months sales: 7
- Recent 12 months median: $200
- Previous 12 months median: $30
- Median shift: 100%
- Latest sale date: 2025-07-09
- Days since latest sale: 224
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Christie's: 576 lots
- Chaucer Auctions: 71 lots
- Bonhams: 9 lots
- Andrew Smith & Son: 2 lots
- Caza Sikes: 2 lots
- Gorringes: 2 lots
- John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers: 2 lots
- Dreweatts 1759: 1 lots
- Forum Auctions \- UK: 1 lots
- Hindman: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2024-12-04 | Quentin Blake, illustrator and children's writer. A signed official Roald Dahl unused postcard, with | Chaucer Auctions | £30
2. 2024-11-29 | Quentin Blake, illustrator and children's writer. A signed official Roald Dahl unused postcard, with | Chaucer Auctions | £18
3. 2024-11-29 | Quentin Blake signed 6x4 inch colour card. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of | Chaucer Auctions | £20
4. 2021-04-28 | Quentin Blake \(b. 1932\) Cinderella & Prince Charming Quentin Blake \(b. 19 | Christie's | £5,250
5. 2021-04-28 | Quentin Blake \(b. 1932\) Cinderella crying Quentin Blake \(b. 1932\) Cindere | Christie's | £6,000
6. 2021-04-28 | Quentin Blake \(b. 1932\) Village square – Beryl and Cheryl Quentin Blake \( | Christie's | £3,500
7. 2021-04-28 | Quentin Blake \(b. 1932\) Hardup Hall Quentin Blake \(b. 1932\) Hardup Hall S | Christie's | £4,000
8. 2021-04-28 | Quentin Blake \(b. 1932\) Fairy Godmother opens the curtains Quentin Blake | Christie's | £7,500
9. 2021-04-28 | Quentin Blake \(b. 1932\) Curtains closed Quentin Blake \(b. 1932\) Curtains | Christie's | £1,500
10. 2020-12-16 | Quentin Blake \(b.1932\) \- Bibliothèque Quentin Blake alternative logo \#3 | Christie's | £4,375
11. 2020-12-16 | Quentin Blake \(b.1932\) \- Bibliothèque Quentin Blake alternative logo \#2 | Christie's | £2,000
12. 2020-12-16 | Quentin Blake \(b.1932\) \- Bibliothèque Quentin Blake alternative logo \#1 | Christie's | £3,250
13. 2025-07-09 | Quentin Blake \(b.1932\) 'B is for Breakfast we're having in bed', pencil signed and no. 146/195, coloured giclée print, 27 x 23cm, and 'O is for Ostrich' from the same series, pencil signed and no. 181/195. \(2\) | Mallams | £200
14. 2025-07-09 | Quentin Blake \(b. 1932\). Man climbing a wooden tower. | Christie's | £2,520
15. 2025-06-12 | Roald Dahl, Esio Trot, First Edition 1990, Illustrated by Quentin Blake | Lawsons | A$40 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-roald-dahl-esio-trot-first-edition-1990-illustrated-by-quentin-blake-2028-c-a334dd291c
16. 2025-04-23 | Quentin Blake, illustrator and children's writer. A signed official Roald Dahl unused postcard, with | Chaucer Auctions | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-quentin-blake-illustrator-and-children-s-writer-a-signed-official-roald-dahl-unused-postcard-with-40-c-b5b4079956
17. 2025-01-10 | Quentin Blake, illustrator and children's writer. A signed official Roald Dahl BFG unused | Chaucer Auctions | £32 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-quentin-blake-illustrator-and-children-s-writer-a-signed-official-roald-dahl-bfg-unused-614-c-abe40b1996
18. 2024-12-11 | Quentin Blake \(British, b. 1932\), Roald Dahl Illustration | Caza Sikes | $384
19. 2024-12-04 | Quentin Blake, illustrator and children's writer. A signed Christmas 1993 FDC, with a set of five | Chaucer Auctions | £30 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-quentin-blake-illustrator-and-children-s-writer-a-signed-christmas-1993-fdc-with-a-set-of-five-36-c-7dc480ab70
20. 2024-11-13 | Quentin Blake, illustrator and children's writer. A signed Christmas 1993 FDC, with a set of five | Chaucer Auctions | £30 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-quentin-blake-illustrator-and-children-s-writer-a-signed-christmas-1993-fdc-with-a-set-of-five-419-c-14f43c6a81
21. 2024-10-30 | Quentin Blake, illustrator and children's writer. A signed Christmas 1993 FDC, with a set of five | Chaucer Auctions | £30 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-quentin-blake-illustrator-and-children-s-writer-a-signed-christmas-1993-fdc-with-a-set-of-five-40-c-a07451d98d
22. 2024-10-11 | Quentin Blake, illustrator and children's writer. A signed official Roald Dahl BFG unused | Chaucer Auctions | £40
23. 2024-10-09 | Quentin Blake unsigned British Illustrator hardback book titled The Quentin Blake Treasury pages | Chaucer Auctions | N/A
24. 2024-09-25 | Quentin Blake, illustrator and children's writer. A signed official Roald Dahl unused postcard, with | Chaucer Auctions | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-quentin-blake-illustrator-and-children-s-writer-a-signed-official-roald-dahl-unused-postcard-with-113-c-3c04ebabee

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