# Rackstraw Downes - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-30T08:35:59.557Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 35
- Lots with prices: 26
- First auction date: 2006-08-04
- Latest auction date: 2026-01-28
- Median realised price: $9,600
- Price range: $125 to $91,200

## Market Takeaway
Rackstraw Downes has 35 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $9,600. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 4 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 \($9,600\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($5,925 to $36,000\) 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: 7.7% (2 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 42.3% (11 sales)
- $10,000\+: 50% (13 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 4
- Previous 12 months sales: 2
- Recent 12 months median: $8,750
- Previous 12 months median: $3,500
- Median shift: 100%
- Latest sale date: 2026-01-28
- Days since latest sale: 91
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Barridoff Auctions: 17 lots
- Christie's: 4 lots
- Sotheby's: 4 lots
- Shannon's: 3 lots
- STAIR: 2 lots
- DOYLE Auctioneers & Appraisers: 1 lots
- Freeman’s \| Hindman: 1 lots
- Leighton Galleries: 1 lots
- Rago Arts and Auction Center: 1 lots
- Skinner: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2026-01-28 | Rackstraw Downes, Gene Littlefield's Shorn Sheep | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $18,000
2. 2025-08-19 | Rackstraw Downes \(British, b. 1939\) The Tennis Courts in Riverside Park at 119th St., 1977 | Freeman’s \| Hindman | $1,000
3. 2025-05-08 | RACKSTRAW DOWNES, English b. 1939, Presidio\-Beehives Off The Ruidosa Road, 2004, graphite on grey cream paper with blue threads, 9 1/2 x 45 in. \(24.1 x 114.3 cm.\), Frame: 12 1/2 x 48 x 1 3/4 in. \(31.8 x 121.9 x 4.4 cm.\) | Shannon's | $8,750
4. 2025-05-08 | RACKSTRAW DOWNES, English b. 1939, "Portland Water District Wastewater Treatment Plant", 1984, oil on canvas, 10 1/4 x 44 in. \(26 x 111.8 cm.\) | Shannon's | $37,500 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-rackstraw-downes-english-b-1939-portland-water-district-wastewater-treatment-plant-1984-oil-on-canvas-10-1-4-x-44-in-26-x-111-8-cm-59-c-bb9445da6e
5. 2024-12-05 | Rackstraw Downes | DOYLE Auctioneers & Appraisers | $3,500
6. 2024-05-02 | RACKSTRAW DOWNES, English b. 1939, Study for Riverside Church from Grant's Tomb, oil on canvas laid down on canvas, 8 x 14 in. \(20.3 x 35.6 cm.\), Frame: 9 1/4 x 1 1/2 x 15 1/4 in. \(23.5 x 3.8 x 38.7 cm.\) | Shannon's | $4,062
7. 2024-04-13 | Rackstraw Downes \(Br. b. 1939\), 80th Street and Broadway 1976\-77, Oil on canvas, framed | Barridoff Auctions | $20,000
8. 2021-12-01 | Rackstraw Downes \(b. 1939\): Latham Square | STAIR | $500
9. 2021-05-18 | Rackstraw Downes \(b. 1939\) \- Ventilation Tower under Renovation \#1, Bermuda High | Christie's | $8,750
10. 2017-08-04 | Rackstraw Downes \- The View from Washington Bridge on the Harlem River | Barridoff Auctions | $8,200
11. 2016-11-18 | RACKSTRAW DOWNES \| Approach to the Holland Tunnel with 75 Varick | Sotheby's | $87,500
12. 2014-05-22 | Rackstraw Downes \(b. 1939\) | Christie's | $40,000
13. 2013-02-27 | Rackstraw Downes \(b. 1939\) | Christie's | $18,750
14. 2012-10-24 | Rackstraw Downes \- 'The Music Hall at Snug Harbor, House Lights Up' | Barridoff Auctions | $36,000 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-rackstraw-downes-the-music-hall-at-snug-harbor-house-lights-up-164-c-1e234f4eaa
15. 2011-09-09 | Rackstraw Downes \(American, b. 1939\) Kennebec River Bend at Skowhegan, 1975 Inscribed and signed "To Jonnie, love from Rackstraw" l.... | Skinner | N/A
16. 2011-08-05 | Rackstraw Downes Oil on canvas | Barridoff Auctions | N/A
17. 2011-03-10 | Rackstraw Downes \(B. 1939\) | Christie's | $20,000
18. 2010-09-27 | RACKSTRAW DOWNES | Sotheby's | $21,250
19. 2010-09-25 | RACKSTRAW DOWNES | Sotheby's | $86,500
20. 2010-09-02 | RACKSTRAW DOWNES \(b.1939\) | Leighton Galleries | $125
21. 2010-03-09 | RACKSTRAW DOWNES | Sotheby's | N/A
22. 2009-08-07 | Rackstraw Downes | Barridoff Auctions | N/A
23. 2009-08-07 | Rackstraw Downes | Barridoff Auctions | N/A
24. 2009-08-07 | Rackstraw Downes | Barridoff Auctions | N/A

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