# Ralph Humphrey - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-01T04:59:03.505Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 43
- Lots with prices: 34
- First auction date: 2001-04-04
- Latest auction date: 2025-12-18
- Median realised price: $3,500
- Price range: $50 to $52,500

## Market Takeaway
Ralph Humphrey has 43 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $3,500. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 2 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 \($3,500\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($375 to $10,000\) 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: 35.3% (12 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 38.2% (13 sales)
- $10,000\+: 26.5% (9 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 2
- Previous 12 months sales: 4
- Recent 12 months median: $10,000
- Previous 12 months median: $12,000
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-12-18
- Days since latest sale: 133
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Freeman's \| Hindman: 6 lots
- Bonhams: 4 lots
- Christie's: 4 lots
- Hill Auction Gallery: 4 lots
- STAIR: 4 lots
- Sotheby's: 4 lots
- Treadway Gallery: 4 lots
- Morton Subastas: 3 lots
- Rago Arts and Auction Center: 3 lots
- Bill Hood & Sons Arts & Antiques Auctions: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-12-18 | Ralph Humphrey, Untitled, 1974. | Swann Auction Galleries | N/A
2. 2020-05-20 | Ralph Humphrey, Untitled | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $7,000
3. 2019-10-10 | Ralph Humphrey, Untitled | Wright | N/A
4. 2017-06-03 | RALPH HUMPHREY \(b. 1969\): UNTITLED | STAIR | $6,000
5. 2025-05-15 | RALPH HUMPHREY \(1932\-1990\) Tracks \(2\) 48 x 54 in \(121.9 x 137.2 cm\) \(Executed in 1985\-86\) | Bonhams | $10,000
6. 2025-02-25 | RALPH HUMPHREY \(American 1932\-1990\) 20th Century Untitled, 1955. Acrylic, Christie’s New York, The Collection of Paul F. Walter, September 26\-27, 2017 \[Lot 49\], Sold for $7,500.00. | Bill Hood & Sons Arts & Antiques Auctions | $1,500
7. 2024-11-03 | RALPH HUMPHREY \(AMERICAN, 1932\-1990\). | Clarke Auction Gallery | N/A
8. 2024-09-25 | RALPH HUMPHREY \(1932\-1990\) Great Jones, 1989 | Bonhams | $12,000
9. 2024-05-16 | RALPH HUMPHREY \(1932\-1990\) Island 1983\-1984 | Bonhams | $18,000
10. 2023-05-25 | RALPH HUMPHREY \- NIGHT MOODS | Capsule Gallery Auction | $100
11. 2023-05-17 | Ralph Humphrey \(American, 1932\-1990\) Untitled | Freeman's \| Hindman | N/A
12. 2023-05-17 | Ralph Humphrey \(American, 1932\-1990\) Untitled | Freeman's \| Hindman | N/A
13. 2023-03-08 | Ralph Humphrey \(American, 1932\-1990\) Untitled | Freeman's \| Hindman | $6,500
14. 2023-03-08 | Ralph Humphrey \(American, 1932\-1990\) Untitled | Freeman's \| Hindman | $4,000
15. 2022-10-25 | RALPH HUMPHREY \(AMERICAN, 1932\-1990\) UNTITLED | Freeman's \| Hindman | $8,000
16. 2022-10-25 | RALPH HUMPHREY \(AMERICAN, 1932\-1990\) UNTITLED | Freeman's \| Hindman | $10,000
17. 2021-06-03 | Ralph Humphrey \(1932\-1990\): Untitled | STAIR | $3,500
18. 2021-06-03 | Ralph Humphrey \(1932\-1990\): Untitled | STAIR | $750
19. 2020-12-10 | Ralph Humphrey, charcoal on paper, 1964 | Millea Bros Ltd | $1,800
20. 2020-05-03 | Ralph Humphrey \(American, 1932\-1990\) Neighbors, 1980 | Treadway Gallery | $50
21. 2020-05-03 | Ralph Humphrey \(American, 1932\-1990\) Neighbors, 1980 | Treadway Gallery | $50
22. 2019-11-24 | Ralph Humphrey \(American, 1932\-1990\) Neighbors | Treadway Gallery | $375
23. 2019-11-24 | Ralph Humphrey \(American, 1932\-1990\) Neighbors | Treadway Gallery | $375
24. 2018-09-28 | RALPH HUMPHREY \(1932 \- 1990\) \| Warren, 1968 | Sotheby's | $11,000

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