# Ralph Thompson - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-16T05:36:00.729Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 15
- Lots with prices: 11
- First auction date: 2008-09-07
- Latest auction date: 2025-11-05
- Median realised price: $150
- Price range: $15 to $320

## Market Takeaway
Ralph Thompson has 15 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $150. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 1 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 \($150\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($25 to $258\) 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: 100% (11 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 0% (0 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 1
- Previous 12 months sales: 1
- Recent 12 months median: $275
- Previous 12 months median: $320
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-11-05
- Days since latest sale: 185
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers: 3 lots
- Mallams: 3 lots
- Charlton Hall: 1 lots
- EJ'S Auction & Appraisal: 1 lots
- Ewbank's: 1 lots
- Jackson Hole Art Auction: 1 lots
- Litchfield Auctions: 1 lots
- Neal Auction Company: 1 lots
- Roseberys: 1 lots
- Skinner: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-11-05 | RALPH THOMPSON \- FOX ON ALERT, PRINT | Litchfield Auctions | $275
2. 2025-03-25 | Ralph Thompson,  British 1913\-2009 \-  Canada Lynx, 1998;  watercolour and ink on paper, signed low | Roseberys | £320
3. 2024-02-20 | Ralph Thompson \(British, 1913\-2009\) | Neal Auction Company | $160
4. 2023-02-18 | Ralph Thompson \(1913\-2009\), Chimpanzee | Jackson Hole Art Auction | $150
5. 2022-09-07 | Ralph Thompson \(1913\-2009\) Study of a deer, ink and wash, initialled, inscribed and dated Sept '74, 6.5" x 9.5 | John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers | £25
6. 2018-02-03 | Ralph Thompson Watercolor Reproduction Artwork | EJ'S Auction & Appraisal | N/A
7. 2017-03-29 | Ralph Thompson \(1913\-2009\) British. Cheetahs at Rest, Print, Signed and numbered 183/1000 in Pencil, 20.5" x 30.25". | John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers | £15
8. 2016-11-23 | Ralph Thompson \(1913\-2009\) British. "Bush Babies", 'Galago Senagalensis', Watercolour, Signed, and Inscribed on a label on the reverse, 14.25" x 10.5", together with a print by the same hand \(2\). Provenance; The Tryon Gallery Ltd. | John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers | £35
9. 2015-09-24 | Ralph Thompson, b. 1913, Bushbabies, Parents and baby, watercolour, gallery label verso, 47.5cm x 35.5cm, | Ewbank's | N/A
10. 2015-02-21 | Ralph Thompson \(1913\-2009\), Warthog Family, ltd edn print ed. 202/500, signed lower right | Theodore Bruce Auctioneers & Valuers | A$20
11. 2014-10-06 | RALPH THOMPSON \(1913\-2009\) 'Greater Kudu', | Mallams | N/A
12. 2014-09-08 | RALPH THOMPSON \(1913\-2009\) 'Greater Kudu', | Mallams | N/A
13. 2014-09-08 | RALPH THOMPSON \(1913\-2009\) A pair of Tawny Owl | Mallams | £250
14. 2013-11-13 | Ralph Thompson \(British, 20th Century\) Two Running Cheetahs. Signed "Ralph Thompson" l.r. Watercolor and gouache on paper, sheet size 2 | Skinner | $120
15. 2008-09-07 | Ralph Thompson | Charlton Hall | $258

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