# Ray Donley - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-30T17:12:47.421Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 26
- Lots with prices: 16
- First auction date: 2008-10-17
- Latest auction date: 2025-07-26
- Median realised price: $750
- Price range: $420 to $7,000

## Market Takeaway
Ray Donley has 26 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $750. 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 \($750\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($500 to $3,000\) 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: 50% (8 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 50% (8 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 2
- Previous 12 months sales: 4
- Recent 12 months median: $7,000
- Previous 12 months median: $500
- Median shift: 100%
- Latest sale date: 2025-07-26
- Days since latest sale: 278
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- New Orleans Auction Galleries: 8 lots
- Lyon & Turnbull: 5 lots
- Chiswick Auctions: 3 lots
- Neal Auction Company: 3 lots
- AAG Auctioneers: 1 lots
- Freeman's: 1 lots
- Litchfield Auctions: 1 lots
- Regency Auction House: 1 lots
- Simpson Galleries, LLC: 1 lots
- Veilinghuis Van Spengen: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-07-26 | Ray Donley \(American, b. 1950\), "World Gone Wrong", 2006 | New Orleans Auction Galleries | $7,000
2. 2025-05-20 | Ray Donley \(1950\), Woman with white cap | Vendu Rotterdam | N/A
3. 2024-11-12 | RAY DONLEY \(AMERICAN, b.1950\) | Chiswick Auctions | £500
4. 2024-11-12 | RAY DONLEY \(AMERICAN, b.1950\) | Chiswick Auctions | £500
5. 2024-11-09 | Ray Donley \(American, b. 1950\), "Figure with a Knife", 2006 | New Orleans Auction Galleries | $4,680
6. 2024-07-18 | Ray Donley \(American/Texas, b. 1950\) | Neal Auction Company | $549
7. 2024-03-05 | RAY DONLEY \(AMERICAN, b. 1950\) | Chiswick Auctions | £420
8. 2024-01-26 | Ray Donley \(American/Texas, b. 1950\) | Neal Auction Company | N/A
9. 2022-12-17 | Ray Donley \- Oil Portrait Puritan Woman | Regency Auction House | $750
10. 2022-06-20 | RAY DONLEY \(AUSTIN 1950\) | AAG Auctioneers | €2,600
11. 2022-02-12 | RAY DONLEY \(American/Texas b. 1950\) A PAINTING, "Mona," 2000, | Simpson Galleries, LLC | $1,000
12. 2021-12-09 | RAY DONLEY, PORTRAIT, "Descent of Darkness", O/C | Litchfield Auctions | $750
13. 2021-04-07 | RAY DONLEY \(AMERICAN 1950\-\) WOMAN IN STRIPED CLOAK, 2004 | Lyon & Turnbull | N/A
14. 2021-04-07 | RAY DONLEY \(AMERICAN 1950\-\) MOOR FIGURE, 2003 | Lyon & Turnbull | £600
15. 2020-10-23 | Ray Donley \(American 1950\-\) Moor figure, 2003 | Lyon & Turnbull | N/A
16. 2020-10-23 | Ray Donley \(American 1950\-\) Women in Striped Cloak, 2004 | Lyon & Turnbull | N/A
17. 2020-06-09 | Ray Donley \(1950\-\) \- doek, 61 x 61, Portret van een jongeman en profil, gesigneerd en gedateerd l | Veilinghuis Van Spengen | N/A
18. 2020-02-08 | Ray Donley \(American/Texas, b. 1950\) | Neal Auction Company | $3,000
19. 2017-08-17 | RAY DONLEY \(AMERICAN B.1950\) PORTRAIT, 1620 58cm x 58cm \(22.75in x 22.75in\) | Lyon & Turnbull | £4,125
20. 2016-03-13 | Ray Donley \(American/Texas, b. 1950\) | New Orleans Auction Galleries | $1,750
21. 2016-03-13 | Ray Donley \(American/Texas, b. 1950\) | New Orleans Auction Galleries | $3,500
22. 2012-10-07 | Ray Donley \(American, b. 1950\) | New Orleans Auction Galleries | N/A
23. 2011-01-30 | Ray Donley \(American/Texas, b. 1950\) | New Orleans Auction Galleries | N/A
24. 2011-01-30 | Ray Donley \(American/Texas, b. 1950\) | New Orleans Auction Galleries | N/A

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