# Reta Cowley - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-30T23:22:30.177Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 16
- Lots with prices: 10
- First auction date: 2009-05-25
- Latest auction date: 2024-09-12
- Median realised price: $300
- Price range: $24 to $1,900

## Market Takeaway
Reta Cowley has 16 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $300. Category concentration is still broad. Recent 12-month volume is still light. 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 \($300\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($260 to $330\) 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: 90% (9 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 10% (1 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 0
- Previous 12 months sales: 2
- Recent 12 months median: $0
- Previous 12 months median: $300
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2024-09-12
- Days since latest sale: 595
- Market velocity: inactive

## Top Auction Houses
- Saskatchewan Network for Art Collecting: 5 lots
- Hodgins Art Auctions Ltd.: 4 lots
- Waddington's: 4 lots
- Westbridge Fine Art Auction House: 3 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2024-09-12 | RETA MADELINE COWLEY \(CANADIAN, 1910\-2004\), UNTITLED \(STORM CLOUDS ROLLING IN\) | Waddington's | CA$300
2. 2024-09-12 | RETA MADELINE COWLEY \(CANADIAN, 1910\-2004\), UNTITLED \(HOUSES FROM THE HILL\) | Waddington's | CA$300
3. 2020-05-16 | RETA COWLEY \- Pages From a Summer Sketchbook | Saskatchewan Network for Art Collecting | CA$24
4. 2019-11-24 | Reta Cowley \- Untitled \- Landscape | Westbridge Fine Art Auction House | CA$300
5. 2019-10-12 | Reta Cowley \- Untitled \- Landscape | Westbridge Fine Art Auction House | N/A
6. 2019-09-08 | Reta Cowley \- Landscape | Westbridge Fine Art Auction House | N/A
7. 2017-10-21 | RETA COWLEY \- By a Woodpile | Saskatchewan Network for Art Collecting | CA$260
8. 2017-06-03 | RETA COWLEY \- Edmonton at Night | Saskatchewan Network for Art Collecting | CA$300
9. 2017-06-03 | RETA COWLEY \- By a Woodpile | Saskatchewan Network for Art Collecting | N/A
10. 2017-02-02 | RETA MADELINE COWLEY \(CANADIAN, 1910\-2004\) BY A WOOD\-PILEWATERCOLOUR; SIGNED AND DATED JULY 20 1983 LOWER RIGHT; TITLED TO GALLERY LABEL VERSO \(Note: glass cracked lower left\)Sheet 22.5" x 29.8" — 55.9 x 73.7 cm.Provenance:GALLERY ONE, | Waddington's | CA$240
11. 2016-11-05 | RETA COWLEY \- Edmonton at Night | Saskatchewan Network for Art Collecting | N/A
12. 2015-07-09 | RETA MADELINE COWLEY \(CANADIAN, 1910\-2004\), FOGGY MORNING QU APPELLE VALLEY, SASKATCHEWAN, WATERCOLOUR; SIGNED LOWER RIGHT; TITLED VERSO \(Sight, 22.5” x 29.5”\) | Waddington's | CA$330
13. 2010-06-01 | Reta Madeline Cowley | Hodgins Art Auctions Ltd. | CA$1,900
14. 2010-05-31 | Reta Madeline Cowley | Hodgins Art Auctions Ltd. | CA$950
15. 2009-05-26 | Reta Madeline Cowley | Hodgins Art Auctions Ltd. | N/A
16. 2009-05-25 | Reta Madeline Cowley | Hodgins Art Auctions Ltd. | N/A

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