# Rex Whistler - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-30T08:35:50.992Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 52
- Lots with prices: 45
- First auction date: 2000-12-08
- Latest auction date: 2025-12-13
- Median realised price: $1,700
- Price range: $46 to $55,000

## Market Takeaway
Rex Whistler has 52 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $1,700. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 5 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 \($1,700\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($800 to $5,166\) 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: 33.3% (15 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 51.1% (23 sales)
- $10,000\+: 15.6% (7 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 5
- Previous 12 months sales: 2
- Recent 12 months median: $1,700
- Previous 12 months median: $650
- Median shift: 100%
- Latest sale date: 2025-12-13
- Days since latest sale: 138
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Christie's: 10 lots
- Gorringes: 7 lots
- Sotheby's: 7 lots
- Bonhams: 6 lots
- Dreweatts 1759 Fine Sales: 4 lots
- Chiswick Auctions: 2 lots
- Cooper Barrington LLP: 2 lots
- East Coast Fine Arts: 2 lots
- Lots Road Auctions: 2 lots
- Andrew Smith & Son: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-12-13 | Rex Whistler \(British, 1905\-1944\), The Tate Gallery, London Underground Poster | Clark's Auction Company | $525 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-rex-whistler-british-1905-1944-the-tate-gallery-london-underground-poster-55-c-02bd3e7333
2. 2025-12-10 | Rex Whistler \(1905\-1944\) \(after\), two prints on fabric, 'No.& Coy. Welsh Guards Kit Layout for | Andrew Smith & Son | £150
3. 2025-10-29 | REX WHISTLER \(BRITISH 1905\-1944\), PORTRAIT OF GEORGE SASSOON | Dreweatts 1759 Fine Sales | £2,600
4. 2025-07-10 | REX WHISTLER \(BRITISH 1905\-1944\), DESIGN FOR A 1936 POST OFFICE TELEGRAM | Dreweatts 1759 Fine Sales | £1,800
5. 2025-05-29 | REX WHISTLER \(1904\-1944\) : A PAIR OF POSTERS, LONDON MUSEUM / TATE GALLERY C.1928 | Curated Auctions | £1,700
6. 2024-09-14 | Rex Whistler Watercolor Study Spiral Staircase | Cooper Barrington LLP | £800
7. 2024-09-14 | Rex Whistler Watercolor Study of a French Desk | Cooper Barrington LLP | £650 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-rex-whistler-watercolor-study-of-a-french-desk-146-c-38744468ec
8. 2024-04-11 | Rushbrooke | Sotheby's | £9,525
9. 2024-04-11 | Two drawings | Sotheby's | £9,525
10. 2022-09-27 | Rex Whistler \(1905\-1944\), 'Arabian Nights', ink and watercolour, tondo, 15cm | Gorringes | £1,300
11. 2022-09-27 | Rex Whistler \(1905\-1944\), 'Arabian Nights', ink and watercolour, 22.5 x 26cm | Gorringes | £1,200
12. 2021-11-16 | REX WHISTLER \(BRITISH 1905\-1944\), A 30TH BIRTHDAY TESTIMONIAL FOR MRS SACHEVERELL SITWELL | Dreweatts 1759 Fine Sales | £3,000
13. 2021-11-16 | REX WHISTLER \(BRITISH 1905\-1944\), THE SITWELL COAT OF ARMS | Dreweatts 1759 Fine Sales | £2,200
14. 2021-07-07 | Rex Whistler \(British, 1905\-1944\) Back stage 50.8 x 35.5 cm. \(20 x 14 in.\) | Bonhams | £1,000
15. 2021-07-07 | Rex Whistler \(British, 1905\-1944\) A Courtyard, thought to be Plas Newydd stable yard 32.7 x 40.6 \(12 7/8 x 16 in.\) | Bonhams | N/A
16. 2020-11-18 | Rex Whistler \(British, 1905\-1944\) Longcross House 71.2 x 137.2 cm. \(28 x 54 in.\) | Bonhams | £38,000
17. 2019-11-20 | Rex Whistler \(British, 1905\-1944\) Costume designs for Stephen Tennant as Percy Bysshe Shelley | Bonhams | £7,000
18. 2019-01-13 | Rex Whistler W/C Set Design Victoria Regina 1935 | East Coast Fine Arts | $4,200
19. 2018-07-15 | Rex Whistler W/C Set Design Victoria Regina 1935 | East Coast Fine Arts | N/A
20. 2017-12-12 | REX WHISTLER \(1905\-1944\) Binderton House, West Sussex, 1944 oil on Rowney canvas board. 30.4cm x 40.3cm. In a giltwood frame. Provenance: Private collection London. FOOTNOTE: Binderton House was Sir Anthony Eden's private residence. Rex Whistler was a guest there before embarking for Normandy. He was killed shortly afterwards on 18th July 1944 in France, on the first day of active servie in Operation Goodwood. Dr Nikki Frater, independent art historian and specialist in the work of Rex Whistler has suggested that this work is believed to be the artists last oil painting. | Chiswick Auctions | £5,166
21. 2017-06-13 | REX WHISTLER \| Portrait of Lady Caroline Paget | Sotheby's | £55,000
22. 2017-06-13 | REX WHISTLER \| Portrait of Henry Paget | Sotheby's | £38,000
23. 2017-03-23 | REX WHISTLER \(1905\-1944\) \- Self\-portrait of the artist painting Cecil Beaton | Christie's | £18,750
24. 2016-11-23 | Rex Whistler \(1905 \- 1944\), Post Office Greetings Telegram design watercolour with floral borders, used for St. Valentines Day 1936, with original telegram and newspaper cutting | Reeman Dansie | £960

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