# Ricky Swallow - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-04T16:21:30.503Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 28
- Lots with prices: 17
- First auction date: 2005-05-24
- Latest auction date: 2025-10-22
- Median realised price: $1,300
- Price range: $400 to $25,000

## Market Takeaway
Ricky Swallow has 28 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $1,300. 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 \($1,300\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($1,000 to $3,000\) 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: 23.5% (4 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 64.7% (11 sales)
- $10,000\+: 11.8% (2 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 2
- Previous 12 months sales: 0
- Recent 12 months median: $2,286
- Previous 12 months median: $0
- Median shift: N/A
- Latest sale date: 2025-10-22
- Days since latest sale: 194
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Deutscher and Hackett: 4 lots
- Sotheby's: 4 lots
- Bonhams: 3 lots
- Christie's: 3 lots
- Shapiro Auctioneers: 3 lots
- Lawsons: 2 lots
- Leonard Joel: 2 lots
- Smith & Singer: 2 lots
- Lawson~Menzies: 1 lots
- Phillips: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-10-22 | RICKY SWALLOW \(B. 1974\). Younger than Yesterday. English limewood. | Christie's | £2,286
2. 2025-05-27 | RICKY SWALLOW, APPLE 2001 B/W, 2001 | Deutscher and Hackett | A$3,000
3. 2023-12-07 | Ricky Swallow, Illustrated Boy | Wright | $400
4. 2022-05-11 | Ricky Swallow \(born 1974\) Here Comes The Snakes, 2005, | Bonhams | N/A
5. 2020-09-16 | RICKY SWALLOW \(b. 1974\) Portrait after Paul Thek/Palermo Catacombs, 2005 | Bonhams | N/A
6. 2020-02-18 | RICKY SWALLOW, SKULL / HOURGLASS, 2001 | Deutscher and Hackett | A$1,300
7. 2019-12-06 | Ricky Swallow \(b. 1974\) | Shapiro Auctioneers | N/A
8. 2019-11-26 | Ricky Swallow \(b. 1974\) | Shapiro Auctioneers | A$2,160
9. 2019-11-26 | Ricky Swallow \(b. 1974\) | Shapiro Auctioneers | N/A
10. 2018-07-05 | RICKY SWALLOW, THIS TIME ANOTHER YEAR AUSTRALIA, VENICE BIENNALE 2005, 'HERE COMES THE SNAKES', 70/90, 43 X 37 CM | Leonard Joel | A$1,500
11. 2017-09-29 | RICKY SWALLOW \(B. 1974\) \| Plate 38 \(sepia\), 2011 | Sotheby's | $4,000
12. 2015-11-12 | RICKY SWALLOW \| Rehearsal for Retirement | Sotheby's | $25,000
13. 2015-08-26 | RICKY SWALLOW, born 1974, APPLE 2000, 2000, cast pigmented resin | Deutscher and Hackett | A$8,000
14. 2015-07-21 | RICKY SWALLOW born 1974 Untitled 1998 watercolour on paper | Smith & Singer | A$1,000
15. 2015-07-21 | RICKY SWALLOW born 1974 Untitled 1998 watercolour on paper | Smith & Singer | A$1,200
16. 2015-04-30 | Ricky Swallow \(1974 \-\) \- "here comes the snakes," 33.5 x 27cm | Lawsons | A$550
17. 2014-11-26 | RICKY SWALLOW, born 1974, EVOLUTION IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE, 1999, five cast resin skulls on artist's shelf | Deutscher and Hackett | N/A
18. 2014-06-01 | Ricky Swallow \- Here Come The Snake's 33.5 x 27cm | Lawsons | A$1,100
19. 2013-11-21 | RICKY SWALLOW born 1974 Skull with Bay Leaves | Lawson~Menzies | N/A
20. 2012-03-08 | RICKY SWALLOW | Phillips | N/A
21. 2010-11-13 | Ricky Swallow \(Australian, b. 1974\) Now & Then, | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $1,220
22. 2010-07-25 | Ricky Swallow \(born 1974\), Fictitious Sea \(Two Sheets\) 1996 | Leonard Joel | A$840
23. 2009-12-08 | Ricky Swallow, Australian b.1974\- "Purple Boy"; | Roseberys | £750
24. 2009-11-23 | RICKY SWALLOW | Sotheby's | N/A

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