# Robert Ballagh - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-01T22:15:34.328Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 249
- Lots with prices: 159
- First auction date: 2004-02-17
- Latest auction date: 2026-04-14
- Median realised price: $950
- Price range: $110 to $96,000

## Market Takeaway
Robert Ballagh shows deep auction liquidity with 248 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $950. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 3 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-09-16.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($950\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $460 and $2,600.
- Auction totals can include buyer premiums or fees depending on reporting, so compare like\-for\-like when possible.
- Condition, size, medium, provenance, and attribution confidence can move value materially versus median comps.

## Price Bands
- Under $1,000: 51.3% (81 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 39.9% (63 sales)
- $10,000\+: 8.9% (14 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 3
- Previous 12 months sales: 1
- Recent 12 months median: $580
- Previous 12 months median: $750
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-09-16
- Days since latest sale: 155
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Whyte's: 91 lots
- Adam's: 63 lots
- Morgan O'Driscoll: 47 lots
- Lots Road Auctions: 12 lots
- deVeres: 8 lots
- Sheppards: 6 lots
- Dolan's Art Auction House: 5 lots
- Gormleys Art Auctions: 5 lots
- Ross's Auctioneers & Valuers: 4 lots
- Bonhams: 2 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2012-12-09 | Robert Ballagh \(b.1943\), Stephen Woulfe Flanagan and Michael Craig THE ROUND HALL, FOUR COURTS, THE COURTYARD, KING'S INNS and KING'... | Whyte's | N/A
2. 2026-04-14 | ROBERT BALLAGH \(B.1943\) After David, The Rape of the Sabines Silkscreen, 46.5 x 58cm Signed and numbered AP and dated 1973 | Adam's | €650 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-robert-ballagh-b-1943-after-david-the-rape-of-the-sabines-silkscreen-46-5-x-58cm-signed-and-numbered-ap-and-dated-1973-83-c-4b23d403bb
3. 2025-09-16 | ROBERT BALLAGH \(B. 1943\) | Sheppards | €580
4. 2025-05-28 | Robert Ballagh \(b.1943\) Head of Louis le Brocquy Conte on paper, 36 x 30cm \(14¼ x 11¾\) Signed; inscribed verso | Adam's | €1,900
5. 2025-05-27 | ROBERT BALLAGH \(B.1943\) | Sheppards | €240
6. 2024-09-11 | Robert Ballagh \(b.1943\) Hommage ˆ David Screenprint, 45 x 30cm Inscribed with title | Adam's | €750
7. 2023-09-27 | Robert Ballagh \(b.1943\) Inside No. 3 After Modernisation Screenprint 76 x 55.5cm \(30 x 21¾\) \(image size\) Signed and numbered 30/150 | Adam's | N/A
8. 2023-09-27 | Robert Ballagh \(b.1943\) My Studio \(1969\) Screenprint, 91 x 117cm \(35¾ x 46\) \(image size\) Signed and numbered 21/75 | Adam's | €800
9. 2023-05-31 | Robert Ballagh \(b. 1943\) Still Life with Loaf and Rose Acrylic on board, 89 x 59cm \(35 x 23¼\) Signed with initials and dated \(19\)'86 | Adam's | N/A
10. 2023-05-31 | Robert Ballagh \(b. 1943\) \(Untitled\) Oil on canvas and mixed media, 29.5 x 60cm \(11½ x 23½\) Signed and dated \(20\)'02 verso | Adam's | €2,600
11. 2023-05-09 | ROBERT BALLAGH \(bB1943\) Brian O'Doherty/ Patrick Ireland \(Cogito Ergo Sum\) Oil on canvas, 80 x 60cm Exhibited: Royal Ulster Academy of Arts, 2016; Ballagh & Ballagh: Outside/ Inside, Hillborough Fine Art, 2017. | Adam's | N/A
12. 2022-12-07 | Robert Ballagh \(b.1943\) The Atomic Energy Oil on canvas, 57 x 46cm \(22½ x 18\) Signed and dated 1977 verso Provenance: With David Hendricks, Dublin, label verso. Collection, owned by Robin Walker; Private Collection | Adam's | N/A
13. 2022-04-26 | Robert Ballagh \(b.1943\) Shoppers and a Jack Youngerman \(1976\) | Morgan O'Driscoll | N/A
14. 2022-04-26 | Robert Ballagh \(b.1943\) Inside No. 3 After Modernisation \(1982\) | Morgan O'Driscoll | N/A
15. 2022-03-30 | Robert Ballagh \(b.1943\) Portrait of Louis le Brocquy Oil on canvas and mixed media, 44 x 32cm \(17¼ x 12½''\) Signed | Adam's | €10,500
16. 2022-03-02 | ROBERT BALLAGH | Sheppards | €280
17. 2021-09-27 | Robert Ballagh \(b.1943\) CATHLEEN'S SUPPER | Whyte's | €9,000
18. 2019-12-04 | Robert Ballagh \(b.1943\) Portrait of J.P. Donleavy Oil on canvas, 89 x 68.5cm \(35 x 27''\)Signed lower right Born to Irish immigrants in New York, James Patrick Donleavy \(1926\-2017\) served in the US Navy during WWII and moved to Ireland in 1946 t | Adam's | €30,000
19. 2019-12-02 | Robert Ballagh \(b.1943\) RIVERDANCE \(SET DESIGN\) | Whyte's | N/A
20. 2019-12-02 | Robert Ballagh \(b.1943\) STUDY FOR LIBERTY ON THE BARRICADES, 1970 | Whyte's | €5,200
21. 2019-11-19 | ROBERT BALLAGH \(B.1943\)Cut\-Out with a Kumi SugaiAcrylic on canvas and board, 210 x 115cm variableSigned with initials and dated 1974Provenance: David Hendriks Gallery label verso. | Adam's | €5,500
22. 2019-03-04 | Robert Ballagh \(b.1943\) PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST, MICHEAL FARRELL, 2015 | Whyte's | €950
23. 2018-05-16 | ROBERT BALLAGH | Sheppards | N/A
24. 2018-04-24 | ROBERT BALLAGH \(B.1943\)1916 Rising 75th Anniversary, The Provisional Government,Lithograph, 42 x 58cm Signed and numbered 425/500;together with Aisérí Glóir\-Réim na Cásca Pageant poster, Croke Park, April 1966, signed Tomás Mac Anna, 1966, x cm. | Adam's | €260

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