# Robert Emerson Curtis - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-30T23:22:24.419Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 43
- Lots with prices: 23
- First auction date: 2009-11-22
- Latest auction date: 2025-11-27
- Median realised price: $220
- Price range: $24 to $2,000

## Market Takeaway
Robert Emerson Curtis has 43 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $220. 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 \($220\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($100 to $550\) 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: 91.3% (21 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 8.7% (2 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 2
- Previous 12 months sales: 2
- Recent 12 months median: $200
- Previous 12 months median: $120
- Median shift: 66.7%
- Latest sale date: 2025-11-27
- Days since latest sale: 154
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Lawsons: 19 lots
- Leonard Joel: 6 lots
- John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers: 4 lots
- Shapiro Auctioneers: 4 lots
- Barsby Auctions: 2 lots
- Raffan Kelaher & Thomas: 2 lots
- Bargain Hunt Auctions: 1 lots
- Bay East Auctions: 1 lots
- Deutscher and Hackett: 1 lots
- Mossgreen Auctions: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-11-20 | ROBERT EMERSON CURTIS, UNTITLED 1940, | Leonard Joel | N/A
2. 2025-11-27 | ROBERT EMERSON CURTIS, UNTITLED 1940, | Leonard Joel | A$200
3. 2025-03-11 | ROBERT EMERSON CURTIS \(1898\-1996\), 'The Baker's Cart, Broken Hill', 1935, oil pastel on brown paper, signed lower left, titled and d | Raffan Kelaher & Thomas | A$120
4. 2024-10-14 | Robert Emerson Curtis \(1898\-1996\), "Broken Hill" 1952, 2 x framed pencil on paper works in a single frame. Plus book 'Building The Bridge'\- Robert Emerson Curtis \- fourteen lithographs celebrating the construction of The | Bargain Hunt Auctions | A$260
5. 2023-11-30 | ROBERT EMERSON CURTIS, HARBOUR SCENE, PENCIL ON PAPER, SIGNED LOWER RIGHT, 23 X 35CM, FRAME SIZE: 45.5 X 55CM | Leonard Joel | A$100
6. 2023-11-02 | ROBERT EMERSON CURTIS, HARBOUR SCENE, PENCIL ON PAPER, SIGNED LOWER RIGHT, 23 X 35CM, FRAME SIZE: 45.5 X 55CM | Leonard Joel | N/A
7. 2023-10-10 | ROBERT EMERSON CURTIS, SEWING UNIFORMS: WAR AND MUNITIONS FACTORIES, MELBOURNE, 1940 | Deutscher and Hackett | A$2,000
8. 2023-10-05 | ROBERT EMERSON CURTIS, HARBOUR SCENE, PENCIL ON PAPER, SIGNED LOWER RIGHT, 23 X 35CM, FRAME SIZE: 45.5 X 55CM | Leonard Joel | N/A
9. 2021-12-16 | ROBERT EMERSON CURTIS \(1898 \- 1996\) \(2 works\) Broken Hill, 1952 pencil on paper 20.5 x 24 cm; 20.5 x 32.5 cm \(frame: 44 x 80 x 2 cm\)... | Lawsons | N/A
10. 2021-08-26 | ROBERT EMERSON CURTIS \(1898 \- 1996\) \- Transient Military Camp, Milne Bay, 1943 18 x 29 cm \(frame: 35 x 45 x 2 cm\) | Lawsons | A$550
11. 2021-07-29 | ROBERT EMERSON CURTIS \(1898 \- 1996\) \- The Opera House Across Farm Cove, 1966 27 x 36.5 cm \(frame: 44 x 54 x 3 cm\) | Lawsons | A$300
12. 2021-02-17 | Robert Emerson Curtis \(1898\-1996\) British/Australian, 'The Bridge from Woolloolooloo', Sydney Harbour bridge i | John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers | £260
13. 2020-06-12 | Robert Emerson Curtis \(1898\-1996\) British/Australian. 'The Bridge From Woolloolooloo', Sydney Harbour Bridge i | John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers | N/A
14. 2020-02-13 | Robert Emerson Curtis \(1898 \- 1996\) \- Tending to the Garden 1942 17 x 24 cm | Lawsons | N/A
15. 2020-02-06 | Robert Emerson Curtis \(1898 \- 1996\) \- Tending to the Garden 1942 17 x 24 cm | Lawsons | N/A
16. 2020-01-30 | Robert Emerson Curtis \(1898 \- 1996\) \- Tending to the Garden 1942 17 x 24 cm | Lawsons | N/A
17. 2019-11-27 | Robert Emerson Curtis \(1898\-1996\) British/Australian. "The Bridge from Woolloomooloo", with Sydney Harbour Bridge in the distance, Hand Painted Lithograph, Signed | John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers | N/A
18. 2019-10-02 | Robert Emerson Curtis \(1898\-1996\) British/Australian. "The Bridge from Woolloomooloo", with Sydney Harbour Bridge in the distance, Hand Painted Lithograph, | John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers | N/A
19. 2018-11-21 | Robert Emerson Curtis \(1898\-1996\) | Shapiro Auctioneers | N/A
20. 2017-11-30 | Robert Emerson Curtis \(1898 \- 1996\) \- Mitchell Grass Plains, Western Queensland 39.5 x 45.5cm | Lawsons | A$140
21. 2017-10-26 | Robert Emerson Curtis \(1898 \- 1996\) \- Roman Aqueduct Segovia Spain, 1970 16 x 24cm | Lawsons | N/A
22. 2017-09-28 | Robert Emerson Curtis \(1898 \- 1996\) \- Mitchell Grass Plains, Western Queensland 39.5 x 45.5cm | Lawsons | N/A
23. 2017-09-01 | ROBERT EMERSON CURTIS \(1898\-1996\) Building the Restaurant 1966 watercolour and ink on paper | Leonard Joel | A$800
24. 2017-06-07 | ROBERT EMERSON CURTIS \(1898\-1996\) Sydney Harbour from Darlinghurst Heights 1932 colour lithograph | Mossgreen Auctions | A$124

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