# Robert Kelsey - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-06-18T20:49:54.355Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 20
- Lots with prices: 16
- First auction date: 2011-12-08
- Latest auction date: 2024-05-15
- Median realised price: $1,100
- Price range: $300 to $2,800

## Market Takeaway
Robert Kelsey has 20 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $1,100. 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 \($1,100\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($744 to $1,900\) 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: 43.8% (7 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 56.3% (9 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 0
- Previous 12 months sales: 0
- Recent 12 months median: $0
- Previous 12 months median: $0
- Median shift: N/A
- Latest sale date: 2024-05-15
- Days since latest sale: 764
- Market velocity: inactive

## Top Auction Houses
- Bonhams: 8 lots
- Dreweatts 1759: 4 lots
- Chiswick Auctions: 2 lots
- Claydon Auctioneers: 2 lots
- Gorringes: 1 lots
- Olympia Auctions: 1 lots
- Roseberys: 1 lots
- Worthington Galleries: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2024-05-15 | Robert Kelsey \(British, born 1949\) Still Life with Silver Pot | Bonhams | N/A
2. 2023-10-11 | ROBERT KELSEY \(SCOTTISH B.1949\) | Olympia Auctions | £700
3. 2022-12-13 | Robert Kelsey \(Scottish, b.1949\), 'Sunny beach \- Iona', oil on canvas, 60 x 70cm | Gorringes | £1,900
4. 2020-10-14 | Robert Kelsey \(British, born 1949\) Yachts at Sandy Bay, Barbados 40 x 80.5 cm. \(15 3/4 x 31 11/16 in.\) | Bonhams | £1,100
5. 2018-09-25 | Robert Kelsey \(Scottish, b.1949\), 'Spanish courtyard, Malaga', signed 'Kelsey' \(lower left\), oil on canvas, 30.5 x 30.5cm PROVENANCE: With Richmond Hill Gallery, where purchased by the present owner in 1997. Artist's Resale Right may apply on this lot | Chiswick Auctions | £300
6. 2018-06-28 | ROBERT KELSEY \(B. 1949\) | Chiswick Auctions | N/A
7. 2018-02-21 | Robert Kelsey \(British, born 1949\) Iona | Bonhams | N/A
8. 2017-12-03 | Robert Kelsey Original Oil Painting Entitled "Floral Still Life" | Worthington Galleries | $375 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-robert-kelsey-original-oil-painting-entitled-floral-still-life-28-c-9e8419a800
9. 2017-11-29 | Robert Kelsey \(British, born 1949\) Across the Sound of Iona 42 x 71 cm. \(1 | Bonhams | N/A
10. 2017-02-22 | Robert Kelsey \(British, born 1949\) Open Fields 86 x 96 cm. \(33 7/8 x 37 13/16 in.\) | Bonhams | £1,500
11. 2017-02-03 | Robert Kelsey \(1949\) PAI Scottish , Oil on canvas, ' The Dark Cuillins ' \(a | Claydon Auctioneers | £2,800
12. 2017-02-03 | Robert Kelsey \(1949\) PAI Scottish , Oil on canvas, ' Sea Pinks , Iona ', Si | Claydon Auctioneers | £1,800
13. 2016-02-23 | Robert Kelsey \(b.1949\) \- On the Medina | Dreweatts 1759 | £744
14. 2016-02-23 | Robert Kelsey \(b.1949\) \- Barges on the Orwell | Dreweatts 1759 | £868
15. 2016-02-23 | Robert Kelsey \(b.1949\) \- Yachts at Iken | Dreweatts 1759 | £806
16. 2016-02-23 | Robert Kelsey \(b.1949\) \- Watering Home | Dreweatts 1759 | £2,232
17. 2012-03-13 | Robert Kelsey, British, b.1949\- 'Checking the | Roseberys | £820
18. 2011-12-08 | Robert Kelsey \(British, 1949\) 76 x 91.5 cm. \(30 x 36 in.\) | Bonhams | £2,125
19. 2011-12-08 | Robert Kelsey \(British, 1949\) 92 x 92 cm. \(36 x 36 in.\) | Bonhams | £2,125
20. 2011-12-08 | Robert Kelsey \(British, 1949\) 51 x 61 cm. \(20 x 24 in.\) | Bonhams | £1,625

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