# Robert Swain - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-04T10:37:21.637Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 22
- Lots with prices: 21
- First auction date: 2007-12-01
- Latest auction date: 2025-11-20
- Median realised price: $4,000
- Price range: $150 to $13,000

## Market Takeaway
Robert Swain has 22 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $4,000. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 1 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 \($4,000\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($2,100 to $9,000\) 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: 9.5% (2 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 66.7% (14 sales)
- $10,000\+: 23.8% (5 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 1
- Previous 12 months sales: 7
- Recent 12 months median: $4,000
- Previous 12 months median: $2,700
- Median shift: 48.1%
- Latest sale date: 2025-11-20
- Days since latest sale: 165
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Rachel Davis Fine Arts: 6 lots
- Hindman: 3 lots
- STAIR: 3 lots
- Rago Arts and Auction Center: 2 lots
- Abell Auction: 1 lots
- Armstrong Fine Art: 1 lots
- Cottone Auctions: 1 lots
- Freeman’s \| Hindman: 1 lots
- Litchfield Auctions: 1 lots
- Millea Bros Ltd: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-11-20 | Robert Swain \(b. 1940\): Study for 9'x9' Painting \#911 | STAIR | $4,000
2. 2024-10-19 | Robert Swain \(American, 1940\- \) acrylic | Rachel Davis Fine Arts | $2,300
3. 2024-10-19 | Robert Swain \(American, 1940\- \) acrylic | Rachel Davis Fine Arts | $1,500
4. 2024-10-19 | Robert Swain \(American, 1940\- \) acrylic | Rachel Davis Fine Arts | $3,250
5. 2024-10-19 | Robert Swain \(American, 1940\- \) acrylic | Rachel Davis Fine Arts | $2,700
6. 2024-10-19 | Robert Swain \(American, 1940\- \) acrylic | Rachel Davis Fine Arts | $2,000
7. 2024-10-19 | Robert Swain \(American, 1940\- \) acrylic | Rachel Davis Fine Arts | $4,000
8. 2024-08-20 | Robert Swain, Acrylic on Canvas No.916 | Weiss Auctions | $5,750
9. 2024-04-24 | Robert Swain \(American, b. 1940\) Study for University of Buffalo Mural, 1982\-85 | Hindman | $10,000
10. 2024-03-13 | Robert Swain, Untitled | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $11,000
11. 2023-09-28 | Robert Swain \(American, b. 1940\) \#914 \(Study\), \#915 \(Study\), \#918, \#919a, \#919b, and \#920, 1978 | Freeman’s \| Hindman | $13,000
12. 2023-09-28 | Robert Swain \(American, b. 1940\) \#709, 1978 | Hindman | $12,000
13. 2023-09-28 | Robert Swain \(American, b. 1940\) \#502, 1981 | Hindman | $7,500
14. 2023-07-12 | Robert Swain, Greg's Yellow | Wright | $11,000
15. 2021-11-10 | Robert Swain, Study for \#2 | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $9,000
16. 2021-09-18 | Robert Swain \(American, b. 1940\) "Study for Untitled 75\-16" | Cottone Auctions | $7,000
17. 2017-03-22 | Robert Swain, Am., Study for \#909, a/m | Litchfield Auctions | $2,100
18. 2011-11-19 | Robert Swain \(b. 1940, American\), painting | Millea Bros Ltd | N/A
19. 2007-12-01 | ROBERT SWAIN \(b. 1940\): COLOR WHEEL Acrylic on | STAIR | $2,900
20. 2007-12-01 | ROBERT SWAIN \(b. 1940\): "STUDY FOR JOHNSON & | STAIR | $1,600
21. 2023-02-25 | Robert Swain GIFFORD: "Meadow Flowers" | Armstrong Fine Art | $150
22. 2020-04-16 | ROBERT SWAIN GIFFORD: "CLIPPER SHIP APPROACHING CLIFFS" | Abell Auction | $425

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