# Roland Penrose - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-01T11:12:00.617Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 25
- Lots with prices: 11
- First auction date: 2004-04-29
- Latest auction date: 2025-10-14
- Median realised price: $3,500
- Price range: $40 to $46,000

## Market Takeaway
Roland Penrose has 25 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $3,500. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 3 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 \($3,500\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($550 to $16,510\) 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: 27.3% (3 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 36.4% (4 sales)
- $10,000\+: 36.4% (4 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 3
- Previous 12 months sales: 4
- Recent 12 months median: $16,510
- Previous 12 months median: $290
- Median shift: 100%
- Latest sale date: 2025-10-14
- Days since latest sale: 199
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Artimore Auctions: 5 lots
- Christie's: 5 lots
- DUMBO Auctions: 2 lots
- Roseberys: 2 lots
- Ader: 1 lots
- Bonhams: 1 lots
- East Coast Books: 1 lots
- Forum Auctions \- UK: 1 lots
- La Suite Subastas: 1 lots
- Leclere \- Maison de ventes: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-10-14 | Roland Penrose \(London, 1900 \- Chiddingly, 1984\) Beauty Prize, 1932 | Piasa | €46,000
2. 2025-09-25 | ROLAND PENROSE \(LONDON, 1900 \- EAST SUSSEX, 1984\) | La Suite Subastas | N/A
3. 2025-09-18 | Untitled | Sotheby's | £16,510
4. 2025-04-30 | ROLAND PENROSE \(1900\-1984\) The Road is wider than long. An Image Diary from the Balkans | Bonhams | N/A
5. 2025-03-05 | Roland Penrose \(1900\-1954\) A view of Queen's, Cambridge circa 1920, indistinctly inscribed to label verso, oil on canvas, 34.5 x 24cm Provenance: inscribed to the back of the frame 'by Roland Penrose, left to N.Y by E.B.C Lucas \(Topsy\)'. N.Y was... | Mallams | N/A
6. 2024-11-20 | Roland Penrose \(1900\-1984\) Untitled \(pl. for La Logique Assassine\), 1974 | Millon & Associes | €290
7. 2024-05-28 | Roland Penrose \- Drawings, Paintings and Objects \- 1980 Offset Lithograph 23.25" x 16.5" | DUMBO Auctions | N/A
8. 2023-11-07 | Roland Penrose \- Drawings, Paintings and Objects \- 1980 Offset Lithograph 23.25" x 16.5" | DUMBO Auctions | N/A
9. 2022-05-18 | ROLAND PENROSE \(1900\-1984\) Hommage à Man Ray, from La Logique Assassine lit | Christie's | $1,008
10. 2020-12-20 | Roland Penrose \- More light, 1988, lithograph | Artimore Auctions | N/A
11. 2020-12-06 | Roland Penrose \- More light, 1988, lithograph | Artimore Auctions | N/A
12. 2020-11-01 | Roland Penrose \- More light, 1988, lithograph | Artimore Auctions | N/A
13. 2020-08-22 | Roland Penrose \(British 1900\-1984\) | Neue Auctions | $1,400
14. 2020-08-15 | Roland Penrose \- More light, 1988, lithograph | Artimore Auctions | N/A
15. 2020-05-09 | Roland Penrose \- More light, 1988, lithograph | Artimore Auctions | N/A
16. 2020-01-21 | Roland Penrose \(1900\-1984\) Hommage à Man Ray | Forum Auctions \- UK | £550
17. 2015-12-15 | Roland Penrose \(1900\-1984\) British Surrealist painter | East Coast Books | N/A
18. 2015-03-26 | Roland Penrose \(1900\-1984\) The visitors fusain, graphite et frottage sur pa | Christie's | €3,750
19. 2012-11-21 | Roland PENROSE \(1900 \- 1984\) La Tour de Londres, | Ader | N/A
20. 2010-05-21 | ROLAND PENROSE | Christie's | £3,500
21. 2009-07-14 | Circle of Roland Penrose 1900\-1984\- Untitled | Roseberys | £40
22. 2009-03-17 | Circle of Roland Penrose 1900\-1984\- Untitled | Roseberys | N/A
23. 2008-06-21 | Roland PENROSE \(1900\-1984\). \- Les arcanes de la | Leclere \- Maison de ventes | N/A
24. 2007-12-06 | Pequod | Christie's | £22,100

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