# Rowan Gillespie - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-01T09:03:12.215Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 128
- Lots with prices: 103
- First auction date: 2002-05-17
- Latest auction date: 2026-03-09
- Median realised price: $7,700
- Price range: $900 to $200,000

## Market Takeaway
Rowan Gillespie shows solid auction liquidity with 127 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $7,500. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 12 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-12-02.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($7,500\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $4,320 and $15,000.
- 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: 1% (1 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 58.8% (60 sales)
- $10,000\+: 40.2% (41 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 12
- Previous 12 months sales: 11
- Recent 12 months median: $12,000
- Previous 12 months median: $6,000
- Median shift: 100%
- Latest sale date: 2025-12-02
- Days since latest sale: 78
- Market velocity: moderate

## Top Auction Houses
- Adam's: 47 lots
- Whyte's: 30 lots
- Christie's: 11 lots
- Sotheby's: 7 lots
- Bonhams: 6 lots
- Morgan O'Driscoll: 5 lots
- deVeres: 3 lots
- Adams Amsterdam Auctions: 2 lots
- Dreweatts 1759: 2 lots
- Hindman: 2 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2024-12-02 | Rowan Gillespie \(b.1953\) THE ELEMENTS, 1994 | Whyte's | €6,000
2. 2026-03-09 | Rowan Gillespie \(b.1953\) REACHING FEMALE FIGURE, c.1978 | Whyte's | €8,000 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-rowan-gillespie-b-1953-reaching-female-figure-c-1978-78-c-c17aceb166
3. 2025-12-02 | Rowan Gillespie \(1953\) L'età della donna: The age of woman, 2007\-2009 | Bonino | €200,000
4. 2025-12-01 | Rowan Gillespie \(b.1953\) MAQUETTE FOR W.B. YEATS, SLIGO, 1989 | Whyte's | N/A
5. 2025-12-01 | Rowan Gillespie \(b.1953\) IMAGINE \[THE FRAILEST REED\], 2006 | Whyte's | €26,000
6. 2025-11-26 | Rowan Gillespie \(b.1953\) Are You There Bronze, 75.5cm \(h\) \(29½''\) Signed and dated 2021 Unique Provenance: With Solomon Gallery, Dublin, where acquired by the present owner This bronze is a maquette for a large scale outdoor sculpture o | Adam's | N/A
7. 2025-09-29 | Rowan Gillespie \(b.1953\) REACHING FEMALE FIGURE, c.1978 | Whyte's | N/A
8. 2025-09-24 | Rowan Gillespie \(b.1953\) Love Alloy and Perspex, 68cm \(h\) \(26½''\) Signed and numbered 1/5 Provenance: The Collection of Ib Jorgensen Rowan explores the use of the Perspex screen in his work to act as physical and visual divide | Adam's | €12,000
9. 2025-06-18 | Rowan Gillespie \(Irish, born 1953\) Study for W.B.Yeats 65.8 cm. \(25 7/8 in.\) high \(including the base\) | Bonhams | N/A
10. 2025-05-28 | Rowan Gillespie \(b.1953\) Convict Woman Bronze, 47cm \(h\) \(18½\) Edition 1/9 Signed and dated 2015 Based on one of the life size bronze figures unveiled in Hobart, Tazmania in 2017 and known as the Footsteps Towards Freedom statues, C | Adam's | N/A
11. 2025-05-26 | Rowan Gillespie \(b.1953\) DILEMMA, 1979 | Whyte's | N/A
12. 2025-05-20 | Rowan Gillespie \(1953\), Girl figure | Vendu Rotterdam | N/A
13. 2025-03-03 | Rowan Gillespie \(b.1953\) FAMINE FIGURES, 1997 | Whyte's | €5,000
14. 2025-03-03 | Rowan Gillespie \(b.1953\) EGG, 1979 | Whyte's | €10,000
15. 2024-12-04 | Rowan Gillespie \(b.1953\) Looking at Orion Bronze, 22 x 30cm\(h\) \(8½ x 11¾''\) Numbered 5/9 Signed and dated \(20\)'05 | Adam's | €7,000
16. 2024-12-02 | Rowan Gillespie \(b.1953\) THREE DANCERS, 1994 | Whyte's | €7,000
17. 2024-09-30 | Rowan Gillespie \(b.1953\) DILEMMA, 1979 | Whyte's | N/A
18. 2024-09-25 | Rowan Gillespie \(Irish, b. 1953\) The Egg, 1979 | Freeman’s \| Hindman | $5,500
19. 2024-06-11 | Rowan Gillespie \(Irish 1953\). Dilemma, 1979. | Adams Amsterdam Auctions | €5,000
20. 2024-05-29 | Rowan Gillespie \(1953\) | Vendu Rotterdam | N/A
21. 2024-05-29 | Rowan Gillespie \(b.1953\) Dancer Bronze 23 x 18cm high \(9 x 7\) Signed and numbered 2/9 | Adam's | €3,000
22. 2024-04-24 | Rowan Gillespie \(Irish, b. 1953\) The Egg, 1979 | Hindman | $6,000
23. 2024-04-24 | Rowan Gillespie \(Irish, b. 1953\) Fragments of a Dream, 1979 | Hindman | $4,500
24. 2024-03-11 | Rowan Gillespie \(b.1953\) CAPTIVE MAN OF 83, 1983 | Whyte's | €11,500

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