# Roy DeCarava - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-30T14:12:52.784Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 100
- Lots with prices: 74
- First auction date: 2002-10-22
- Latest auction date: 2026-02-21
- Median realised price: $5,310
- Price range: $25 to $100,000

## Market Takeaway
Roy DeCarava shows solid auction liquidity with 99 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $5,400. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 3 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-10-09.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($5,400\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $2,750 and $16,250.
- 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: 11% (8 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 53.4% (39 sales)
- $10,000\+: 35.6% (26 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 3
- Previous 12 months sales: 2
- Recent 12 months median: $8,890
- Previous 12 months median: $8,255
- Median shift: 7.7%
- Latest sale date: 2025-10-09
- Days since latest sale: 132
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Swann Auction Galleries: 48 lots
- Christie's: 14 lots
- Sotheby's: 7 lots
- Bonhams: 5 lots
- Gray's Auctioneers: 5 lots
- Phillips: 3 lots
- Dreweatts 1759: 2 lots
- Heritage Auctions: 2 lots
- Lawsons: 2 lots
- Nye & Company: 2 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-05-08 | ROY DECARAVA \(1919\-2009\) Portfolio entitled Roy DeCarava. 1950\-79; printed 1991. | Swann Auction Galleries | $45,000 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-roy-decarava-1919-2009-portfolio-entitled-roy-decarava-1950-79-printed-1991-80-c-d3533bbc9b
2. 2025-02-13 | ROY DECARAVA \(1919\-2009\) Hallway, New York. 1953. | Swann Auction Galleries | $50,000
3. 2026-02-21 | Roy DeCarava, Langstron Hughes, 'The Sweet Flypaper of Life', first edition | Clars Auctions | $50 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-roy-decarava-langstron-hughes-the-sweet-flypaper-of-life-first-edition-6060a-c-a031bff4f8
4. 2025-10-09 | ROY DECARAVA \(1919\-2009\). Couple Dancing, 1956. signed, dated and numbered | Christie's | $8,890
5. 2025-04-17 | ROY DECARAVA \(1919\-2009\). Billie Holiday and Hazel Scott, 1957. signed in i | Christie's | N/A
6. 2024-04-10 | Self\-Portrait | Sotheby's | $8,255
7. 2023-10-19 | Roy DeCarava \(1919\-2009\) "Kids God Bless," 1950s | Freeman’s \| Hindman | $6,000
8. 2023-08-30 | ROY DeCARAVA \(1919\-2009, American\), Apartment for Rent 1977\-78 | Menzies | A$3,600
9. 2023-04-27 | ROY DECARAVA \(1919\-2009\) Man Coming Up Subway Stairs. | Swann Auction Galleries | $32,500
10. 2023-02-23 | ROY DECARAVA \(1919\-2009\) Sherry, Susan, Wendy, and Laura. | Swann Auction Galleries | $10,625
11. 2022-10-20 | ROY DECARAVA \(1919\-2009\) Portrait of the singer, actor, and activist Paul Robeson. | Swann Auction Galleries | $1,187
12. 2022-04-14 | ROY DECARAVA \(1919\-2009\) Graduation. | Swann Auction Galleries | $15,000
13. 2021-10-07 | ROY DECARAVA \(1919 \- 2009\) Bass Player, Small's, New York. | Swann Auction Galleries | N/A
14. 2021-10-04 | Roy DeCarava \(1919\-2009\); Cycle of Blue Collar Workers, New York, NY; | Bonhams | $11,000
15. 2021-05-27 | ROY DECARAVA \(1919\-1919\) Catsup Bottles, Table and Coat, New York. | Swann Auction Galleries | $42,500
16. 2020-10-02 | Roy DeCarava \(1919\-2009\); Cycle of Blue Collar Workers, New York, NY; | Bonhams | N/A
17. 2020-06-11 | ROY DECARAVA \(1919\-2009\) Lonely Women. | Swann Auction Galleries | $10,000
18. 2019-10-17 | ROY DECARAVA \(1919\-2009\) Boy with bowed head. | Swann Auction Galleries | $17,500
19. 2019-10-08 | ROY DECARAVA \(1919 \- 2009\) Untitled \(Harry Belafonte, Carnegie Hall\). | Swann Auction Galleries | $5,250
20. 2019-10-01 | ROY DECARAVA \- Hallway, New York, 1953 | Phillips | $58,000
21. 2019-04-02 | ROY DECARAVA \(1919–2009\) Roy DeCarava: Twelve Photogravures | Christie's | N/A
22. 2019-02-21 | ROY DECARAVA \(1919\-2009\) Dancers \(Harlem\). | Swann Auction Galleries | $52,500
23. 2018-10-18 | ROY DECARAVA \(1919\-2009\) Portfolio entitled Roy DeCarava. | Swann Auction Galleries | $100,000
24. 2018-10-18 | ROY DECARAVA \(1919\-2009\) Hallway. | Swann Auction Galleries | $31,250

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