# Ruskin Spear - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-04T10:37:06.465Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 123
- Lots with prices: 74
- First auction date: 2001-05-22
- Latest auction date: 2025-09-04
- Median realised price: $2,160
- Price range: $35 to $40,800

## Market Takeaway
Ruskin Spear shows solid auction liquidity with 123 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $2,160. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 6 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-09-04.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($2,160\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $550 and $5,400.
- 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: 36.5% (27 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 48.6% (36 sales)
- $10,000\+: 14.9% (11 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 6
- Previous 12 months sales: 0
- Recent 12 months median: $2,800
- Previous 12 months median: $0
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-09-04
- Days since latest sale: 167
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Sotheby's: 50 lots
- Bonhams: 13 lots
- Christie's: 8 lots
- Dreweatts 1759: 6 lots
- Lots Road Auctions: 5 lots
- Weschler's: 4 lots
- Bellmans Auctioneers: 3 lots
- Mallams: 3 lots
- Sloane Street Auctions: 3 lots
- Adam Partridge Auctioneers: 2 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-06-12 | Ruskin Spear \(English, 1911\-1990\), Portrait of Baroness Margaret Thatcher | Sloane Street Auctions | £27,000
2. 2025-06-12 | Ruskin Spear \(English, 1911\-1990\), Portrait of Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx \(1916\-1995\) | Sloane Street Auctions | £2,800
3. 2022-07-01 | Ruskin Spear \(1911\-1990\), Pastel, Two studies of a female head. Signed to reverse. Approx. 11" x 15" | Claydon Auctioneers | £60
4. 2019-03-27 | Ruskin Spear \(1911\-1990\) At the Circus | Forum Auctions \- UK | £550
5. 2018-06-06 | RUSKIN SPEAR \(1911\-1990\) British \(AR\) Crouching Nude Limited edition print | Rowley Fine Art Auctioneers and Valuers | N/A
6. 2018-05-18 | Ruskin Spear \(1911\-1990\) Clay pit near St. Austell, circa 1942 | Mallams | £1,000
7. 2017-06-27 | Ruskin Spear \(1911\-1990\) Portrait of Derek Cliffe 24 x 20in. | Gorringes | £440
8. 2025-09-04 | Ruskin Spear \(1911\-1990\) Out for the Count from the Royal College of Art Artist's Choice Portfolio | Forum Auctions \- UK | £50
9. 2025-06-12 | Ruskin Spear \(English, 1911\-1990\), Portrait of James Callaghan \(1912\-2005\) | Sloane Street Auctions | £6,000
10. 2025-02-22 | RUSKIN SPEAR \(1911\-1990\); oil on canvas, portrait, Lady Sheila Jackson \(1921\-2002\), signed and dated 1957, 76 x 63cm, unframed. | Adam Partridge Auctioneers | N/A
11. 2025-02-22 | RUSKIN SPEAR \(1911\-1990\); pencil sketch portrait, Lady Sheila Jackson \(1921\-2002\), \(a preliminary sketch of an oil included in this sale, lot 184\), signed and dated 1942, 42 x 34cm, framed and glazed. | Adam Partridge Auctioneers | N/A
12. 2023-08-29 | RUSKIN SPEAR \(1911\-1990\) \(ATTRIB.\), | Historia Auctionata | €35
13. 2023-06-27 | Ruskin Spear \(English, 1911\-1990\), ‘Rooftops’, oil on canvas, 49.5 x 34cm | Gorringes | N/A
14. 2020-10-27 | Ruskin Spear \(1911\-1990\) British Model at Wash Basin \(1936\) | Morgan O'Driscoll | €2,700
15. 2020-01-13 | RUSKIN SPEAR \(British 1911 \- 1990\) | Chiswick Auctions | N/A
16. 2020-01-13 | RUSKIN SPEAR \(1911\-1990\) | Chiswick Auctions | N/A
17. 2019-09-13 | Ruskin Spear \(British 1911\-1990\), Portrait of a Sitting Cat, Oil on Masonite, 14 x 12 inches | Weschler's | $900
18. 2018-09-18 | RUSKIN SPEAR, R.A. \| Ban the Bomb | Sotheby's | N/A
19. 2018-06-06 | RUSKIN SPEAR \(1911\-1990\) British \(AR\) Topless Model With Cat Limited editio | Rowley Fine Art Auctioneers and Valuers | N/A
20. 2018-05-18 | Ruskin Spear \(1911\-1990\) Portrait of Girl with Hairband, 1940 | Mallams | N/A
21. 2018-02-16 | RUSKIN SPEAR, R.A. \| Standing Nude | Sotheby's | £1,600
22. 2017-12-07 | Ruskin Spear, painting | Millea Bros Ltd | $1,100
23. 2017-08-22 | Ruskin Spear \(British 1911\-1990\) \- Thunder Clouds Over Cornwall | Dreweatts 1759 | £1,178
24. 2017-06-27 | Ruskin Spear \(British 1911 \- 1990\) \- Flower Seller | Dreweatts 1759 | N/A

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