# Russell Crotty - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-01T12:33:29.664Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 28
- Lots with prices: 19
- First auction date: 2003-09-23
- Latest auction date: 2025-11-15
- Median realised price: $1,800
- Price range: $35 to $9,560

## Market Takeaway
Russell Crotty has 28 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $1,800. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 2 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 \($1,800\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($500 to $4,000\) 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: 36.8% (7 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 63.2% (12 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 2
- Previous 12 months sales: 3
- Recent 12 months median: $500
- Previous 12 months median: $200
- Median shift: 100%
- Latest sale date: 2025-11-15
- Days since latest sale: 167
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Los Angeles Modern Auctions: 9 lots
- Bonhams: 5 lots
- Roland Auctions NY: 4 lots
- Phillips: 3 lots
- Abell Auction: 1 lots
- Christie's: 1 lots
- Clark's Fine Art & Auctioneers Inc.: 1 lots
- Freeman’s \| Hindman: 1 lots
- Rago Arts and Auction Center: 1 lots
- Sotheby's: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-11-15 | Russell CROTTY: "..Solstice Peak Observatory" Book | Roland Auctions NY | N/A
2. 2025-07-17 | Russell Crotty \(American, b. 1956\) Untitled \(Planetary Study\) | Freeman’s \| Hindman | $500
3. 2025-01-11 | Russell CROTTY: "..Solstice Peak Observatory" Book | Roland Auctions NY | N/A
4. 2024-11-26 | RUSSELL CROTTY \(1956 \- \) Grey Bluffs, Gaviota Coast. | Swann Auction Galleries | N/A
5. 2024-09-21 | Russell CROTTY: "..Solstice Peak Observatory" Book | Roland Auctions NY | $200
6. 2024-04-24 | Russell Crotty, Mercury, Venus and Mars Over Elite Developments | Los Angeles Modern Auctions | $700
7. 2024-02-20 | Russell CROTTY: "..Solstice Peak Observatory" Book | Roland Auctions NY | N/A
8. 2023-11-30 | Russell Crotty, The Leonid Meteor Shower | Los Angeles Modern Auctions | $2,400
9. 2023-06-14 | RUSSELL CROTTY \(B. 1956\) CALIFORNIA & DAVID SCHAFER \(20TH CENTURY\) \(TWO\) | Clark's Fine Art & Auctioneers Inc. | $35
10. 2023-03-29 | Russell Crotty, Tracking | Rago Arts and Auction Center | N/A
11. 2022-07-12 | Russell Crotty, Vandenberg | Los Angeles Modern Auctions | $1,100
12. 2022-06-23 | Russell Crotty, Tracking | Los Angeles Modern Auctions | N/A
13. 2022-05-03 | Russell Crotty, Surf Drawing in Black | Los Angeles Modern Auctions | $2,800
14. 2022-05-03 | Russell Crotty, Motel Sequence | Los Angeles Modern Auctions | $125
15. 2022-05-03 | Russell Crotty, California Homegrounds, Issue V, Volume II | Los Angeles Modern Auctions | $400
16. 2022-05-03 | Russell Crotty, Untitled | Los Angeles Modern Auctions | $1,800
17. 2022-05-03 | Russell Crotty, Toxic Storm | Los Angeles Modern Auctions | $1,200
18. 2021-07-15 | RUSSELL CROTTY \(B. 1954\): "UNTITLED III" | Abell Auction | $750
19. 2018-05-02 | Russell Crotty \(B. 1956\) Night Fall Over Chumash Boulder Problem, 2004 | Bonhams | N/A
20. 2017-10-25 | Russell Crotty \(American, born 1956\) | Bonhams | $3,125
21. 2017-03-02 | RUSSELL CROTTY \| Horse Property | Sotheby's | $4,000
22. 2016-05-04 | RUSSELL CROTTY \(born 1956\) Andromeda over Reyes Peak, 2003 diameter 16 in. \(40.6 cm\) | Bonhams | N/A
23. 2013-03-08 | RUSSELL CROTTY | Phillips | N/A
24. 2012-05-21 | Russell Crotty \(born 1956\) | Bonhams | $5,625

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