# Ruth Thorne\-Thomsen - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-16T06:41:55.618Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 23
- Lots with prices: 21
- First auction date: 2003-04-25
- Latest auction date: 2025-11-18
- Median realised price: $937
- Price range: $150 to $2,640

## Market Takeaway
Ruth Thorne-Thomsen has 23 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $937. 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 \($937\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($600 to $1,434\) 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: 52.4% (11 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 47.6% (10 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 2
- Previous 12 months sales: 2
- Recent 12 months median: $175
- Previous 12 months median: $150
- Median shift: 16.7%
- Latest sale date: 2025-11-18
- Days since latest sale: 178
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Rago Arts and Auction Center: 5 lots
- Revere Auctions: 5 lots
- James Cox Gallery: 2 lots
- Phillips: 2 lots
- Swann Auction Galleries: 2 lots
- Wright: 2 lots
- Bonhams: 1 lots
- Freeman's: 1 lots
- Leonard Auction: 1 lots
- Piasa: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-11-18 | Ruth Thorne\-Thomsen \(American, B.1943\) 'Olive, Zihuatanejo' Photograph | Leonard Auction | $175
2. 2025-05-28 | Ruth Thorne\-Thomsen, Two works | Wright | $1,700
3. 2025-02-19 | Ruth Thorne\-Thomsen \(born 1943\) Expéditions Mexico Face at Tulum, 1978 | Piasa | €350
4. 2024-12-08 | RUTH THORNE\-THOMSEN \(AMERICAN, B, 1943\) | James Cox Gallery | $150
5. 2023-12-10 | RUTH THORNE\-THOMSEN \(AMERICAN, B. 1943\) | James Cox Gallery | $200
6. 2023-11-15 | Ruth Thorne\-Thomsen "Eonic Queen" Photo | Revere Auctions | $1,200
7. 2023-10-27 | Ruth Thorne\-Thomsen, Lullaby: Songs of the Sea | Wright | $800
8. 2023-05-06 | Ruth Thorne\-Thomsen \(1943\) Pyramid and Plane, California, 1982 | Santa Monica Auctions | $800
9. 2022-03-17 | Ruth Thorne\-Thomsen "Mesa Head" Photo | Revere Auctions | $1,450
10. 2022-03-17 | Ruth Thorne\-Thomsen "Thunderhead Clouds" Photo | Revere Auctions | $1,100
11. 2022-03-17 | Ruth Thorne\-Thomsen "Two Faces" Photo | Revere Auctions | $360
12. 2022-03-17 | Ruth Thorne\-Thomsen "Shell Head" Photo | Revere Auctions | $650
13. 2019-10-01 | RUTH THORNE\-THOMSEN \- Geometric Lady, California from Expeditions, 1982 and Señora Flora, New Mexico from View from the Shoreline, 1987 | Phillips | $1,600
14. 2016-04-19 | RUTH THORNE\-THOMSEN \(1943\- \) River \(Nepenthe\) \* Limbo. | Swann Auction Galleries | N/A
15. 2016-02-25 | RUTH THORNE\-THOMSEN \(1943\- \) The World Turns as a Ball \* Time is Longer than a Rope. | Swann Auction Galleries | N/A
16. 2015-01-25 | Ruth Thorne\-Thomsen \(American, born 1943\) Flora Bell; Leda, from Views of the Shoreline Series 2 | Bonhams | $625
17. 2013-05-18 | Ruth Thorne\-Thomsen \(American, b. 1943\); Untitled | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $1,000
18. 2013-05-18 | Ruth Thorne\-Thomsen \(American, b. 1943\); Untitled | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $937
19. 2008-05-18 | RUTH THORNE\-THOMSEN photograph | Freeman's | $600
20. 2007-05-19 | Ruth Thorne\-Thomsen \(American, b. 1943\) Two works of art: Screwhead, Views from the Shoreline, Colorado \(Eonic Queen\), 1986; Gelatin silver print; Signed, dated, titled and numbered 2/12; 40 1/2" x 30 1/4 \(sheet\); Untitled \(\#5\) from the Door Series, | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $1,680
21. 2007-05-19 | Ruth Thorne\-Thomsen \(American, b. 1943\) Two works of art: Untitled \(\#9\) from Expeditions Series, California, 1979; Toned gelatin silver print \(printed 1982\); Signed, dated and titled; 4 1/2" x 5 1/2" \(sheet\); Untitled \(\#3\) from Expeditions Series, | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $1,320
22. 2007-05-19 | Ruth Thorne\-Thomsen \(American, b. 1943\) Three works of art: Untitled \(\#13\) from Expeditions Series, Chicago, 1979; Toned gelatin silver print \(printed 1984\); Signed, dated and titled; 5 1/2" x 4 1/2" \(sheet\); Untitled \(\#16\) from Expeditions Series, | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $2,640
23. 2003-04-25 | RUTH THORNE\-THOMSEN | Phillips | $1,434

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