# Seymour Franks - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-07-26T03:06:19.940Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 12
- Lots with prices: 9
- First auction date: 2001-06-10
- Latest auction date: 2025-09-25
- Median realised price: $250
- Price range: $110 to $3,048

## Market Takeaway
Seymour Franks has 12 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $250. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 3 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 \($250\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($200 to $550\) 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: 88.9% (8 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 11.1% (1 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 3
- Previous 12 months sales: 4
- Recent 12 months median: $190
- Previous 12 months median: $300
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-09-25
- Days since latest sale: 303
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Westport Auction: 6 lots
- Austin Auction Gallery: 1 lots
- Capsule Gallery Auction: 1 lots
- Swann Auction Galleries: 1 lots
- Toomey & Co. Auctioneers: 1 lots
- Uniques & Antiques: 1 lots
- Wright: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-09-25 | Seymour Franks, Christopher Street Docks, watercolor on paper, 1945. | Swann Auction Galleries | $3,048 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-seymour-franks-christopher-street-docks-watercolor-on-paper-1945-100-c-c52420b963
2. 2025-09-16 | SEYMOUR FRANKS \(1916\-1981\) ABSTRACT O/C | Westport Auction | $110
3. 2025-09-11 | SEYMOUR FRANKS \(1916\-1981\) ABSTRACT O/C 1945 | Westport Auction | $190 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-seymour-franks-1916-1981-abstract-o-c-1945-16-c-c1d47569b0
4. 2025-07-22 | SEYMOUR FRANKS \(1916\-1981\) ABSTRACT O/C | Westport Auction | N/A
5. 2025-06-20 | SEYMOUR FRANKS \(1916\-1981\) ABSTRACT MIXED MEDIA | Westport Auction | $250
6. 2025-06-20 | SEYMOUR FRANKS \(1916\-1981\) ABSTRACT O/C | Westport Auction | $550
7. 2025-06-20 | SEYMOUR FRANKS \(1916\-1981\) ABSTRACT O/C | Westport Auction | $300
8. 2023-12-07 | SEYMOUR FRANKS \- THE MARKER | Capsule Gallery Auction | $200
9. 2019-01-20 | SEYMOUR FRANKS \(1916\-1981\) ABSTRACT OIL PAINTING | Austin Auction Gallery | $200
10. 2018-12-18 | SEYMOUR FRANKS \(1916 \-1981\) MODERNIST PAINTING. A | Uniques & Antiques | $750
11. 2011-03-06 | Seymour Franks \(American, 1916\-1981\)"Impulsive Form," | Toomey & Co. Auctioneers | N/A
12. 2001-06-10 | Seymour Franks | Wright | N/A

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