# Shelby Lee Adams - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-29T14:36:10.815Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 26
- Lots with prices: 19
- First auction date: 2008-12-12
- Latest auction date: 2025-09-21
- Median realised price: $700
- Price range: $50 to $3,750

## Market Takeaway
Shelby Lee Adams has 26 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $700. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 7 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 \($700\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($500 to $1,000\) 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: 68.4% (13 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 31.6% (6 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 7
- Previous 12 months sales: 2
- Recent 12 months median: $650
- Previous 12 months median: $0
- Median shift: N/A
- Latest sale date: 2025-09-21
- Days since latest sale: 220
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Heritage Auctions: 6 lots
- Brunk Auctions: 4 lots
- Lempertz: 4 lots
- Bonhams: 2 lots
- PBA Galleries Auctions & Appraisers: 2 lots
- Rago Arts and Auction Center: 2 lots
- Aspire Auctions Fine Art & Antiques: 1 lots
- Griffin Museum of Photography: 1 lots
- Hoch LTD.: 1 lots
- Hughes Auctions: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-09-21 | Shelby Lee Adams, Appalachian Legacy, Signed Photography Book | Hoch LTD. | $50
2. 2025-06-10 | Shelby Lee Adams, Bert Sitting in Front of Bed | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $250
3. 2025-06-10 | Shelby Lee Adams, Sloan's porch | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $1,700
4. 2025-05-30 | Shelby Lee Adams, Erik with Spike the Rooster, 2001 | Lempertz | €650
5. 2025-05-30 | Shelby Lee Adams, Tyler and Sheba, 2001 | Lempertz | N/A
6. 2025-05-30 | Shelby Lee Adams, Children at Topmost, 1991 | Lempertz | €1,000
7. 2025-05-30 | Shelby Lee Adams, Paul with Mother and Bucket, 1985 | Lempertz | €700
8. 2024-11-21 | Shelby Lee Adams, Appalachian Portraits | PBA Galleries Auctions & Appraisers | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-shelby-lee-adams-appalachian-portraits-345-c-48546cca8b
9. 2024-05-16 | Shelby Lee Adams \(b. 1950\), LEDDIE WITH CHILDREN, 1990 | Waddington's | N/A
10. 2023-11-19 | Shelby Lee Adams \(b. 1950\) Signed Gelatin Silver Photograph Winter 81 | Hughes Auctions | $150
11. 2023-07-27 | Shelby Lee Adams photograph, Bert with Guitar | PBA Galleries Auctions & Appraisers | $400
12. 2023-05-19 | Shelby Lee Adams | Brunk Auctions | $600
13. 2023-05-19 | Shelby Lee Adams | Brunk Auctions | $500
14. 2022-10-14 | Shelby Lee Adams | Brunk Auctions | $1,000
15. 2022-10-14 | Shelby Lee Adams | Brunk Auctions | $3,750
16. 2022-08-23 | Shelby Lee Adams \(born 1950\); Kasie Dawn; | Bonhams | $650
17. 2022-08-23 | Shelby Lee Adams \(born 1950\); Leddie and Children; | Bonhams | $2,800
18. 2021-11-18 | Shelby Lee Adams \(American, b. 1950\), "Lee Hall, Retired Coal Miner" | New Orleans Auction Galleries | $750
19. 2020-11-15 | Shelby Lee Adams, "Vanessa" \[Photograph, Photography\] | Griffin Museum of Photography | $700
20. 2014-10-16 | SHELBY LEE ADAMS \(American, b. 1950\) Kasie Dawn, 2000 G | Heritage Auctions | N/A
21. 2013-09-21 | Shelby Lee Adams \(American, b. 1950\) | Aspire Auctions Fine Art & Antiques | $920
22. 2011-05-02 | SHELBY LEE ADAMS \(American, b. 1950\) Leddie and Childre | Heritage Auctions | $956
23. 2010-12-03 | SHELBY LEE ADAMS \(American, b. 1950\) Kelly and Armelda | Heritage Auctions | N/A
24. 2009-11-19 | \[ PHOTOGRAPH \] | Heritage Auctions | $1,792

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