# Sidney Beck - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-02T01:24:04.151Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 39
- Lots with prices: 16
- First auction date: 2011-10-25
- Latest auction date: 2026-01-30
- Median realised price: $750
- Price range: $45 to $34,104

## Market Takeaway
Sidney Beck has 39 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $750. 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 \($750\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($550 to $1,500\) 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: 50% (8 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 37.5% (6 sales)
- $10,000\+: 12.5% (2 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 3
- Previous 12 months sales: 4
- Recent 12 months median: $600
- Previous 12 months median: $550
- Median shift: 9.1%
- Latest sale date: 2026-01-30
- Days since latest sale: 91
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- 5th Avenue Auctioneers: 14 lots
- Aspire Art: 7 lots
- Strauss & Co: 4 lots
- Dawsons Auctioneers: 3 lots
- Theodore Bruce Auctioneers & Valuers: 3 lots
- Aalders Auctions: 2 lots
- Black Art Auction: 2 lots
- Amelia Jeffers: 1 lots
- Bonhams: 1 lots
- Gorringes: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2024-12-14 | Sidney Beck, South African b. 1936, Penny Whistler | Black Art Auction | $750 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-sidney-beck-south-african-b-1936-penny-whistler-30-c-0b042b2870
2. 2026-01-30 | SIDNEY BECK \(SOUTH AFRICAN, B. 1936\) "PENNY WHISTLER" PAINTED BRONZE STATUE. | Amelia Jeffers | $600 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-sidney-beck-south-african-b-1936-penny-whistler-painted-bronze-statue-602-c-f8af7de0c3
3. 2025-06-01 | Sidney Beck \(SA, born 1936\) Charcoal, Interior Bar Scene, Signed & Dated '71, 50 x 60 | 5th Avenue Auctioneers | N/A
4. 2025-05-18 | Sidney Beck \(SA, born 1936\) Charcoal, Interior Bar Scene, Signed & Dated '71, 50 x 60 | 5th Avenue Auctioneers | N/A
5. 2025-03-05 | Sidney Beck \(SA, born 1936\) Charcoal, Interior Bar Scene, Signed & Dated '71, 50 x 60 | 5th Avenue Auctioneers | N/A
6. 2025-02-23 | Sidney Beck \(SA, born 1936\) Charcoal, Interior Bar Scene, Signed & Dated '71, 50 x 60 | 5th Avenue Auctioneers | N/A
7. 2024-12-14 | Sidney Beck, South African b. 1936, Christening | Black Art Auction | $550
8. 2023-11-06 | Sidney Beck \(SA, born 1936\) Charcoal, Interior Bar Scene, Signed & Dated '71, 50 x 60 | 5th Avenue Auctioneers | ZAR 1,400
9. 2023-10-26 | Sidney Beck \(b. 1936\) South African, seated ballerina adjusting her hair, signed and numbered 2/3, bronze, 28cm high | Dawsons Auctioneers | £180
10. 2023-09-28 | Sidney Beck \(b. 1936\) South African, seated ballerina adjusting her hair, signed and numbered 2/3, bronze, 28cm high | Dawsons Auctioneers | £200
11. 2023-08-31 | Sidney Beck \(b. 1936\) South African, seated ballerina adjusting her hair, signed and numbered 2/3, bronze, 28cm high | Dawsons Auctioneers | N/A
12. 2023-07-23 | Sidney Beck \(SA, born 1936\) Charcoal, Figures on a Bench, Signed & Dated '70, 45 x 74 | 5th Avenue Auctioneers | ZAR 1,400
13. 2023-06-27 | Sidney Beck \(SA, b.1936\). A limited edition bronze figure of a ballerina tying her shoe, 17cm wide, 36cm high | Gorringes | £750
14. 2022-12-04 | Sidney Beck \(SA, born 1936\) Charcoal, Seated Figure, Signed, 60 x 45 | 5th Avenue Auctioneers | N/A
15. 2022-09-04 | Sidney Beck \(SA, born 1936\) Charcoal, Penny Whistler, Signed, 72 x 52 | 5th Avenue Auctioneers | ZAR 1,400
16. 2021-02-21 | Sidney Beck \(SA, born 1936\) Charcoal, Penny Whistler, Signed, 72 x 52 | 5th Avenue Auctioneers | N/A
17. 2021-02-21 | Sidney Beck \(SA, born 1936\) Charcoal, Bar Scene, Signed & Dated '71, 50 x 60 | 5th Avenue Auctioneers | ZAR 1,700
18. 2020-02-09 | Sidney Beck \(South African, born 1936\), | Aalders Auctions | N/A
19. 2019-12-15 | Sidney Beck \(South African, born 1936\), | Aalders Auctions | N/A
20. 2019-09-01 | Sidney Beck \(SA, born 1936\) Charcoal, Busker, Signed, 84 x 50 | 5th Avenue Auctioneers | N/A
21. 2019-07-15 | Sidney Beck \- Old Man | Strauss & Co | N/A
22. 2018-09-02 | Sidney Beck \(SA, born 1936\) Charcoal, Busker, Signed, 84 x 50 | 5th Avenue Auctioneers | N/A
23. 2018-06-17 | Sidney Beck, Penny whistler | Aspire Art | N/A
24. 2017-11-13 | Sidney Beck \- Little Papa | Strauss & Co | N/A

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