# Sydney Harpley - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-01T12:13:53.488Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 22
- Lots with prices: 21
- First auction date: 2004-11-24
- Latest auction date: 2023-01-31
- Median realised price: $4,800
- Price range: $260 to $21,000

## Market Takeaway
Sydney Harpley has 22 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $4,800. Category concentration is still broad. Recent 12-month volume is still light. 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 \($4,800\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($1,300 to $7,800\) 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: 19% (4 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 61.9% (13 sales)
- $10,000\+: 19% (4 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 0
- Previous 12 months sales: 0
- Recent 12 months median: $0
- Previous 12 months median: $0
- Median shift: N/A
- Latest sale date: 2023-01-31
- Days since latest sale: 1,186
- Market velocity: inactive

## Top Auction Houses
- Tennants: 6 lots
- Christie's: 5 lots
- Elite Auctioneers, LLC: 2 lots
- Sworders: 2 lots
- Adam Partridge Auctioneers & Valuers: 1 lots
- Bellmans Auctioneers: 1 lots
- Bonhams: 1 lots
- Cheffins: 1 lots
- Chiswick Auctions: 1 lots
- Claydon Auctioneers: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2023-01-31 | SYDNEY HARPLEY \(UK 1927\-1992\) "JENNIFER" NUDE | Elite Auctioneers, LLC | $500
2. 2023-01-31 | SYDNEY HARPLEY \(UK 1927\-1992\) "GIRL ON A SWING" | Elite Auctioneers, LLC | $500
3. 2020-09-30 | Sydney Harpley \(1927\-1992\) \- Reclining Female Nude wearing a hat | Chiswick Auctions | £6,000
4. 2014-11-15 | Sydney Harpley \(1927 \- 1992\) | Claydon Auctioneers | £260
5. 2013-03-21 | Sydney Harpley \(1927\-1992\) | Christie's | N/A
6. 2012-07-14 | Sydney Harpley \(1927\-1992\): A Bronze Figure of a | Tennants | £1,300
7. 2011-08-05 | Sydney Harpley \(1927 \- 1992\) R.A. seated nude | Bellmans Auctioneers | £4,800
8. 2011-07-23 | Sydney Harpley \(1927\-1992\): A Bronze Study of a | Tennants | £3,000
9. 2011-06-28 | Sydney Harpley \(1927\-1992\) | Christie's | £15,000
10. 2010-10-13 | Sydney Harpley \(1927\-1992\) | Christie's | £5,250
11. 2010-07-15 | Sydney Harpley \(1927\-1992\) | Christie's | £2,250
12. 2010-03-24 | Sydney Harpley, RA., 1927\-1992, A bronze of a standing female, | Cheffins | £2,600
13. 2009-11-20 | Sydney Harpley \(1927\-1992\): Study of Josephine | Tennants | £21,000
14. 2009-11-20 | Sydney Harpley \(1927\-1992\): Nude Girl Swimming | Tennants | £8,000
15. 2009-11-20 | Sydney Harpley \(1927\-1992\): A Windswept Girl with | Tennants | £5,200
16. 2009-04-03 | Sydney Harpley \(1927\-1992\) Study of a Female Nude | Tennants | £420
17. 2009-03-12 | Sydney Harpley \(1927\-1992\); large limited edition | Adam Partridge Auctioneers & Valuers | £3,400
18. 2009-03-10 | Sydney Harpley \(1927 \- 1992\) Basia Asleep a bronze model, signed, number 1 of an edition of 6, | Bonhams | £1,104
19. 2008-05-13 | Sydney Harpley \(1927\-1992\) 'UMBRELLA GIRL' | Sworders | £15,000
20. 2008-05-13 | Sydney Harpley \(1927\-1992\) 'RECLINING GIRL' | Sworders | £18,000
21. 2006-03-01 | Sydney Harpley \(1927\-1992\) | Christie's | £7,200
22. 2004-11-24 | SYDNEY HARPLEY, R.A., 1927\-1992 NUDE READING 69 x 153cm.; 27.25 x 60 25in. incised with signature and number 6/6 on the underside bronze Note: Having left school aged 14 to work as an electrician's apprentice and then at an American air base, Harpley | Sotheby's | £7,800

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