# Tess Jaray - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-01T23:15:15.090Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 50
- Lots with prices: 34
- First auction date: 2004-02-04
- Latest auction date: 2025-11-18
- Median realised price: $156
- Price range: $20 to $4,600

## Market Takeaway
Tess Jaray shows solid auction liquidity with 50 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $156. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 1 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-11-18.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($156\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $30 and $750.
- Auction totals can include buyer premiums or fees depending on reporting, so compare like\-for\-like when possible.
- Condition, size, medium, provenance, and attribution confidence can move value materially versus median comps.

## Price Bands
- Under $1,000: 79.4% (27 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 20.6% (7 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 1
- Previous 12 months sales: 14
- Recent 12 months median: $1,000
- Previous 12 months median: $30
- Median shift: 100%
- Latest sale date: 2025-11-18
- Days since latest sale: 92
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Lion and Unicorn: 13 lots
- Bonhams: 9 lots
- Lyon & Turnbull: 5 lots
- Dreweatts 1759: 3 lots
- Sotheby's: 3 lots
- Bellmans Auctioneers: 2 lots
- Forum Auctions \- UK: 2 lots
- Roseberys: 2 lots
- AAG Auctioneers: 1 lots
- Auktionshaus Rheine: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-11-18 | TESS JARAY | International Art Sale Italy | €1,000
2. 2025-02-04 | TESS JARAY \- SILKSCREEN | Auktionshaus Rheine | N/A
3. 2025-01-28 | Tess Jaray \(British 1937\-\) Etching From Encounter Suite \(2\), signed | Lion and Unicorn | $20 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-tess-jaray-british-1937-etching-from-encounter-suite-2-signed-170-c-c4b4abd834
4. 2025-01-28 | Tess Jaray \(British 1937\-\) Etching From Encounter Suite \(1\), signed | Lion and Unicorn | $20 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-tess-jaray-british-1937-etching-from-encounter-suite-1-signed-169-c-e79450fa3e
5. 2024-09-18 | Tess Jaray \(British 1937\-\) Etching From Encounter Suite \(2\), signed | Lion and Unicorn | $25
6. 2024-09-18 | Tess Jaray \(British 1937\-\) Etching From Encounter Suite \(1\), signed | Lion and Unicorn | $25
7. 2024-09-17 | Tess Jaray \(b. 1937\), 'Constructions', a set of nine screenprints of geometric shapes, each signed in pencil a | John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers | £750
8. 2024-09-13 | Tess Jaray \(British, B. 1937\) Etchings on Saunders Wove Paper, 1971, "Encounter Suite: Five Plates", H 23.25" W 31" | DuMouchelles | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-tess-jaray-british-b-1937-etchings-on-saunders-wove-paper-1971-encounter-suite-five-plates-h-23-25-w-31-1071-c-819439c874
9. 2024-08-04 | Tess Jaray \(British 1937\-\) Etching From Encounter Suite \(1\), signed | Lion and Unicorn | $25
10. 2024-06-30 | Tess Jaray \(British 1937\) Etching From Encounter Suite \(5\), Signed | Lion and Unicorn | $30 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-tess-jaray-british-1937-etching-from-encounter-suite-5-signed-170-c-dcf4676b3c
11. 2024-06-30 | Tess Jaray \(British 1937\) Etching From Encounter Suite \(4\), Signed | Lion and Unicorn | $30
12. 2024-06-30 | Tess Jaray \(British 1937\) Etching From Encounter Suite \(3\), Signed | Lion and Unicorn | $30
13. 2024-06-30 | Tess Jaray \(British 1937\) Etching From Encounter Suite \(2\), Signed | Lion and Unicorn | $30
14. 2024-06-30 | Tess Jaray \(British 1937\) Etching From Encounter Suite \(1\), Signed | Lion and Unicorn | $30
15. 2024-06-12 | TESS JARAY \(BRITISH B.1937\) | Olympia Auctions | £750
16. 2024-02-07 | Tess Jaray \(British, b. 1937\) and Tom Blackwell \(American, 1938\-2020\) | Material Culture | N/A
17. 2023-11-15 | Tess Jaray \(1937\-\) Etching From Encounter Suite \(2\) signed | Lion and Unicorn | $40
18. 2023-11-15 | Tess Jaray \(1937\-\) Etching From Encounter Suite \(1\) signed | Lion and Unicorn | $40
19. 2023-06-27 | Tess Jaray \(British, b.1937\) Signed Limited Edition Etching on Paper | Lion and Unicorn | $25
20. 2022-10-18 | Tess Jaray \(b. 1937\) Encounter Suite | Forum Auctions \- UK | N/A
21. 2020-07-23 | TESS JARAY \(B. 1937\) \- After Malevich 2 | Christie's | £1,250
22. 2020-07-21 | Tess Jaray \(b.1937\) Untitled | Forum Auctions \- UK | £120
23. 2019-06-24 | Tess Jaray \(Vienna 1937\) | AAG Auctioneers | €4,600
24. 2018-04-10 | TESS JARAY \(B.1937\) Khakhi \(April Suite\) signed and dated 'Tess Jaray 71' \(lower right\), numbered '19/70' \(lower left\) silkscreen with cut\-outs, unframed Image: 21 x 26 3/4 in. \(53.4 x 67 cm.\) Artist's Resale Right may apply on this lot. | Chiswick Auctions | £250

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