# Thomas Downing - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-30T06:31:21.425Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 87
- Lots with prices: 78
- First auction date: 2004-06-26
- Latest auction date: 2025-11-12
- Median realised price: $22,500
- Price range: $700 to $160,000

## Market Takeaway
Thomas Downing has 87 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $22,500. 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 \($22,500\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($8,500 to $40,000\) 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: 3.8% (3 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 25.6% (20 sales)
- $10,000\+: 70.5% (55 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 3
- Previous 12 months sales: 9
- Recent 12 months median: $800
- Previous 12 months median: $3,000
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-11-12
- Days since latest sale: 168
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Sotheby's: 20 lots
- Bonhams: 12 lots
- Weschler's: 10 lots
- New Orleans Auction Galleries: 9 lots
- Christie's: 7 lots
- Rago Arts and Auction Center: 6 lots
- Wright: 6 lots
- Art\-Torg: 3 lots
- Swann Auction Galleries: 3 lots
- Los Angeles Modern Auctions: 2 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-11-12 | Thomas Downing, Sonnet | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $20,000
2. 2025-06-11 | Thomas Downing, Untitled | Rago Arts and Auction Center | N/A
3. 2025-05-28 | Thomas Downing, Untitled | Wright | $800
4. 2025-04-10 | Thomas Downing, Untitled | Los Angeles Modern Auctions | N/A
5. 2024-12-11 | Thomas Downing, Eighth Apple | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $750
6. 2024-11-21 | THOMAS DOWNING \(1928\-1985\) Untitled 16 1/4 x 63 in \(41.1 x 159.8 cm\) \(Painted in 1972\) | Bonhams | $16,000
7. 2024-11-21 | THOMAS DOWNING \(1928\-1985\) Nineteen 35 1/2 x 20 3/4 in \(90 x 52.5 cm\) \(Executed in 1968\) | Bonhams | $8,500
8. 2024-11-20 | Thomas Downing, Untitled | Los Angeles Modern Auctions | $3,000
9. 2024-10-31 | Thomas Downing, Untitled | Wright | $2,800
10. 2024-07-16 | Valentine | Sotheby's | $36,000
11. 2024-05-16 | THOMAS DOWNING \(1928\-1985\) Untitled 1959 | Bonhams | N/A
12. 2024-04-30 | Thomas Downing \- Red\-1966 \- 2011 Serigraph 25.75" x 20" | DUMBO Auctions | N/A
13. 2024-03-04 | Position 2\-21\-75 | Sotheby's | $50,800
14. 2023-12-02 | THOMAS DOWNING \(American 1928\-1985\) A PAINTING, "Abstract with Circles," 1972 | Simpson Galleries, LLC | $14,000
15. 2023-05-18 | THOMAS DOWNING \(1928\-1985\) Number Sum 1971 | Bonhams | $25,000
16. 2023-02-17 | THOMAS DOWNING \(1928\-1985\) Untitled, circa 1967 | Bonhams | $30,000
17. 2022-12-01 | THOMAS DOWNING \(1928 \- 1995, AMERICAN\) Untitled, \(Abstraction, Paris\). | Swann Auction Galleries | $4,160
18. 2022-12-01 | THOMAS DOWNING \(1928 \- 1995, AMERICAN\) Fold Ten. | Swann Auction Galleries | $21,250
19. 2022-11-16 | THOMAS DOWNING \(1928\-1985\) Untitled 1962 | Bonhams | $25,000
20. 2022-11-16 | THOMAS DOWNING \(1928\-1985\) Grid Eleven Saranac 1971 | Bonhams | N/A
21. 2022-06-03 | Thomas DOWNING \(1928\-1985\) American | Art\-Torg | $36,000
22. 2022-05-26 | THOMAS DOWNING \(1928 \- 1995, AMERICAN\) Untitled. | Swann Auction Galleries | $9,100
23. 2022-05-19 | THOMAS DOWNING \(1928\-1985\) Run 1972 | Bonhams | $58,000
24. 2022-05-19 | THOMAS DOWNING \(1928\-1985\) Yellow Bend 1965 | Bonhams | $55,000

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