# Thornton Walker - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-30T03:42:16.448Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 30
- Lots with prices: 19
- First auction date: 2009-11-22
- Latest auction date: 2025-10-19
- Median realised price: $2,200
- Price range: $120 to $7,200

## Market Takeaway
Thornton Walker has 30 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $2,200. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 5 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 \($2,200\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($1,100 to $5,040\) 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: 10.5% (2 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 89.5% (17 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 5
- Previous 12 months sales: 1
- Recent 12 months median: $2,200
- Previous 12 months median: $6,500
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-10-19
- Days since latest sale: 193
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Leonard Joel: 11 lots
- Gibson's: 4 lots
- Lawsons: 4 lots
- Colville Auctions: 3 lots
- Menzies: 3 lots
- Shapiro Auctioneers: 2 lots
- Bay East Auctions: 1 lots
- Leski Auctions Pty Ltd: 1 lots
- Mossgreen Auctions: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-10-19 | THORNTON WALKER \(BORN 1953\), Still Life 1989 | Gibson's | A$2,200
2. 2025-10-19 | THORNTON WALKER \(BORN 1953\), The Territory of Benevolence 1988 | Gibson's | A$1,200
3. 2025-10-19 | THORNTON WALKER \(BORN 1953\), The Territory of Benevolence Pervades the Whole Universe Then Just as it is 1988 | Gibson's | A$1,300
4. 2025-10-19 | THORNTON WALKER \(BORN 1953\), Green Doors 2009 | Gibson's | A$4,400
5. 2025-06-24 | THORNTON WALKER \(born 1953\) Three Chinese Bowls \(with Text\) 1996 oil on canvas 122 x 157.5cm | Leonard Joel | A$4,800
6. 2025-03-18 | THORNTON WALKER \(born 1953\) Two Patterned Bowls \(Blue Study\) 1996 oil on canvas 122 x 158cm | Leonard Joel | A$6,500
7. 2023-09-19 | THORNTON WALKER \(born 1953\) The Way In \- Study 2008 oil and collage on canvas 91.5 x 76cm | Leonard Joel | A$1,200
8. 2022-11-21 | Thornton Walker \(1953 \-\) Australia \- \(Bowl and Cherries\) | Colville Auctions | N/A
9. 2022-06-30 | THORNTON WALKER \(1953 \- \) Mango with Chinese Bowl watercolour and gouache on paper 44.5 x 43 cm \(frame: 70.5 x 69 x 4 cm\) signed low... | Lawsons | A$1,000
10. 2022-05-29 | THORNTON WALKER \(b.1953 \- \), Still Life with Lemons, oil on canvas, signed verso and dated '92\-'93, 102 x 91cm. Inscription with title verso on Rex Irwin label. | Leski Auctions Pty Ltd | A$7,000
11. 2021-06-07 | Thornton Walker \(1953\- \) Australia \- Cove, Freycinet | Colville Auctions | N/A
12. 2021-05-25 | Thornton Walker \(b. 1953\) | Shapiro Auctioneers | A$1,100
13. 2021-05-25 | Thornton Walker \(b. 1953\) | Shapiro Auctioneers | N/A
14. 2021-02-22 | Thornton Walker \(1953\-\) Australia \- Composition in Grey and White | Colville Auctions | N/A
15. 2020-06-11 | Thornton Walker \(1953 \- \) \- Doubts of One Kind and Another \(II\), 2007 92 x 107 cm \(total: 92 x 107 x 3 cm\) | Lawsons | N/A
16. 2014-12-18 | Thornton Walker \(1953 \- \) \- Cadaques, 1995 35 x 27cm | Lawsons | N/A
17. 2014-12-02 | THORNTON WALKER \(born 1953\) | Leonard Joel | A$550
18. 2014-06-17 | THORNTON WALKER \(born 1953\) | Leonard Joel | A$1,000
19. 2014-03-25 | THORNTON WALKER \(BORN 1953\) | Leonard Joel | N/A
20. 2013-12-03 | THORNTON WALKER \(BORN 1953\) Lake at Daylesford 1993 oil on linen | Leonard Joel | A$1,800
21. 2013-03-19 | THORNTON WALKER \(BORN 1953\) The Shadows, Selangor 1997 oil on canvas | Leonard Joel | N/A
22. 2012-10-23 | Thornton Walker \- The Homage II, 2008 | Mossgreen Auctions | N/A
23. 2012-09-23 | THORNTON WALKER \(BORN 1953\) Evening \(Selangor\) 1998 oil on canvas | Leonard Joel | A$2,400
24. 2012-09-23 | THORNTON WALKER \(BORN 1953\) The Shadows, Selangor 1997 oil on canvas | Leonard Joel | N/A

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