# Timothy O'Sullivan - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-15T23:28:54.689Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 33
- Lots with prices: 24
- First auction date: 2001-10-03
- Latest auction date: 2026-04-10
- Median realised price: $3,500
- Price range: $100 to $372,500

## Market Takeaway
Timothy O'Sullivan has 33 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $3,500. 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 \($3,500\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($1,375 to $18,750\) 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: 16.7% (4 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 50% (12 sales)
- $10,000\+: 33.3% (8 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 5
- Previous 12 months sales: 3
- Recent 12 months median: $1,600
- Previous 12 months median: $4,750
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2026-04-10
- Days since latest sale: 34
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Swann Auction Galleries: 9 lots
- Sotheby's: 8 lots
- Christie's: 4 lots
- Freeman’s: 4 lots
- Nadeau's Auction Gallery: 3 lots
- Andrew Smith Gallery Photography Auctions, LLC: 1 lots
- Keith Delellis Gallery LLC: 1 lots
- Leonard Joel: 1 lots
- PBA Galleries Auctions & Appraisers: 1 lots
- Toomey & Co. Auctioneers: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-10-09 | TIMOTHY O'SULLIVAN \(1840\-1882\). Apache Lake, Sierra Blanca Range, Arizona, | Christie's | N/A
2. 2025-05-08 | TIMOTHY O'SULLIVAN \(1840\-1882\) Cañon of the Colorado River, near Mouth of San Juan River, Arizona. 1873. | Swann Auction Galleries | $4,750
3. 2025-02-13 | TIMOTHY O'SULLIVAN \(1840\-1882\) Black Cañon, Colorado River, Looking Above from Camp 7. 1871. | Swann Auction Galleries | N/A
4. 2024-12-17 | TIMOTHY O'SULLIVAN \(1840\-1882\) Aboriginal Life Among the Navajo Indians, New Mexico. 1873. | Swann Auction Galleries | N/A
5. 2023-04-27 | TIMOTHY O'SULLIVAN \(1840\-1882\) Cereus Giganteus, Arizona. | Swann Auction Galleries | $1,250
6. 2023-02-25 | Timothy O'Sullivan \(American, 1840 \- 1882\), print, ;First Pennsylvania Light Artillery Ready for Action Before Petersburg, July 21, .. | Nadeau's Auction Gallery | $100
7. 2023-02-25 | Timothy O'Sullivan \(American, 1840 \- 1882\), print, 'General Staff of the Union Army, Bethesda Church \(June 1864\)', paper size 14 1/2 | Nadeau's Auction Gallery | $225
8. 2023-02-23 | TIMOTHY O'SULLIVAN \(1840\-1882\) "Lost" Lakes, Near Meigs Peak, Col. Lakes 9,500 feet above sea\-level \* Cooley's Park, Sierra Blanca Rang | Swann Auction Galleries | $1,375
9. 2023-02-23 | TIMOTHY O'SULLIVAN \(1840\-1882\) Black Cañon, Colorado River, From Camp 8, Looking Above. | Swann Auction Galleries | $18,750
10. 2023-01-01 | Timothy O'Sullivan \(18490 \- 1882\)South Side of Inscription Rock, New Mexicoalbumen print, photographmounted to a two\-toned wheele.. | Nadeau's Auction Gallery | $1,900
11. 2022-10-20 | TIMOTHY O'SULLIVAN \(1840\-1882\) Group of 6 Geological Survey photographs. | Swann Auction Galleries | $17,500
12. 2022-07-28 | Timothy O'Sullivan photo from Wheeler Expedition | PBA Galleries Auctions & Appraisers | $6,000
13. 2021-02-27 | Timothy O'Sullivan, Incidents of the Civil War, c. 1864 | Keith Delellis Gallery LLC | N/A
14. 2020-09-30 | TIMOTHY 0 | Andrew Smith Gallery Photography Auctions, LLC | N/A
15. 2018-10-04 | TIMOTHY O'SULLIVAN \(1844–1882\) \- Ancient Ruins in the Cañon de Chelle, New Mexico, 1873 | Christie's | $68,750
16. 2017-10-19 | TIMOTHY O'SULLIVAN \(1840\-1882\) & WM. H. JACKSON \(1843\-1942\) North Fork Cañon, Sierra Blanca Creek, Arizona \* The Loop Above Georgetown | Swann Auction Galleries | N/A
17. 2017-04-05 | TIMOTHY O'SULLIVAN \(1840\-1882\) AND WILLIAM BELL \(1830\-1910\) \| 'Photographs Showing Landscapes, Geological and Other Features, of Portions of the Western Territory of the United States, Obtained in Connection with Geographical and Geological Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian \(Seasons of 1871, 1872 and 1873\)' | Sotheby's | $372,500
18. 2014-12-11 | Timothy O'Sullivan | Sotheby's | $35,000
19. 2014-06-01 | Timothy O'Sullivan \(American, 1840\-1882\) Black Canon, Colorado River, Looking Above From Camp 7, | Toomey & Co. Auctioneers | $2,684
20. 2013-12-15 | TIMOTHY O'SULLIVAN \(IRISH, 1840\-1882\) North Fork Canon, Sierra Blanca Creek, Arizona, circa 1880 albumen print | Leonard Joel | N/A
21. 2012-04-03 | TIMOTHY  O'SULLIVAN | Sotheby's | N/A
22. 2011-04-06 | TIMOTHY O'SULLIVAN | Sotheby's | $134,500
23. 2011-04-06 | TIMOTHY O'SULLIVAN | Sotheby's | $23,750
24. 2008-04-07 | Timothy O'Sullivan , 1840\-1882 'ancient ruins in the cañon de chelle, n. m.' | Sotheby's | $91,000

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