# Tom Bostelle - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-04T09:00:43.754Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 150
- Lots with prices: 145
- First auction date: 2003-06-20
- Latest auction date: 2024-06-29
- Median realised price: $60
- Price range: $10 to $1,900

## Market Takeaway
Tom Bostelle shows deep auction liquidity with 150 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $60. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 0 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2024-06-29.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($60\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $30 and $150.
- 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: 98.6% (143 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 1.4% (2 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 0
- Previous 12 months sales: 2
- Recent 12 months median: $0
- Previous 12 months median: $40
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2024-06-29
- Days since latest sale: 599
- Market velocity: inactive

## Top Auction Houses
- William Bunch Auctions & Appraisals: 139 lots
- Rago Arts and Auction Center: 3 lots
- Freeman's: 2 lots
- Litchfield Auctions: 2 lots
- Pook & Pook Inc.: 2 lots
- Dovetail Auctions, LLC: 1 lots
- Sloans & Kenyon: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2024-06-29 | Tom Bostelle Oil | Dovetail Auctions, LLC | $75
2. 2024-05-20 | Tom Bostelle \(American 1921\-2005\), oil on portrait | Pook & Pook Inc. | $40
3. 2021-06-15 | Tom Bostelle \(American, 1921\-2005\) DE artist, large female nude painting, acrylic on plywood, signed "Bostelle 1967", 27\-1/4" x 17\-1... | William Bunch Auctions & Appraisals | $400
4. 2021-01-13 | Tom Bostelle \(American 1921\-2005\), oil on board | Pook & Pook Inc. | $760
5. 2019-10-15 | Tom Bostelle \(American, 1921\-2005\) PA artist, painting "Abstract Figures", mixed media on paper, signed "Bostelle '66", 13" x 19\-3/8.. | William Bunch Auctions & Appraisals | $140
6. 2018-10-30 | Tom Bostelle, 1921\-2005, American, PA, Sheet bronze cutout silhouette of a man in a hat, on square base, 71" h, 20" w, 23 1/2" sq ba... | William Bunch Auctions & Appraisals | $1,900
7. 2018-10-30 | Tom Bostelle, 1921\-2005, American, PA, watercolor, silhouette of a vase of flowers, dated 1974, 14\-1/2" x 10\-1/2", framed size 19" x... | William Bunch Auctions & Appraisals | $150
8. 2018-10-30 | Tom Bostelle, 1921\-2005, American, PA, watercolor, silhouette in red, signed and dated 1985, 7\-3/4" x 4\-3/4", framed size 16\-1/4 x 1... | William Bunch Auctions & Appraisals | $70
9. 2018-10-30 | Tom Bostelle, 1921\-2005, American, PA, watercolor, profile of woman leaning over with a dog, unsigned, 11\-1/2" x 8\-3/4", framed size... | William Bunch Auctions & Appraisals | $140
10. 2018-10-30 | Tom Bostelle, 1921\-2005, American, PA, watercolor on paper, "Part of the Joy of Talking is the Fond Hope that Someone is Listening",... | William Bunch Auctions & Appraisals | $130
11. 2018-10-30 | Tom Bostelle, 1921\-2005, American, PA, oil on panel, "Doe Run", 11" x 40", unframed | William Bunch Auctions & Appraisals | $200
12. 2018-10-30 | Tom Bostelle, 1921\-2005, American, PA, oil on lauan, Chester County landscape, 16" x 40", framed size 18\-1/2" x 42\-1/4", in a narrow... | William Bunch Auctions & Appraisals | $475
13. 2018-10-30 | Tom Bostelle, 1921\-2005, American, PA, oil and charcoal on board, "Blue Pool", dated 1972, 40" x 30", framed size 40\-1/2" x 30\-1/2" | William Bunch Auctions & Appraisals | $400
14. 2018-10-30 | Tom Bostelle, 1921\-2005, American, PA, ink wash, Chester County landscape, dated 1974, 13\-3/4" x 16", framed size 23" x 25", matted ... | William Bunch Auctions & Appraisals | $150
15. 2018-10-30 | Tom Bostelle, 1921\-2005, American, PA, ink and ink wash silhouette of a man carrying a woman, dated 1991, 10\-3/4" x 8\-1/4", framed s... | William Bunch Auctions & Appraisals | $90
16. 2018-10-30 | Tom Bostelle, 1921\-2005, American, PA, charcoal on paper, hilly landscape, sheet size 5\-3/4" x 11", framed size 11\-3/4" x 17", in a ... | William Bunch Auctions & Appraisals | $110
17. 2018-10-30 | Tom Bostelle, 1921\-2005, American, PA, acrylic on plywood, silhouettes with red hand, dated 1973, 44" x 54" | William Bunch Auctions & Appraisals | $475
18. 2018-10-30 | Tom Bostelle, 1921\-2005, American, PA, acrylic on luan, "Emery's Hill", dated 1987, 12" x 26", framed size 12\-1/2" x 26\-1/2" | William Bunch Auctions & Appraisals | $475
19. 2018-10-30 | Tom Bostelle, 1921\-2005, American, PA, acrylic on artists board, profile of man in green, 60" x 24", framed size 66" x 30" | William Bunch Auctions & Appraisals | $325
20. 2018-10-20 | Tom Bostelle,Am.,20th C.,Parade,M/M | Litchfield Auctions | $300
21. 2018-07-21 | Tom Bostelle,Am.,20th C.,Parade,M/M | Litchfield Auctions | N/A
22. 2017-06-24 | TOM BOSTELLE \(American, b. 1921\). A SILENT PLACE, signed and dated 1963 lower right. Oil on masonite. | Sloans & Kenyon | $160
23. 2016-08-30 | Tom Bostelle \(American, PA, 1925\-2005\), watercolor on paper, Seated Shadow Figure in Chair, signed an dated '72 lower right, 11" x 8.. | William Bunch Auctions & Appraisals | $20
24. 2016-08-30 | Tom Bostelle \(American, PA, 1925\-2005\), watercolor on paper, Standing Shadow Figure with Hat, signed and dated '78 lower left, 11" x.. | William Bunch Auctions & Appraisals | $20

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