# Tom Esplin - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-01T15:25:09.342Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 25
- Lots with prices: 22
- First auction date: 2010-04-28
- Latest auction date: 2025-08-26
- Median realised price: $3,500
- Price range: $750 to $7,000

## Market Takeaway
Tom Esplin has 25 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $3,500. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 1 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 \($2,520 to $4,750\) 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: 4.5% (1 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 95.5% (21 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 1
- Previous 12 months sales: 0
- Recent 12 months median: $750
- Previous 12 months median: $0
- Median shift: N/A
- Latest sale date: 2025-08-26
- Days since latest sale: 248
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- International Art Centre: 13 lots
- Leonard Joel: 8 lots
- Lawsons: 3 lots
- McKenzies Auctioneers: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-08-26 | Tom Esplin, New Zealand 1915\-2005, Costa Verde, Spain, oil on board, 25 x 47cm frame size 40 x 62cm | Lawsons | A$750
2. 2023-09-21 | TOM ESPLIN \(1915 \- 2005\) Village Harbour Scene oil on board 26 x 41 cm \(frame: 46 x 61 x 4 cm\) signed lower left; Fisher's Fine Arts... | Lawsons | N/A
3. 2021-05-18 | Thomas Esplin \(New Zealand\) 1915 \- 2005 | McKenzies Auctioneers | A$2,000
4. 2020-06-30 | TOM ESPLIN \(1915 \- 2005\), Near Perpignan, France | International Art Centre | NZ$4,750
5. 2020-06-30 | TOM ESPLIN \(1915 \- 2005\), Le Puy, France | International Art Centre | NZ$5,250
6. 2020-06-30 | TOM ESPLIN \(1915 \- 2005\), Fishing Village Cornwall | International Art Centre | NZ$3,500
7. 2020-06-30 | TOM ESPLIN \(1915 \- 2005\), The Hamlet\- Provence | International Art Centre | NZ$5,250
8. 2019-11-27 | TOM ESPLIN \(1915 \- 2005\) \- Covered Market, Dunster Somerset | International Art Centre | NZ$4,600
9. 2017-12-07 | Tom Esplin \(1915 \- 2005\) \- Hamlet in Britanny 27 x 39cm | Lawsons | A$2,000
10. 2013-07-31 | Tom Esplin 1915\-2005\-Vilnius Oil on board | International Art Centre | N/A
11. 2013-06-17 | TOM ESPLIN \(NEW ZEALANDER, 1915\-2005\) Village Street, Brittany oil on board | Leonard Joel | A$1,600
12. 2013-05-09 | Tom Esplin | International Art Centre | NZ$3,500
13. 2012-12-09 | TOM ESPLIN \(NEW ZEALANDER, 1915\-2005\) Market Day, Old Stockholm oil on board | Leonard Joel | A$2,459
14. 2012-08-29 | Art Work by Tom Esplin | International Art Centre | N/A
15. 2010-10-24 | Tom Esplin \(New Zealander, 1915\-2005\) Morning Gossip, Lasila, Italy oil on board | Leonard Joel | A$3,240
16. 2010-10-24 | Tom Esplin \(New Zealander, 1915\-2005\) Chioggia, Venice oil on board | Leonard Joel | A$2,520
17. 2010-10-24 | Tom Esplin \(New Zealander, 1915\-2005\) On the Danube oil on board | Leonard Joel | A$4,080
18. 2010-08-29 | Tom Esplin \(New Zealander, 1915\-2005\) Riga, Old Quarter oil on board | Leonard Joel | A$3,360
19. 2010-08-29 | Tom Esplin \(New Zealander, 1915\-2005\) Outskirts of St Etienne oil on board | Leonard Joel | A$4,320
20. 2010-08-29 | Tom Esplin \(New Zealander, 1915\-2005\) Cefalu Sicily oil on board | Leonard Joel | A$3,000
21. 2010-08-26 | Autumn, 1969; artwork by Tom Esplin | International Art Centre | NZ$4,750
22. 2010-07-28 | Artwork by: Tom Esplin "Verona" | International Art Centre | NZ$7,000
23. 2010-07-28 | Artwork by: Tom Esplin "Mont Saint\-Michel" | International Art Centre | NZ$3,200
24. 2010-07-28 | Artwork by: Tom Esplin "Normandy Village" | International Art Centre | NZ$4,600

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