# Tom Lea - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-30T22:54:33.345Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 41
- Lots with prices: 32
- First auction date: 2004-06-18
- Latest auction date: 2025-11-01
- Median realised price: $1,600
- Price range: $25 to $38,837

## Market Takeaway
Tom Lea has 41 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $1,600. 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 \($1,600\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($418 to $5,625\) 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: 34.4% (11 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 50% (16 sales)
- $10,000\+: 15.6% (5 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 1
- Previous 12 months sales: 0
- Recent 12 months median: $14,000
- Previous 12 months median: $0
- Median shift: N/A
- Latest sale date: 2025-11-01
- Days since latest sale: 180
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Heritage Auctions: 9 lots
- PBA Galleries Auctions & Appraisers: 6 lots
- Simpson Galleries, LLC: 5 lots
- Vogt Galleries Texas: 3 lots
- Dallas Fine Art Auction: 2 lots
- Skinner: 2 lots
- Weschler's: 2 lots
- Austin Auction Gallery: 1 lots
- Bonhams: 1 lots
- Capsule Gallery Auction: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2024-04-13 | Tom Lea 'And There He Was' Durango Cowboy Print | EJ'S Auction & Appraisal | $25
2. 2024-02-02 | Tom Lea \(1907\-2001\) \- Drawing of a Matador Being Gored by a Bull | Mark Sublette Medicine Man Gallery & Auction | $1,000
3. 2023-11-11 | Tom Lea, Cattle Grazing | Vogt Galleries Texas | $650
4. 2023-11-11 | Tom Lea, Portrait of J. Frank Dobie | Vogt Galleries Texas | $1,600
5. 2022-12-15 | TOM LEA \(1907\-2001\) "Fighter pilots back from a tough six\-hour mission . . ." \(WW2 / SOLDIERS\) | Swann Auction Galleries | $8,750
6. 2022-05-21 | TOM LEA \(American/Texas 1907\-2001\) TWO SETS OF BOOKS, "The King Ranch," 1957, | Simpson Galleries, LLC | $300
7. 2022-05-21 | TOM LEA \(American/Texas 1907\-2001\) TWO BOOKS, "The King Ranch," 1967, | Simpson Galleries, LLC | $1,100
8. 2022-05-21 | TOM LEA \(American/Texas 1907\-2001\) TWO SETS OF BOOKS, "The King Ranch," 1957, | Simpson Galleries, LLC | $400
9. 2021-05-07 | Tom Lea \(American, 1907\-2001\) Night Rider Getaway, 1976 Charcoal and watercolor | Heritage Auctions | $30,000
10. 2020-08-26 | TOM LEA \- PORTFOLIO OF SIX PAINTINGS WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY J. FRANK DOBIE | Capsule Gallery Auction | $90
11. 2019-09-21 | TOM LEA \(American/Texas 1907\-2001\) SKETCH MATERIALS FOR "The Wonderful Country," CIRCA 1950, | Simpson Galleries, LLC | $2,250
12. 2017-10-21 | Tom Lea pastel | Rachel Davis Fine Arts | N/A
13. 2016-11-20 | TOM LEA \(1907\-2001\), SIGNED LITHO, ASHBEL SMITH | Austin Auction Gallery | $225
14. 2016-02-15 | Tom Lea \(American, 1907\-2001\) Woodblock Print | Locati LLC | $600
15. 2012-11-10 | TOM LEA \(American, 1907\-2001\) Cowboy and Girl Oil on ca | Heritage Auctions | $1,625
16. 2012-11-10 | TOM LEA \(American, 1907\-2001\) Bull Fight Oil on cardsto | Heritage Auctions | $2,000
17. 2012-11-10 | TOM LEA \(American, 1907\-2001\) Cowboy on Horseback Oil o | Heritage Auctions | $5,625
18. 2012-05-01 | Tom Lea \(American, 1907\-2001\) | Bonhams | N/A
19. 2012-01-28 | Tom Lea \(1907\-2001\), "Mural Panels for East Wall, | Dallas Fine Art Auction | $38,837
20. 2011-12-03 | Tom Lea \(American 1907\-2001\), U.S. Destroyer at Sea, pastel on paper, sight size: 17\-3/4 x 22\-3/4 in | Weschler's | $2,000
21. 2011-12-03 | Tom Lea \(American 1907\-2001\), U.S. Signal Light Crew at Sea, Dawn, pastel on paper, sight size: 14\-3/4 x 21\-1/2 in | Weschler's | $1,000
22. 2011-10-13 | Tom Lea \(American, 1907\-2001\) Downtown El Paso in the 1860s\- Corner El Paso and San Francisco Streets. Signed, dated, and numbered "... | Skinner | $71
23. 2011-01-29 | Tom Lea \(1907\-2001\), "Study for West Texas Mural, | Dallas Fine Art Auction | N/A
24. 2010-07-22 | \[ Books \] | PBA Galleries Auctions & Appraisers | $1,800

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