# Tom Purvis - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-01T01:40:00.048Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 106
- Lots with prices: 54
- First auction date: 2002-12-18
- Latest auction date: 2025-10-29
- Median realised price: $2,200
- Price range: $100 to $30,000

## Market Takeaway
Tom Purvis shows solid auction liquidity with 106 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $2,200. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 2 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-10-29.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($2,200\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $900 and $4,000.
- 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: 29.6% (16 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 66.7% (36 sales)
- $10,000\+: 3.7% (2 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 2
- Previous 12 months sales: 1
- Recent 12 months median: $4,000
- Previous 12 months median: $0
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-10-29
- Days since latest sale: 112
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Onslows: 49 lots
- Swann Auction Galleries: 25 lots
- Bonhams: 10 lots
- Christie's: 10 lots
- Poster Auctions International Inc: 3 lots
- WA Art Auctions: 3 lots
- Lyon & Turnbull: 2 lots
- Cheffins: 1 lots
- Claydon Auctioneers: 1 lots
- Mallams: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-10-29 | TOM PURVIS \(1888\-1959\) | Lyon & Turnbull | N/A
2. 2025-10-29 | TOM PURVIS \(1888\-1959\) | Lyon & Turnbull | £4,000
3. 2024-10-10 | TOM PURVIS \(1888\-1959\). MABLETHORPE & SUTTON \- ON \- SEA / THE CHILDREN'S PARADISE. Circa 1926. 40½x50½ inches, 103x128¼ cm. Dangerfiel | Swann Auction Galleries | N/A
4. 2023-11-12 | In a Raid. ca. 1941. | Poster Auctions International Inc | N/A
5. 2023-11-12 | Edwards’. | Poster Auctions International Inc | $5,000
6. 2023-11-09 | TOM PURVIS \(1888\-1959\). MABLETHORPE & SUTTON \- ON \- SEA / THE CHILDREN'S PARADISE. Circa 1926. 40½x50½ inches, 103x128¼ cm. Dangerfie | Swann Auction Galleries | N/A
7. 2022-11-10 | TOM PURVIS \(1888\-1959\). CRUDEN BAY. Circa 1925. 39x49½ inches, 99x125¾ cm. The Dangerfield Printing Co., London. | Swann Auction Galleries | N/A
8. 2022-11-10 | TOM PURVIS \(1888\-1959\). EAST COAST JOYS / TRAVEL BY L.N.E.R. Set of 6 posters. 1931. Each approximately 40x25 inches, 101½x63½ cm. Hay | Swann Auction Galleries | $30,000 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-tom-purvis-1888-1959-east-coast-joys-travel-by-l-n-e-r-set-of-6-posters-1931-each-approximately-40x25-inches-1011-2x631-2-cm-hay-66-c-f024e85b69
9. 2022-05-19 | TOM PURVIS \(1888\-1959\). AUSTIN REED LTD. Circa 1927. 59½x39¾ inches, 151x101 cm. | Swann Auction Galleries | $8,750
10. 2021-11-23 | TOM PURVIS \(1888\-1959\). ROBIN HOOD'S BAY / YORKSHIRE BY LNER. Circa 1936. 29¾x25 inches, 75½x63½ cm. Chorley & Pickersgill Ltd., Leed | Swann Auction Galleries | $3,900
11. 2021-05-30 | TOM PURVIS 1888\-1959 | WA Art Auctions | N/A
12. 2020-12-31 | Tom Purvis, XX, Pastel drawing on paper, A portrai… | Claydon Auctioneers | N/A
13. 2020-10-15 | Tom Purvis \(1888\-1959\). TRAVEL BY IMPERIAL AIRWAYS. 1934. | Swann Auction Galleries | $3,000
14. 2020-09-29 | TOM PURVIS | WA Art Auctions | N/A
15. 2020-06-17 | TOM PURVIS 1888\-1959 "Portrait of an Old Lady" sig… | WA Art Auctions | N/A
16. 2016-10-27 | TOM PURVIS \(1888\-1959\). FELIXSTOWE. 1932. 39x49 inches, 100x125 cm. S.C. Allen & Company Ltd., London. | Swann Auction Galleries | $6,000
17. 2016-10-27 | TOM PURVIS \(1888\-1959\). CLACTON ON SEA. 1930. 39x49 inches, 100x124 cm. Haycock Press, London. | Swann Auction Galleries | $5,250
18. 2015-08-05 | TOM PURVIS \(1888\-1959\). BIF / BRITISH INDUSTRIES FAIR. 1934. 20x15 inches, 50x37 cm. Jordison & Co. Ltd., London. | Swann Auction Galleries | $281
19. 2015-06-04 | Tom Purvis \(1888\-1959\) WHITLEY BAY lithograph in colours, c.193 | Christie's | £5,625
20. 2014-10-14 | TOM PURVIS \(1888\-1959\). CANADIAN PACIFIC / HAPPY CRUISES. 1937. 40x24 inches, 101x62 cm. S.C. Allen & Company Ltd., London. | Swann Auction Galleries | $4,940
21. 2014-10-14 | TOM PURVIS \(1888\-1959\). CANADIAN PACIFIC / HAPPY CRUISES. 1937. 40x25 inches, 101x63 cm. | Swann Auction Galleries | $3,250
22. 2014-10-14 | TOM PURVIS \(1888\-1959\). CANADA FOR HOLIDAYS / CANADIAN PACIFIC. 1937. 40x24 inches, 101x62 cm. S.C. Allen & Company Ltd., London. | Swann Auction Galleries | $3,750
23. 2014-10-14 | TOM PURVIS \(1888\-1959\). AUSTRALIA'S 150TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS. 1938. 39x24 inches, 101x63 cm. | Swann Auction Galleries | $2,080
24. 2014-08-06 | TOM PURVIS \(1888\-1959\). AUSTIN REED'S OF REGENT STREET. Circa 1930. 59x39 inches, 151x100 cm. | Swann Auction Galleries | $6,500

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