# Tony DeLap - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-30T06:53:03.858Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 58
- Lots with prices: 49
- First auction date: 2002-11-21
- Latest auction date: 2025-12-12
- Median realised price: $1,534
- Price range: $50 to $45,000

## Market Takeaway
Tony DeLap has 58 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $1,534. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 7 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 \($1,534\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($350 to $3,660\) 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: 44.9% (22 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 40.8% (20 sales)
- $10,000\+: 14.3% (7 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 7
- Previous 12 months sales: 9
- Recent 12 months median: $650
- Previous 12 months median: $1,600
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-12-12
- Days since latest sale: 138
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Los Angeles Modern Auctions: 11 lots
- Bonhams: 9 lots
- Wright: 9 lots
- STAIR: 7 lots
- Rago Arts and Auction Center: 4 lots
- Abell Auction: 3 lots
- John Moran Auctioneers: 3 lots
- Heritage Auctions: 2 lots
- Hindman: 2 lots
- Sotheby's: 2 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2024-09-26 | Tony DeLap, Box | Los Angeles Modern Auctions | $9,000 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-tony-delap-box-100-c-ddc4fa393b
2. 2025-12-12 | Tony DeLap, American 1927\-2019, Enchanted Spirit | Abell Auction | $19,000
3. 2025-12-05 | Tony DeLap, Triple Trouble | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $100
4. 2025-12-05 | Tony DeLap, Florine, Child of the Air | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $100
5. 2025-12-05 | Tony DeLap, Modern Times | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $100
6. 2025-10-21 | Tony DeLap, Untitled | Los Angeles Modern Auctions | $2,200
7. 2025-09-18 | TONY DELAP \(1927\-2019\) Chuck\-a\-Luck, 2000 | Bonhams | $2,500
8. 2025-07-24 | Tony DeLap, 1927\-2019, Portrait of Queen Zozer II | Abell Auction | $650
9. 2025-02-25 | Tony DeLap, Untitled | Los Angeles Modern Auctions | $1,600
10. 2025-02-25 | Tony DeLap, Mysticana maquette | Los Angeles Modern Auctions | $3,000
11. 2024-11-20 | Tony DeLap, Still Life | Los Angeles Modern Auctions | N/A
12. 2024-11-19 | Tony DeLap \(1927\-2019\), "Slick Ace," 1982 | John Moran Auctioneers | $198
13. 2024-09-27 | Tony DeLap, Untitled | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $900
14. 2024-09-26 | Tony DeLap, California Trim | Los Angeles Modern Auctions | $8,000
15. 2024-06-20 | Tony DeLap, Tricks All Mediums Indulge In | Los Angeles Modern Auctions | $20,000
16. 2024-05-30 | Tony DeLap, Rising Card from Case | Wright | $1,100
17. 2024-04-24 | Tony DeLap, Box | Los Angeles Modern Auctions | $4,200
18. 2024-04-16 | Tony DeLap \(1927\-2019\), "Modern Times E\-75," 1967 | John Moran Auctioneers | $317
19. 2024-04-16 | Tony DeLap \(1927\-2019\), "Dekolta E\-35," 1968 | John Moran Auctioneers | $412
20. 2023-09-13 | TONY DELAP \(1927\-2019\) Now you see it...Now you don't, 1977 | Bonhams | N/A
21. 2023-06-21 | Tony DeLap, The Stately Ghost | Los Angeles Modern Auctions | $24,000
22. 2023-04-22 | Tony DeLap 13 Magic Tricks | Larsen Art Auction | $2,250
23. 2023-03-10 | Tony DeLap \(American 1927\-2019\), Triple Trouble: Two Works, Each a lacquered wood sculpture, 1956, Each: 12\-3/8 x 22 in \(31.4 x 55.9 cm\) | Weschler's | $3,000
24. 2022-11-06 | Tony DeLap \(1927\-2019\) Margery the Medium, 1980 | Santa Monica Auctions | $2,250

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