# Van Day Truex - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-16T07:41:10.328Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 26
- Lots with prices: 25
- First auction date: 2004-06-23
- Latest auction date: 2025-12-11
- Median realised price: $1,700
- Price range: $80 to $7,500

## Market Takeaway
Van Day Truex has 26 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $1,700. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 2 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 \($1,700\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($750 to $2,750\) 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: 28% (7 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 72% (18 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 2
- Previous 12 months sales: 1
- Recent 12 months median: $1,300
- Previous 12 months median: $2,800
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-12-11
- Days since latest sale: 150
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- STAIR: 4 lots
- Millea Bros Ltd: 3 lots
- Locati LLC: 2 lots
- Rago Arts and Auction Center: 2 lots
- Skinner: 2 lots
- Austin Auction Gallery: 1 lots
- Bonhams: 1 lots
- Christie's: 1 lots
- Clars Auctions: 1 lots
- Doyle New York: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-12-11 | Van Day Truex, watercolor on paper | Millea Bros Ltd | $1,300
2. 2025-11-20 | A set of four Tiffany & Co. silver\-gilt 'strawberry boxes' designed by Van Day Truex | Clars Auctions | $7,500 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-a-set-of-four-tiffany-co-silver-gilt-strawberry-boxes-designed-by-van-day-truex-3501a-c-a4e7bc9440
3. 2024-10-24 | Van Day Truex \(1904\-1979\) Singing Trees Ranch, Desert Hot Springs, California sight 11 3/8 x 14 in. \(28.9 x 35.6 cm\) | Bonhams | $2,800
4. 2023-12-17 | Van Day Truex \(American, 1904\-1979\) Watercolor | Locati LLC | $250
5. 2023-12-17 | Van Day Truex \(American, 1904\-1979\) Watercolor on Paper | Locati LLC | $750
6. 2023-06-20 | Van Day Truex \(1904\-1979\) Portrait of Clifton Webb Ink and wash on paper 23\-1/4 | Heritage Auctions | $1,500
7. 2023-05-18 | Van Day Truex, View of Venice | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $1,700
8. 2023-05-18 | Van Day Truex, Accademia Bridge Across the Grand Canal | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $1,700
9. 2022-10-18 | VAN DAY TRUEX \(1904\-1979\), LILLY, PEN AND WASH | Everard Auctions and Appraisals | $1,700
10. 2021-12-02 | Van Day Truex \(1904\-1979\): Cathedral | STAIR | $700
11. 2021-12-02 | Van Day Truex \(1904\-1979\): Boat | STAIR | $2,000
12. 2021-12-02 | Van Day Truex, ink and wash on paper | Millea Bros Ltd | $2,750
13. 2020-01-16 | Van Day Truex \(1904\-1979\) Painting | Witherell's | $4,000
14. 2019-08-24 | \(2\) VAN DAY TRUEX \(ATTRIB.\) ART DECO LOUNGE CHAIRS | Austin Auction Gallery | $80
15. 2018-11-24 | VAN DAY TRUEX \(1904\-1979, KANSAS, NYC, FRANCE\) | Marion Antique Auctions | $6,250
16. 2018-06-06 | Van Day Truex \(American, 1904\-1979\) Falcon watercolor and ink on paper 14 x 11 ½ in. \(35.6 x 29.2 cm.\) | Christie's | $6,875
17. 2016-09-24 | VAN DAY TRUEX \(1904\-1979\): ASTERS | STAIR | $2,400
18. 2016-05-28 | Van Day Truex, Drawing "Lake Palace Hotel Udaipur" | Eddie's Auction | $450
19. 2015-10-14 | Van Day Truex, "Large Vase of Roses", 1965, w/c | Litchfield Auctions | $1,900
20. 2014-10-10 | Van Day Truex \(1904\-1979\): Roman Ruins | STAIR | $2,800
21. 2014-06-28 | Van Day Truex \(Am 1904\-1979\) wash drawing "Late | Merrill's Auctioneers & Appraisers | $1,400
22. 2014-06-01 | VAN DAY TRUEX \(NY/FR, 1904\-1979\) \- "Brooke's Boulder, August Moon", ink drawing, signed & titled lr, dated Aug '74. In water gilt sti | Thomaston Place Auction Galleries | $2,300
23. 2011-10-15 | Van Day Truex \(American, 1904\-1979\) Four Architectural Views of Venice, Parma, and Mexico Signed "Truex" in pen or pencil l.r. or u.... | Skinner | $1,126
24. 2009-11-21 | Van Day Truex \(1904\-1979, American\), ink drawing | Millea Bros Ltd | N/A

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