# Vanessa Bell - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-09T03:05:52.166Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 195
- Lots with prices: 162
- First auction date: 2001-09-06
- Latest auction date: 2025-12-10
- Median realised price: $8,009
- Price range: $220 to $256,250

## Market Takeaway
Vanessa Bell shows deep auction liquidity with 195 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $8,009. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 4 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-12-10.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($8,009\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $2,400 and $16,685.
- 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: 8% (13 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 44.4% (72 sales)
- $10,000\+: 47.5% (77 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 4
- Previous 12 months sales: 4
- Recent 12 months median: $6,500
- Previous 12 months median: $7,500
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-12-10
- Days since latest sale: 70
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Christie's: 90 lots
- Bonhams: 33 lots
- Sotheby's: 17 lots
- Gorringes: 12 lots
- Roseberys: 12 lots
- Dreweatts 1759: 3 lots
- Cheffins: 2 lots
- Galerie Moenius: 2 lots
- John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers: 2 lots
- Canterbury Auction Galleries: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-10-15 | Vanessa Bell — \[Virginia Woolf\] \| An exceptional encapsulation of the Bloomsbury Group | Sotheby's | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-vanessa-bell-virginia-woolf-an-exceptional-encapsulation-of-the-bloomsbury-group-17-c-5ec2e086aa
2. 2025-09-22 | VANESSA BELL \(British, 1879\-1961\) The School Room 1938 lithograph published by Contemporary Lithographs Ltd., London 46 x 60.5cm | Leonard Joel | A$6,500 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-vanessa-bell-british-1879-1961-the-school-room-1938-lithograph-published-by-contemporary-lithographs-ltd-london-46-x-60-5cm-152-c-b224485b50
3. 2025-12-10 | Vanessa Bell \(1879\-1961\), "Design for Hogarth Press 'The Foreigner in the Family'," 1929 | John Moran Auctioneers | $1,254
4. 2025-09-18 | Vanessa Bell \(1879\-1961\), Portrait of Duncan Grant, 1931. | Swann Auction Galleries | $25,400
5. 2024-09-10 | Vanessa Bell \(English, 1879\-1961\), 'Man in a hat', Café drawing Paris 1920's, pencil on paper, 18 x 17cm | Gorringes | £1,300
6. 2024-06-07 | Untitled | Sotheby's | £24,000
7. 2024-06-07 | Portrait of Vanessa Bell in Fancy Dress | Sotheby's | N/A
8. 2024-03-12 | Vanessa Bell,  British 1879\-1961 \-  Woman Asleep, study for Woodcut, c.191 | Roseberys | £7,500
9. 2023-12-08 | Vanessa Bell \(British 1879\-1961\), Odalisques, Oil, gouache, charcoal and graphite on paper, circa 1940, Sight size: 17 x 12\-1/2 in \(43.2 x 31.8 cm\) | Weschler's | $6,500 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-vanessa-bell-british-1879-1961-odalisques-oil-gouache-charcoal-and-graphite-on-paper-circa-1940-sight-size-17-x-12-1-2-in-43-2-x-31-8-cm-29-c-44f464dab7
10. 2023-11-29 | Vanessa Bell,  'A Society' for Virginia Woolf's 'Monday or Tuesday', 1921;  | Roseberys | £1,600
11. 2023-11-29 | Vanessa Bell,  Family Group, Frances and Nerissa Garnett, c.1957;  | Roseberys | £1,400
12. 2023-11-29 | Vanessa Bell,  Venice, c.1950;  | Roseberys | £3,600
13. 2023-11-29 | Vanessa Bell,  Henrietta Garnett, c.1950s;  | Roseberys | £3,400
14. 2023-11-29 | Vanessa Bell,  Bridge in Paris, c.1921;  | Roseberys | £3,400
15. 2023-11-22 | Vanessa Bell \(British, 1879\-1961\) The Turkish Box 61 x 73.5 cm. \(24 x 29 in.\) | Bonhams | £20,000
16. 2023-10-19 | VANESSA BELL \(1879\-1961\) Still Life with Fan oil on canvas 23 3⁄8 x 19 in. | Christie's | £47,880
17. 2023-09-20 | Vanessa Bell \(British, 1879\-1961\) Street in Asolo, Italy 66 x 52 cm. \(26 x 20 1/2 in.\) \(Painted in 1955\) | Bonhams | £14,000
18. 2023-09-20 | Vanessa Bell \(British, 1879\-1961\) Lime Quarry and Cement Works at Lewes 40 x 31.6 cm. \(15 3/4 x 12 1/2 in.\) \(Painted circa 1934\-36\) | Bonhams | £13,000
19. 2023-09-20 | Vanessa Bell \(British, 1879\-1961\) Near Alfriston 38.1 x 45.3 cm. \(15 x 17 3/4 in.\) \(Executed circa 1940\) | Bonhams | £14,000
20. 2023-07-12 | Vanessa Bell \(British, 1879\-1961\) Angelica \(Executed circa 1930\) | Bonhams | £2,200
21. 2023-07-12 | Vanessa Bell \(British, 1879\-1961\) Montepulciano \(Executed circa 1950\) | Bonhams | £1,800
22. 2023-07-12 | Vanessa Bell \(British, 1879\-1961\) Villa at Iseo | Bonhams | £2,500
23. 2023-05-18 | Vanessa Bell \(British, 1879\-1961\) Curtain Design for "High Yellow," 1932 | Hindman | $11,000
24. 2023-03-22 | VANESSA BELL \(1879\-1961\) Henrietta and Julian by the Garden Pool, Charlesto | Christie's | £20,160

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