# Vincent DaCosta Smith - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-04T20:20:14.723Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 9
- Lots with prices: 5
- First auction date: 2016-06-25
- Latest auction date: 2025-12-13
- Median realised price: $700
- Price range: $450 to $1,500

## Market Takeaway
Vincent DaCosta Smith has 9 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $700. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 4 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 \($700\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($500 to $750\) 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: 80% (4 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 20% (1 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 4
- Previous 12 months sales: 0
- Recent 12 months median: $700
- Previous 12 months median: $0
- Median shift: N/A
- Latest sale date: 2025-12-13
- Days since latest sale: 142
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Black Art Auction: 6 lots
- Ahlers & Ogletree Inc.: 2 lots
- Nye & Company: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-12-13 | Vincent Dacosta Smith, 1929\-2003, Untitled | Black Art Auction | $500
2. 2025-06-14 | Vincent DaCosta Smith, 1929\-2003, lot of 3 lithographs | Black Art Auction | $700
3. 2025-06-14 | Vincent DaCosta Smith, 1929\-2003, A Moment Supreme | Black Art Auction | $1,500
4. 2025-06-12 | Vincent DaCosta Smith, American 1929\-2004, Sharecroppers, Oil on Canvas | Nye & Company | $750
5. 2023-12-02 | Vincent DaCosta Smith, 1919\-2004, First Day of School | Black Art Auction | N/A
6. 2023-12-02 | Vincent DaCosta Smith, 1919\-2004, Dispossess | Black Art Auction | N/A
7. 2023-12-02 | Vincent DaCosta Smith, 1919\-2004, Amnesty | Black Art Auction | N/A
8. 2016-06-25 | Vincent DaCosta Smith, "Benin Ancestral Shrine" | Ahlers & Ogletree Inc. | N/A
9. 2016-06-25 | Vincent DaCosta Smith, "Somali Women", Etching | Ahlers & Ogletree Inc. | $450

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## JSON Source
https://appraisily.com/api/scraper-search/artists/vincent-dacosta-smith/seo-profile