# Violet Oakley - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-16T00:17:33.627Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 39
- Lots with prices: 32
- First auction date: 2000-12-10
- Latest auction date: 2025-12-09
- Median realised price: $2,800
- Price range: $200 to $25,000

## Market Takeaway
Violet Oakley has 39 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $2,800. 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 \($2,800\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($900 to $5,000\) 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: 25% (8 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 59.4% (19 sales)
- $10,000\+: 15.6% (5 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 4
- Previous 12 months sales: 1
- Recent 12 months median: $400
- Previous 12 months median: $200
- Median shift: 100%
- Latest sale date: 2025-12-09
- Days since latest sale: 156
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Freeman's: 16 lots
- Material Culture: 2 lots
- Addison & Sarova Auctioneers: 1 lots
- Bill Hood & Sons Arts & Antiques Auctions: 1 lots
- Briggs Auction, Inc.: 1 lots
- Brunk Auctions: 1 lots
- Cordier Auctions: 1 lots
- Freeman's \| Hindman: 1 lots
- Freeman’s: 1 lots
- Freeman’s \| Hindman: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-12-09 | Violet Oakley \(American, 1874\-1961\) Portrait of a Youth, Bust Length, 1959 | Freeman’s | $3,250
2. 2025-09-21 | Violet Oakley, Elizabeth Shippen Green, Henrietta Cozens Postcard Correspondence | Hoch LTD. | $320
3. 2025-06-24 | Violet Oakley \(American, 1874\-1961\) Episodes of St. John | Freeman’s \| Hindman | $4,000
4. 2025-05-28 | VIOLET OAKLEY SKETCH, CONDUCTING THE DELL ORCHESTRA. | William Smith Auctions | $400
5. 2024-04-29 | Violet Oakley \(American, 1874\-1961\) Fresco Panel | Material Culture | $500
6. 2024-04-29 | Violet Oakley \(American, 1874\-1961\) Fresco Panel | Material Culture | $2,100
7. 2023-06-06 | Violet Oakley \(American, 1874–1960\) Church of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice | Freeman's \| Hindman | $3,750
8. 2021-03-24 | Violet Oakley Oil Over Print Illustration Study | Willow Auction House | $17,000
9. 2019-07-09 | Violet Oakley \(American 1874\-1961\) Sketch of a Lady and Two Gentlemen, Pencil on Paper, Signed V. Oa | Bill Hood & Sons Arts & Antiques Auctions | $425
10. 2018-09-14 | Violet Oakley Oil on Canvas, Genre Scene | Briggs Auction, Inc. | $4,000
11. 2018-05-27 | Violet Oakley \(American, PA, NJ, 1874 \- 1961\) | Gratz Gallery | $3,000
12. 2017-03-20 | Violet Oakley \(American, 1874 \- 1961\) Mixed Media | Locati LLC | $2,200
13. 2017-02-11 | Violet Oakley \(American, 1874\-1961\) | Cordier Auctions | $5,000
14. 2017-01-25 | VIOLET OAKLEY \(1874\-1960\): PORTRAIT OF SARAH LOGAN | STAIR | $500
15. 2016-04-15 | Signed Violet Oakley Oil on Canvas of Sister in law Hester Caldwell Oakley | Mastrangelo Auctions | N/A
16. 2015-04-26 | Violet Oakley "Portrait Of A Gentleman" Pastel | Schwenke Auctioneers | $1,200
17. 2014-12-17 | VIOLET OAKLEY \(1874\-1961\). THE CHRISTMAS CENTURY / SUPERBLY ILLUSTRATED. 1902. 21x14 inches, 53x36 cm. American Colortype Co., N.Y. | Swann Auction Galleries | $292
18. 2013-09-20 | Violet Oakley \(American 1874\-1961\), View of the Acropolis | Weschler's | $2,800
19. 2013-05-18 | Violet Oakley \(American, 1874 \-1961\); Lake George, | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $4,062
20. 2009-10-27 | VIOLET OAKLEY \(American, 1874\-1961\) Lohengrin, | Heritage Auctions | $3,883 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-violet-oakley-american-1874-1961-lohengrin-96216-c-3ca0f7b556
21. 2008-06-20 | VIOLET OAKLEY \(AMERICAN 1864\-1961\) PORTRAIT | Freeman's | $2,100 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-violet-oakley-american-1864-1961-portrait-365-c-bcyer7uiof
22. 2008-05-03 | Violet Oakley painting \(N.A., Philadelphia, | Brunk Auctions | $11,000 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-violet-oakley-painting-n-a-philadelphia-439-c-gum1uqb5kr
23. 2007-11-18 | 1 portfolio | Freeman's | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-1-portfolio-2721-c-2dykv46n1t
24. 2004-10-01 | VIOLET OAKLEY \(American 1874\-1961\) VIOLINIST signed, watercolor 17 1/2 x 11 in. | Freeman's | $900 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-violet-oakley-american-1874-1961-violinist-signed-watercolor-17-1-2-x-11-in-16-c-iwutpf5em4

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