# Virginia Banks - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-04T16:25:11.739Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 23
- Lots with prices: 23
- First auction date: 2010-03-15
- Latest auction date: 2025-12-11
- Median realised price: $325
- Price range: $20 to $2,100

## Market Takeaway
Virginia Banks has 23 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $325. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 1 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 \($325\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($70 to $1,000\) 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: 73.9% (17 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 26.1% (6 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 1
- Previous 12 months sales: 2
- Recent 12 months median: $700
- Previous 12 months median: $1,000
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-12-11
- Days since latest sale: 141
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Pacific Galleries: 12 lots
- MBA Seattle Auction LLC: 9 lots
- Grant Zahajko Auctions, LLC: 1 lots
- Sunset Auction: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2023-03-02 | Virginia Banks \(Washington, 1920\-1985\) Oil/Board | Grant Zahajko Auctions, LLC | $750 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-virginia-banks-washington-1920-1985-oil-board-17-c-ace40858f8
2. 2025-12-11 | Virginia Banks "Theatre Audience" 1950's Tempera on Paper | MBA Seattle Auction LLC | $700
3. 2025-04-24 | Virginia Banks ''Bird of Prey" 1978 Mixed Media | MBA Seattle Auction LLC | $1,000
4. 2024-07-18 | Virginia Banks ''Log Raft in the Canal'' 1950 Oil | MBA Seattle Auction LLC | $2,100
5. 2023-09-28 | Virginia Banks ''Bird in Nest \#1'' 1976 Watercolor | MBA Seattle Auction LLC | $1,000
6. 2022-12-15 | Virginia Banks ''Orchard Come Spring'' Oil on Burlap | MBA Seattle Auction LLC | $1,000
7. 2021-10-21 | Virginia Banks ''Fish and Net Floats'' 1949 Oil | MBA Seattle Auction LLC | $1,300
8. 2021-07-22 | Virginia Banks ''Swan Preening'' 1977 Mixed Media | MBA Seattle Auction LLC | $1,100
9. 2021-03-18 | Virginia Banks ''City Night'' 1950's Tempera | MBA Seattle Auction LLC | $950
10. 2019-09-19 | Virginia Banks \(1920\-1985 Washington\) Surrealist Landscape Oil on Canvas 20''x28'' Image. Dali\-esque 1950's surrealist composition with sickle and clock. Signed l.r. Original framing 26''x34''. Overall excellent condition. | MBA Seattle Auction LLC | $550
11. 2017-05-27 | Virginia Banks \(Seattle, 1920\- 1985\): Abstract Cubist painting on canvas attached on masonite panel 14.75" x 20" Signed V Banks | Sunset Auction | $240
12. 2015-01-06 | VIRGINIA BANKS \(1920\-1985, WA\) MIXED MEDIA GOUACHE ON PAPER \- Painting of various lizards, titled "Primeval Family | Pacific Galleries | $700
13. 2013-02-11 | VIRGINIA BANKS \(1920\-1985, WA\) ETCHING ON PAPER \- Unsigned attributed work; etching of two roosters against dark background | Pacific Galleries | $50
14. 2012-12-09 | VIRGINIA BANKS \(1920\-1985, WA\) ETCHING ON PAPER\- Attributed unsigned work of owl in flight | Pacific Galleries | $70
15. 2012-12-09 | VIRGINIA BANKS \(1920\-1985, WA\) ETCHING ON PAPER \- Attributed unsigned work of two roosters | Pacific Galleries | $35
16. 2012-11-04 | VIRGINIA BANKS \(1920\-1985, WA\) ETCHING ON PAPER \- Unsigned attributed portrait of woman with barrette. Condition good. Mid 20th centu.. | Pacific Galleries | $20
17. 2012-11-04 | VIRGINIA BANKS \(1920\-1985, WA\) ETCHING ON PAPER \- Unsigned work, attributed. Shows roosters against dark background. Condition good.... | Pacific Galleries | $60
18. 2012-04-09 | VIRGINIA BANKS \(1920\-1985, WA\) MIXED MEDIA COLLAGE ON PAPER \- Pencil signed, titled on reverse, "Fruit Lying in Trampled Grass. Tact... | Pacific Galleries | $275
19. 2012-03-11 | VIRGINIA BANKS \(1920\-1985, WA\) ETCHING ON PAPER \- Unsigned and un\-numbered | Pacific Galleries | $100
20. 2012-02-12 | VIRGINIA BANKS \(1920\-1985, WA\) ATTRIBUTED\- UNSIGNED \- Depicting two chickens on dark background. Unsigned and unnumbered. Condition.... | Pacific Galleries | $150
21. 2011-02-13 | VIRGINIA BANKS \(1920\-1985, Washington\) OIL ON CANVAS \- Signed abstract in yellows and greens \- Condition good \- Dated 1958 \- 39" x 5... | Pacific Galleries | $325
22. 2010-03-15 | VIRGINIA BANKS ETCHING | Pacific Galleries | $45
23. 2010-03-15 | VIRGINIA BANKS ETCHING | Pacific Galleries | $275

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