# Walter Beach Humphrey - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-01T11:49:25.506Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 22
- Lots with prices: 20
- First auction date: 2002-07-10
- Latest auction date: 2023-06-21
- Median realised price: $2,390
- Price range: $263 to $26,290

## Market Takeaway
Walter Beach Humphrey has 22 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $2,390. Category concentration is still broad. Recent 12-month volume is still light. 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 \($2,390\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($747 to $4,780\) 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: 30% (6 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 55% (11 sales)
- $10,000\+: 15% (3 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 0
- Previous 12 months sales: 0
- Recent 12 months median: $0
- Previous 12 months median: $0
- Median shift: N/A
- Latest sale date: 2023-06-21
- Days since latest sale: 1,045
- Market velocity: inactive

## Top Auction Houses
- Heritage Auctions: 8 lots
- Eldred's: 3 lots
- Estates Unlimited: 2 lots
- Bonhams: 1 lots
- Bourgeault\-Horan Antiquarians: 1 lots
- Christie's: 1 lots
- Cowan's Auctions: 1 lots
- Illustration House: 1 lots
- Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates: 1 lots
- Litchfield Auctions: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2023-06-21 | WALTER BEACH HUMPHREY \- THE GLANCE \- O/C | Litchfield Auctions | $500
2. 2021-11-11 | Walter Beach Humphrey \(American, 1892\-1966\) George Washington Pencil on paper la | Heritage Auctions | $1,000
3. 2020-06-26 | WALTER BEACH HUMPHREY \(AMERICAN, 1892\-1966\) HISTORICAL ILLUSTRATION | Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates | $263
4. 2018-10-27 | WALTER BEACH HUMPHREY \(AMERICAN 1892\-1966\).ON SANTA'S KNEE, "THE SWEETEST STORY EVER TOLD." | Bourgeault\-Horan Antiquarians | $4,000
5. 2015-09-12 | Walter Beach Humphrey \(American\) Oil on Canvas | Peachtree & Bennett | $5,000
6. 2012-01-28 | Walter Beach Humphrey | Estates Unlimited | $1,500
7. 2011-11-03 | Walter Beach Humphrey | Estates Unlimited | N/A
8. 2011-05-17 | Walter Beach Humphrey \(American, 1892\-1966\) Holly\-Hocks beware | Bonhams | £1,800
9. 2011-05-04 | WALTER BEACH HUMPHREY \(American, 1892\-1966\) Women's Pol | Heritage Auctions | $15,000
10. 2010-10-15 | WALTER BEACH HUMPHREY \(American, 1892\-1966\) Interwoven Socks ad illustration, c. 1920\-1925 Oil on canvas 29.5 x 23 in. Signed lower right This illustration appeared as an ad in the Saturday Evening Post, Ladies Home Journal, Country Gentleman, and | Heritage Auctions | $4,780
11. 2009-11-12 | WALTER BEACH HUMPHREY \(American, 1892\-1966\) White | Heritage Auctions | $597
12. 2009-10-27 | WALTER BEACH HUMPHREY \(American, 1892\-1966\) | Heritage Auctions | $15,535
13. 2009-07-15 | WALTER BEACH HUMPHREY \(American, 1892\-1966\) | Heritage Auctions | $26,290
14. 2008-06-21 | Walter Beach Humphrey \(American, 1892\-1966\)" Dog | Cowan's Auctions | $3,105
15. 2007-08-03 | WALTER BEACH HUMPHREY, American, 1892\-1966, "Entry of Triumph"., Watercolor on paper, 8" x 11". Framed. | Eldred's | $550
16. 2007-03-31 | WALTER BEACH HUMPHREY, American, 1892\-1966, "A New Spring"., Oil on paper, 8¾" x 11½" sight. Framed. | Eldred's | $862
17. 2007-03-31 | WALTER BEACH HUMPHREY, American, 1892\-1966, Washington and his troops., Oil on board, 9" x 12". Framed. | Eldred's | $747
18. 2005-12-03 | Decorative painting | Illustration House | $4,500
19. 2004-12-05 | Walter Beach Humphrey \(American, b. 1892\), 'The Wild West', c. 1930; oil/canvas, 34in. x 4in', signed. New Rochelle, NY painter and illustrator. He was a member of the New Rochelle Art Association \( exhibiting from 1922\-46\) and the Hudson Valley Art | Toomey & Co. Auctioneers | N/A
20. 2004-10-29 | WALTER BEACH HUMPHREY \(1892\-1966\) | Heritage Auctions | $2,390
21. 2004-10-29 | WALTER BEACH HUMPHREY \(1892\-1966\) | Heritage Auctions | $2,390
22. 2002-07-10 | Walter Beach Humphrey \(1892\-1966\) | Christie's | $5,019

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