# Walter Chappell - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-01T08:27:04.084Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 32
- Lots with prices: 19
- First auction date: 2009-03-06
- Latest auction date: 2025-10-07
- Median realised price: $444
- Price range: $36 to $20,000

## Market Takeaway
Walter Chappell has 32 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $444. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 3 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 \($444\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($237 to $3,000\) 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: 63.2% (12 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 31.6% (6 sales)
- $10,000\+: 5.3% (1 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 3
- Previous 12 months sales: 2
- Recent 12 months median: $285
- Previous 12 months median: $100
- Median shift: 100%
- Latest sale date: 2025-10-07
- Days since latest sale: 205
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Skinner: 8 lots
- Sotheby's: 8 lots
- Bonhams: 3 lots
- John Moran Auctioneers: 3 lots
- Dreweatts 1759: 2 lots
- Austin Auction Gallery: 1 lots
- Crown Company Inc: 1 lots
- Heritage Auctions: 1 lots
- James Cox Gallery: 1 lots
- Keith Delellis Gallery LLC: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-10-07 | Walter Chappell \(1925\-2000\), "Sharon Tate, Big Sur," 1964 | John Moran Auctioneers | $285
2. 2025-09-18 | Walter Chappell, Kim with Skull | Santa Fe Art Auction | N/A
3. 2025-05-20 | Walter Chappell \(1925\-2000\), "Sharon Tate, Big Sur," 1964 | John Moran Auctioneers | N/A
4. 2024-11-19 | Walter Chappell \(1925\-2000\), "Sharon Tate, Big Sur," 1964 | John Moran Auctioneers | N/A
5. 2024-07-12 | WALTER CHAPPELL \(1925\-2000\) SIGNED HALFTONE PRINT, 'BRACKEN FERN' | Austin Auction Gallery | $100
6. 2023-04-06 | Walter Chappell \(1925\-2000\); Selected Images from the 'Metaflora' series; \(3\) | Bonhams | $3,000
7. 2021-12-12 | WALTER CHAPPELL \(1925 \- 2000\) | James Cox Gallery | $900
8. 2021-06-19 | Walter Chappell, Nude, c. 1960 | Keith Delellis Gallery LLC | N/A
9. 2018-09-20 | Walter Chappell \(1925\-2000\) Photograph, "Joan Baez" | Witherell's | $50
10. 2018-04-19 | WALTER CHAPPELL \(1925\-2000\) Metaflora Series: Queen Anne's Lace \#2, Occidental, CA. | Swann Auction Galleries | $2,750
11. 2017-12-13 | WALTER CHAPPELL \(AMERICAN, 1925\-2000\) FOUR PHOTOGRAPHS OF NUDES \(FOUR PHOTOGRAPH | Heritage Auctions | $440
12. 2015-11-19 | Walter Chappell \(1920\-2000\) \- Tree Shade, 1986 | Dreweatts 1759 | N/A
13. 2015-11-19 | Walter Chappell \(1920\-2000\) \- Plaza Blanco, 1960s | Dreweatts 1759 | N/A
14. 2015-04-26 | Walter Chappell \(1925\-2008\), Dixon NM, 1980's | Crown Company Inc | $110
15. 2012-05-08 | Walter Chappell \(American, 1925\-2000\) | Bonhams | N/A
16. 2011-05-20 | Walter Chappell \(American, 1925\-2000\) White Tree, Canyon de Chelly, 1967. Signed "WALTER CHAPPELL" in pencil \(on the mount\) l.r., ti... | Skinner | $830
17. 2011-01-28 | Walter Chappell \(American, 1925\-2000\) Confluence of Rio Embudo and Rio Grande, Embudo, NM, 1980. Signed "WALTER CHAPPELL" in pencil ... | Skinner | $326
18. 2011-01-28 | Walter Chappell \(American, 1925\-2000\) Expire \(sic\) Yucca, Big Sur, 1964, printed 1964. Signed and dated "WALTER CHAPPELL 1964" in pe... | Skinner | $444
19. 2010-09-24 | Walter Chappell \(American, 1925\-2000\) Seastone Garden, Salt Point, California, 1986. Signed "Walter Chappell" in pencil on the mount l. | Skinner | $237
20. 2010-09-24 | Walter Chappell \(American, 1925\-2000\) Wild Mountain Plaza Blano, New Mexico, 1983. Signed "Walter Chappell" in pencil on the mount l.r. | Skinner | N/A
21. 2010-09-24 | Walter Chappell \(American, 1925\-2000\) City of Rocks, New Mexico, 1981. Signed "Walter Chappell" in pencil on the mount l.r., titled and | Skinner | $237
22. 2010-06-22 | WALTER CHAPPELL | Sotheby's | N/A
23. 2010-06-22 | WALTER CHAPPELL | Sotheby's | N/A
24. 2010-06-22 | WALTER CHAPPELL | Sotheby's | $3,438

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