# Walter John Bayes - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-04T16:21:48.129Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 13
- Lots with prices: 9
- First auction date: 2001-11-02
- Latest auction date: 2025-03-26
- Median realised price: $600
- Price range: $75 to $3,750

## Market Takeaway
Walter John Bayes has 13 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $600. 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 \($600\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($400 to $1,920\) 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: 55.6% (5 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 44.4% (4 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 0
- Previous 12 months sales: 2
- Recent 12 months median: $0
- Previous 12 months median: $600
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-03-26
- Days since latest sale: 404
- Market velocity: inactive

## Top Auction Houses
- Christie's: 5 lots
- John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers: 4 lots
- Bonhams: 3 lots
- Leonard Joel: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-03-26 | Walter John Bayes \(British, 1869\-1956\) A Harbour Scene with Fisherfolk | Bonhams | £600
2. 2024-07-17 | Walter John Bayes \(British, 1869\-1956\) A Harbour Scene with Fisherfolk | Bonhams | N/A
3. 2023-07-12 | Walter John Bayes \(British, 1869\-1956\) Sunny Cove, Salcombe | Bonhams | £3,200
4. 2022-03-29 | WALTER JOHN BAYES \(British, 1869\-1956\) Moorland Landscape 1917 watercolour | Leonard Joel | A$500
5. 2021-09-30 | WALTER JOHN BAYES \(1869\-1956\) A view on a canal, Venice pencil and waterco | Christie's | £3,750
6. 2018-12-19 | Walter John Bayes \(1869\-1956\) British. "IL Sickert A Venezia", Figures in a Bar, Ink and Wash, Signed with Initials and Dated '30, and Inscribed on the reverse, 10" x 8.75". Provenance; The Gouple Gallery, Ltd. | John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers | £75
7. 2018-10-03 | Walter John Bayes \(1869\-1956\) British. "IL Sickert A Venezia", Figures in a Bar, Ink and Wash, Signed with Initials and Dated '30, and Inscribed on the reverse, 10" x 8.75". Provenance; The Gouple Gallery, Ltd. | John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers | £120
8. 2017-05-03 | Walter John Bayes \(1869\-1956\) British. 'The Leaning Tower of Pisa', Watercolour, Signed with Initials, 9.5" x 14". Provenance; Milne & Moller, London. | John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers | £400
9. 2014-05-28 | Walter John Bayes \(1869\-1956\) British. "Gypsy | John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers | N/A
10. 2005-08-25 | Walter John Bayes \(1869\-1956\) | Christie's | £1,920
11. 2005-03-03 | Walter John Bayes \(1869\-1956\) | Christie's | N/A
12. 2005-03-03 | Walter John Bayes \(1869\-1956\) | Christie's | £1,200
13. 2001-11-02 | Walter John Bayes \(1869\-1956\) | Christie's | N/A

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