# Will Sparks - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-04T23:13:19.544Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 80
- Lots with prices: 57
- First auction date: 2002-11-20
- Latest auction date: 2025-12-07
- Median realised price: $3,660
- Price range: $225 to $25,620

## Market Takeaway
Will Sparks shows solid auction liquidity with 80 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $3,660. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 3 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-12-07.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($3,660\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $1,800 and $6,000.
- Auction totals can include buyer premiums or fees depending on reporting, so compare like\-for\-like when possible.
- Condition, size, medium, provenance, and attribution confidence can move value materially versus median comps.

## Price Bands
- Under $1,000: 12.3% (7 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 73.7% (42 sales)
- $10,000\+: 14% (8 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 3
- Previous 12 months sales: 8
- Recent 12 months median: $4,127
- Previous 12 months median: $1,000
- Median shift: 100%
- Latest sale date: 2025-12-07
- Days since latest sale: 73
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Bonhams: 28 lots
- John Moran Auctioneers: 14 lots
- California Historical Design, Inc: 5 lots
- Christie's: 4 lots
- Nadeau's Auction Gallery: 3 lots
- Abell Auction: 2 lots
- Butterscotch Auction Gallery LLC: 2 lots
- Fine Estate Inc.: 2 lots
- Heritage Auctions: 2 lots
- Waddington's: 2 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-12-07 | WILL SPARKS \(American, 1862\-1937\) | Butterscotch Auction Gallery LLC | $1,200
2. 2025-11-18 | Will Sparks \(1862\-1937\), "Late Afternoon in New Mexico" | John Moran Auctioneers | $4,127
3. 2025-04-16 | Will Sparks \(1862\-1937\) Moonlit Adobe \(Arizona\) 20 x 28 in. framed 25 1/2 x 33 1/2 in. \(Painted 25 August 1927.\) | Bonhams | $6,000
4. 2025-01-19 | Will Sparks \(1862\-1937\) American, Sailboats \- San Francisco Bay Oil on Canvas | Sarasota Estate Auction | $400
5. 2025-01-01 | Will Sparks \(American 1862\-1937\), Arizona Night Scene, Stucco Fort, Oil on board, Signed lower right Will Sparks, 4 1/2" x 5 3/4", Provenance: Maxwell Galleries Fine Paintings, San Francisco, CA, One Hundred Years of ... | Nadeau's Auction Gallery | $700
6. 2025-01-01 | Will Sparks \(American 1862\-1937\), "Man in the Forest", Oil on board, Signed lower right Will Sparks, 8 3/4" x 7", Provenance: Maxwell Galleries Fine Paintings, San Francisco, CA, One Hundred Years of California Painti... | Nadeau's Auction Gallery | $800
7. 2024-09-22 | Will Sparks \(American 1862\-1937\) | Fine Estate Inc. | $2,500
8. 2024-08-06 | Will Sparks \(1862\-1937\) San Francisco Ruins from Van Ness Avenue and California Street 12 x 18 in. framed 17 x 23 in. | Bonhams | $10,000
9. 2024-05-26 | Will Sparks \(American 1862\-1937\) | Fine Estate Inc. | $2,500
10. 2024-05-25 | AMERICAN COUNTRY HOUSE PAINTING BY WILL SPARKS | Antique Arena Inc | $1,000
11. 2024-05-07 | Will Sparks \(1862\-1937\), "Borromeo Mission," 1913 | John Moran Auctioneers | $4,127
12. 2023-12-09 | Will Sparks \(1862\-1937\) Nocturnal Harbor c1880s | California Historical Design, Inc | $2,500
13. 2023-02-07 | Will Sparks \(1862\-1937\) Coastal Harbor 9 1/8 x 13 in. framed 13 x 17 in. | Bonhams | $750
14. 2022-07-12 | WILL SPARKS OIL ON PANEL | O'Gallerie | $1,600
15. 2022-06-18 | Will Sparks Painting California Landscape c1910s | California Historical Design, Inc | N/A
16. 2021-12-11 | Will Sparks Painting California Landscape c1910s | California Historical Design, Inc | N/A
17. 2021-10-03 | WILL SPARKS \(1862 \- 1937\): AUTUMN EVENING\-ARIZONA | Abell Auction | $4,000
18. 2021-06-26 | Will Sparks Painting California Landscape c1910s | California Historical Design, Inc | N/A
19. 2021-06-03 | WILL SPARKS \(1862\-1937\): "HOME, SWEET HOME" | Abell Auction | $1,200
20. 2021-04-20 | Will Sparks \(1862\-1937\) Interior, San Felipe Mission, New Mexico 14 x 10in framed 18 x 14in | Bonhams | $4,000
21. 2020-10-25 | Will Sparks "Village Scene" Oil on Canvas | Auctions at Showplace | $600
22. 2019-09-19 | Will Sparks \(1862\-1937\) Painting, Napa Valley | Witherell's | $1,100
23. 2019-03-24 | Will Sparks \(American, 1862\-1937\), "Adobe Home" | New Orleans Auction Galleries | $3,250
24. 2018-11-19 | Will Sparks \(1862\-1937\) Adobe 20 1/4 x 23in overall: 25 3/8 x 28 1/2in | Bonhams | N/A

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