# William Scharf - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-04T23:13:42.799Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 30
- Lots with prices: 29
- First auction date: 2002-11-21
- Latest auction date: 2024-06-27
- Median realised price: $800
- Price range: $25 to $6,500

## Market Takeaway
William Scharf has 30 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $800. 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 \($800\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($250 to $3,000\) 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: 58.6% (17 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 41.4% (12 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 0
- Previous 12 months sales: 3
- Recent 12 months median: $0
- Previous 12 months median: $1,000
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2024-06-27
- Days since latest sale: 676
- Market velocity: inactive

## Top Auction Houses
- Auctions at Showplace: 7 lots
- Hindman: 5 lots
- Everard Auctions and Appraisals: 3 lots
- Concept Art Gallery: 2 lots
- Eldred's: 2 lots
- Leland Little Auctions: 2 lots
- Apple Tree Auction Center: 1 lots
- Broward Auction Gallery LLC: 1 lots
- Cottone Auctions: 1 lots
- Cowan's Auctions: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2024-06-27 | William Scharf, Dancer, Red Hair Ribbons, Graphite | Everard Auctions and Appraisals | $150
2. 2024-05-19 | William Scharf "Excalibur's Eggs" Mixed Media | Auctions at Showplace | $1,000
3. 2024-05-19 | William Scharf "Angel of the Hooks" Oil on Paper | Auctions at Showplace | $1,000
4. 2024-04-21 | William Scharf "In Serpent Time" Oil on Panel | Auctions at Showplace | $3,000
5. 2024-04-21 | William Scharf "Memorial Dawn" Oil on Panel | Auctions at Showplace | $1,600
6. 2024-04-21 | William Scharf "A Dawn's Reason" Oil on Canvas | Auctions at Showplace | $6,500
7. 2023-10-17 | William Scharf \(1927\-2018\), Art by the Foot, Acrylic | Everard Auctions and Appraisals | $650 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-william-scharf-1927-2018-art-by-the-foot-acrylic-76-c-2b24a23a7c
8. 2023-10-17 | William Scharf \(b. 1927\-2018\), Sphynx Shadow, O/C | Everard Auctions and Appraisals | $3,750 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-william-scharf-b-1927-2018-sphynx-shadow-o-c-75-c-a7649d488d
9. 2023-06-27 | William Scharf \(American, 1927\-2018\) Abstract , Signed | Lion and Unicorn | $120
10. 2023-06-10 | 5 William Scharf 1980 orig serigraphs signed | Concept Art Gallery | $325
11. 2023-02-08 | 5 William Scharf 1980 orig serigraphs signed | Concept Art Gallery | $250
12. 2023-01-11 | William Scharf \(American, 1927\-2018\) Untitled | Cottone Auctions | $50
13. 2022-07-10 | William Scharf "Susannah And" Gouache on Paper | Auctions at Showplace | $550
14. 2022-04-17 | William Scharf \(PA,NY,1927\-2018\) gouache painting | Broward Auction Gallery LLC | $950
15. 2021-09-28 | William Scharf \(American, b. 1927\) Vegetable Oracle, Grape's Elephant, A Tryst of Ulnas, Untitled, Lung Prisoner, Coronation of the Moth and Spinal Task, c. 1999\-2002 \(a group of 7 works\) | Hindman | $3,250
16. 2021-09-28 | William Scharf \(American, b. 1927\) Whole Dawn, Half Egg, 1986 and Untitled \(a pair of works\) | Hindman | $4,000
17. 2021-09-28 | William Scharf \(American, b. 1927\) San Francisco, 1973 | Hindman | $3,250
18. 2021-09-28 | William Scharf \(American, b. 1927\) The Scratched and Unfixed Air, 2007\-8 and They Thought Their Worlds of Each Other, 2008 \(a pair of works\) | Hindman | $3,000
19. 2021-09-28 | William Scharf \(American, b. 1927\) A Branch of the Egg, 1962 | Hindman | $3,750
20. 2020-07-09 | William Scharf \(American, b. 1927\) | Cowan's Auctions | $425
21. 2019-06-10 | William Scharf \(American 1927\-2018\), three 20th C. silkscreens, including: "Untitled"; "Menaced Tear"; and "Golden Rope", all ed. 59... | Winter Associates, Inc. | $75
22. 2018-09-29 | WILLIAM SCHARF \(AMERICAN, 1927\-\) UNTITLED Gouache on paper: 7 1/2 x 5 3/4 in. \(sight\) | Potomack Company | $650
23. 2018-08-09 | WILLIAM SCHARF, Pennsylvania/New York, Contemporary, Abstract composition in shades of yellow., Oil on canvas, 10" x 108". | Eldred's | $800
24. 2018-08-09 | WILLIAM SCHARF, Pennsylvania/New York, Contemporary, Abstract composition in reds, pinks and greens., Oil on canvas, 12" x 128". Fra... | Eldred's | $800

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