# William Selby - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-04T23:13:45.338Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 26
- Lots with prices: 13
- First auction date: 2010-01-26
- Latest auction date: 2025-12-10
- Median realised price: $460
- Price range: $140 to $850

## Market Takeaway
William Selby has 26 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $460. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 1 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 \($460\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($220 to $528\) 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: 100% (13 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 0% (0 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 1
- Previous 12 months sales: 0
- Recent 12 months median: $0
- Previous 12 months median: $0
- Median shift: N/A
- Latest sale date: 2025-12-10
- Days since latest sale: 145
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Bonhams: 14 lots
- Mallams: 3 lots
- Christie's: 2 lots
- Elstob Auctioneers: 2 lots
- Tennants: 2 lots
- David Duggleby: 1 lots
- Keno Auctions: 1 lots
- Lacy Scott & Knight: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-12-10 | William Selby \(b.1933\) Interior Study of Flowers gouache signed lower left 69cm x 63cm. | Mallams | N/A
2. 2021-06-02 | William Selby \(British b. 1933\) Bridge of Sighs | Keno Auctions | N/A
3. 2019-06-23 | WILLIAM SELBY \(BORN 1933\), SEATED LADY WEARING A GOWN, unsigned, oil on boa | Elstob Auctioneers | N/A
4. 2019-06-23 | WILLIAM SELBY \(BORN 1933\), GIRL IN SLIP, signed lower left, inscribed with | Elstob Auctioneers | £460
5. 2014-12-11 | William Selby \(British, b.1933\) Great Coum, Yorks | Mallams | £850
6. 2012-11-28 | William Selby \(b. 1933\) | Christie's | N/A
7. 2012-11-28 | William Selby \(b. 1933\) | Christie's | N/A
8. 2012-11-17 | William Selby \(b.1933\) Ferrybridge Powerstation | Tennants | N/A
9. 2012-07-14 | William Selby \(b.1933\) ''Drying'' Signed, | Tennants | £220
10. 2012-06-11 | William Selby \(1933\-\): Brixham Harbour, oil on | David Duggleby | N/A
11. 2012-05-23 | William Selby \(British, b.1933\) The Last Supper, | Mallams | £550
12. 2011-09-09 | William Selby \(b.1933\) \- Petunias in a vase, | Lacy Scott & Knight | £140
13. 2011-04-12 | William Selby \(British, born 1933\) Boats in a purple seascape | Bonhams | £168
14. 2013-03-13 | William Selby \(British, born 1933\) | Bonhams | N/A
15. 2013-03-13 | William Selby \(British, born 1933\) | Bonhams | N/A
16. 2011-11-09 | William Selby \(British, born 1933\) 'Muker, Swaledale' | Bonhams | N/A
17. 2011-11-08 | William Selby \(British, born 1933\) 'Muker, Swaledale' | Bonhams | £525
18. 2011-04-12 | William Selby \(British, born 1933\) Boats in a harbour at sunset | Bonhams | £204
19. 2011-04-12 | William Selby \(British, born 1933\) 'Ledston under Snow' | Bonhams | £372
20. 2011-02-22 | William Selby \(British, born 1933\) Boats in a purple seascape | Bonhams | N/A
21. 2011-02-22 | William Selby \(British, born 1933\) 'Ledston under Snow' | Bonhams | N/A
22. 2011-02-22 | William Selby \(British, born 1933\) Boats in a harbour at sunset | Bonhams | N/A
23. 2010-07-08 | William Selby \(British, born 1933\) 'Cherries on Blue', still life of cherries and pansy, | Bonhams | £528
24. 2010-06-09 | William Selby \(British, born 1933\) 'Hill Village' | Bonhams | £840

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