# William Shepherd - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-04T23:13:22.122Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 20
- Lots with prices: 9
- First auction date: 2007-11-18
- Latest auction date: 2025-04-15
- Median realised price: $1,400
- Price range: $300 to $11,500

## Market Takeaway
William Shepherd has 20 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $1,400. 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 \($1,400\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($480 to $1,800\) 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: 33.3% (3 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 55.6% (5 sales)
- $10,000\+: 11.1% (1 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 0
- Previous 12 months sales: 2
- Recent 12 months median: $0
- Previous 12 months median: $350
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-04-15
- Days since latest sale: 384
- Market velocity: inactive

## Top Auction Houses
- Hindman: 5 lots
- Altermann Galleries: 3 lots
- Heritage Auctions: 3 lots
- Santa Fe Art Auction: 3 lots
- Rachel Davis Fine Arts: 2 lots
- Freeman’s \| Hindman: 1 lots
- Jonah Fine Art: 1 lots
- Levis Auction: 1 lots
- New Orleans Auction Galleries: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-04-15 | William Shepherd \(American, b. 1943\) Bowl of Rocks, 2004 | Freeman’s \| Hindman | $1,800
2. 2025-03-22 | William Shepherd \(American, 1943\- \) oil | Rachel Davis Fine Arts | $350
3. 2022-08-22 | William Shepherd \(American, b. 1943\) Surface Tensions \#2 | Hindman | N/A
4. 2022-06-10 | William Shepherd \(American, b. 1943\) Surface Tensions \#2 | Hindman | N/A
5. 2022-04-16 | William Shepherd, Composition Rectangular Fields \#4 | Santa Fe Art Auction | N/A
6. 2022-04-16 | William Shepherd, Events About Rectangle \#8 | Santa Fe Art Auction | N/A
7. 2022-03-27 | William Shepherd \(American/New Mexico, b. 1943\), "Ride 'em Cowboy" | New Orleans Auction Galleries | $1,600
8. 2021-05-06 | William Shepherd \(American, b. 1943\) Regalia | Hindman | $1,400
9. 2021-04-17 | William Shepherd, Events About a Rectangle \#8 | Santa Fe Art Auction | $480
10. 2021-02-12 | William Shepherd \(American, b. 1943\) Surface Tensions \#2 | Hindman | N/A
11. 2020-07-28 | William Shepherd \(American, b. 1943\) Surface Tensions \#2 | Hindman | N/A
12. 2020-03-21 | William Shepherd oil | Rachel Davis Fine Arts | $300
13. 2019-06-23 | WILLIAM SHEPHERD "Blue Morpho" Realist Still Life Oil on Panel | Jonah Fine Art | N/A
14. 2019-03-08 | WILLIAM SHEPHERD \(AMERICAN, B. 1943\) THE HOLSTER OIL ON PANEL 16 X 20 INCHES \(40 | Heritage Auctions | N/A
15. 2019-03-08 | WILLIAM SHEPHERD \(AMERICAN, B. 1943\) AVISPAS OIL ON PANEL 36 X 49\-1/2 INCHES \(91 | Heritage Auctions | N/A
16. 2019-03-08 | WILLIAM SHEPHERD \(AMERICAN, B. 1943\) HANGING REGALIA OIL ON PANEL 22 X 16 INCHES | Heritage Auctions | $1,300
17. 2018-08-10 | William Shepherd \| Talavera Bowls | Altermann Galleries | $11,500
18. 2016-12-02 | William Shepherd \| River Rocks | Altermann Galleries | $9,000
19. 2015-12-12 | William Shepherd \| b. 1943 Italian Glass | Altermann Galleries | N/A
20. 2007-11-18 | Artist : WILLIAM SHEPHERD ~ \[b.1943\] American | Levis Auction | N/A

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