# Yve Close - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-01T10:06:15.991Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 9
- Lots with prices: 8
- First auction date: 2010-03-21
- Latest auction date: 2025-08-06
- Median realised price: $90
- Price range: $50 to $550

## Market Takeaway
Yve Close shows thin auction liquidity with 9 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $90. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 1 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-08-06.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($90\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $60 and $300.
- 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: 100% (8 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: $475
- Previous 12 months median: $0
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-08-06
- Days since latest sale: 196
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Theodore Bruce Auctioneers & Valuers: 5 lots
- Lawsons: 2 lots
- Bargain Hunt Auctions: 1 lots
- Bay East Auctions: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-08-06 | YVE CLOSE, Portrait of Joshua Smith in Black and Red Tie, oil on composition board, 121 x 91.5 cm, frame: 137 x 107 x 5 cm | Lawsons | A$475
2. 2021-01-30 | Yves Close \(b.1930\) Wal Simpson Pastel | Theodore Bruce Auctioneers & Valuers | A$60
3. 2021-01-30 | Yves Close \(b.1930\) Studies of Joshua Smith 1984 Pencil on paper | Theodore Bruce Auctioneers & Valuers | A$300
4. 2021-01-30 | Yves Close \(b.1930\) Joshua \(Smith\) At Work Oil on canvasboard | Theodore Bruce Auctioneers & Valuers | A$140
5. 2020-05-28 | Yve Close \(1930 \- \) \- Spinning Under the Morning Light 58.5 x 74.5 cm \(frame: 74 x 90 x 3 cm\) | Lawsons | A$550
6. 2018-08-26 | Yves Close \(b.1930\) Arsenic & Old Lace 1983 Oil on board | Theodore Bruce Auctioneers & Valuers | A$90
7. 2018-07-01 | Yves Close \(b.1930\) Arsenic & Old Lace 1983 Oil on board | Theodore Bruce Auctioneers & Valuers | N/A
8. 2017-10-07 | Yve Close, portrait of 2 elderly ladies, 1983, | Bargain Hunt Auctions | A$50
9. 2010-03-21 | Yve Close, Singing Bridge at Sunset, Tea Gardens | Bay East Auctions | A$72

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