Len Castle

New Zealand · 1924–2011 · Photographer

Leonard Ramsay Castle was a New Zealand potter. (Wikipedia)

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1,362auction results2007–2026years recorded83%sold (1,131)$413Sign up free to seemedian price

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Len Castle’s highest prices recorded at auction, ranked in US dollars at each sale-date exchange rate and shown in the currency of the sale (with the buyer’s premium where the house publishes it).

Average price

$1.2kSign up free to see

median $413free account

High

$25.1kSign up free to see

auction record in database

Lots sold

1,131

of 1,362 offered · 2007–2026

Sell-through

83%

sold ÷ offered

Price trend

Each dot is a sold lot (price realized incl. premium where published, converted to USD at the sale-date rate; log scale). Dashed line: yearly median.

Showing 582 of 1,131 priced sales (evenly sampled; every year’s high and low included). Medians use all sales.

1 lot(s) catalogued with a qualifier (e.g. “attributed to”, “after”, “circle of”) are listed in the results but excluded from these statistics.

By medium

Medium	Offered	Sold	Sell-through	Average	Median	High
Paintings	18	17	94%	$672Sign up	$570Sign up	$2.5kSign up
Oil	1	1	100%	$152Sign up	$152Sign up	$152Sign up
Works on paper	62	53	85%	$821Sign up	$386Sign up	$4kSign up
Drawing	62	53	85%	$821Sign up	$386Sign up	$4kSign up
Sculpture	206	182	88%	$1.5kSign up	$458Sign up	$15kSign up
Other	1076	879	82%	$1.1kSign up	$404Sign up	$25.1kSign up

Medium classes are derived from the medium text as published by each house; “Other” includes lots whose medium wasn’t stated.

By year

Year	Offered	Sold	Median
2026	79	61	$214Sign up
2025	36	30	$216Sign up
2024	103	93	$498Sign up
2023	67	60	$2.1kSign up
2022	88	81	$458Sign up
2021	15	14	$1.4kSign up
2020	30	29	$313Sign up
2019	26	22	$504Sign up
2018	215	125	$572Sign up
2017	30	23	$505Sign up
2016	160	153	$441Sign up
2015	152	132	$307Sign up
2014	44	39	$369Sign up
2013	152	116	$390Sign up
2012	128	118	$518Sign up
2011	10	9	$311Sign up
2008	4	4	$1.8kSign up
2007	23	22	$665Sign up