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- Estimate
- £20,000–£30,000 hammer ≈ $36,573–$54,859
- Result
- Performance
- Sale
- Sotheby's — Sotheby's W05714 · 14 September 2005
- Record ID
- TB-2026-3290758
- Record
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David Shepherd, Approaching Elephant. Sotheby's, 14 Sep 2005, lot 187. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-3290758.
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David Shepherd, Approaching Elephant. Sotheby's, 14 Sep 2005, lot 187. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-3290758.
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|---|---|---|---|
| Black Circles | Sir Terry Frost R.a. | £1,000–£1,500 | |
| Kitchen at Tydden Du | Bernard Dunstan | £1,500–£2,000 | |
| Long Sutton, Lincolnshire | John Piper C.h. | £3,000–£5,000 | |
| Portrait of a Lady holding a book | Jessica Dismorr | £1,000–£1,500 | |
| Study of a Flowering Plant | Gwen John | £1,000–£1,500 | |
| Young Girl with Fruit and Flowers | Norman Edgar R.g.i. | £2,000–£3,000 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| David Shepherd | david shepherd | the mud bath | $56,700 | Sotheby's, Oct 2020 | |
| David Shepherd | Gorillas | Sotheby's, Dec 2021 | ||
| David Shepherd | Ahmed of Marsabit | Christie's, Jul 2021 | ||
| David Shepherd | The Big Five | Christie's, Dec 2018 | ||
| David Shepherd | amboseli | Sotheby's, Jan 2021 | ||
| David Shepherd | Lions in the Serengeti Park, Tanzania | Christie's, Jun 2024 | ||
| David Shepherd | The Rathambore Tiger | Bonhams, Jul 2018 | ||
| David Shepherd | under the baobab | Sotheby's, Dec 2018 |
The closest sold results by price, artist, and medium — the appraiser's comp set, generated from the corpus. All figures converted to USD at current reference rates.