Adrien Barrère Auction Prices and Value Guide

Adrien Barrère auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 230 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

Adrien Barrère auction prices: quick answer

Adrien Barrère auction prices depend on medium, size, date, condition, provenance, edition details, attribution confidence, and recent comparable auction sales.

Artist
Adrien Barrère
Source records
230
Market update
2026-02-06

Adrien Barrère market snapshot

Adrien Barrère shows solid auction liquidity with 55 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $1,400. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 0 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2024-06-04.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (25.0% · 6 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (70.8% · 17 sales)
  • $10,000+ (4.2% · 1 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$0
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
0
Median shift vs prior year
0.0%
Latest recorded sale
2024-06-04

Artist context

About Adrien Barrère

Adrien Barrère portrait
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Born

1874

Died

1931

Nationality

French

Also known as

Adrien Baneux

Adrien Barrère (1874–1931), a professional name associated with Adrien Baneux, was a French poster artist, painter, and caricaturist active in Paris during the Belle Époque. He is particularly connected with theatre and early cinema advertising, fields that placed graphic artists at the center of the capital's popular entertainment culture. Sources also identify painting as part of his practice, while French and German biographical summaries emphasize his work in posters and caricature. Barrère was especially visible during the years immediately preceding the First World War. Collectors may therefore encounter his name on theatrical or film-related posters, caricature-driven graphic works, and paintings rather than within a single uniform category. That range matters for identification: a promotional print and an original painted work can share an artist attribution while differing substantially in purpose, production method, and market context. His documented Parisian activity and entertainment subjects provide useful starting points for researching inscriptions, dates, publishers, and depicted performers or productions.

PostersPaintingCaricatureTheatre and theatrical entertainmentCinema and film promotion

Common works and media

Works associated with Barrère commonly enter research and appraisal contexts as theatre or cinema posters, caricature-oriented graphic material, and paintings. Poster subjects may relate to performers, productions, or film promotion. Classification should distinguish an original drawing or painting from a mechanically reproduced poster, and should record inscriptions, printing information, dimensions, condition, and any publisher or production details visible on the object.

Market and appraisal context

Barrère's market should be assessed by separating posters, paintings, and caricature-related graphic works. For a poster, the production method, publisher, dimensions, date, entertainment subject, and whether the sheet is an original-period printing may be important, but those details must be established from the individual object. Paintings require their own medium, support, condition, provenance, and attribution analysis. Theatre or cinema associations can help place a work within Barrère's documented practice, while date may clarify its relationship to his Belle Époque activity. Relevant public auction records are most useful when the comparable lots match the same work type and context. The supplied sources do not support a general price forecast, and auction results should not be applied across materially different categories without further evidence.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

  • Theatre and cinema posters
  • Paintings
  • Caricatures and graphic works

Value drivers

  1. Work type and medium, including whether an object is a poster, painting, or caricature-related graphic work
  2. Theatre or cinema subject and its relationship to Barrère's documented poster practice
  3. Date and relationship to Barrère's documented Belle Époque activity
  4. Comparison with relevant public auction records by category, sale date, and realized price when such records are available

Appraisal caveats

  • The collected source pack does not provide object-level evidence about condition, provenance, dimensions, printing technique, edition, or authenticity; these require examination of the individual work.
  • No supported price trend or price prediction can be derived from the supplied biographical sources alone.
  • Auction comparisons should be matched by work type and context rather than treating posters, paintings, and caricatures as interchangeable.

Evidence

Sources for artist context

This source-grounded artist context is based on collected public records: medium confidence, adequate source quality.

Source-grounded artist Markdown

Data basis

This page is built from Appraisily's public auction market index. Private transactions, incomplete sale feeds, and attribution changes may not be fully represented.

LLM-readable Markdown summary for Adrien Barrère

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Artist value FAQ

How much is Adrien Barrère worth?

Comparable public auction sales are the best starting point, but final value depends on the specific artwork, condition, size, medium, provenance, and attribution confidence.

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