Albert Gleizes Auction Prices and Value Guide
Albert Gleizes auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 1,008 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.
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Albert Gleizes auction prices depend on medium, size, date, condition, provenance, edition details, attribution confidence, and recent comparable auction sales.
- Artist
- Albert Gleizes
- Source records
- 1,008
- Market update
- 2026-02-06
Artist context
About Albert Gleizes
Albert Gleizes (1881–1953) was a French painter, theorist, and author who played a central role in defining and promoting Cubism as both an artistic practice and an intellectual movement. In 1912, Gleizes and Jean Metzinger co-authored Du "Cubisme", the first major theoretical treatise on the movement, which circulated widely and shaped how Cubism was understood across Europe and beyond. He was a founding member of the Section d'Or group and later founded and directed Abstraction-Création, an organization that championed non-representational art in the 1930s. Gleizes spent four formative years in New York during and after World War I, where he helped introduce modern European art to American audiences. His prolific theoretical writings, including La Peinture et ses lois, were influential at the Bauhaus and among German avant-garde circles. His work is held by major institutions including the Museum of Modern Art, Tate, and the Centre Pompidou.
CubismSection d'OrAbstraction-CréationSchool of Parisoil paintingwatercolorgouachedrawinglandscapeabstract composition
Common works and media
Gleizes worked across a broad range of media. Oil paintings on canvas include Cubist compositions, landscapes, and later figurative works with spiritual themes. Works on paper encompass watercolors, gouaches, and drawings in ink, charcoal, and graphite. He produced graphic works and illustrations, including woodcuts and lithographs. Later in his career, he explored mural-scale paintings and decorative commissions. Subjects range from urban landscapes and industrial motifs in his early Cubist period to religious and humanist themes in his later work.
Market and appraisal context
Albert Gleizes has a well-established and internationally active auction market spanning over 35 years of recorded sales (1990–2026), with 749 catalogued lots and 461 with published realized prices. Price dispersion is wide: the record minimum is €65 (prints and minor works on paper) and the maximum reaches €1,833,250, reflecting the steep premium placed on early Cubist oils with strong provenance. The interquartile range runs from €2,040 (P25) to €27,940 (P75), with a median of €7,475, indicating that mid-tier works—typically later compositions, gouaches, and drawings—trade in the low-five-figure band. Liquidity is moderate and stable: 36 lots appeared in the most recent 12 months against 43 in the prior period, showing no significant contraction. Ten named international auction houses account for the majority of volume, with Christie's, Sotheby's, and Artcurial commanding the highest-value lots. Christie's November 2025 session alone realized five lots between $52,070 and $165,100, all Cubist or early-period oils and gouaches. French houses (Artcurial, Tajan, Piasa, Gros-Delettrez, Osenat, Millon) and German houses (Jeschke Jádi, Van Ham) handle the mid-market and works-on-paper segment. The market clearly stratifies by period and medium: pre-1920 Cubist oils carry the strongest premiums, interwar compositions in oil or gouache occupy the middle, and prints, drawings, and late-career works trade in the low thousands.
Auction categories and appraisal factors
Common auction categories
- oil painting
- gouache
- watercolor
- drawing
- printmaking
Value drivers
- [object Object]
Appraisal caveats
- Gleizes' later figurative-spiritual works are less well known in the auction market than his Cubist paintings, and values can vary substantially by period
- Condition is especially important for works on paper and gouaches, which are susceptible to light damage and foxing
- The artist's theoretical writings are sometimes sold separately as manuscripts or printed editions and fall into a different collectible category
- [object Object]
Evidence
Sources for artist context
This source-grounded artist context passed Appraisily's promotion threshold: high confidence, strong sources.
- RKD – Netherlands Institute for Art History library authority
- Library of Congress library authority
- The Museum of Modern Art museum or university
- Tate museum or university
- Wikidata library authority
- VIAF (OCLC) library authority
Data basis
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