Aleksandra Aleksandrovna Ekster Auction Prices and Value Guide

Aleksandra Aleksandrovna Ekster auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 396 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

Aleksandra Aleksandrovna Ekster auction prices: quick answer

Aleksandra Aleksandrovna Ekster auction prices depend on medium, size, date, condition, provenance, edition details, attribution confidence, and recent comparable auction sales.

Artist
Aleksandra Aleksandrovna Ekster
Source records
396
Market update
2026-02-06

Aleksandra Aleksandrovna Ekster market snapshot

Aleksandra Aleksandrovna Ekster shows thin auction liquidity with 6 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $25,556. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 0 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2023-11-25.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (20.0% · 1 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (20.0% · 1 sales)
  • $10,000+ (60.0% · 3 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$0
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
0
Median shift vs prior year
0.0%
Latest recorded sale
2023-11-25

Artist context

About Aleksandra Aleksandrovna Ekster

Aleksandra Aleksandrovna Ekster (1882–1949), also known as Alexandra Exter, was a painter, designer, and scenographer whose career connected the Russian and Ukrainian avant-gardes with the Parisian art world. Born in Białystok and active in Kyiv, Moscow, and Paris, she emerged as a leading figure in early twentieth-century modernism. Ekster maintained working studios in Kyiv and Paris, moving in artistic circles that spanned Cubism, Futurism, and the abstract movements that reshaped European art. Beyond easel painting, she designed innovative stage sets and costumes for theater and early cinema, illustrated books, created textile patterns, and produced handcrafted dolls. Her teaching at art institutions in Kyiv and later in France helped spread modernist design principles to a generation of students. After settling permanently in France in 1924, she continued to paint, design, and publish until her death in Fontenay-aux-Roses. Collectors encounter her work in a remarkably wide range of media and formats.

Cubo-FuturismSuprematismConstructivismoil paintinggouachewatercolorgraphic artabstract compositiontheatrical set and costume design

Common works and media

Ekster produced oil paintings, gouaches, watercolors, and drawings in a modernist idiom influenced by Cubism and Futurism. She was particularly prolific as a stage and costume designer, and many surviving works are preparatory designs for theatrical and cinematic productions. Additional formats include book and journal illustrations, textile and fashion designs, graphic prints, hand-painted dolls and puppets, and decorative painted objects. Posters and later prints reproducing her designs also circulate in the secondary market.

Market and appraisal context

Ekster's auction profile spans oils, gouaches, watercolors, stage and costume designs, book illustrations, graphic works, textiles, and decorative objects. Gouaches and set-design studies form a substantial share of her recorded auction lots. Works with documented provenance linking them to her Kyiv or Paris periods, to a specific theatrical production, or to prominent early collectors tend to attract stronger interest. Attribution can be challenging because she worked prolifically across so many media and sometimes collaborated with workshop assistants. Condition is a key factor for works on paper dating from the 1910s and 1920s. Collectors seeking appraisal should gather exhibition history, publication references, and any catalogue raisonné documentation.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Appraisal caveats

  • Ekster worked across an unusually broad range of media for a single artist, from painting and set design to dolls and textiles, making attribution and category classification complex at auction.
  • No single published catalogue raisonné covering her complete oeuvre was identified in the source pack; authentication often relies on expert connoisseurship and exhibition records.
  • The source pack contains no realized auction prices; all market commentary is inferential and should not be treated as price guidance.

Evidence

Sources for artist context

This source-grounded artist context passed Appraisily's promotion threshold: high confidence, strong sources.

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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 Aleksandra Aleksandrovna Ekster

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