Alexandre Calame Auction Prices and Value Guide
Alexandre Calame auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 789 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.
Alexandre Calame auction prices: quick answer
Alexandre Calame auction prices depend on medium, size, date, condition, provenance, edition details, attribution confidence, and recent comparable auction sales.
- Artist
- Alexandre Calame
- Source records
- 789
- Market update
- 2026-02-06
Alexandre Calame market snapshot
Alexandre Calame shows deep auction liquidity with 302 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $3,200. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 12 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-12-21.
Realized price distribution
- Under $1,000 (22.8% · 43 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000 (49.2% · 93 sales)
- $10,000+ (28.0% · 53 sales)
- Median sale (last 12 months)
- $3,000
- Sales recorded (last 12 months)
- 12
- Median shift vs prior year
- 0.0%
- Latest recorded sale
- 2025-12-21
Artist context
About Alexandre Calame
Born
1810
Died
1864
Nationality
Swiss
Alexandre Calame (1810–1864) was a Swiss painter known primarily for landscapes. The source pack links his identity across Wikidata and several major authority systems, including Getty ULAN, VIAF, the Library of Congress, GND, ISNI, IdRef, RKD, and BnF. Its biographical material identifies him as a landscape painter, while a secondary source associates him with the Düsseldorf School. That association is useful historical context, although the museum profiles collected by the harness did not provide fetched biographical text that could strengthen the classification. Collectors encounter Calame through landscape paintings and through auction records indexed under his name. The supplied Appraisily artist record contains 789 entries, indicating a meaningful body of market data for comparison. Because the source pack does not summarize those individual lots, this profile does not infer object-level authorship, medium, date, condition, or provenance from the artist name alone. Those distinctions should be established from the work and its documentation.
Düsseldorf SchoolPaintingLandscapes
Common works and media
Landscape paintings are the only common work type directly supported by the collected biographical material. The source pack does not provide enough evidence to characterize recurring print, drawing, sculpture, ceramic, poster, or edition categories, so those categories should not be assigned to Calame without object-level documentation.
Market and appraisal context
The supplied Appraisily record indicates 789 auction entries associated with Alexandre Calame, so relevant public results may help frame an appraisal when matched carefully to the object under review. Within this source pack, the securely supported artistic context is Swiss landscape painting, with a secondary association to the Düsseldorf School. Comparability should begin with records that genuinely concern Calame and share the documented landscape context. The pack does not include fetched major-auction-house lot descriptions or results, so it cannot substantiate detailed claims about medium-specific premiums, subject hierarchies, condition effects, provenance, date, dimensions, or market direction. Those factors require review of the individual object and its underlying auction records before any valuation conclusion is made.
Auction categories and appraisal factors
Common auction categories
- Landscape paintings
Value drivers
- Secure matching of the artist identity across authority records
- Consistency with Calame's documented landscape-painting practice
- Comparison with relevant public auction records associated with Alexandre Calame
Appraisal caveats
- The source pack does not contain fetched major-auction-house lot descriptions or realized-price details, so it does not support claims about price levels, trends, or medium-specific premiums.
- Condition, provenance, dimensions, date, attribution language, and object-specific medium should be verified from the individual work and its underlying records before reaching a valuation conclusion.
- The supplied total of 789 Appraisily records indicates substantial auction coverage, but the source pack does not establish that every record represents an autograph work by Calame.
Evidence
Sources for artist context
This source-grounded artist context is based on collected public records: medium confidence, adequate source quality.
- Wikidata library authority
- Getty Vocabulary Program library authority
- VIAF library authority
- Library of Congress library authority
- British Museum museum or university
- National Gallery of Art museum or university
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.
Artist value FAQ
How much is Alexandre Calame 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.
Can Appraisily value my Alexandre Calame artwork?
Yes. Appraisily can review photos, dimensions, signatures, condition, provenance, and comparable market data to prepare a current valuation.