Alun Leach-Jones Auction Prices and Value Guide

Alun Leach-Jones auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 649 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

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Artist
Alun Leach-Jones
Source records
649
Market update
2026-02-06

Artist context

About Alun Leach-Jones

Alun Leach-Jones (1937–2017) was a British-born Australian artist whose practice spanned painting, drawing, sculpture, and an extensive body of printmaking including linocuts, screenprints, and etchings. Active across several decades of the post-war period, he built a reputation for technical versatility and a distinctive visual language that moved between abstraction and structured form. His work is represented in major public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney. Leach-Jones's prints in particular circulated widely, introducing collectors and institutions to his work through accessible editions. His cross-disciplinary approach—moving fluidly between painting, sculpture, and print media—places him within a generation of Australian artists who reshaped the relationship between fine art and craft-based processes in the second half of the twentieth century.

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Common works and media

Collectors most frequently encounter Leach-Jones through his screenprints, linocuts, and etchings, many produced as signed limited editions. His paintings range from structured abstraction to more gestural compositions, often on a modest domestic scale. Sculptural works are less common at auction. Subjects vary from geometric and biomorphic forms to landscape-influenced compositions. Works on paper, including preparatory drawings and studies, also appear periodically in auction and gallery contexts.

Market and appraisal context

Alun Leach-Jones maintains a deep and liquid secondary market anchored in Australian auction houses, with 476 recorded lots and 253 priced results spanning 2002 to May 2026. The market is dominated by prints—particularly screenprints, linocuts, and etchings—which account for the majority of turnover and cluster tightly between AUD 140 and AUD 750. Editioned screenprints from the late 1960s and early 1970s (such as the Disc series, Last Stop, and Affinities) consistently command premiums over later works, with the Orange Disc 1967 screenprint realising AUD 2,800 in April 2026. Unique works and non-print media are far less common but significantly more valuable: a Blue Pacific 1982 tapestry sold for AUD 12,000 at Leonard Joel in February 2022, and the overall record stands at AUD 31,720. Liquidity is stable, with 70 lots in the most recent 12-month window versus 71 in the prior period, indicating sustained and even demand. Leonard Joel is the dominant venue, handling the clear majority of lots, with additional throughput at Lawsons, Shapiro Auctioneers, Theodore Bruce, Menzies, and Raffan Kelaher & Thomas. All prices are denominated in AUD, reflecting the artist's primarily Australian collector base.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

  • screenprint
  • linocut
  • etching
  • painting
  • drawing

Value drivers

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Appraisal caveats

  • Specific movement or school affiliations are not established from the available source pack; art-historical context should be verified before making attribution or classification claims
  • No individual auction records or realized prices are included in the current source pack; valuation should reference comparable lots and a qualified appraisal
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Evidence

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Data basis

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