Antal Berkes Auction Prices and Value Guide

Antal Berkes auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 456 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

Antal Berkes auction prices: quick answer

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

Artist
Antal Berkes
Source records
456
Market update
2026-02-06

Artist context

About Antal Berkes

Antal Berkes (1874–1938) was a Hungarian painter born in Budapest who became known for atmospheric cityscape and street-scene paintings. Active during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Berkes worked in his native Budapest as well as in Vienna and Paris, capturing the boulevards, squares, and daily life of each city in an impressionistic realist style. His subjects ranged from bustling urban avenues to quieter genre scenes and landscapes. Berkes is recorded in the Library of Congress Name Authority File, the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie (RKD), and VIAF, confirming his standing among documented European painters of the period. His works appear regularly at auction, particularly scenes of Parisian and Budapest streets, making him a name collectors of Central European painting encounter frequently.

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Common works and media

The most commonly encountered works by Antal Berkes are oil paintings on canvas depicting European cityscapes and street scenes, particularly views of Parisian boulevards, Budapest thoroughfares, and Viennese squares. He also produced landscapes and genre scenes. Works on paper and drawings are less common at auction but do appear. Collectors should expect to see signed oil paintings ranging from smaller cabinet sizes to larger salon-format compositions, typically with atmospheric effects and active pedestrian figures.

Market and appraisal context

Antal Berkes paintings appear with reasonable frequency on the secondary market, especially oil-on-canvas cityscapes depicting Paris, Budapest, and Vienna. With roughly 456 documented auction results, Berkes occupies a steady mid-range position among early twentieth-century European painters. Valuation depends on the specific city depicted, canvas size, condition, provenance clarity, and the quality of the atmospheric light and detail that characterize his stronger compositions. Works with clear attribution and documented provenance tend to command more interest. No published catalogue raisonné is known, so attribution verification should draw on the lexicon entries recorded by RKD (Vollmer 1953–1962; Busse 1977).

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Appraisal caveats

  • No catalogue raisonné was identified in the available sources; comprehensive attribution verification should reference the Vollmer and Busse lexicon entries cited by RKD.
  • The Invaluable/Athira database lists approximately 456 auction results, suggesting a steady but moderate secondary-market presence.

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

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Artist value FAQ

How much is Antal Berkes 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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