Arthur Meltzer Auction Prices and Value Guide

Arthur Meltzer auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 351 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

Arthur Meltzer auction prices: quick answer

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

Artist
Arthur Meltzer
Source records
351
Market update
2026-02-06

Arthur Meltzer market snapshot

Arthur Meltzer shows deep auction liquidity with 226 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $1,600. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 9 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-11-20.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (39.8% · 68 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (52.0% · 89 sales)
  • $10,000+ (8.2% · 14 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$1,500
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
9
Median shift vs prior year
+25.0%
Latest recorded sale
2025-11-20

Artist context

About Arthur Meltzer

Born

1893

Died

1989

Nationality

American

Arthur Meltzer (1893–1989) was an American painter and teacher whose identity is documented by Wikidata, VIAF, and Getty ULAN authority records. Collected biographical material particularly associates his painting with landscapes and carefully rendered still lifes. A secondary biography also places him within the last generation of Pennsylvania Impressionists, although the available source pack does not contain an accessible museum or scholarly account that independently confirms that classification. It is therefore best presented as biographical context rather than an unqualified movement assignment. For collectors, Meltzer’s established authority identifiers help distinguish his work from objects connected to people with similar names. In auction and appraisal settings, his name is most plausibly encountered in relation to twentieth-century American paintings, especially landscape and still-life compositions. More detailed claims about his training, exhibitions, chronology, or individual bodies of work require additional institution-grade documentation.

PaintingLandscapesStill lifes

Common works and media

The collected biographical material identifies Meltzer primarily with paintings, particularly landscapes and still lifes. The source pack does not substantiate a regular practice in sculpture, ceramics, print editions, posters, or other media, so those categories should not be assigned to him without object-specific or institutional evidence.

Market and appraisal context

The available sources establish Meltzer as a painter and identify landscape and still-life subjects, but they do not expose enough lot-level evidence to characterize price trends or the relative performance of particular work types. The collected Appraisily page indicates an auction-record context, although that page was rate-limited during research and its individual lots could not be reviewed. A careful appraisal should therefore match the object to Meltzer’s established identity, classify its medium and subject, and then consult genuinely comparable public sales when accessible. Sale date, realized price, and lot similarity should be verified from the underlying records rather than inferred from the artist name alone. No conclusion about scarcity, editions, or market direction is supported by this source pack.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

  • Paintings
  • Landscape paintings
  • Still-life paintings

Value drivers

  1. Medium and work type
  2. Subject classification, particularly landscape versus still life
  3. Consistency of the attribution with established authority records for Arthur Meltzer
  4. Comparable public auction lots, sale dates, and realized prices when accessible

Appraisal caveats

  • The collected Appraisily artist page was rate-limited, so its underlying lot records and category distribution could not be inspected.
  • The source pack does not support an artist-specific conclusion about price trends, rarity, edition history, or the relative market performance of particular subjects.
  • The Pennsylvania Impressionism association appears only in the collected secondary biography and lacks accessible museum or scholarly corroboration in this source pack.

Evidence

Sources for artist context

This source-grounded artist context is based on collected public records: medium confidence, adequate source quality.

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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 Arthur Meltzer

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Artist value FAQ

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