August Laux Auction Prices and Value Guide
August Laux auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 192 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.
August Laux auction prices: quick answer
August Laux auction prices depend on medium, size, date, condition, provenance, edition details, attribution confidence, and recent comparable auction sales.
- Artist
- August Laux
- Source records
- 192
- Market update
- 2026-02-06
August Laux market snapshot
August Laux shows solid auction liquidity with 104 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $750. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 6 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-12-03.
Realized price distribution
- Under $1,000 (58.7% · 44 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000 (41.3% · 31 sales)
- $10,000+ (0.0% · 0 sales)
- Median sale (last 12 months)
- $275
- Sales recorded (last 12 months)
- 6
- Median shift vs prior year
- 0.0%
- Latest recorded sale
- 2025-12-03
Artist context
About August Laux
Died
1921
Nationality
American
August Laux was an American artist and painter whose identity is represented in Wikidata, Getty ULAN, VIAF, and RKDartists. The collected authority material agrees on a death year of 1921 but gives conflicting birth years, 1847 and 1853, so this profile does not state a settled birth date. Available object records associate Laux with painting, particularly an oil-on-canvas still life. Another Wikimedia Commons record describes still-life, trompe-l'œil, and genre subjects, although that record is not a substitute for a museum biography or catalogue raisonné. Collectors may encounter Laux through paintings offered or recorded in auction contexts; the Appraisily input reports 192 associated records. Because the present source pack lacks an accessible institutional biography and detailed auction-house catalog entries, claims about training, exhibitions, commissions, chronology, and artistic movement remain intentionally excluded. The surviving authority identifiers nevertheless provide a useful foundation for distinguishing this artist from similarly named people and for connecting future museum, library, and auction evidence.
PaintingOil on canvasStill lifeTrompe-l'œilGenre scenes
Common works and media
The collected public material points to paintings, particularly oil on canvas, with still-life, trompe-l'œil, and genre subjects. It does not establish a reliable catalog of prints, sculptures, drawings, posters, ceramics, or editioned works, so those formats should not be presented as common without additional evidence.
Market and appraisal context
Available evidence supports only a narrow market description. The input reports 192 Appraisily auction records, while the collected object records document an oil-on-canvas still life and associate Laux with still-life, trompe-l'œil, and genre painting. Those work types can guide an initial search for comparable lots, but they do not establish authenticity or value. The source pack contains no accessible auction-house catalog entries, realized prices, sale dates, dimensions, condition reports, provenance, or detailed attribution language. Any appraisal should therefore compare the submitted object with verified public lot records before drawing conclusions. This profile makes no price forecast or market-trend claim and treats identity matching cautiously because the authority material contains conflicting birth years.
Auction categories and appraisal factors
Common auction categories
- Oil paintings
- Still-life paintings
- Genre paintings
Value drivers
- Documented medium and support, including whether a work is catalogued as oil on canvas
- Subject classification, including still life, trompe-l'œil, or genre scene
- Accurate identity matching where records may use conflicting birth years
- Comparison with verified Appraisily auction records and their available sale details
Appraisal caveats
- No price range or market trend should be inferred from the collected Appraisily page because its content was unavailable during collection: https://appraisily.com/artist/august-laux/
- The conflicting birth years require resolution before life dates are used for attribution or comparable-lot matching: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q26265190
- The work-type evidence comes from Wikimedia Commons object records rather than an accessible catalogue raisonné or museum collection survey: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PAUSE_ON_THE_PATH.jpg
Evidence
Sources for artist context
This source-grounded artist context is based on collected public records: low confidence, thin source quality.
- Wikidata library authority
- Getty Vocabulary Program library authority
- VIAF library authority
- RKD library authority
- Appraisily appraisily artist page
- Wikimedia Commons commons search
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 August Laux 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 August Laux artwork?
Yes. Appraisily can review photos, dimensions, signatures, condition, provenance, and comparable market data to prepare a current valuation.