Charles Delporte Auction Prices and Value Guide
Charles Delporte auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 299 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.
Charles Delporte auction prices: quick answer
Charles Delporte auction prices depend on medium, size, date, condition, provenance, edition details, attribution confidence, and recent comparable auction sales.
- Artist
- Charles Delporte
- Source records
- 299
- Market update
- 2026-02-06
Charles Delporte market snapshot
Charles Delporte shows solid auction liquidity with 149 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $180. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 23 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2026-01-25.
Realized price distribution
- Under $1,000 (97.1% · 100 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000 (2.9% · 3 sales)
- $10,000+ (0.0% · 0 sales)
- Median sale (last 12 months)
- $180
- Sales recorded (last 12 months)
- 23
- Median shift vs prior year
- 0.0%
- Latest recorded sale
- 2026-01-25
Artist context
About Charles Delporte
Born
1928
Died
2012
Nationality
Belgian
Charles Delporte (1928–2012) was a Belgian painter and sculptor born in Marcinelle and deceased in Charleroi. A French biographical profile also identifies him as a poet and composer, placing his visual practice within a broader creative output. The available sources do not securely connect him to a conventional art-historical movement. Instead, a Dutch-language profile describes four internal strands in his work: realistic, genetic, geophysical and nuclear. Because that classification is not corroborated by an institutional essay in the collected source pack, it is best treated as descriptive rather than a settled scholarly taxonomy. Collectors are most likely to encounter Delporte through paintings and sculpture, the two media consistently attached to his public identity. Authority records at Wikidata, Getty ULAN, VIAF, the Library of Congress and the BnF help distinguish him from similarly named people and support entity matching across catalogues.
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Common works and media
Public identity sources consistently describe Delporte as both a painter and sculptor, making paintings and three-dimensional works the best-supported categories for cataloguing and appraisal. A Dutch-language profile applies the labels realistic, genetic, geophysical and nuclear to strands within his work, although their precise status as periods, series or thematic categories remains uncertain. The collected evidence does not support adding prints, drawings, ceramics or editions as characteristic auction categories.
Market and appraisal context
Appraisily’s artist page aggregates auction records associated with Charles Delporte, but the collected source pack does not include detailed major-auction-house cataloguing or enough lot-level evidence to establish a price trend. For appraisal, paintings should be compared with paintings and sculptures with sculptures, using records that are as similar as possible in medium, scale, date, attribution and condition. Sale date, currency, realized price and catalogue description also matter when interpreting a comparable result. Any conclusion should be checked against the object and its documentation. Current evidence does not establish artist-specific premiums for a particular subject, period, provenance type or one of the four descriptive strands attributed to his work.
Auction categories and appraisal factors
Common auction categories
- Paintings
- Sculpture
Value drivers
- Medium and object type, particularly the distinction between paintings and sculpture
- Like-for-like public auction comparables, including catalogue description, sale date and realized price
- Correct identity and attribution to the Belgian artist Charles Delporte
Appraisal caveats
- The collected pack contains no detailed major-auction-house biography or lot-level catalogue excerpts.
- The evidence does not establish an artist-specific price premium for any subject, date range, provenance type or descriptive strand.
- Condition, dimensions, materials, signature, date and provenance should be assessed from the individual object and its documentation rather than inferred from the artist identity record.
Evidence
Sources for artist context
This source-grounded artist context is based on collected public records: medium confidence, adequate source quality.
- Wikidata library authority
- Bibliothèque nationale de France library authority
- Getty Vocabulary Program library authority
- VIAF library authority
- Library of Congress library authority
- Wikipedia wikipedia
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 Charles Delporte 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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