Claude Garache Auction Prices and Value Guide

Claude Garache auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 173 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

Claude Garache auction prices: quick answer

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

Artist
Claude Garache
Source records
173
Market update
2026-02-06

Claude Garache market snapshot

Claude Garache shows solid auction liquidity with 124 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $400. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 4 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-11-19.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (52.4% · 22 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (45.2% · 19 sales)
  • $10,000+ (2.4% · 1 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$40
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
4
Median shift vs prior year
0.0%
Latest recorded sale
2025-11-19

Artist context

About Claude Garache

Born

1929

Died

2023

Nationality

French

Claude Garache (1929–2023) was a French artist whose practice encompassed painting, sculpture, illustration, engraving, and lithography. His most consistently documented subject is the female nude. Across many works, he reduced the image to a concentrated, often single-color figure set against a monochrome ground; red, particularly a blood-red against white, is especially associated with this approach. This economy of palette places emphasis on contour, bodily presence, and the relationship between figure and open ground. Collectors may therefore encounter Garache through paintings, prints and other graphic work, sculpture, and illustrated projects. Public authority records gathered for this page connect the artist with identifiers maintained by Wikidata, Getty ULAN, VIAF, the Library of Congress, MoMA, and other institutions. The collected excerpts are substantially stronger on his media and recurring subject than on exhibitions, chronology, or named series, so those areas require further institutional documentation.

PaintingSculptureIllustrationEngravingFemale nudeMonochrome figure compositions, often red on white

Common works and media

Works associated with Garache may include paintings, sculptures, engravings, lithographs, and illustrated projects. The female nude is the best-documented recurring subject. Collectors may also encounter compositions built around a single concentrated color on a restrained ground, particularly red figures against white. The available sources do not identify named series or establish how frequently each medium appears at auction.

Market and appraisal context

Garache's market should be approached by separating paintings, sculpture, engravings, and lithographs, since medium and object type determine which public sales are meaningfully comparable. Subject and palette also help with comparison: the female nude and a reduced red-on-white treatment are recurring documented characteristics, although neither establishes authorship. Appraisily's artist input identifies 173 auction records, offering a starting pool for comparisons by work type, sale date, realized price, and visual similarity. The present source pack does not establish a reliable price trend or document edition structures, condition effects, provenance histories, or catalogue raisonné status. Conclusions should therefore remain tied to the evidence available for the specific object and the closest verifiable public auction records.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

  • Paintings
  • Sculpture
  • Engravings and lithographs

Value drivers

  1. Medium and work type should be matched when selecting comparable records because the documented practice includes painting, sculpture, illustration, engraving, and lithography.
  2. Subject matter is relevant when comparing works because the female nude is identified as the artist's principal subject.
  3. The documented single-color approach, especially red against white, can help identify visually comparable works but is not proof of authorship.
  4. Available auction records should be compared by work type, sale date, realized price, and similarity rather than treated as a uniform price series.

Appraisal caveats

  • The source pack contains an Appraisily signal for 173 auction records but no lot-level details or major-auction-house narrative.
  • No supported conclusion about price trends, edition structures, condition effects, provenance effects, or catalogue raisonné status can be drawn from this source pack.
  • A recurring subject or red-on-white treatment must not be treated as authentication evidence.

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 Claude Garache

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Artist value FAQ

How much is Claude Garache 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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