Cleon Peterson Auction Prices and Value Guide
Cleon Peterson auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 310 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.
Cleon Peterson auction prices: quick answer
Cleon Peterson auction prices depend on medium, size, date, condition, provenance, edition details, attribution confidence, and recent comparable auction sales.
- Artist
- Cleon Peterson
- Source records
- 310
- Market update
- 2026-02-16
Cleon Peterson market snapshot
Cleon Peterson shows solid auction liquidity with 117 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $440. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 13 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2026-01-26.
Realized price distribution
- Under $1,000 (65.4% · 34 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000 (25.0% · 13 sales)
- $10,000+ (9.6% · 5 sales)
- Median sale (last 12 months)
- $2,600
- Sales recorded (last 12 months)
- 13
- Median shift vs prior year
- +4.3%
- Latest recorded sale
- 2026-01-26
Artist context
About Cleon Peterson
Nationality
American
Cleon Peterson is an American contemporary artist and painter based in Los Angeles. The available authority record identifies him as an American painter, while the collected biographical source places his work in contemporary art. He is best known in these sources for large-scale paintings and murals populated by stylized human figures locked in violent conflict. The imagery addresses power, domination, and societal collapse, giving the work a stark social and political frame. For collectors, the most useful identity markers in this source pack are the artist's name, Los Angeles base, painting practice, mural production, and recurring conflict-driven figurative vocabulary. These markers can help organize research and comparable-lot searches, but they should not be treated as authentication on their own. The present evidence supports a concise identity summary but is too thin to establish a detailed chronology, education history, named series, exact birth date, or broad institutional exhibition record.
Contemporary artPaintingMuralsStylized human figures in violent conflictPower and dominationSocietal collapse
Common works and media
The collected sources most clearly associate Peterson with paintings and large-scale murals. Recurring imagery includes stylized human figures engaged in violent conflict, with themes of power, domination, and societal collapse. The source pack does not adequately document prints, editions, drawings, sculptures, ceramics, posters, named series, or other work types, so those categories are not asserted here.
Market and appraisal context
Market comparison should begin by identifying the work's medium, format, scale, and composition. The collected biography specifically documents paintings and murals, including large-scale imagery built around stylized figures in violent conflict. These characteristics can help researchers group superficially comparable works, but they do not establish authorship or predict value. No accessible major-auction-house source or detailed sale analysis was collected, so this profile does not support claims about price trends, scarcity, or market direction. Any appraisal should rely on verified object-specific evidence and relevant public auction records rather than biography alone.
Auction categories and appraisal factors
Common auction categories
- Paintings
Value drivers
- Medium and format, particularly the distinction between paintings and murals
- Scale of the work
- Subject and composition, including Peterson's documented vocabulary of stylized figures in conflict
Appraisal caveats
- The collected source pack contains no accessible major-auction-house biography, catalogue entry, or sale analysis.
- The Appraisily artist page and several authority endpoints were rate-limited during collection, so their underlying content could not be evaluated.
- No claims about price levels, market direction, edition scarcity, provenance premiums, condition sensitivity, or auction performance are supported by this source pack.
- The listed valuation factors are cautious appraisal inferences from documented work types and imagery, not conclusions from an auction-market study.
Evidence
Sources for artist context
This source-grounded artist context is based on collected public records: medium confidence, thin source quality.
- Wikidata library authority
- Wikipedia wikipedia
- VIAF library authority
- Library of Congress library authority
- Deutsche Nationalbibliothek library authority
- IdRef library authority
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 Cleon Peterson 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 Cleon Peterson artwork?
Yes. Appraisily can review photos, dimensions, signatures, condition, provenance, and comparable market data to prepare a current valuation.