Dimitrios Galanis Auction Prices and Value Guide

Dimitrios Galanis auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 186 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

Dimitrios Galanis auction prices: quick answer

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

Artist
Dimitrios Galanis
Source records
186
Market update
2026-02-06

Dimitrios Galanis market snapshot

Dimitrios Galanis shows solid auction liquidity with 60 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $2,151. 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 (32.4% · 11 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (52.9% · 18 sales)
  • $10,000+ (14.7% · 5 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$2,000
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
6
Median shift vs prior year
0.0%
Latest recorded sale
2025-12-03

Artist context

About Dimitrios Galanis

Dimitrios Galanis portrait
Georgios Roilos [ de ] [ el ] (1867 - 1928) · Public domain · Source

Born

1879

Died

1966

Nationality

Greek, French

Also known as

Demetrios Galanis, Démétrios Galanis, Démétrius Emmanuel Galanis, Δημήτριος Γαλάνης

Dimitrios Galanis (1879–1966), also catalogued as Demetrios or Démétrios Galanis, was a Greek painter and engraver who became a French citizen. Authority records identify him across Greek, French, and transliterated name forms, although one contributor record aggregated by VIAF gives an inconsistent 1882 birth year. He belongs to the early twentieth-century modern-art context. A biographical summary places him in exhibitions with Matisse and Braque in 1920 and later with Juan Gris, Dufy, Chagall, and Picasso. His documented Seated Nude, completed in 1920, provides one clear subject and date reference. Collectors may encounter his name on paintings and engraved prints, often under French spellings that differ from this page title. Reliable matching therefore depends on dates, name variants, medium, and authority identifiers rather than spelling alone. The collected institutional profiles support entity matching, but the source pack provides limited detailed catalogue text.

Early twentieth-century modern artPaintingEngravingNude figure, documented by Seated Nude of 1920

Common works and media

Works likely to appear under Galanis's name include paintings and engraved prints, reflecting his documented roles as painter and engraver. The source pack specifically identifies Seated Nude, completed in 1920, as a dated figurative work. Name forms can vary substantially across catalogues, so searches should include Demetrios, Démétrios, Démétrius Emmanuel, and the Greek form Δημήτριος Γαλάνης. The available evidence does not support a broader claim about recurring subjects, named series, edition sizes, or favored print processes.

Market and appraisal context

Appraisal should begin by distinguishing paintings from engravings and identifying the object's technique, subject, date, and dimensions. The collected Appraisily page indicates an auction-record footprint for Galanis, but this source pack contains no extracted lot-level examples from a major auction house. Comparables should therefore be matched carefully by work type and sale date after the object and attribution have been established. A dated nude painting should not be compared indiscriminately with an undated print. Condition, provenance, signature, and edition or impression details should be documented through object-specific examination rather than inferred from the artist record. Public realized prices provide historical evidence and do not guarantee a future sale result.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

  • Paintings
  • Engravings and prints

Value drivers

  1. Work type and medium, particularly whether the object is a painting or an engraving
  2. Subject and date, matched with documented works such as Seated Nude of 1920
  3. Comparable public auction records matched by work type and sale date when suitable records are available

Appraisal caveats

  • The collected source pack contains an Appraisily auction-record signal but no extracted lot-level evidence from a major auction house.
  • No object-specific attribution, condition, provenance, signature, dimensions, edition, or impression information is supplied; those details require separate examination.
  • Historical realized prices should be treated as comparable evidence rather than as predictions of future value.

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 Dimitrios Galanis

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Artist value FAQ

How much is Dimitrios Galanis 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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