Dirk Skreber Auction Prices and Value Guide

Dirk Skreber auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 172 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

Dirk Skreber auction prices: quick answer

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

Artist
Dirk Skreber
Source records
172
Market update
2026-02-16

Dirk Skreber market snapshot

Dirk Skreber shows solid auction liquidity with 109 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $21,600. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 5 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-10-30.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (6.9% · 4 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (17.2% · 10 sales)
  • $10,000+ (75.9% · 44 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$3,000
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
5
Median shift vs prior year
0.0%
Latest recorded sale
2025-10-30

Artist context

About Dirk Skreber

Born

1961

Nationality

German

Dirk Skreber is a German contemporary artist born in 1961. Public biographical sources place him in New York City, where he lives and works. A Dutch-language biography reports that he studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1982 to 1988, including study with Alfonso Hüppi, and describes a practice spanning painting, sculpture, and installation. It also identifies Skreber as the first recipient of the Preis der Nationalgalerie für junge Kunst in 2000. Collectors may therefore encounter his name across several work types rather than in connection with a single medium. The present evidence is uneven: authority data supports his basic identity, birth year, and German nationality, while the available details about his training and award come only from Wikipedia and need institutional corroboration. Any appraisal should begin by confirming that the object is correctly attributed to this Dirk Skreber and by identifying its medium and date.

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Common works and media

The available biography describes Skreber as working in painting, sculpture, and installation. The source pack does not establish recurring subjects, named series, print editions, drawings, ceramics, posters, or the relative frequency with which any work type appears at auction, so those details should not be inferred from this profile.

Market and appraisal context

The collected input associates Dirk Skreber with 172 records, but this source pack provides no readable lot-level results or major-auction-house analysis. No price direction or hierarchy among his work types is therefore asserted. The documented range of painting, sculpture, and installation makes accurate medium and object classification an important starting point. A market comparison should use genuinely comparable public sales when records are available, with sale dates and realized prices interpreted in their specific lot context. Edition information, recurring series, subject premiums, condition effects, provenance, and attribution evidence were not established by the collected sources and require separate object- and lot-level research before they can support a valuation conclusion.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Value drivers

  1. Correct classification of the work as a painting, sculpture, or installation-related object
  2. Comparison with public auction records for genuinely comparable works when lot-level records are available

Appraisal caveats

  • The collected input reports 172 associated records, but the source pack contains no readable lot-level auction results or major-auction-house source.
  • No supported conclusions can be drawn here about price trends, subject premiums, editions, scarcity, or the relative frequency of different auction categories.
  • The public Appraisily artist page was rate-limited during collection, so its sale records were not independently reviewed in this research pass.

Evidence

Sources for artist context

This source-grounded artist context is based on collected public records: medium confidence, thin 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 Dirk Skreber

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Artist value FAQ

How much is Dirk Skreber worth?

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