Doris Jean McCarthy Auction Prices and Value Guide
Doris Jean McCarthy auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 144 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.
Doris Jean McCarthy auction prices: quick answer
Doris Jean McCarthy auction prices depend on medium, size, date, condition, provenance, edition details, attribution confidence, and recent comparable auction sales.
- Artist
- Doris Jean McCarthy
- Source records
- 144
- Market update
- 2026-02-06
Doris Jean McCarthy market snapshot
Doris Jean McCarthy shows solid auction liquidity with 69 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $3,910. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 3 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2026-01-16.
Realized price distribution
- Under $1,000 (5.2% · 3 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000 (79.3% · 46 sales)
- $10,000+ (15.5% · 9 sales)
- Median sale (last 12 months)
- $1,200
- Sales recorded (last 12 months)
- 3
- Median shift vs prior year
- 0.0%
- Latest recorded sale
- 2026-01-16
Artist context
About Doris Jean McCarthy
Born
1910
Died
2010
Nationality
Canadian
Also known as
Doris McCarthy
Doris Jean McCarthy (1910–2010) was a Canadian artist whose public record centers on painting, especially semi-abstracted landscapes. She also worked as an art teacher and wrote three autobiographies, giving her career a broader educational and literary context. Her landscape practice retained a direct engagement with observed nature while allowing forms to become simplified or abstracted. Icebergs are among the subjects repeatedly associated with her work, alongside the wider landscape category. McCarthy taught at Central Technical School in Toronto and became the first woman to serve as president of the Ontario Society of Artists. Collectors may encounter her through Canadian landscape paintings, including works in which recognizable terrain or ice formations are treated with varying degrees of abstraction. Appraisily’s source input records 144 auction-directory entries under her name, indicating a substantial body of potential public-market material, although each lot must be checked carefully before it is treated as comparable evidence.
PaintingLandscapesIcebergs
Common works and media
Works most clearly supported by the collected sources are paintings of landscapes, including semi-abstracted views and iceberg subjects. The pack does not provide enough evidence to characterize her drawings, prints, editions, sculptures, ceramics, or posters as common auction categories.
Market and appraisal context
For Doris McCarthy, the closest comparisons are likely to be records for paintings with similar landscape or iceberg subjects and a comparable balance of representation and abstraction. Appraisily’s artist input identifies 144 auction-directory records, but this source pack does not expose their individual sale dates, realized prices, media, sizes, condition reports, provenance, or attribution notes. Those fields should therefore be verified at lot level before any record is used in an appraisal. The available biographical sources support organizing her market primarily around Canadian landscape painting; they do not support a price trend, scarcity claim, or forecast. Valuation should remain tied to confirmed object facts and genuinely comparable public sales.
Auction categories and appraisal factors
Common auction categories
- Canadian landscape paintings
- Iceberg paintings
Value drivers
- Similarity of work type and landscape or iceberg subject to the proposed comparable lot
- Degree of representation or abstraction when selecting comparable landscape paintings
- Confirmed sale dates and realized prices from genuinely comparable public auction records
Appraisal caveats
- The source input reports 144 auction-directory entries, but the collected pack does not expose individual lot descriptions, sale dates, realized prices, dimensions, condition reports, provenance, or attribution notes.
- No price trend, scarcity conclusion, or value forecast can be supported from this source pack alone.
- Medium, date, dimensions, condition, provenance, attribution, and auction-result details should be confirmed from the underlying object and lot records before appraisal.
Evidence
Sources for artist context
This source-grounded artist context is based on collected public records: medium confidence, adequate source quality.
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 Doris Jean McCarthy 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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