Douglas Portway Auction Prices and Value Guide

Douglas Portway auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 290 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

Douglas Portway auction prices: quick answer

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

Artist
Douglas Portway
Source records
290
Market update
2026-02-16

Douglas Portway market snapshot

Douglas Portway shows deep auction liquidity with 186 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $2,160. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 11 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-12-28.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (41.2% · 42 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (38.2% · 39 sales)
  • $10,000+ (20.6% · 21 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$140
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
11
Median shift vs prior year
0.0%
Latest recorded sale
2025-12-28

Artist context

About Douglas Portway

Born

1922

Died

1993

Nationality

South African

Also known as

Portway, Douglas

Douglas Portway (1922–1993) was a painter represented in several international authority systems and in Tate’s artist index. The collected records agree on his name, occupation, and life years, but they differ in their national description: VIAF exposes a German National Library description identifying him as South African, while Wikidata labels him British. The South African description is retained here provisionally because it comes through a national-library authority record, while the disagreement remains open for further research. Painting is the only artistic medium securely established by the available source excerpts. The pack does not provide enough evidence to assign Portway to a specific movement, identify recurring subjects, or describe distinct periods or series. Collectors may encounter his name through paintings offered in the auction market, museum collection indexes, and cataloguing records, but individual works require separate examination before claims about technique, date, authorship, or significance are made.

Painting

Common works and media

Painting is the only common work type securely supported by the collected identity sources. The pack does not establish whether works encountered at auction are predominantly oils, works on paper, prints, or another specific format, and it provides no reliable basis for naming recurring subjects, editions, series, or periods. Those characteristics should be taken from the individual object and its documented catalogue record rather than inferred from the artist’s general identity profile.

Market and appraisal context

The available evidence establishes Douglas Portway as a painter and confirms that Appraisily maintains auction-record context under his public artist page. It does not, however, supply item-level descriptions, condition information, provenance, sale dates, realized prices, or enough evidence to characterize particular bodies of work. Market assessment should therefore rely on the documentation attached to the specific object and on genuinely comparable public sales whose attribution and work characteristics can be checked. Identity deserves particular care because collected authority records describe Portway differently as South African and British. No price forecast, market trend, scarcity claim, or premium for a particular subject or technique is supported by this source pack.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

  • Paintings

Value drivers

  1. Secure artist identification and attribution, including resolution of conflicting British and South African authority descriptions
  2. Comparable public auction records for works attributed to Douglas Portway, when supported by individual lot details

Appraisal caveats

  • The collected pack contains no item-level auction descriptions, condition reports, provenance histories, dimensions, techniques, sale dates, or realized prices.
  • No price trend, scarcity conclusion, or price prediction can be supported from the collected excerpts alone.

Evidence

Sources for artist context

This source-grounded artist context is based on collected public records: medium confidence, adequate source quality.

Source-grounded artist Markdown

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 Douglas Portway

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Artist value FAQ

How much is Douglas Portway 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 Douglas Portway artwork?

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