Douglas Volk Auction Prices and Value Guide
Douglas Volk auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 887 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.
Douglas Volk auction prices: quick answer
Douglas Volk auction prices depend on medium, size, date, condition, provenance, edition details, attribution confidence, and recent comparable auction sales.
- Artist
- Douglas Volk
- Source records
- 887
- Market update
- 2026-02-16
Douglas Volk market snapshot
Douglas Volk shows deep auction liquidity with 197 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $600. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 7 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2026-02-13.
Realized price distribution
- Under $1,000 (54.5% · 18 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000 (39.4% · 13 sales)
- $10,000+ (6.1% · 2 sales)
- Median sale (last 12 months)
- $600
- Sales recorded (last 12 months)
- 7
- Median shift vs prior year
- 0.0%
- Latest recorded sale
- 2026-02-13
Artist context
About Douglas Volk
Born
1856
Died
1935
Nationality
American
Also known as
Stephen Arnold Douglas Volk
Douglas Volk (1856–1935), born Stephen Arnold Douglas Volk, was an American portrait and figure painter, muralist, and art educator. His career joined studio practice with teaching: the collected biography identifies appointments at Cooper Union and the Art Students League of New York and describes him as a founder of the Minneapolis School of Fine Arts. Volk and his wife, Marion, also established a summer artists’ colony in western Maine, extending his role in American art beyond the production of paintings. Collectors are most likely to encounter his name in connection with portraits, figure compositions, and works associated with his long teaching career. His record should be distinguished from similarly named artists by using his full name, life years, and authority identifiers. The available source pack establishes the broad outline of his identity and practice, but it does not provide enough accessible museum or scholarly text to assign a specific movement, define chronological periods, or summarize a catalogue of major works with confidence.
PaintingMural paintingPortraitureFigure subjects
Common works and media
Volk is documented as a portrait and figure painter as well as a muralist. Works considered in an appraisal context may therefore include painted portraits, figure compositions, and mural-related material. The present source pack does not support claims about which formats, supports, sizes, subjects, or periods occur most often at auction.
Market and appraisal context
The collected Appraisily input indicates an auction-record footprint, but the accessible source pack contains no lot-level descriptions, sale results, or major-auction-house commentary. Appraisal should therefore begin by confirming attribution and documenting the work’s medium, dimensions, subject, date, inscriptions, provenance, condition, and any exhibition or publication history. A portrait may also require identification of the sitter and comparison with securely documented works. These are review points, not claims that any one feature guarantees a higher price. When public sale records are available, comparisons should use genuinely similar works and account for auction house, sale date, currency, condition, and whether a reported figure is a hammer price or includes buyer’s premium.
Auction categories and appraisal factors
Appraisal caveats
- The collected Appraisily page signal at https://appraisily.com/artist/douglas-volk/ did not provide accessible lot-level descriptions or results in this source pack, so auction-category and price-trend claims are omitted.
- The portrait, figure, and mural practices documented at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Volk describe the artist’s activity but do not establish how frequently each work type appears at auction.
Evidence
Sources for artist context
This source-grounded artist context is based on collected public records: medium confidence, adequate source quality.
- Wikidata library authority
- Wikipedia wikipedia
- Wikimedia Commons image repository
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 Douglas Volk 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 Volk artwork?
Yes. Appraisily can review photos, dimensions, signatures, condition, provenance, and comparable market data to prepare a current valuation.