Earl Biss Auction Prices and Value Guide

Earl Biss auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 333 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

Earl Biss auction prices: quick answer

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

Artist
Earl Biss
Source records
333
Market update
2026-02-06

Earl Biss market snapshot

Earl Biss shows deep auction liquidity with 183 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $1,200. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 22 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-12-15.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (44.0% · 77 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (28.6% · 50 sales)
  • $10,000+ (27.4% · 48 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$1,168
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
22
Median shift vs prior year
+74.1%
Latest recorded sale
2025-12-15

Artist context

About Earl Biss

Born

1947

Died

1998

Nationality

American

Also known as

Earl V. Biss, Earl V. Biss Jr., Iichíile Xáxxish, Spotted Horse

Earl Biss (1947–1998) was an American painter and lithographer identified in public authority data as Apsáalooke (Crow/Absaroke) and Chippewa/Ojibwa. Records also index him as Earl V. Biss, Earl V. Biss Jr., and Iichíile Xáxxish; a biographical reference records the additional names Spotted Horse and The Spirit Who Walks Among His People. These variants are useful when reconciling artist headings across catalogues, collection records, and other documentation. The available institution-grade evidence securely establishes Biss’s identity, lifespan, and work as a painter and lithographer, but it does not establish a particular movement, recurring subject program, or named series. Collectors may encounter his identity while researching either a painting or a lithograph recorded under one of his documented names. Appraisily uses these authority links as a foundation for entity matching while keeping stylistic classification and object-level attribution dependent on evidence associated with the individual work.

PaintingLithography

Common works and media

The authority evidence supports two broad types of work associated with Earl Biss: paintings and lithographs. The source pack does not document recurring subjects, named series, edition practices, or other media, so those characteristics should be established from the individual object and its documentation rather than assumed.

Market and appraisal context

For an Earl Biss appraisal, the principal source-backed distinction in this pack is the work type: VIAF identifies him as both a painter and lithographer. His documented name variants also make careful entity matching important when comparing an object with catalogue and collection records. The collected evidence does not include a detailed major-auction-house profile or accessible lot-level results, so it cannot support conclusions about price direction, rarity, premium subjects, or the relative market standing of paintings and lithographs. A defensible valuation therefore requires separate object-level documentation and relevant comparable public sales. The artist name and authority identifiers establish research context, but they do not determine attribution or value by themselves.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Value drivers

  1. Correct classification of the object as a painting or lithograph
  2. Identity reconciliation across documented personal-name variants

Appraisal caveats

  • The source pack contains no successfully fetched major-auction-house biography or detailed public lot records.
  • The evidence does not support claims about price trends, rarity, premium subjects, named series, or the relative market performance of paintings and lithographs.
  • Object-level attribution and valuation require evidence beyond the artist identity records in this source pack.

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 Earl Biss

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Artist value FAQ

How much is Earl Biss 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 Earl Biss artwork?

Yes. Appraisily can review photos, dimensions, signatures, condition, provenance, and comparable market data to prepare a current valuation.