Emily Carr Auction Prices and Value Guide

Emily Carr auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 177 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

Emily Carr auction prices: quick answer

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

Artist
Emily Carr
Source records
177
Market update
2026-02-06

Emily Carr market snapshot

Emily Carr shows developing auction liquidity with 30 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $3,750. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 4 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-11-20.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (44.4% · 12 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (25.9% · 7 sales)
  • $10,000+ (29.6% · 8 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$4,500
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
4
Median shift vs prior year
+20.0%
Latest recorded sale
2025-11-20

Artist context

About Emily Carr

Emily Carr portrait
Emily Carr · Public domain · Source

Born

1871

Died

1945

Nationality

Canadian

Emily Carr (1871–1945) was a Canadian painter and writer whose work is closely associated with British Columbia. Public reference sources describe her artistic attention to the province's landscapes and forests and to the monumental art and villages of First Nations communities on the Pacific Northwest Coast. Her painting has been discussed in relation to Modernism and Post-Impressionism, while her parallel career as an author broadened her cultural legacy. Carr's first book, Klee Wyck, appeared in 1941 and received the Governor General's Literary Award for non-fiction. Collectors may encounter her name through paintings centered on landscape and coastal cultural subjects, as well as through books and later compilations of her writing. Because these subjects carry distinct historical and cultural contexts, careful cataloguing should distinguish what a work depicts, how it is titled, and what documentation accompanies it. Wikidata, VIAF, and Getty ULAN provide stable identifiers that help distinguish Carr from similarly named people across public collections and research systems.

ModernismPost-ImpressionismPaintingLiterary writingBritish Columbia landscapes and forestsPacific Northwest Coast First Nations monumental art and villages

Common works and media

The source pack most securely supports paintings as Carr's principal visual-work type. Subject descriptions emphasize British Columbia landscapes, especially forests, together with imagery informed by First Nations monumental art and villages on the Pacific Northwest Coast. The available excerpts do not establish a dependable list of print editions, drawings, ceramics, sculptures, or other auction categories, so those forms should not be assumed from the artist name alone. Carr's authored and compiled writings may also appear in collecting contexts, but books should be catalogued separately from her visual art.

Market and appraisal context

An appraisal should begin by confirming that the object is connected to the correct Emily Carr entity and recording its exact attribution language. The collected pack most clearly supports paintings, with subject context centered on British Columbia landscapes and Pacific Northwest Coast First Nations monumental art and villages. Comparable selection should therefore match work type and subject as closely as the available auction records allow. Appraisily's input associates 177 auction records with this artist page, but the source pack provides no lot-level evidence about condition, provenance, dimensions, or edition status. Those details should be taken from each underlying auction record before comparison. A record count by itself does not authenticate an object, establish current value, or demonstrate a market trend.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

  • Paintings

Value drivers

  1. Match comparable works by documented work type and subject context, including British Columbia landscapes and coastal cultural subjects
  2. Compare available public auction records by sale date and realized price when the underlying lot data are available

Appraisal caveats

  • The collected source pack does not provide lot-level condition, provenance, dimensions, edition, or attribution evidence.
  • The 177-record input count indicates the size of the associated Appraisily auction dataset, not authenticity, present value, or a price trend.
  • Movement labels and detailed subject descriptions should be checked against museum or scholarly collection records before being treated as definitive catalogue terminology.

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 Emily Carr

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Artist value FAQ

How much is Emily Carr 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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