Erle Loran Auction Prices and Value Guide

Erle Loran auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 182 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

Erle Loran auction prices: quick answer

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

Artist
Erle Loran
Source records
182
Market update
2026-02-06

Erle Loran market snapshot

Erle Loran shows solid auction liquidity with 91 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $800. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 19 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2026-01-29.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (56.6% · 30 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (43.4% · 23 sales)
  • $10,000+ (0.0% · 0 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$1,270
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
19
Median shift vs prior year
+58.8%
Latest recorded sale
2026-01-29

Artist context

About Erle Loran

Born

1905

Died

1999

Nationality

American

Erle Loran (1905–1999) was an American painter, author, art historian, and longtime professor of art. He taught at the University of California, Berkeley from 1937 to 1981 and became especially known for writing about the formal analysis of Paul Cézanne's paintings. This combination of studio practice, scholarship, and teaching gives Loran a distinct place in twentieth-century American art history, although the collected evidence does not establish a specific movement label. Collectors may encounter Loran chiefly through paintings, while library authority records also reflect his importance as an author. Public identifiers from Wikidata, Getty ULAN, VIAF, and the Library of Congress help distinguish him from similarly named people and connect his artistic and published activity. The available material also reports that museums in California and New York hold his paintings, but it provides no collection-level details. This profile therefore emphasizes confirmed identity and professional context rather than assigning unsupported styles, subjects, or periods.

Painting

Common works and media

Painting is the only work type clearly supported by the collected sources. The evidence does not establish recurring subjects, named series, print editions, sculpture, ceramics, drawings, posters, or other common auction categories. Works in media other than painting should be classified from the object and corroborated with museum, catalogue, or auction documentation before being described as typical of Loran's practice.

Market and appraisal context

The collected material establishes a public auction context for Erle Loran and identifies painting as the principal supported work type, but it does not provide individual lot descriptions, sale dates, realized prices, dimensions, condition reports, provenance, signatures, or attribution notes. A defensible appraisal should therefore be based on comparable public auction records selected for the particular object once those records are available. The present evidence cannot support claims about price trends, scarcity, market direction, or the relative importance of particular subjects and periods. No major-auction-house source was included in the collected source pack.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

  • Paintings

Appraisal caveats

  • The collected source pack does not include individual auction-lot descriptions, realized prices, dimensions, condition reports, provenance, signature information, or attribution notes.
  • No major-auction-house source was collected, so price trends, market direction, scarcity, and artist-specific valuation factors cannot be established from this evidence.
  • Painting is the only supported broad work type; recurring subjects, named series, editions, and additional media remain undocumented in the collected material.

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 Erle Loran

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Artist value FAQ

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