Frits Thaulow Auction Prices and Value Guide

Frits Thaulow auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 392 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

Frits Thaulow auction prices: quick answer

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

Artist: Frits Thaulow
Source records: 392
Market update: 2026-02-16

Frits Thaulow market snapshot

Frits Thaulow shows deep auction liquidity with 223 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $26,000. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 18 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-12-10.

Realized price distribution

Under $1,000 (17.1% · 25 sales)
$1,000 to $10,000 (15.8% · 23 sales)
$10,000+ (67.1% · 98 sales)

Median sale (last 12 months): $18,900
Sales recorded (last 12 months): 18
Median shift vs prior year: +100.0%
Latest recorded sale: 2025-12-10

Artist context

About Frits Thaulow

Born

1847

Died

1906

Nationality

Norwegian

Also known as

Fritz Thaulow, Johan Frederik Thaulow

Frits Thaulow (1847–1906) was a Norwegian painter associated in the collected sources with Impressionism and naturalistic landscape imagery. His public identity is represented across Wikidata, Getty ULAN, national-library authority files, and museum artist records, providing a useful foundation for distinguishing him from similarly named artists. The available evidence characterizes painting as his principal field and landscape as the clearest documented subject category. That combination explains why collectors may encounter his name in searches for Scandinavian landscape painting and Impressionist art. Public records also use the forms Fritz Thaulow and Johan Frederik Thaulow, which can be relevant when comparing signatures, catalogue entries, collection records, and auction listings. The current research pack does not provide enough evidence to describe individual periods, named series, specific locations, or a wider range of media with confidence, so those details should be assessed from the work and its accompanying documentation.

ImpressionismPaintingLandscapeNaturalistic landscape imagery

Common works and media

The collected evidence most clearly supports paintings depicting landscapes. It does not establish a sufficiently reliable basis for listing particular painting techniques, print editions, sculpture, ceramics, named series, or recurring geographic locations. Works offered under the artist's name should be compared with documented identity records and relevant auction descriptions before more specific classifications are made.

Market and appraisal context

For appraisal purposes, first confirm that the work's attribution and artist identity are consistent with established authority records, including the documented name variants. The source pack supports landscape painting as the clearest auction-facing category, making subject matter and relevant public comparables useful starting points. Comparable records should be evaluated by sale date, realized price, catalogue description, and the degree of similarity to the object under review when those details are available. The collected evidence does not support a general price forecast or conclusions about particular media, periods, provenance histories, or condition effects. Those factors require object-specific examination and stronger lot-level evidence. A listing under Thaulow's name should therefore be treated as a research lead rather than, by itself, proof of authorship or value.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

Landscape paintings

Value drivers

Consistency of the attribution and artist identity with established authority records
Landscape subject matter
Comparable public auction records, including sale dates and realized prices when available

Appraisal caveats

The collected source pack does not establish medium-specific, period-specific, provenance, condition, or price-trend conclusions.
No fetched major-auction-house biography or lot essay was available in the collected source pack, so market characterization remains deliberately limited.
An appraisal should examine the individual work and its documentation rather than infer value from the artist name alone.

Evidence

Sources for artist context

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

Wikidata library authority
Getty Vocabulary Program library authority
British Museum museum or university
National Gallery of Art museum or university
Art UK museum or university
Wikipedia wikipedia

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 Frits Thaulow

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Artist value FAQ

How much is Frits Thaulow 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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