Georg Karl Pfahler Auction Prices and Value Guide

Georg Karl Pfahler auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 624 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

Georg Karl Pfahler auction prices: quick answer

Georg Karl Pfahler auction prices depend on medium, size, date, condition, provenance, edition details, attribution confidence, and recent comparable auction sales.

Artist
Georg Karl Pfahler
Source records
624
Market update
2026-02-16

Georg Karl Pfahler market snapshot

Georg Karl Pfahler shows deep auction liquidity with 206 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $275. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 35 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-12-06.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (64.9% · 74 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (19.3% · 22 sales)
  • $10,000+ (15.8% · 18 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$200
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
35
Median shift vs prior year
+33.3%
Latest recorded sale
2025-12-06

Artist context

About Georg Karl Pfahler

Born

1926

Died

2002

Nationality

German

Also known as

Karl Pfahler, Karl-Georg Pfahler

Georg Karl Pfahler (1926–2002) was a German painter, printmaker, and sculptor associated with post-war abstraction. Public reference sources connect him particularly with Hard-edge and Color Field painting, contexts in which color and clearly defined form became central visual elements. Authority records maintained by Wikidata, VIAF, and Getty ULAN align his identity across collection and library systems, while VIAF also records variants of his name. Collectors may encounter Pfahler through paintings, prints, and sculpture rather than through a single uniform category. That breadth makes accurate identification of the object’s medium and catalogued authorship important when comparing records. The supplied sources establish his basic identity and artistic context, but they do not provide enough institutional detail to map individual series, subjects, or a complete chronology. Those distinctions should therefore be researched at the object level rather than inferred from the artist’s general association with post-war geometric abstraction.

Hard-edge paintingColor Field paintingPost-war German abstractionPaintingPrintmakingSculpture

Common works and media

Works encountered in appraisal and auction settings may include paintings, prints, and sculpture. Public sources support Pfahler’s activity in all three media, but the collected material does not identify reliable subject categories, named series, preferred supports, print techniques, or edition sizes. Cataloguing should preserve the object’s stated medium, date, dimensions, inscriptions, signature information, and edition notation without assuming that a geometric appearance alone establishes authorship.

Market and appraisal context

Pfahler’s market context spans paintings, prints, and sculpture, so comparisons should begin with the same type of object and medium. Appraisily’s artist data associates a substantial auction-record set with his name, but a record count alone does not establish the relevance or quality of any individual comparable. A defensible appraisal should examine the lot description, attribution, date, dimensions, condition, provenance, edition information where applicable, sale date, and realized result. The supplied research pack does not contain detailed auction-house records or evidence of price direction, scarcity, or authenticity. Market conclusions should therefore be based on verified object characteristics and closely comparable public sales, not on the artist name alone.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

  • Paintings
  • Prints and editions
  • Sculpture

Value drivers

  1. Work type and medium should be established before selecting comparable records, particularly because the artist worked across painting, printmaking, and sculpture.
  2. Comparable public auction records catalogued under the artist provide market context when individual lot descriptions, sale dates, and realized prices are available.
  3. Authority-record matching can help distinguish the artist and documented name variants when reviewing catalogued works.

Appraisal caveats

  • The collected source pack does not include detailed major-auction-house lot descriptions or realized-price evidence.
  • No conclusions about price direction, rarity, condition, provenance, dimensions, edition size, or authenticity can be drawn from this source pack alone.
  • Auction-record associations require object-level review because name matching does not by itself establish attribution or authenticity.

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 Georg Karl Pfahler

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Artist value FAQ

How much is Georg Karl Pfahler 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 Georg Karl Pfahler artwork?

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