Gerard Dillon Auction Prices and Value Guide

Gerard Dillon auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 916 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

Gerard Dillon auction prices: quick answer

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

Artist
Gerard Dillon
Source records
916
Market update
2026-02-06

Gerard Dillon market snapshot

Gerard Dillon shows very deep auction liquidity with 582 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $3,000. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 17 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-11-26.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (22.1% · 88 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (49.9% · 199 sales)
  • $10,000+ (28.1% · 112 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$5,400
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
17
Median shift vs prior year
+42.1%
Latest recorded sale
2025-11-26

Artist context

About Gerard Dillon

Born

1916

Died

1971

Nationality

Irish

Gerard Dillon (1916–1971) was an Irish painter and artist whose identity is consistently represented across international art and library authority systems. Wikidata, VIAF, Getty ULAN, and the Library of Congress connect the name to the same twentieth-century Irish artist, providing a useful foundation for catalogue and auction-record matching. Authority-linked work titles include references to an artist's studio, children playing, a Chinese garden, and circus acrobats. These examples indicate some of the imagery attached to Dillon's name, although the collected evidence is not sufficient to describe them as dominant themes across his entire career. Collectors may encounter Dillon through paintings and public auction records. Because the available source pack does not establish a movement, exact life dates, or a comprehensive catalogue of media and subjects, those details should be researched object by object rather than inferred from the artist's name alone.

PaintingArtist studiosChildren at playGardensCircus performers

Common works and media

The source pack supports painting as Dillon's principal documented work type. Authority-linked titles provide examples involving a studio, children at play, a garden, and circus performers, but they should not be treated as a complete or statistically representative subject list. The available evidence does not establish common print editions, sculpture, ceramics, posters, or other recurring formats.

Market and appraisal context

For a Gerard Dillon appraisal, the strongest starting point is a secure identity match to the Irish painter born in 1916 and deceased in 1971. Relevant public auction records can then be compared by work type, catalogue attribution, dimensions, sale date, and realized result when those fields are available. The collected evidence supports paintings as an auction category but does not establish artist-specific price trends or premiums for particular subjects, periods, provenance, or condition. Those factors should therefore be assessed from the individual object, its documentation, and closely comparable catalogued sales rather than from an unsupported general estimate.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

  • Paintings

Value drivers

  1. Comparable public auction records for works catalogued under Gerard Dillon
  2. Consistency of the artist identification and attribution with established authority records

Appraisal caveats

  • The collected source pack contains an Appraisily auction-record signal but no accessible major auction-house catalogue entries, so it does not support artist-specific claims about price trends, record prices, scarcity, condition premiums, provenance premiums, or subject-matter premiums.
  • Authority-linked work titles suggest several subjects but do not establish how frequently those subjects occur across Dillon's complete body of work.
  • Any appraisal should distinguish confirmed authorship from attribution, association, or stylistic resemblance.

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 Gerard Dillon

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Artist value FAQ

How much is Gerard Dillon 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 Gerard Dillon artwork?

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