Gerda Wegener Auction Prices and Value Guide

Gerda Wegener auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 165 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

Gerda Wegener auction prices: quick answer

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

Artist
Gerda Wegener
Source records
165
Market update
2026-02-16

Gerda Wegener market snapshot

Gerda Wegener shows solid auction liquidity with 89 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $1,600. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 3 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-10-28.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (36.7% · 22 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (50.0% · 30 sales)
  • $10,000+ (13.3% · 8 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$5,500
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
3
Median shift vs prior year
+83.3%
Latest recorded sale
2025-10-28

Artist context

About Gerda Wegener

Gerda Wegener portrait
C. L. Wilhelm Kihlstrøm (1870–1923) · Public domain · Source

Born

1885

Died

1940

Nationality

Danish

Also known as

Gerda Marie Fredrikke Wegener, Gerda Marie Frederikke Gottlieb

Gerda Wegener (1885–1940) was a Danish painter, illustrator, and designer whose career included activity in France. Authority records and biographical sources also identify her by forms of her birth name, Gerda Marie Frederikke Gottlieb, making name reconciliation important when researching her work. Wegener is associated with Art Nouveau and, in her later work, Art Deco. She became known for fashion illustration, paintings, and highly stylized images of women. Biographical accounts also connect her imagery with questions of gender and love, erotic themes, and her partner Lili Elbe. Collectors may therefore encounter Wegener through several overlapping categories rather than a single uniform body of work: paintings, commissioned or published illustrations, drawings, and graphic images. Her shifts in medium, style, and subject make accurate cataloguing especially important when matching an object to institutional references or selecting comparable auction records.

Art NouveauArt DecoPaintingIllustration, including fashion illustrationGraphic art and stylized printsFashionable womenGender and loveErotic imagery

Common works and media

Works catalogued under Gerda Wegener may include paintings, fashion illustrations, drawings, and stylized graphic images or prints. Female figures and fashionable women are recurring subjects in the collected biographical sources, while some works address gender, love, and erotic themes. Cataloguing should distinguish medium, intended use, and Art Nouveau or Art Deco context before comparing works.

Market and appraisal context

Market interpretation should begin by distinguishing Wegener's paintings from illustrations and other graphic works. Comparable selection may also depend on whether a work belongs more closely to an Art Nouveau or Art Deco context and whether its subject relates to fashion imagery, stylized women, or the gender and erotic themes associated with her work. Name variants involving Wegener and Gottlieb should be checked during attribution research. The supplied Appraisily input reports 165 records, but this source pack includes no individual auction-house results, condition reports, or price histories. It therefore supports category-level appraisal guidance rather than a price forecast or claim about market direction.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

  • Paintings
  • Illustrations and graphic works

Value drivers

  1. Work type and medium, particularly the distinction between paintings, illustrations, and graphic works
  2. Art Nouveau or Art Deco stylistic context when selecting comparable works
  3. Subject matter, including fashion imagery and works addressing gender, love, or erotic themes
  4. Correct entity attribution across Wegener and Gottlieb name variants

Appraisal caveats

  • The collected pack contains no fetched major-auction-house lot descriptions, results, or condition reports, so it does not support price-trend conclusions.
  • Auction-category labels are inferred from documented work types and should be confirmed against individual cataloguing and lot records.
  • The supplied artist-page signal reports 165 records, but the source pack contains no lot-level data with which to reconcile that count.

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 Gerda Wegener

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Artist value FAQ

How much is Gerda Wegener 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 Gerda Wegener artwork?

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