Gilbert Holiday Auction Prices and Value Guide

Gilbert Holiday auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 176 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

Gilbert Holiday auction prices: quick answer

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

Artist
Gilbert Holiday
Source records
176
Market update
2026-02-06

Gilbert Holiday market snapshot

Gilbert Holiday shows solid auction liquidity with 52 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $800. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 3 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-10-29.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (59.3% · 16 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (37.0% · 10 sales)
  • $10,000+ (3.7% · 1 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$400
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
3
Median shift vs prior year
0.0%
Latest recorded sale
2025-10-29

Artist context

About Gilbert Holiday

Born

1879

Died

1937

Nationality

British

Also known as

Gilbert Joseph Holiday

Gilbert Holiday (1879–1937), identified in authority records as Gilbert Joseph Holiday, was a British painter whose career also included published illustration. Getty ULAN, VIAF, Wikidata, and Art UK align on his identity and life years. Surviving magazine illustrations credited to Holiday include scenes made for Arthur Conan Doyle's The Adventure of the Devil's Foot in The Strand Magazine in 1910, demonstrating his participation in the period's illustrated press. His work was also entered in the painting event of the art competition at the 1932 Summer Olympics. Collectors may encounter Holiday through paintings, works on paper, prints, and period illustrations rather than through one documented movement or narrowly defined series. The available institutional sources establish his identity and dates more firmly than they establish a detailed chronology, training history, or movement affiliation. Individual works should therefore be assessed through signatures, inscriptions, publication context, provenance, and comparison with securely attributed examples.

PaintingMagazine and book illustrationWorks on paper and printsLiterary narrative scenesPortraiture

Common works and media

Auction and appraisal contexts may include paintings, works on paper, prints, portraits, and published illustrations. Documented examples include narrative illustrations for Arthur Conan Doyle's The Adventure of the Devil's Foot and a painted portrait of actress Gladys Carrington. Because the collected sources do not establish a complete catalogue of Holiday's output, medium, signature, inscriptions, publication history, and provenance should be verified for each object.

Market and appraisal context

Appraisily's collected public-auction page reports 52 matched records, including 27 priced records, spanning 2002–2025. That total differs from the 176-count directory input, and the market data includes a name variant not confirmed by the authority sources, so the record set should be reconciled before aggregate statistics are treated as artist-specific. For appraisal, compare works with similar medium, dimensions, date, subject, condition, restoration history, provenance, and attribution confidence. Edition details matter for prints, while publication evidence may be especially relevant to illustrations. Public realized prices provide comparable evidence rather than a forecast, and reporting practices can differ on buyer's premium and fees. Private transactions, incomplete feeds, and later attribution changes may not appear.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

  • Fine art and paintings
  • Works on paper and prints

Value drivers

  1. Medium, dimensions, date, and subject matter
  2. Condition, restoration history, and surface quality
  3. Signature, inscriptions, edition details, and attribution confidence
  4. Provenance, exhibition history, publication history, and catalogue references
  5. Comparable public auction sales for works similar in type and date
  6. Whether a reported price includes buyer's premium or other fees

Appraisal caveats

  • Public auction records are starting points for comparison, not price predictions or final appraisals.
  • Private sales, incomplete auction feeds, attribution changes, and unmatched records may not be represented.
  • The source pack's directory input reports 176 records, while the collected Appraisily page reports 52 matched records and 27 priced records; those counts require reconciliation.
  • The collected market page includes a matched-name variant that is not established by the authority sources, creating a possible record-conflation risk.

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 Gilbert Holiday

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Artist value FAQ

How much is Gilbert Holiday 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 Gilbert Holiday artwork?

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