Gordon Coutts Auction Prices and Value Guide

Gordon Coutts auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 262 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

Gordon Coutts auction prices: quick answer

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

Artist
Gordon Coutts
Source records
262
Market update
2026-02-06

Gordon Coutts market snapshot

Gordon Coutts shows deep auction liquidity with 161 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $1,600. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 19 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-11-21.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (31.9% · 29 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (62.6% · 57 sales)
  • $10,000+ (5.5% · 5 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$1,600
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
19
Median shift vs prior year
0.0%
Latest recorded sale
2025-11-21

Artist context

About Gordon Coutts

Gordon Coutts portrait
Los Angeles Times · CC BY 4.0 · Source

Born

1868

Died

1937

Nationality

Scottish, American

Also known as

Gordon Harrower Coutts

Gordon Harrower Coutts (1868–1937), represented here as Gordon Coutts, was a Scottish-American painter. The available Wikidata authority record identifies his life years, occupation, and national context, while an Art UK profile independently associates the artist's name with the same dates. Public biographical material connects Coutts with desert landscapes, Moroccan figures, portraits, and nudes, and notes that he spent time in Australia, Morocco, and the United States. These subjects and geographic associations help explain why collectors may encounter his work in landscape, figure, nude, and portrait contexts. Paintings are the clearest documented medium, while auction records also place works under broader paper and print categories. The supplied sources do not establish a formal movement classification. Claims about his training, stylistic chronology, and individual career periods therefore require further museum, archival, or catalogue research before being treated as settled.

PaintingWorks on paper and printsDesert landscapesMoroccan figuresPortraitsNudes

Common works and media

Collectors are most likely to encounter paintings associated with Coutts, especially desert landscapes, Moroccan figure subjects, portraits, and nudes. The auction index also includes works on paper and prints among its broader categories. Sculpture, mixed media, decorative art, and editions appear in the market-page category summary, but the supplied biographical sources do not independently establish them as characteristic parts of his practice; objects in those categories therefore need especially careful attribution and medium-specific research.

Market and appraisal context

Gordon Coutts has a documented public-auction presence, but individual results should be compared with care. The supplied Appraisily snapshot reports matched records spanning 1990–2026 and separates priced from unpriced entries. For appraisal purposes, the most useful comparisons are works similar in medium, dimensions, date, subject, condition, and attribution. Signature or inscription details, restoration history, provenance, exhibition references, and catalogue documentation can also affect how a lot is evaluated. Edition information matters when a work is a print or multiple. Public results do not capture every private transaction, and reported prices may not always use identical fee conventions, so a median or isolated high result should not be treated as a prediction for another object.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

  • Fine art and paintings
  • Works on paper and prints
  • Sculpture and mixed media
  • Decorative art and editions

Value drivers

  1. Medium, dimensions, date, and place within the artist's career
  2. Condition, restoration history, and surface quality
  3. Signature, inscriptions, edition details, and attribution confidence
  4. Provenance, exhibition history, and catalogue references
  5. Recent public auction results for genuinely comparable works
  6. Subject matter, rarity, and current market demand

Appraisal caveats

  • Public auction records are an appraisal starting point rather than a complete valuation; the cited Appraisily page notes that private sales and incomplete feeds may not be represented: https://appraisily.com/artist/gordon-coutts/
  • Authentication, attribution, and condition can materially affect value, as noted in the cited market record: https://appraisily.com/artist/gordon-coutts/
  • The sculpture, mixed-media, decorative-art, and edition categories appear in Appraisily's broad category summary but are not independently confirmed as characteristic Gordon Coutts media by the other supplied sources: https://appraisily.com/artist/gordon-coutts/

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 Gordon Coutts

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Artist value FAQ

How much is Gordon Coutts 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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