Harold Cohen Auction Prices and Value Guide

Harold Cohen auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 141 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

Harold Cohen auction prices: quick answer

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

Artist
Harold Cohen
Source records
141
Market update
2026-02-06

Harold Cohen market snapshot

Harold Cohen shows solid auction liquidity with 77 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $720. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 7 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-11-25.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (56.3% · 27 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (41.7% · 20 sales)
  • $10,000+ (2.1% · 1 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$320
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
7
Median shift vs prior year
0.0%
Latest recorded sale
2025-11-25

Artist context

About Harold Cohen

Harold Cohen portrait
Harold Cohen (artist) · see-source-page · Source

Born

1928

Died

2016

Nationality

British

Harold Cohen (1928–2016) was a British artist and programmer whose practice encompassed painting, drawing, computer art, and artificial intelligence. He is best known for AARON, a long-running software project developed to produce visual art. This sustained investigation placed Cohen in the early history of artistic computing while maintaining a close relationship with the established media of drawing and painting. Authority sources describe him as an English painter and computer artist active in the United States, and public identity records are maintained by institutions including Tate, MoMA, Getty ULAN, Wikidata, and major library systems. Collectors may therefore encounter his name on conventional studio works as well as computer-generated or AARON-related material. Accurate identification depends on distinguishing the medium and determining whether a particular object has a documented connection to AARON. Cohen's work is especially relevant to histories of computer art, generative image-making, and the use of artificial intelligence in visual practice.

Computer artArtificial intelligence artPaintingDrawingComputer-generated art

Common works and media

Works encountered under Harold Cohen's name may include paintings, drawings and other works on paper, computer-generated images, and material associated with AARON. Because his practice crossed physical and computational media, catalogue descriptions should identify the actual process and support any claimed AARON connection with documentation. The collected sources do not establish common edition sizes, recurring subjects, or a complete hierarchy of work types.

Market and appraisal context

Appraisal should begin by identifying whether a Harold Cohen work is a painting, drawing, computer-generated image, or documented product of the AARON project. Those categories should not be treated as interchangeable when selecting comparable sales. The collected sources do not provide lot-level evidence about condition, provenance, editions, or individual prices, so these details must be established from the object, accompanying documentation, and relevant auction records. Where public sales are available, comparisons should prioritize works with a similar medium and relationship to AARON, while also considering sale date and the completeness of the catalogue description. The artist's historical importance in computer art does not by itself determine the value or authorship of a particular object.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

  • Paintings
  • Drawings and works on paper
  • Computer art and AARON-related works

Value drivers

  1. Whether the object is a painting, drawing, or computer-generated work
  2. A documented relationship to the AARON project
  3. Comparison with public auction records for works of the same medium and project context

Appraisal caveats

  • The collected source pack contains an Appraisily auction-record signal but no fetched lot-level descriptions, realized prices, condition reports, provenance histories, or edition details.
  • AARON-related status should be established from documentation specific to the object and should not be inferred merely from visual resemblance or the artist's name.
  • Market conclusions require comparison with relevant public sales and examination of the individual work; the source pack does not support price predictions.

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 Harold Cohen

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Artist value FAQ

How much is Harold Cohen 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 Harold Cohen artwork?

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