Harold Riley Auction Prices and Value Guide

Harold Riley auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 541 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

Harold Riley auction prices: quick answer

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

Artist
Harold Riley
Source records
541
Market update
2026-02-16

Harold Riley market snapshot

Harold Riley shows deep auction liquidity with 245 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $432. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 4 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-03-26.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (74.0% · 131 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (22.6% · 40 sales)
  • $10,000+ (3.4% · 6 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$700
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
4
Median shift vs prior year
0.0%
Latest recorded sale
2025-03-26

Artist context

About Harold Riley

Harold Riley portrait
SaraStiller · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Born

1934

Died

2023

Nationality

English, British

Also known as

Harold Francis Riley

Harold Francis Riley (1934–2023) was an English artist associated especially with painting and printmaking. Authority records from Wikidata, Getty ULAN, VIAF, the Library of Congress, and ISNI distinguish him as a discrete public entity, while biographical sources describe him more specifically as a painter, engraver, and lithographer. He was born in Salford on 21 December 1934 and died on 18 April 2023; the exact day-level dates in this source pack depend on a Wikipedia biography and await confirmation from an accessible institutional source. An often-repeated early-career detail says that Salford Museum and Art Gallery bought his first painting when he was eleven. Collectors may therefore encounter Riley’s name across paintings, engravings, and lithographs rather than in a single medium. This profile does not assign him to a named movement or describe recurring subjects because the collected sources provide insufficient institution-grade evidence for those claims.

PaintingEngravingLithography

Common works and media

The collected sources support three broad types of work associated with Harold Riley: paintings, engravings, and lithographs. They do not provide enough dependable detail to characterize recurring subjects, named series, typical dimensions, edition sizes, or preferred materials. Those features should be recorded from the individual object and checked against documented examples before selecting auction comparables.

Market and appraisal context

The available source pack establishes that Riley worked as a painter, engraver, and lithographer, so auction records should be separated by work type before comparison. It does not include accessible lot-level evidence or major-auction-house market commentary, and several institutional records were rate-limited. Accordingly, no trend, premium, scarcity, edition pattern, or price forecast is asserted here. For an appraisal, the object’s medium and classification should first be verified; any market conclusion should then be tested against genuinely comparable public records with clear sale dates, realized prices, and lot descriptions.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

  • Paintings
  • Engravings
  • Lithographs

Value drivers

  1. Work type and medium should be established before comparing a painting, engraving, or lithograph with public auction records

Appraisal caveats

  • The collected pack contains no accessible lot-level records or major-auction-house market commentary, so it does not support price trends, forecasts, scarcity claims, or medium-specific premiums.
  • The Appraisily artist page and several institutional profiles were rate-limited during collection; their detailed contents could not be evaluated.
  • Attribution, condition, provenance, edition status, date, subject, dimensions, and comparable sales require object-level research and are not established by this identity profile.

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 Riley

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Artist value FAQ

How much is Harold Riley 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 Riley artwork?

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