Harry Diamond Auction Prices and Value Guide

Harry Diamond auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 194 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

Harry Diamond auction prices: quick answer

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

Artist
Harry Diamond
Source records
194
Market update
2026-02-06

Harry Diamond market snapshot

Harry Diamond shows developing auction liquidity with 16 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $1,600. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 0 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2024-10-10.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (43.8% · 7 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (56.3% · 9 sales)
  • $10,000+ (0.0% · 0 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$0
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
0
Median shift vs prior year
0.0%
Latest recorded sale
2024-10-10

Artist context

About Harry Diamond

Born

1924

Died

2009

Nationality

British

Harry Diamond (1924–2009) was a British photographer born and active in London. Available public identity sources associate him with photographs of artists, jazz musicians, and the East End of London. These subjects connect his work with the people, neighborhoods, and cultural life of twentieth-century London, although the collected sources do not assign him a formal artistic movement or document named series. Collectors may encounter works attributed to Diamond as photographic portraits or London-centered scenes, but careful identity matching is important because his name is shared by other public figures and the available auction classifications are unusually broad. His lifespan, British nationality, profession, depicted subject, print information, and any documented provenance should therefore be checked together. The current source pack establishes a credible basic identity but provides limited institution-grade detail about his techniques, exhibitions, publications, or archival holdings.

PhotographyArtistsJazz musiciansEast End of London

Common works and media

The available identity evidence points to photography, particularly images involving artists, jazz musicians, and London's East End. The source pack does not document named series, photographic processes, edition sizes, or whether individual impressions are vintage or later prints. Paintings, sculpture, mixed media, and decorative objects appearing under the current market classification should not automatically be treated as characteristic Harry Diamond works; their artist identity requires lot-level verification.

Market and appraisal context

Appraisily's current market page reports 17 priced records dated from 1997 to 2024, an observed range of $20 to $8,400, and a median result near $1,600. These figures should not yet be treated as a clean benchmark: that page also refers to 16 tracked lots, while the supplied artist input lists 194 records, and its broad categories include painting, sculpture, and decorative art despite identity sources describing Diamond as a photographer. Before appraisal, each comparable should be verified through its image, medium, title, date, dimensions, inscriptions, edition information, condition, provenance, and attribution. Only genuinely similar works should be compared. Public auction results are an initial reference and may omit private transactions or later attribution changes.

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 relationship to the artist's career
  2. Condition, restoration history, and surface quality
  3. Signature, inscriptions, edition information, and attribution confidence
  4. Provenance, exhibition history, and catalogue references
  5. Recent public auction results for genuinely comparable works

Appraisal caveats

  • The public market page assigns matched lots to broad categories that do not align closely with the identity sources' description of Harry Diamond as a photographer.
  • Matched records should be treated as provisional until lot images and descriptions confirm that they concern the British photographer rather than a namesake or another artist.
  • The supplied total count, the public page's record count, and its tracked-lot count are inconsistent.
  • Public auction records are only a starting point; private sales, incomplete feeds, reporting differences, and attribution changes may not be represented.

Evidence

Sources for artist context

This source-grounded artist context is based on collected public records: medium confidence, thin 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 Harry Diamond

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Artist value FAQ

How much is Harry Diamond 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 Harry Diamond artwork?

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