Henry de Groux Auction Prices and Value Guide

Henry de Groux auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 178 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

Henry de Groux auction prices: quick answer

Henry de Groux auction prices depend on medium, size, date, condition, provenance, edition details, attribution confidence, and recent comparable auction sales.

Artist
Henry de Groux
Source records
178
Market update
2026-02-06

Henry de Groux market snapshot

Henry de Groux shows solid auction liquidity with 73 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $1,300. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 3 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-06-18.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (43.5% · 20 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (50.0% · 23 sales)
  • $10,000+ (6.5% · 3 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$3,000
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
3
Median shift vs prior year
+100.0%
Latest recorded sale
2025-06-18

Artist context

About Henry de Groux

Henry de Groux portrait
Élisabeth de Groux (1894-1949) · Public domain · Source

Born

1866

Died

1930

Nationality

Belgian

Also known as

Henri de Groux, Henry-Jules de Groux, Henry Degroux

Henry de Groux (1866–1930) was a Belgian painter, sculptor, and lithographer associated with Symbolism. He established an early reputation with the 1889 painting Christ attacked by a mob, a dramatic religious subject that placed him within Brussels’s progressive artistic circles. Although Belgian, he spent much of his working life in Paris. His practice crossed painting, sculpture, and lithography, giving collectors several distinct kinds of objects to encounter under his name. Later in his career, he produced works concerned with the violence and suffering of the First World War. The combination of Symbolist context, expressive narrative subjects, and activity in both Belgium and France helps explain why his work appears across painting and works-on-paper categories. Authority records also preserve variant forms such as Henri de Groux, Henry-Jules de Groux, and Henry Degroux, which can matter when matching catalogues and auction records. His birth year is not completely settled across authorities: the source pack supports both 1866 and 1867.

SymbolismPaintingSculptureLithographyReligious and biblical dramaFirst World War violence and suffering

Common works and media

Collectors may encounter paintings, sculptures, and lithographs attributed to Henry de Groux. Documented subjects include emotionally charged religious imagery and later representations of First World War violence and suffering. Because his authority records use several forms of his name, works and references may be catalogued under Henry or Henri de Groux, Henry-Jules de Groux, or the unspaced surname Degroux. Medium, date, subject, inscriptions, and attribution should therefore be checked together when identifying a possible work.

Market and appraisal context

An appraisal should first determine whether an object is a painting, sculpture, lithograph, or another work requiring further classification. Date and subject can help place it within de Groux’s career, particularly in relation to his 1889 Symbolist breakthrough or his later First World War imagery. Cataloguers should also search documented variants of his name when reviewing auction records. Relevant comparisons should use works in the same medium, period, and subject area and should account for their sale dates. The available source pack does not provide enough detailed auction-house evidence to support price predictions, scarcity claims, or conclusions about market liquidity.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

  • Paintings
  • Lithographs
  • Sculpture

Value drivers

  1. Medium and work type, particularly whether the object is a painting, sculpture, or lithograph
  2. Date and relationship to the artist's early Symbolist activity or later First World War subjects
  3. Subject matter, including religious drama and First World War imagery
  4. Accurate catalogue matching across documented variants of the artist's name
  5. Comparable public auction records, sale dates, and realized prices when relevant records are available

Appraisal caveats

  • The source pack contains an Appraisily auction-record signal but no detailed major-auction-house results, category breakdown, condition reports, or provenance evidence.
  • The supplied record count is an index signal and does not by itself establish authenticity, scarcity, market liquidity, or current value.
  • Object-specific attribution, condition, provenance, dimensions, and inscriptions require separate examination before an appraisal conclusion.

Evidence

Sources for artist context

This source-grounded artist context is based on collected public records: medium confidence, adequate source quality.

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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 Henry de Groux

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Artist value FAQ

How much is Henry de Groux 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 Henry de Groux artwork?

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