Henry Hanke Auction Prices and Value Guide

Henry Hanke auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 283 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

Henry Hanke auction prices: quick answer

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

Artist
Henry Hanke
Source records
283
Market update
2026-02-06

Henry Hanke market snapshot

Henry Hanke shows solid auction liquidity with 122 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $650. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 4 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-11-25.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (67.9% · 57 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (31.0% · 26 sales)
  • $10,000+ (1.2% · 1 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$550
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
4
Median shift vs prior year
0.0%
Latest recorded sale
2025-11-25

Artist context

About Henry Hanke

Henry Hanke portrait
Sam Hood · Public domain · Source

Born

1901

Died

1989

Nationality

Australian

Also known as

Henry Aloysius Hanke, H. A. Hanke, Henry A. Hanke, Harry Hanke

Henry Aloysius Hanke (1901–1989) was an Australian painter and teacher whose public profile is closely connected with Australian art prizes of the 1930s. He won the 1934 Archibald Prize with a self-portrait and the inaugural Sulman Prize in 1936 with La Gitana. These documented works make painting and portraiture useful contexts for understanding his identity, although the collected sources do not assign him to a specific artistic movement. Authority records list several forms of his name, including H. A. Hanke, Henry A. Hanke, and Harry Hanke, which can matter when matching catalogues and auction records. Collectors may encounter works attributed to Hanke through Australian painting and portrait categories. Any appraisal should separate a secure identity match from broader stylistic resemblance and should avoid inferring a direct relationship to his prize-winning pictures without supporting documentation.

PaintingPortraiture and self-portraiture

Common works and media

The collected sources identify Hanke principally as a painter and document portraiture through his 1934 Archibald Prize self-portrait. They also identify La Gitana as the painting that received the inaugural Sulman Prize in 1936. Paintings, portraits, and self-portraits are therefore the best-supported work categories for this page. The source pack does not provide enough evidence to characterize a regular market in prints, sculpture, ceramics, editions, or other media.

Market and appraisal context

Market assessment for Henry Hanke should begin with a secure artist identification, especially because library records preserve several abbreviated and alternate name forms. Cataloguing should record the work type, medium and support, dimensions, subject, date or estimated period, inscriptions, condition, and documented ownership history before comparable sales are selected. Evidence connecting a work to Hanke's documented prize history may be relevant, but such a connection should not be assumed from subject or style alone. Appraisily's artist page indicates an auction-record context, yet the collected source pack does not include individual auction-house results. It therefore supports comparison with verified public lots when available, but not a price prediction, market trend, or record-price claim.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

  • Paintings
  • Portraits and self-portraits

Value drivers

  1. Secure identity matching, including comparison with the authority-record forms Henry Aloysius Hanke, H. A. Hanke, Henry A. Hanke, and Harry Hanke
  2. Documented connection to Hanke's 1934 Archibald Prize self-portrait or his 1936 Sulman Prize painting La Gitana
  3. Comparison with relevant public auction records by work type, subject, and sale date when sufficiently documented records are available

Appraisal caveats

  • The collected pack contains no major-auction-house result pages, so it does not support conclusions about price levels, trends, record prices, or relative scarcity.
  • The available sources do not establish a catalogue raisonné, edition history, signature chronology, or named artistic movement for Hanke.
  • Auction records should be checked lot by lot because authority-file name variants can complicate artist matching.

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 Henry Hanke

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Artist value FAQ

How much is Henry Hanke 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 Hanke artwork?

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