Henry Meylan Auction Prices and Value Guide

Henry Meylan auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 306 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

Henry Meylan auction prices: quick answer

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

Artist
Henry Meylan
Source records
306
Market update
2026-02-06

Henry Meylan market snapshot

Henry Meylan shows developing auction liquidity with 25 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $400. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 0 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2024-04-30.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (66.7% · 6 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (33.3% · 3 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
2024-04-30

Artist context

About Henry Meylan

Born

1895

Died

1980

Nationality

Swiss

Also known as

Henri Meylan

Henry Meylan (1895–1980) was a Swiss painter, engraver, and illustrator born in Le Sentier and later associated through his death record with Geneva. Library authorities also catalogue him as Henri Meylan, an important variant when matching signatures, books, collection records, and auction listings. The available institutional sources establish activity across painting, printmaking, drawing, and illustration, including credited illustrations for published works. They do not establish a specific movement, school, major series, or recurring subject. Collectors may therefore encounter Meylan through several object types rather than through one securely documented stylistic label: paintings, engraved prints, drawings, and illustrated-book material. For appraisal and entity matching, the strongest anchors are his exact life dates, Swiss identity, Henry and Henri name forms, and identifiers maintained by VIAF, IdRef, Wikidata, and linked national-library catalogues. More specific claims about style, period, subject, or artistic affiliation require object-level evidence or additional scholarly documentation.

PaintingEngraving and printmakingDrawing and illustration

Common works and media

Authority records support paintings, engravings and other graphic works, original drawings, and illustrations associated with books as relevant work types for Henry Meylan. The collected material does not establish characteristic subjects, named series, specific print editions, or a sculpture or ceramics practice. Cataloguing should distinguish a unique drawing or painting from a printed impression or an illustration reproduced as part of a publication.

Market and appraisal context

An appraisal should first confirm that an object is connected to the Swiss artist Henry Meylan, also catalogued as Henri Meylan, rather than to another person with a similar name. Work type matters because authority records distinguish painting, engraving, illustration, and original drawings; each category requires appropriately matched comparable lots. Illustrated material should also be classified as a standalone original, a printed impression, or an image reproduced within a publication. Signatures, inscriptions, dates, dimensions, edition information, provenance, and condition should be documented at the object level. The collected sources do not provide accessible major-auction-house lot narratives or realized-price evidence, so market conclusions should rely on verified object details and genuinely comparable public sales rather than broad artist-level assumptions.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

  • Paintings
  • Engravings and other prints
  • Drawings and illustrated works

Value drivers

  1. Identity and attribution under the name variants Henry Meylan and Henri Meylan
  2. Work type, particularly whether the object is a painting, engraving, drawing, or illustration
  3. Whether an illustrated work is a standalone original drawing or material associated with a published book
  4. Comparable public auction records matched to the same work type and attribution

Appraisal caveats

  • The collected source pack contains an Appraisily auction-record signal but no accessible major-auction-house lot descriptions, realized prices, or object-level comparable-sales evidence.
  • No documented movement, characteristic subject, named period, or series could be established from the available authority records.
  • Auction-category labels are inferred cautiously from the artist's documented occupations and bibliographic roles rather than from a reviewed set of auction lots.

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 Meylan

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Artist value FAQ

How much is Henry Meylan 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 Meylan artwork?

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