Hervé Télémaque Auction Prices and Value Guide

Hervé Télémaque auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 284 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

Hervé Télémaque auction prices: quick answer

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

Artist
Hervé Télémaque
Source records
284
Market update
2026-02-16

Hervé Télémaque market snapshot

Hervé Télémaque shows solid auction liquidity with 140 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $3,500. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 2 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-12-10.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (42.9% · 33 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (13.0% · 10 sales)
  • $10,000+ (44.2% · 34 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$100
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
2
Median shift vs prior year
0.0%
Latest recorded sale
2025-12-10

Artist context

About Hervé Télémaque

Hervé Télémaque (1937–2022) was a Haitian-born French painter, sculptor, collagist, and illustrator recognized for his role in the Surrealist and Narrative Figuration movements. Born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Télémaque moved to Paris in 1961 and became a naturalized French citizen in 1985. His work blends figurative imagery with surrealist invention, drawing on personal history, Caribbean identity, and the visual language of popular culture. Over a career spanning six decades, he produced paintings, drawings, collages, and sculptures that have entered major museum collections, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Télémaque's distinctive approach to narrative figuration set him apart from his contemporaries and continues to attract scholarly and collector attention.

SurrealismNarrative FigurationPaintingSculptureCollageDrawingFigurative and narrative imagery

Common works and media

Collectors most frequently encounter Télémaque's acrylic and oil paintings on canvas, often featuring bold color and figurative compositions. He also produced collages combining painted and found elements, ink and graphite drawings, limited-edition prints, and small-scale sculptures. Common subjects include stylized human figures, dreamlike scenes, and motifs drawn from Caribbean and European cultural references.

Market and appraisal context

Hervé Télémaque's work appears at international auction primarily as paintings, works on paper, collages, and prints. His connection to the Narrative Figuration movement and his museum-held works contribute to sustained collector interest. Factors that may affect appraisal include the work's medium and date, whether it falls within his recognized 1960s–1970s period, exhibition and provenance history, condition, and whether the piece has been included in a catalogue raisonné or institutional exhibition. Comparable public auction records should be consulted for any formal valuation.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Value drivers

  1. Medium: paintings, works on paper, collages, and sculptures are all represented at auction
  2. Provenance: Paris gallery and institutional exhibition history strengthen attribution
  3. Period: works from the 1960s–1970s narrative figuration phase may carry particular significance
  4. Museum representation: works held by MoMA and other institutions support long-term recognition

Appraisal caveats

  • Specific auction records and realized prices were not available in the collected source pack; appraisal should consult dedicated auction databases for comparable lots.
  • Exact death date not confirmed from sources; Wikidata lists 2022 but without a specific day.

Evidence

Sources for artist context

This source-grounded artist context passed Appraisily's promotion threshold: high confidence, strong sources.

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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 Hervé Télémaque

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Artist value FAQ

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