Irma Stern Auction Prices and Value Guide

Irma Stern auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 1,014 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

Irma Stern auction prices: quick answer

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

Artist
Irma Stern
Source records
1,014
Market update
2026-02-16

Irma Stern market snapshot

Irma Stern shows deep auction liquidity with 494 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $38,500. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 23 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2026-02-04.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (6.1% · 17 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (22.3% · 62 sales)
  • $10,000+ (71.6% · 199 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$2,800
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
23
Median shift vs prior year
0.0%
Latest recorded sale
2026-02-04

Artist context

About Irma Stern

Irma Stern portrait
Irma Stern · see-source-page · Source

Born

1894

Died

1966

Nationality

South African

Also known as

Irma Analize Stern

Irma Analize Stern (1894–1966) was a South African artist known through public identity records as Irma Stern. The available biographical sources describe her as a painter and sculptor, while a German-language record characterizes her more broadly as German-South African. She was born in Schweizer-Reneke and died in Cape Town, and contemporary summaries report that she gained recognition both within South Africa and internationally during her lifetime. Stable authority identifiers from Wikidata, Getty ULAN, VIAF, and the Library of Congress help distinguish her from similarly named people and connect records across collections and databases. The collected source material does not securely establish a particular movement, recurring subject group, or named series, so those classifications should not be inferred here. Collectors are nevertheless likely to encounter Stern through paintings and, potentially, sculpture offered or documented in auction contexts. Each object still requires work-specific examination and attribution rather than reliance on the artist name alone.

PaintingSculpture

Common works and media

The work types supported by the collected sources are paintings and sculpture. The pack does not establish which of these appears most often at auction, nor does it document recurring subjects, named series, editions, prints, drawings, ceramics, or posters. A collector-facing record should therefore describe the actual object and its stated medium without assigning it to an unsupported body of work.

Market and appraisal context

Irma Stern’s market context should be assessed from the specific object and from relevant public sales, not from the artist name by itself. This source pack supports painting and sculpture as documented areas of activity, but it does not contain enough auction-house detail to rank categories or identify reliable subject, period, provenance, or condition premiums. Appraisal should first confirm that the attribution refers to the documented South African artist and accurately identify the object’s medium. When suitable auction records are available, sale dates, realized prices, and genuinely comparable lots can provide market context. The present evidence does not support a price forecast, trend claim, or statement about scarcity.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Value drivers

  1. Object type and stated medium, including whether the work is a painting or sculpture
  2. Strength of the attribution to the documented Irma Stern identity
  3. Comparison with relevant public auction records, sale dates, and realized prices when those records are available

Appraisal caveats

  • The source pack contains an Appraisily auction-record signal but no usable major auction-house biography or lot analysis.
  • The collected evidence does not support claims about price trends, scarcity, record prices, or premiums associated with particular subjects, dates, provenance, or condition.
  • Painting and sculpture are documented activities, but the source pack does not establish their relative frequency in the auction market.

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 Irma Stern

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Artist value FAQ

How much is Irma Stern 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 Irma Stern artwork?

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