Isabel Bishop Auction Prices and Value Guide
Isabel Bishop auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 619 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.
Isabel Bishop auction prices: quick answer
Isabel Bishop auction prices depend on medium, size, date, condition, provenance, edition details, attribution confidence, and recent comparable auction sales.
- Artist
- Isabel Bishop
- Source records
- 619
- Market update
- 2026-02-06
Isabel Bishop market snapshot
Isabel Bishop shows deep auction liquidity with 296 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $325. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 8 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2026-01-20.
Realized price distribution
- Under $1,000 (85.2% · 195 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000 (12.7% · 29 sales)
- $10,000+ (2.2% · 5 sales)
- Median sale (last 12 months)
- $363
- Sales recorded (last 12 months)
- 8
- Median shift vs prior year
- 0.0%
- Latest recorded sale
- 2026-01-20
Artist context
About Isabel Bishop
Born
1902
Died
1988
Nationality
American
Isabel Bishop (1902–1988) was an American painter, graphic artist, etcher, and printmaker associated with New York's loosely defined Fourteenth Street School. She studied under Kenneth Hayes Miller at the Art Students League of New York and later became an instructor there. Bishop is especially connected with Union Square, where she observed the movement and routines of everyday Manhattan life. Her documented subjects include women in urban settings and other figures encountered around the square. Sources describe this New York-centered body of work as extending from the 1930s into the 1970s. Collectors may therefore encounter her name on paintings, drawings, etchings, and other graphic works depicting city figures or daily activity. Authority records maintained by Wikidata, VIAF, and Getty distinguish Bishop from similarly named people, while museum profile links and the surviving photographic record help establish her public artist identity.
Fourteenth Street SchoolPaintingEtching and printmakingDrawingGraphic artEveryday life in ManhattanUnion Square urban scenesFemale figures in urban settings
Common works and media
Source records identify Bishop with paintings, drawings, etchings, prints, and graphic art. Frequently documented subject contexts include everyday Manhattan activity, Union Square scenes, urban figures, and women in city settings. In auction and appraisal research, the work type, technique, subject, and approximate date should be recorded precisely before comparisons are selected.
Market and appraisal context
Appraisal begins by identifying the medium and technique because Bishop is documented as a painter, graphic artist, draftsman, etcher, and printmaker. Subject and approximate date can then help place a work within her known concentration on Union Square, Manhattan life, and female figures. Those characteristics provide context but do not, by themselves, establish authorship or value. Appraisily's artist page indicates an existing body of auction-price records, so useful comparisons should be filtered by work type, subject, date, and the details supplied in each sale record. This source pack contains no lot-level realized prices, condition reports, provenance histories, or edition data; consequently, it supports appraisal research but not a price prediction or market-trend claim.
Auction categories and appraisal factors
Common auction categories
- Paintings
- Etchings and other prints
- Drawings
Value drivers
- Medium and technique, including whether the work is a painting, drawing, etching, or another graphic work
- Subject matter and its relationship to Bishop's documented Union Square, Manhattan, and female-figure imagery
- Date and relationship to her documented Union Square work of the 1930s through the 1970s
- Comparable public auction records filtered by work type, subject, and sale date when lot-level records are available
Appraisal caveats
- The collected source pack does not include individual auction lots, realized prices, condition reports, or provenance records, so it does not support a price trend or value forecast.
- The available evidence does not establish which medium or subject appears most frequently in the underlying auction records.
- Attribution, authenticity, edition status, condition, and provenance must be assessed from the individual object and its documentation rather than inferred from the artist identity record.
Evidence
Sources for artist context
This source-grounded artist context is based on collected public records: medium confidence, adequate source quality.
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.
Artist value FAQ
How much is Isabel Bishop 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 Isabel Bishop artwork?
Yes. Appraisily can review photos, dimensions, signatures, condition, provenance, and comparable market data to prepare a current valuation.