Jan Burssens Auction Prices and Value Guide

Jan Burssens auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 172 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

Jan Burssens auction prices: quick answer

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

Artist
Jan Burssens
Source records
172
Market update
2026-02-06

Jan Burssens market snapshot

Jan Burssens shows solid auction liquidity with 96 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $650. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 10 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-12-02.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (67.1% · 49 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (32.9% · 24 sales)
  • $10,000+ (0.0% · 0 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$500
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
10
Median shift vs prior year
0.0%
Latest recorded sale
2025-12-02

Artist context

About Jan Burssens

Jan Burssens portrait
Artist : Willy Bosschem; photo by Georges Jansoone ( JoJan ) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Born

1925

Died

2002

Nationality

Belgian, Flemish

Jan Burssens (1925–2002) was a Belgian painter associated with the Flemish art context. A Dutch-language biographical source characterizes him as an important Flemish practitioner of existentialist matter painting, although the collected institutional authority records do not provide enough descriptive text to confirm a more detailed movement history. His identity is nevertheless well established across international authority systems, including Getty ULAN, VIAF, the Library of Congress, and the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Collectors are most likely to encounter Burssens through paintings offered in auction and appraisal settings. The present evidence does not establish particular subjects, named series, working periods, or techniques beyond painting, so those details should be determined from the individual object and stronger catalogue or museum documentation. Authority identifiers are especially useful for distinguishing his records across languages and matching auction entries to the correct Belgian artist.

Existentialist matter paintingPainting

Common works and media

The supported work type is painting. The collected sources do not establish a reliable list of recurring subjects, named series, print editions, drawings, sculptures, ceramics, or posters. Objects described under those categories should therefore be assessed individually and should not be treated as characteristic Burssens works without additional documentary or catalogue evidence.

Market and appraisal context

Publicly collected evidence confirms that Jan Burssens has an auction-facing artist page and is principally identified as a painter, but the source pack contains no lot-level descriptions or realized-price data. It therefore does not support a price forecast, market trend, or artist-specific hierarchy of subjects and periods. An appraisal should begin by confirming that the object and its documentation refer to the same Jan Burssens represented by the cited authority records. Relevant auction comparisons should then be selected from documented works of the same type, with their sale dates, realized prices, and available catalogue evidence reviewed directly rather than inferred from the artist name alone.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

  • Paintings

Appraisal caveats

  • The collected source pack does not provide individual auction-lot descriptions, realized prices, condition reports, provenance histories, dimensions, or sale dates from which artist-specific valuation factors or price trends could be established.
  • The available biographical evidence is sufficient for basic entity matching but too limited to support claims about particular subjects, series, techniques, periods, or relative market demand.

Evidence

Sources for artist context

This source-grounded artist context is based on collected public records: medium confidence, adequate source quality.

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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 Jan Burssens

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Artist value FAQ

How much is Jan Burssens 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.

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