Jean-Pierre Yvaral Auction Prices and Value Guide

Jean-Pierre Yvaral 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.

Jean-Pierre Yvaral auction prices: quick answer

Jean-Pierre Yvaral auction prices depend on medium, size, date, condition, provenance, edition details, attribution confidence, and recent comparable auction sales.

Artist
Jean-Pierre Yvaral
Source records
1,014
Market update
2026-02-16

Jean-Pierre Yvaral market snapshot

Jean-Pierre Yvaral shows deep auction liquidity with 195 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $3,000. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 6 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-12-04.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (35.7% · 45 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (48.4% · 61 sales)
  • $10,000+ (15.9% · 20 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$150
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
6
Median shift vs prior year
0.0%
Latest recorded sale
2025-12-04

Artist context

About Jean-Pierre Yvaral

Born

1934

Died

2002

Nationality

French

Also known as

Jean-Pierre Vasarely, Yvaral

Jean-Pierre Yvaral (1934–2002) was a French artist born Jean-Pierre Vasarely and professionally known as Yvaral. Public authority and reference records identify him as a painter, while reference biographies place his practice in Op Art and kinetic art. He worked in those fields from 1954 onward and, in 1960, co-founded the Groupe de Recherche d’Art Visuel (GRAV) alongside Julio Le Parc, François Morellet, Horacio Garcia Rossi, Francisco Sobrino, and Joël Stein. The affiliation is a useful identity clue when distinguishing his career from that of his father, Victor Vasarely, a pioneer of Op Art. Yvaral maintained his own professional name and artistic profile. Collectors may encounter his name through paintings and works described in optical, kinetic, or computer-art contexts. Exact medium, date, authorship, and object-specific documentation should be checked for every work, particularly when a listing uses only the name Yvaral.

Op ArtKinetic artPaintingComputer-based art

Common works and media

The supplied references document painting and also describe Yvaral as a kinetic and computer artist associated with Op Art. They do not provide a dependable breakdown of the formats, subjects, editions, or series most frequently encountered at auction. Objects should therefore be described from direct evidence rather than assigned to a presumed typical category; optical, kinetic, and computer-art associations provide context but do not authenticate an individual work.

Market and appraisal context

The collected sources establish Yvaral’s identity and broad artistic context, but they do not provide auction-house lot descriptions, realized prices, condition reports, provenance, or edition data. This profile therefore makes no claim about price levels, trends, scarcity, or a dominant auction category. Appraisily’s input indicates 1,014 associated auction records, but the underlying lots were not included in the research pack. Any appraisal should match the object to the correct artist identity and use relevant public sales only after the work’s actual characteristics and documentation have been established. Attribution and entity matching remain separate from a valuation conclusion.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Value drivers

  1. Correct artist identity and attribution before selecting comparable records
  2. Comparable public auction records for the same artist, when available

Appraisal caveats

  • The source pack does not include public auction-house lot descriptions, realized prices, condition reports, provenance, edition information, or category-level sales data.
  • The input reports 1,014 associated auction records, but the underlying lots were not supplied for verification or market segmentation.
  • No price trend, scarcity conclusion, dominant auction category, or object-specific valuation should be inferred from the identity sources alone.

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 Jean-Pierre Yvaral

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Artist value FAQ

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