Jens Risom Auction Prices and Value Guide

Jens Risom auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 768 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

Jens Risom auction prices: quick answer

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

Artist
Jens Risom
Source records
768
Market update
2026-02-16

Jens Risom market snapshot

Jens Risom shows deep auction liquidity with 324 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $625. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 39 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2026-01-29.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (70.3% · 192 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (26.4% · 72 sales)
  • $10,000+ (3.3% · 9 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$800
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
39
Median shift vs prior year
+57.5%
Latest recorded sale
2026-01-29

Artist context

About Jens Risom

Jens Risom portrait
Unknown author Unknown author · Public domain · Source

Born

1916

Died

2016

Nationality

Danish-American

Jens Risom (1916–2016) was a Danish-American furniture designer associated with mid-century modern and Scandinavian design in the United States. Authority records from Wikidata and VIAF consistently identify his profession, life years, and Danish-American background. Public reference material describes him as an early contributor to the introduction of Scandinavian design in the American market. Collectors encounter Risom primarily through furniture and other design objects offered under his name, rather than through conventional fine-art categories such as painting or sculpture. His relevance to an artist and designer index therefore rests on both his documented identity and the auction records connected with attributed examples of his work. The collected evidence establishes the broad biographical and design context reliably, although it does not contain enough model-level detail to identify particular designs, manufacturers, production periods, or materials. Those object-specific details should be established from the individual piece and its cataloguing before selecting comparables.

Mid-century modern designScandinavian design in the United StatesFurniture design

Common works and media

Furniture is the principal work type supported by the collected identity and auction-page evidence. The source pack does not provide enough object-level documentation to name particular chair, table, storage, or seating models, manufacturers, materials, editions, or production periods with confidence. Individual works should therefore be described from their physical characteristics, labels, documentation, and auction cataloguing rather than assigned to a specific Risom design from this profile alone.

Market and appraisal context

Appraising an object offered as a Jens Risom design begins with confirming that its attribution corresponds to the Danish-American furniture designer documented by public authority records. Relevant comparisons should then come from public auction records catalogued under his name, with close attention to each record's sale date, realized price, and lot description. The present source pack confirms a meaningful auction-record signal but does not expose detailed comparable lots. It therefore cannot support a price prediction or claims about particular models, manufacturers, production dates, materials, editions, rarity, condition, provenance, or market direction. Those characteristics require object-level evidence and like-for-like auction comparisons.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

  • Furniture and design objects

Value drivers

  1. Documented attribution to Jens Risom before using designer-name comparables
  2. Relevant public auction records catalogued under Jens Risom, including sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lot descriptions when available

Appraisal caveats

  • The collected source pack does not provide model-level or lot-level evidence sufficient to support a price estimate for a particular object.
  • Specific makers, models, dates, materials, editions, condition, provenance, rarity, and market direction should not be inferred from this identity profile.
  • The captured Appraisily page response was rate-limited, so the auction-record signal is available from the harness input but detailed lots were not independently reviewed.

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 Jens Risom

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Artist value FAQ

How much is Jens Risom 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 Jens Risom artwork?

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