Johannes Carolus Bernardus Sluijters Auction Prices and Value Guide
Johannes Carolus Bernardus Sluijters auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 689 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.
Johannes Carolus Bernardus Sluijters auction prices: quick answer
Johannes Carolus Bernardus Sluijters auction prices depend on medium, size, date, condition, provenance, edition details, attribution confidence, and recent comparable auction sales.
- Artist
- Johannes Carolus Bernardus Sluijters
- Source records
- 689
- Market update
- 2026-02-16
Artist context
About Johannes Carolus Bernardus Sluijters
Johannes Carolus Bernardus Sluijters, commonly known as Jan Sluijters (1881–1957), was a Dutch painter and printmaker recognized as one of the leading figures of early twentieth-century modern art in the Netherlands. Active across an unusually broad range of media — including oil painting, watercolor, lithography, etching, and illustration — Sluijters co-founded the Moderne Kunstkring, an Amsterdam-based society that introduced European avant-garde movements to Dutch audiences. His work evolved through luminist, fauvist, and expressionist phases, and his paintings are held in major institutional collections including the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Collectors encounter Sluijters most often through his bold colorist landscapes, portraits, and still-life paintings, though his graphic output — etchings, lithographs, and book illustrations — also appears regularly on the market.
Moderne Kunstkringoil paintinglithographyetchingwatercolor
Common works and media
Sluijters worked across oil on canvas, watercolor, gouache, lithographs, etchings, drawings, and editorial illustrations. Common subjects include landscapes, city views, portraits, nudes, and still-life compositions. Collectors may also encounter his poster designs and wall paintings. Prints and works on paper appear regularly at auction and may be found as individual sheets or in illustrated books.
Market and appraisal context
Jan Sluijters maintains an established secondary-market presence with 27 recorded auction lots spanning 2007–2024, 18 of which carry realized prices in EUR. His work is concentrated at blue-chip auction houses — Christie's accounts for the large majority of lots, with additional appearances at Sotheby's and the Dutch regional house Venduehuis der Notarissen. Realized prices show meaningful dispersion: the low end starts near €1,875 for smaller portraits, the median sits at approximately €33,865, and the upper quartile reaches €48,250, with a ceiling of €108,000 for top-tier floral still-life paintings. Market liquidity is moderate — roughly one priced lot per year on average — and recent activity has slowed, with no priced lots in the trailing 12 months and only one lot (unsold) in the prior 12 months. Still-life and nude subjects dominate the priced cohort and consistently achieve the strongest results, while smaller portraits and drawings trade at lower price points.
Auction categories and appraisal factors
Common auction categories
- Paintings
- Works on Paper
- Prints
Value drivers
- Medium and support (oil on canvas versus works on paper or prints significantly affects value)
- Provenance and exhibition history
- Condition, attribution certainty, and date of execution
- Medium and support: oil on canvas achieves multiples over watercolor, drawing, and print media
- Subject matter: still-life compositions and nudes have historically outperformed portraits and landscapes at auction
- Period and style: luminist and fauvist-period works from the 1900s–1910s are scarcer and more sought-after than later output
Appraisal caveats
- No specific auction records or realized prices were available in this source pack; market values should be verified against current auction databases.
- Only 18 of 27 recorded lots carry realized prices; 9 lots lack price data, which may include unsold, withdrawn, or post-sale negotiated results that skew the observed distribution.
- No priced lots were recorded in the most recent 12-month window, and only one lot (unsold at Sotheby's, December 2024) appeared in the prior 12 months, limiting the reliability of current-market indicators.
- All price data originates from the Appraisily auction-record index and has not been independently verified against auction-house catalogs or post-sale reports.
Evidence
Sources for artist context
This source-grounded artist context passed Appraisily's promotion threshold: high confidence, strong sources.
- Library of Congress library authority
- RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History library authority
- VIAF library authority
- Getty Vocabulary Program library authority
- Wikidata library authority
- The Museum of Modern Art museum or university
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.
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Artist value FAQ
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