John Kelly Auction Prices and Value Guide

John Kelly auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 404 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

John Kelly auction prices: quick answer

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

Artist
John Kelly
Source records
404
Market update
2026-02-06

John Kelly market snapshot

John Kelly shows deep auction liquidity with 252 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $9,000. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 14 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2026-01-24.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (20.5% · 34 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (31.9% · 53 sales)
  • $10,000+ (47.6% · 79 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$2,500
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
14
Median shift vs prior year
0.0%
Latest recorded sale
2026-01-24

Artist context

About John Kelly

The supplied evidence does not securely identify the artist behind this John Kelly auction index. The only authority match in the source pack, Wikidata Q16025235, concerns Admiral of the Fleet Sir John Donald Kelly, a Royal Navy officer; its linked Wikipedia biography is likewise military, so neither profile should be attached to the artist entity. The Appraisily page contains a substantial name-level auction grouping, but it does not provide a verified biography, nationality, life dates, movement, or consistent body of work. Because John Kelly is a common name, the records may represent more than one maker. Collectors encounter this page through auction lots catalogued under John Kelly, yet the responsible interpretation is a provisional market index rather than a resolved artist profile. A future update should connect the records to a museum, estate, gallery archive, authority file, or securely attributed group of works before biographical claims or artistic associations are published.

Common works and media

The source pack does not establish a reliable oeuvre for one artist. The auction index places the John Kelly name across fine art and paintings, works on paper and prints, sculpture and mixed media, and decorative art and editions, but these broad categories should not be presented as confirmed media for a single maker until the records are disambiguated. Object-level research should begin with the work itself: medium, support, dimensions, signature or inscriptions, edition markings, subject, date, condition, and provenance.

Market and appraisal context

The current Appraisily index reports 267 records, 176 with prices, dated 2003–2026, while another summary on the same page says 252 tracked lots. That internal difference and the unresolved identity make all aggregate statistics provisional. For appraisal, compare only lots that can be tied to the same individual through signatures, inscriptions, provenance, exhibition or catalogue references, subject, medium, dimensions, and date. Condition and restoration can materially affect comparability, as can edition information for multiples. Public realized prices provide useful context, but they may reflect different reporting conventions and cannot replace object-level attribution, condition review, or authentication. The page median and overall range should not be treated as predictions until the homonym problem is resolved.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

  • Fine art and paintings
  • Works on paper and prints
  • Sculpture and mixed media
  • Decorative art and editions

Value drivers

  1. Medium, dimensions, date, and period represented by the work
  2. Condition, restoration history, and surface quality
  3. Signature, inscriptions, edition details, and attribution confidence
  4. Provenance, exhibition history, and catalogue references
  5. Comparable public auction sales for works tied to the same artist and similar in medium, size, date, condition, and subject

Appraisal caveats

  • The auction grouping may combine works by different people named John Kelly because the supplied artist identity is unresolved; the supporting market source is https://appraisily.com/artist/john-kelly/.
  • The Appraisily page reports 267 records in its data-basis section but also describes 252 tracked lots elsewhere, so aggregate statistics should be treated as provisional; see https://appraisily.com/artist/john-kelly/.
  • Private sales, incomplete auction feeds, differing price-reporting conventions, and later attribution changes may not be represented; this limitation is stated at https://appraisily.com/artist/john-kelly/.

Evidence

Sources for artist context

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

Source-grounded artist Markdown

Recent sale records

Selected public auction records currently in the Appraisily lot index. Use them as market context, then request a formal appraisal before you sell, insure, or donate.

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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 John Kelly

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Artist value FAQ

How much is John Kelly 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 John Kelly artwork?

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