Jonas Lie Auction Prices and Value Guide

Jonas Lie auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 277 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

Jonas Lie auction prices: quick answer

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

Artist
Jonas Lie
Source records
277
Market update
2026-02-06

Jonas Lie market snapshot

Jonas Lie shows solid auction liquidity with 126 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $2,400. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 2 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-10-23.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (33.0% · 32 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (48.5% · 47 sales)
  • $10,000+ (18.6% · 18 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$4,500
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
2
Median shift vs prior year
+100.0%
Latest recorded sale
2025-10-23

Artist context

About Jonas Lie

Jonas Lie portrait
Smithsonian Institution from United States · No restrictions · Source

Born

1880

Died

1940

Nationality

American

Jonas Lie (1880–1940) was a Norwegian-born American painter and teacher whose identity is represented in Wikidata, Getty ULAN, MoMA, and library authority records. The collected sources associate him especially with colorful views of New England coastlines, scenes of New York City, and a group of paintings devoted to construction of the Panama Canal. These subjects connect his work with the broader history of early twentieth-century American landscape and urban painting, although the available evidence does not establish a specific formal movement. Collectors may encounter Lie through coastal landscapes, metropolitan views, and canal-construction subjects, each of which should be identified on its own evidence rather than treated as interchangeable. His Norwegian birth and American career also make precise entity matching important: the painter should not be confused with other people named Jonas Lie. Institutional identifiers and a documented Smithsonian portrait help anchor the correct artist record.

PaintingNew England coastal landscapesNew York City scenesConstruction of the Panama Canal

Common works and media

The source pack identifies Lie principally as a painter. Documented subject groups include colorful New England coastal landscapes, New York City views, and paintings of Panama Canal construction. The collected evidence does not verify a recurring practice in prints, sculpture, ceramics, posters, or numbered editions, so such classifications should be assigned only when the individual work and its documentation support them.

Market and appraisal context

Within the available evidence, subject is the clearest starting point for market comparison. A New England coastal landscape should be compared with related coastal paintings, while a New York urban scene or Panama Canal construction picture belongs in a different subject group. Sale date and realized price should be considered together when sufficiently similar public auction records are available. This source pack does not include accessible major-auction-house lot analysis, so it cannot support a price trend, scarcity claim, or asserted premium for any subject. It also does not establish how attribution, date, dimensions, condition, or provenance affect Lie's market. Those questions require examination of the individual object and verified, closely comparable lots.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

  • Paintings
  • Coastal landscape paintings
  • New York City scenes
  • Panama Canal construction paintings

Value drivers

  1. Subject grouping: compare New England coastal landscapes separately from New York City scenes.
  2. Series identification: determine whether a work belongs to the documented group of Panama Canal construction paintings.
  3. Comparable-sale matching: evaluate sale dates, realized prices, and closely related subjects together when public auction records are available.

Appraisal caveats

  • The collected source pack contains no accessible major-auction-house biography or record-level lot analysis, so it does not support claims about price trends, scarcity, or market premiums.
  • The Appraisily artist-page request was rate-limited during collection; individual auction records and realized prices were therefore not available for verification in this research pass.
  • The available sources do not document how attribution, date, dimensions, condition, or provenance affect this artist's market; those factors require object-specific and comparable-lot evidence.

Evidence

Sources for artist context

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

Source-grounded artist Markdown

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 Jonas Lie

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Artist value FAQ

How much is Jonas Lie 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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