Keith Looby Auction Prices and Value Guide

Keith Looby auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 287 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

Keith Looby auction prices: quick answer

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

Artist
Keith Looby
Source records
287
Market update
2026-02-06

Keith Looby market snapshot

Keith Looby shows deep auction liquidity with 216 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $260. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 8 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-11-19.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (85.3% · 99 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (14.7% · 17 sales)
  • $10,000+ (0.0% · 0 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$80
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
8
Median shift vs prior year
+60.0%
Latest recorded sale
2025-11-19

Artist context

About Keith Looby

Born

1940

Nationality

Australian

Keith Looby is an Australian artist born in 1940. He is particularly associated in the available public record with portraiture: in 1984, he won the Archibald Prize for a portrait of actor and satirist Max Gillies. That distinction provides a useful biographical reference when identifying his name in collection, exhibition, and auction records. The present source set establishes Looby’s identity and nationality but does not provide enough institution-grade detail to assign him confidently to a specific movement, document a full chronology, or summarize the complete range of his media and subjects. Accordingly, works attributed to Keith Looby should be assessed through their own inscriptions, documentation, date, materials, and provenance rather than through broad assumptions about his practice.

Portraiture

Common works and media

Portraiture is the only subject clearly documented in the collected biographical material, through Looby’s 1984 Archibald Prize-winning portrait of Max Gillies. The available sources do not establish which media, formats, series, editions, or other subjects appear most often in auction or appraisal contexts. A submitted work should therefore be described from direct examination rather than assigned a typical category without supporting evidence.

Market and appraisal context

An appraisal of a work attributed to Keith Looby should begin with identity, authorship, medium, dimensions, date, inscriptions, provenance, condition, and any exhibition or publication history. Portrait subjects and associated documentation may also help distinguish a particular work, although the collected sources do not establish artist-specific effects on value. Relevant public auction results should be compared by work type, scale, subject, date, condition, and sale context. This source pack does not support price forecasts, market-trend claims, or conclusions about scarcity, so any valuation should rely on verified comparable sales and current evidence for the individual object.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Appraisal caveats

  • The collected source pack does not contain successfully fetched major-auction-house evidence for artist-specific categories, price history, or valuation factors.
  • No supported conclusions about commonly traded media, editions, condition sensitivity, scarcity, or market direction can be drawn from this source pack alone.

Evidence

Sources for artist context

This source-grounded artist context is based on collected public records: medium confidence, thin 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 Keith Looby

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Artist value FAQ

How much is Keith Looby 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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