Ken Danby Auction Prices and Value Guide

Ken Danby auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 171 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

Ken Danby auction prices: quick answer

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

Artist
Ken Danby
Source records
171
Market update
2026-02-06

Ken Danby market snapshot

Ken Danby shows solid auction liquidity with 51 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $340. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 10 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-11-26.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (62.5% · 15 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (37.5% · 9 sales)
  • $10,000+ (0.0% · 0 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$250
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
10
Median shift vs prior year
0.0%
Latest recorded sale
2025-11-26

Artist context

About Ken Danby

Born

1940

Died

2007

Nationality

Canadian

Ken Danby (1940–2007) was a Canadian painter associated with highly realistic depictions of contemporary and everyday experience. His recorded subjects include portraits, farm and rural scenes, and sport, placing his work within Canadian representational art. Watercolour is especially prominent in published descriptions of his practice, although collectors may also encounter works categorized more broadly as paintings. Danby’s imagery is described through recognizable people, activities, and environments rather than abstraction, with close observation serving as a defining feature. This combination of accessible subject matter and technical realism helps explain why his name appears in auction and appraisal research. Appraisily connects his identity with Wikidata and established international authority records so that auction entries can be matched to the correct artist. The available source pack does not establish named periods or formal series, so individual objects should be described from their own documented characteristics rather than assigned to an unsupported phase of his career.

Realist paintingPaintingWatercolourEveryday lifePortraitsFarm and rural lifeSport

Common works and media

Collectors may encounter Ken Danby’s paintings and watercolours depicting portraits, everyday activities, farm or rural life, and sport. The collected sources do not substantiate specific print editions, sculpture, ceramics, posters, named series, or other work types, so those categories should not be assigned without object-level evidence.

Market and appraisal context

Auction comparisons for Ken Danby should distinguish watercolours from other paintings and should account for the depicted subject. Portraits, rural or farm scenes, everyday-life imagery, and sporting subjects are all documented parts of his practice, but the source pack does not show whether their markets perform similarly. Appraisily’s artist page provides an auction-price context, while useful appraisal research should examine genuinely comparable public records, their sale dates, and their realized prices. No object-level provenance, condition, edition, attribution, or price-history evidence was included in this research pack, so conclusions involving those factors require separate documentation and examination.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

  • Paintings
  • Watercolours

Value drivers

  1. Medium classification, particularly whether a work is a watercolour or another type of painting
  2. Subject matter, including portraits, rural or farm life, everyday scenes, and sport
  3. Sale dates, realized prices, and the similarity of public auction records used as comparables

Appraisal caveats

  • The collected source pack contains no object-level auction results, provenance records, condition reports, edition information, or attribution analysis.
  • The existence of an artist-level auction record should not be treated as evidence that any individual work is authentic or directly comparable.

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 Ken Danby

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Artist value FAQ

How much is Ken Danby 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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