Leon Kelly Auction Prices and Value Guide

Leon Kelly auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 294 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

Leon Kelly auction prices: quick answer

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

Artist
Leon Kelly
Source records
294
Market update
2026-02-06

Leon Kelly market snapshot

Leon Kelly shows solid auction liquidity with 143 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $625. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 10 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-09-18.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (53.6% · 45 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (40.5% · 34 sales)
  • $10,000+ (6.0% · 5 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$550
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
10
Median shift vs prior year
+100.0%
Latest recorded sale
2025-09-18

Artist context

About Leon Kelly

Leon Kelly portrait
Unknown author Unknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Born

1901

Died

1982

Nationality

American

Also known as

Kelly, Leon, 1901-1982

Leon Kelly (1901–1982) was an American painter from Philadelphia whose career crossed several currents in twentieth-century art. The collected biography associates him most strongly with American Surrealism while also noting Cubist, Social Realist, and abstract approaches. Rather than presenting a single fixed style, the available description points to an artist who worked across changing visual languages and resisted easy alignment with contemporary trends. Kelly produced paintings as well as a large body of drawings over roughly five decades. His work is reported in major public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Boston Public Library. Collectors may therefore encounter his name through modern-art research, museum collection references, drawings, and auction listings. Exact object identification still depends on matching a work to reliable cataloguing and comparable records.

American SurrealismCubismSocial RealismAbstractionPaintingDrawing

Common works and media

The available biography describes paintings and a prolific body of drawings spanning Kelly’s career. Works may be discussed in relation to Surrealist, Cubist, Social Realist, or abstract contexts, although those labels need stronger institutional confirmation. The collected pack does not establish recurring subjects, named series, print editions, sculptures, ceramics, or other work categories. For appraisal research, a work should first be classified as a painting or drawing and then compared with records describing a genuinely similar object.

Market and appraisal context

Collectors should distinguish Kelly’s paintings from his drawings and interpret each object within its documented stylistic context. The collected sources describe substantial activity in both media across a career of approximately five decades. This pack does not include lot-level descriptions, sale dates, dimensions, condition reports, provenance, realized prices, or edition information, so it cannot support artist-specific pricing conclusions. Appraisily should use public auction records only when the object type and descriptive evidence are sufficiently comparable, and a name match should not be treated as proof of authorship. Museum, catalogue, or estate documentation may be needed to place a work securely within Kelly’s career.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

  • Paintings
  • Drawings

Appraisal caveats

  • The collected excerpts do not contain lot-level descriptions, realized prices, condition reports, or comparable-sale details, so no artist-specific price trend or relative medium premium is asserted.
  • The stylistic classifications in this source pack come from Wikipedia and require confirmation from readable museum, estate, catalogue, or scholarly documentation before being treated as high-confidence market context.

Evidence

Sources for artist context

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

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Recent sale records

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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 Leon Kelly

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Artist value FAQ

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