Lillian Bassman Auction Prices and Value Guide
Lillian Bassman auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 178 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.
Lillian Bassman auction prices: quick answer
Lillian Bassman auction prices depend on medium, size, date, condition, provenance, edition details, attribution confidence, and recent comparable auction sales.
- Artist
- Lillian Bassman
- Source records
- 178
- Market update
- 2026-02-06
Lillian Bassman market snapshot
Lillian Bassman shows thin auction liquidity with 1 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $0. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 0 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2013-04-05.
Realized price distribution
- Under $1,000 (0.0% · 0 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000 (0.0% · 0 sales)
- $10,000+ (0.0% · 0 sales)
- Median sale (last 12 months)
- $0
- Sales recorded (last 12 months)
- 0
- Median shift vs prior year
- 0.0%
- Latest recorded sale
- 2013-04-05
Artist context
About Lillian Bassman
Nationality
American
Lillian Bassman is identified in the collected public source material as an American photographer and painter. This establishes a broad connection to both photographic and painted work, but the available evidence is too limited to support a fuller account of her training, career chronology, artistic movements, recurring subjects, named series, or institutional history. Collectors evaluating a work attributed to Bassman should therefore distinguish this basic identity information from conclusions about a particular object. A stronger profile will require museum, archive, library-authority, estate, or catalogue sources that document her life and practice in greater detail.
PhotographyPainting
Common works and media
The available source describes Bassman as both a photographer and painter. It therefore supports photography and painting as broad work types associated with her, but it does not identify particular subjects, named series, photographic processes, edition practices, formats, or periods. Those details should be confirmed through stronger institutional, archival, or catalogue sources.
Market and appraisal context
The collected source pack does not provide public auction-lot descriptions, realized prices, edition information, dates, provenance, condition reports, or attribution notes. Appraisily's public artist-page endpoint was rate-limited during collection, so its underlying records could not be reviewed at lot level. Accordingly, this profile does not characterize price behavior or claim that one medium dominates Bassman's market. Any appraisal should be based on the specific object and verified comparable sales once detailed records and stronger contextual sources are available.
Auction categories and appraisal factors
Appraisal caveats
- No lot-level market conclusions are supported by the collected Appraisily response at https://appraisily.com/artist/lillian-bassman/, which was rate-limited and exposed no auction details.
- The supplied evidence does not support claims about price trends, edition practices, scarcity, preferred subjects, or relative demand among work types.
Evidence
Sources for artist context
This source-grounded artist context is based on collected public records: low confidence, thin source quality.
- Wikipedia wikipedia
- Appraisily appraisily artist page
- Wikimedia Commons image candidate
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.
Artist value FAQ
How much is Lillian Bassman 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 Lillian Bassman artwork?
Yes. Appraisily can review photos, dimensions, signatures, condition, provenance, and comparable market data to prepare a current valuation.