Maxfield Parrish Auction Prices and Value Guide

Maxfield Parrish auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 2,292 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

Maxfield Parrish auction prices: quick answer

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

Artist
Maxfield Parrish
Source records
2,292
Market update
2026-02-16

Maxfield Parrish market snapshot

Maxfield Parrish shows very deep auction liquidity with 1,245 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $125. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 134 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2026-01-20.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (86.2% · 939 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (5.4% · 59 sales)
  • $10,000+ (8.4% · 91 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$100
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
134
Median shift vs prior year
0.0%
Latest recorded sale
2026-01-20

Artist context

About Maxfield Parrish

Maxfield Parrish portrait
Kenyon Cox · Public domain · Source

Born

1870

Died

1966

Nationality

American

Maxfield Parrish (1870–1966) was an American painter and illustrator whose career was most active during the first half of the twentieth century. His images are associated with saturated color and idealized neo-classical or imaginative subjects. Parrish worked across painting and illustration, so collectors may encounter his name on original pictures, published illustrations, and art prints derived from widely circulated compositions. That range matters for entity matching: an original work, an illustrated publication, and a reproduction can carry the same artist name while representing materially different objects. Institutional and authority profiles from Wikidata, IdRef, Getty ULAN, MoMA, and the National Gallery of Art consistently connect Parrish with American painting and illustration. His visibility in illustration and print culture also helps explain why his imagery appears frequently in auction, collection, and appraisal searches, including searches involving objects that are not original paintings.

PaintingIllustrationArt prints and reproduced illustrationsIdealized neo-classical imageryImaginative and fantasy subjects

Common works and media

Auction and appraisal contexts may include paintings, original illustrations, illustrated publications, and art prints or other reproductions. Parrish-related images often feature saturated color and idealized neo-classical or imaginative fantasy subjects. Because a print may reproduce a composition associated with a painting or illustration, the physical medium and production method should be identified rather than inferred from the image alone.

Market and appraisal context

Appraisal begins by establishing what kind of Parrish-related object is being examined. An original painting or illustration should not be compared directly with an art print or later reproduction. Subject matter and its relationship to Parrish's idealized neo-classical or fantasy imagery can help guide comparable-lot selection, but visual similarity alone does not establish authorship. Appraisily's public artist page provides auction-record context; object-level research should then consider the medium, sale date, realized price, and similarity of available comparable lots. This source pack does not provide condition, dimensions, provenance, edition details, attribution evidence, or individual sale results, so it does not support a price prediction. Those facts must be verified for the specific object before reaching a value conclusion.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

  • Paintings
  • Original illustrations and illustrated publications
  • Art prints and reproductions

Value drivers

  1. Work type and medium, especially whether the object is an original painting or illustration rather than an art print or reproduction
  2. Subject matter and its relationship to Parrish's idealized neo-classical or imaginative imagery
  3. Similarity of available comparable auction lots, including their sale dates and realized prices

Appraisal caveats

  • The collected source pack contains no major-auction-house biography or object-level sale record, so it does not support price forecasts or market-trend claims.
  • Condition, dimensions, provenance, edition information, attribution evidence, and individual realized prices were not supplied in the source pack and must be established for the specific object.
  • Prints and other reproduced images should not be evaluated as though they were original paintings or original illustrations.

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 Maxfield Parrish

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Artist value FAQ

How much is Maxfield Parrish 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 Maxfield Parrish artwork?

Yes. Appraisily can review photos, dimensions, signatures, condition, provenance, and comparable market data to prepare a current valuation.