Mela Muter Auction Prices and Value Guide
Mela Muter auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 406 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.
Mela Muter auction prices: quick answer
Mela Muter auction prices depend on medium, size, date, condition, provenance, edition details, attribution confidence, and recent comparable auction sales.
- Artist
- Mela Muter
- Source records
- 406
- Market update
- 2026-02-06
Mela Muter market snapshot
Mela Muter shows deep auction liquidity with 166 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $54,000. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 8 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-12-04.
Realized price distribution
- Under $1,000 (0.8% · 1 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000 (19.4% · 25 sales)
- $10,000+ (79.8% · 103 sales)
- Median sale (last 12 months)
- $32,000
- Sales recorded (last 12 months)
- 8
- Median shift vs prior year
- +100.0%
- Latest recorded sale
- 2025-12-04
Artist context
About Mela Muter
Born
1876
Died
1967
Nationality
Polish, French
Also known as
Maria Melania Mutermilch, Marie-Mela Muter, Maria Melania Klingsland, Mela Muter-Klingsland
Mela Muter was the professional name of Maria Melania Mutermilch, a Polish-born painter who established most of her career in France. Born in Warsaw in 1876, she moved to Paris in 1901 and began exhibiting there within several years. Her practice before the First World War has been associated with Naturalism, while biographical accounts describe vivid color and forceful brushwork as recognizable features of her painting. Muter received French citizenship in 1927. During the Second World War she took refuge in Avignon, then returned to Paris, where she lived until her death in 1967. Artist and library authority records preserve numerous versions of her name, including Marie-Mela Muter, Maria Melania Mutermilch, and Maria Melania Klingsland. These variants matter when matching exhibition catalogues, collection records, and auction listings. Collectors most often encounter her as a painter, although historical catalogue records also document watercolors and drawings.
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Common works and media
Collectors and appraisers may encounter paintings, watercolors, and drawings under Mela Muter's professional name or one of her documented name variants. Painting is the best-supported primary category, while historical exhibition and catalogue records also identify works on paper. The available source pack does not provide enough institution-grade detail to characterize recurring subjects, formal series, edition practices, or sculpture and print production.
Market and appraisal context
An appraisal of a work attributed to Mela Muter should begin by resolving the artist's documented name variants and identifying the work type. Paintings, watercolors, and drawings should be compared within their own categories rather than treated as interchangeable. Date and career context may also affect the choice of comparable records, particularly when distinguishing work connected with her pre-First World War Naturalist phase from later production in France. Appraisily's artist record provides an auction-data starting point, but the collected source pack contains no major-auction-house essays or detailed realized-price evidence. Any valuation should therefore rely on object-specific research and closely matched public sales rather than a broad price prediction.
Auction categories and appraisal factors
Common auction categories
- Paintings
- Watercolors
- Drawings
Value drivers
- Work type and medium, with paintings compared separately from watercolors and drawings
- Date and career context, including the pre-First World War Naturalist phase and her later French career
- Attribution and identity reconciliation across documented name variants such as Mela Muter, Marie-Mela Muter, and Maria Melania Mutermilch
- Comparison with public auction records assigned to the artist, matched by work type and sale date when records are available
Appraisal caveats
- The source pack contains no accessible major-auction-house lot essay, realized-price detail, catalogue raisonné, or artist-estate record, so it does not support price forecasts or market-trend claims.
- Getty ULAN and its linked secondary VIAF cluster report an 1886 birth year, while Wikidata, VIAF 40215121, IdRef, and the Wikipedia records report 1876.
- Object-specific appraisal still requires examination of the individual work and comparison with appropriately matched public records.
Evidence
Sources for artist context
This source-grounded artist context is based on collected public records: medium confidence, adequate source quality.
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 Mela Muter 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 Mela Muter artwork?
Yes. Appraisily can review photos, dimensions, signatures, condition, provenance, and comparable market data to prepare a current valuation.