Orville Bulman Auction Prices and Value Guide

Orville Bulman auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 239 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

Orville Bulman auction prices: quick answer

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

Artist
Orville Bulman
Source records
239
Market update
2026-02-06

Orville Bulman market snapshot

Orville Bulman shows solid auction liquidity with 144 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $8,500. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 13 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-12-07.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (3.2% · 4 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (52.8% · 66 sales)
  • $10,000+ (44.0% · 55 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$20,000
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
13
Median shift vs prior year
+100.0%
Latest recorded sale
2025-12-07

Artist context

About Orville Bulman

Born

1904

Died

1978

Nationality

American

Orville Bulman (1904–1978) was an American artist whose public authority records establish his identity and life years. A secondary biographical account describes him as a businessman who became a painter, operated a gallery on Worth Avenue in Palm Beach, Florida, and produced more than 2,000 paintings during his career. That account helps explain why collectors may encounter his name on paintings and in auction records, although the collected sources do not identify a formal movement, school, recurring subject, or documented series. For entity matching, the strongest identifiers in this source pack are his Wikidata and VIAF records; VIAF also connects his name to a Library of Congress authority record. Appraisily therefore describes Bulman as a documented American painter while leaving stylistic, thematic, and catalogue-level claims open until stronger museum, estate, or scholarly evidence becomes available.

Painting

Common works and media

Paintings are the only work type clearly documented in the collected biographical material. The source pack does not provide enough evidence to characterize Bulman's usual subjects, techniques, formats, periods, or series, or to establish whether prints, drawings, sculptures, ceramics, or editioned works commonly appear under his name.

Market and appraisal context

The available source pack supports paintings as the clearest work type and confirms that public auction-price material is associated with Bulman on Appraisily. It does not provide detailed lot descriptions, sale dates, realized prices, dimensions, condition reports, provenance, or attribution language. A market comparison should therefore use matched public auction records only after confirming the artist identity and checking that the object is comparable in medium and work type. Judgments about subject, period, quality, rarity, or price direction require lot-level evidence beyond this pack. The authority records help resolve identity, but they do not establish authenticity or value for an individual object.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

  • Paintings

Value drivers

  1. Artist identity and attribution match
  2. Comparable public auction records for paintings
  3. Work type and medium

Appraisal caveats

  • The collected sources do not provide lot-level sale results, dimensions, condition reports, provenance, or detailed attribution language.
  • No museum, artist estate, catalogue raisonné, or scholarly source in the pack documents movements, recurring subjects, periods, or series.
  • Authority records establish the artist's identity but do not authenticate or value an individual object.

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

Recent sale records

Selected public auction records currently in the Appraisily lot index. Use them as market context, then request a formal appraisal before you sell, insure, or donate.

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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 Orville Bulman

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Artist value FAQ

How much is Orville Bulman 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 Orville Bulman artwork?

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