Oscar Bluemner Auction Prices and Value Guide
Oscar Bluemner auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 848 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.
Oscar Bluemner auction prices: quick answer
Oscar Bluemner auction prices depend on medium, size, date, condition, provenance, edition details, attribution confidence, and recent comparable auction sales.
- Artist
- Oscar Bluemner
- Source records
- 848
- Market update
- 2026-02-06
Oscar Bluemner market snapshot
Oscar Bluemner shows deep auction liquidity with 256 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $1,200. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 4 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-12-09.
Realized price distribution
- Under $1,000 (43.6% · 65 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000 (35.6% · 53 sales)
- $10,000+ (20.8% · 31 sales)
- Median sale (last 12 months)
- $300
- Sales recorded (last 12 months)
- 4
- Median shift vs prior year
- 0.0%
- Latest recorded sale
- 2025-12-09
Artist context
About Oscar Bluemner
Born
1867
Died
1938
Nationality
American
Also known as
Oscar Florianus Bluemner, Friedrich Julius Oskar Blümner
Oscar Bluemner, also identified in authority records as Oscar Florianus Bluemner, was a Prussian-born American painter and architect who lived from 1867 to 1938. Public biographical sources place him within American Modernism, while international authority files establish the identity connection among his name variants and professional roles. He was born Friedrich Julius Oskar Blümner and adopted the Oscar Florianus Bluemner form later in life. Collectors may encounter his name in connection with paintings offered through the auction market, but the collected evidence does not establish a dependable breakdown by subject, support, technique, or period. Because his record includes variant spellings and forms of his name, careful entity matching matters when comparing museum, library, and auction references. The present source pack supports his basic identity and Modernist context more strongly than it supports detailed stylistic or market claims.
ModernismPainting
Common works and media
The available institutional and authority evidence identifies Bluemner principally as a painter. Paintings are therefore the only common work category supported by this source pack. It does not provide enough item-level evidence to state reliably which painting media, supports, subjects, drawings, prints, editions, or other work types appear most often at auction. Each object should be classified from its own materials, markings, provenance, and cataloguing rather than from the artist directory alone.
Market and appraisal context
The collected Appraisily signal indicates a substantial body of auction records associated with Oscar Bluemner, but this source pack does not include the underlying lot descriptions or results needed to characterize his market by medium, date, subject, or price level. A work-specific appraisal should verify authorship or attribution, physical medium and support, dimensions, date, condition, provenance, exhibition or publication history, and any inscriptions or labels. Those facts should then be assessed against genuinely comparable public sales, with attention to sale date and auction-house cataloguing. The presence of an artist's name in an auction directory is not, by itself, evidence of authenticity or current value.
Auction categories and appraisal factors
Common auction categories
- Paintings
Value drivers
- Comparable public auction records for works catalogued under Oscar Bluemner
Appraisal caveats
- The collected pack provides an auction-record count signal but no item-level lot descriptions, realized prices, condition reports, provenance histories, or edition data.
- The available evidence does not support conclusions about price trends, relative scarcity, or the market effect of particular subjects and media.
- An appraisal should distinguish a securely attributed work from a work merely associated with the artist's name.
Evidence
Sources for artist context
This source-grounded artist context is based on collected public records: medium confidence, adequate source quality.
- Wikidata library authority
- VIAF library authority
- Getty Vocabulary Program library authority
- Wikipedia wikipedia
- Wikipedia wikipedia
- Appraisily appraisily artist page
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 Oscar Bluemner 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 Oscar Bluemner artwork?
Yes. Appraisily can review photos, dimensions, signatures, condition, provenance, and comparable market data to prepare a current valuation.