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

Oscar Bluemner portrait
Oscar Bluemner (1867-1938) · Public domain · Source

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

  1. 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.

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 Oscar Bluemner

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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?

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