Patricia Piccinini Auction Prices and Value Guide

Patricia Piccinini auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 171 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

Patricia Piccinini auction prices: quick answer

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

Artist
Patricia Piccinini
Source records
171
Market update
2026-02-16

Patricia Piccinini market snapshot

Patricia Piccinini shows solid auction liquidity with 118 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $4,200. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 5 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-11-19.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (13.7% · 7 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (62.7% · 32 sales)
  • $10,000+ (23.5% · 12 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$21,000
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
5
Median shift vs prior year
+100.0%
Latest recorded sale
2025-11-19

Artist context

About Patricia Piccinini

Born

1965

Nationality

Australian

Patricia Piccinini, born in 1965, is an Australian artist whose practice spans sculpture, installation, painting, digital prints, video, and sound. She is especially associated with carefully rendered hybrid and anthropomorphic creatures that place the familiar beside the biologically unfamiliar. Through these speculative beings and environments, her work considers bioethical questions, technological change, care, vulnerability, and the unintended consequences that can accompany attempts to reshape living systems. Piccinini represented Australia at the 50th Venice Biennale in 2003, an important point in the international presentation of her work. Collectors may encounter her name across several distinct formats rather than through a single medium: three-dimensional figures, digitally produced images, paintings, and installation-related work can all form part of her broader practice. Identifying a work therefore depends on examining its medium, date, documentation, and relationship to her established imagery rather than relying on subject resemblance alone.

SculptureInstallationPaintingDigital printsBioethical questions and the consequences of biotechnologySpeculative future life forms and dystopian possibilitiesAnthropomorphic animals and hybrid creatures

Common works and media

Works associated with Piccinini include sculpture, installation, painting, digital prints, video, and sound. Her best-documented imagery features speculative hybrid beings and anthropomorphic animals used to explore questions about biology, technology, care, and possible futures. Auction or appraisal entries should identify the exact medium and materials and should distinguish a unique object from a print, editioned work, installation element, or time-based work. A visual resemblance to her characteristic creatures is not sufficient attribution without supporting documentation.

Market and appraisal context

Patricia Piccinini's varied practice makes precise object identification the starting point for appraisal. A sculpture, digital print, painting, video work, or installation component may have different documentation, condition concerns, and sale comparables. Relevant evidence can include the work's date, dimensions, materials, provenance, exhibition history, edition or uniqueness status, and relationship to the artist's documented bioethical and anthropomorphic subjects. Comparable public auction results should be matched by medium, scale, date, and edition wherever possible. The collected source pack confirms the existence of an Appraisily auction-price page but does not provide readable lot-level evidence, a price trend, or a basis for predicting future value.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

  • Sculpture and other three-dimensional works
  • Digital prints
  • Paintings
  • Installation, video, and sound works

Value drivers

  1. Medium and work type, because the artist's practice spans sculpture, painting, digital prints, installation, video, and sound
  2. Documented date and relationship to established exhibition history, including the 2003 Venice Biennale presentation when applicable
  3. Subject matter and its relationship to the artist's documented bioethical, speculative, and anthropomorphic themes
  4. Condition, provenance, dimensions, edition or uniqueness status, and comparison with relevant public auction records

Appraisal caveats

  • The collected source pack contains an Appraisily auction-price page but no readable individual lot records or major-auction-house analysis.
  • The source pack does not establish auction frequency, price trends, scarcity, or medium-specific demand.
  • Attribution, edition status, provenance, condition, dimensions, and sale terms require verification for the individual work before drawing valuation conclusions.

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 Patricia Piccinini

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Artist value FAQ

How much is Patricia Piccinini 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 Patricia Piccinini artwork?

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