Paul Adolphe Rajon Auction Prices and Value Guide

Paul Adolphe Rajon auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 311 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

Paul Adolphe Rajon auction prices: quick answer

Paul Adolphe Rajon auction prices depend on medium, size, date, condition, provenance, edition details, attribution confidence, and recent comparable auction sales.

Artist
Paul Adolphe Rajon
Source records
311
Market update
2026-02-16

Paul Adolphe Rajon market snapshot

Paul Adolphe Rajon shows developing auction liquidity with 23 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $110. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 2 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-11-09.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (100.0% · 12 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (0.0% · 0 sales)
  • $10,000+ (0.0% · 0 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$100
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
2
Median shift vs prior year
0.0%
Latest recorded sale
2025-11-09

Artist context

About Paul Adolphe Rajon

Paul Adolphe Rajon portrait
Paul Adolphe Rajon · Public domain · Source

Born

1843

Died

1888

Nationality

French

Also known as

Paul-Adolphe Rajon

Paul Adolphe Rajon (1843–1888) was a French painter and printmaker whose career also began in photography. Authority records identify him under both Paul Adolphe Rajon and Paul-Adolphe Rajon, with some catalogues giving his birth year as 1842 or 1843. The strongest collected evidence supports 1843, while the precise biographical account records his birth in Dijon on 2 July 1843 and his death at Auvers-sur-Oise on 7 June 1888. Rajon's practice spans painting and graphic art, so collectors may encounter his name on prints and other works on paper as well as paintings. His photographic beginnings add context to the breadth of his working life, but the present evidence does not establish a particular movement, school, recurring subject, or named series. For appraisal and entity matching, his hyphenated name form and authority identifiers are especially useful because catalogues differ on the birth year.

PaintingPrintmaking and graphic worksPhotography during his early career

Common works and media

The collected evidence supports paintings, prints and other graphic works, and photography from Rajon's early career. It does not identify particular print techniques, recurring subjects, editions, named series, or a reliable hierarchy of auction frequency, so individual objects should be classified from their physical characteristics and documentation.

Market and appraisal context

Rajon appears in auction contexts as both a printmaker and painter, so an appraisal should first identify the object's work type and medium and then compare it with genuinely similar lots. His documented name variants should also be reconciled when reviewing signatures, catalogue entries, and provenance records. Public auction data can contribute sale dates, realized prices, and comparable examples when complete lot records are available. The current source pack, however, provides no individual lot descriptions, conditions, editions, dimensions, provenances, or realized prices. It therefore supports category-level guidance but not a price trend, scarcity claim, or valuation forecast.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

  • Prints and other graphic works
  • Paintings

Value drivers

  1. Work type and medium should be established before selecting comparables because Rajon is documented as both a painter and printmaker.
  2. Attribution and name reconciliation matter because authority records use multiple name forms and disagree over whether the birth year was 1842 or 1843.
  3. Sale date, realized price, and genuinely comparable public auction lots can inform appraisal when complete lot records are available.

Appraisal caveats

  • The collected source pack contains no individual auction-lot descriptions or realized-price records, so it does not support a price trend or forecast.
  • No source-pack evidence establishes the relative auction frequency of paintings versus prints.
  • Condition, dimensions, provenance, edition, state, signature, and subject may require object-level research; the collected sources do not document their market effects for this artist.

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 Paul Adolphe Rajon

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Artist value FAQ

How much is Paul Adolphe Rajon 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 Paul Adolphe Rajon artwork?

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