Peter Booth Auction Prices and Value Guide

Peter Booth auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 373 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

Peter Booth auction prices: quick answer

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

Artist
Peter Booth
Source records
373
Market update
2026-02-06

Peter Booth market snapshot

Peter Booth shows deep auction liquidity with 237 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $2,200. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 12 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-12-09.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (11.9% · 20 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (72.0% · 121 sales)
  • $10,000+ (16.1% · 27 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$8,000
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
12
Median shift vs prior year
0.0%
Latest recorded sale
2025-12-09

Artist context

About Peter Booth

Born

1940

Nationality

Australian

Peter Booth (born 1940) is an Australian artist best known as a painter. Library and art-authority records consistently identify him as an Australian painter, providing a firm basis for distinguishing his work from that of other people with the same name. Published biographical context associates Booth with figurative art and Surrealism and describes a practice shaped by emotionally intense, often dark narratives and symbolic imagery. These characteristics help explain why collectors may encounter his paintings within discussions of late twentieth-century Australian art, figurative painting, and surrealist visual language. The available institutional identifiers include records maintained by Wikidata, Getty ULAN, VIAF, IdRef, the Library of Congress, and the Museum of Modern Art. The present source pack does not document individual series, exhibitions, or a complete chronology, so those subjects require further institution-grade research before being presented as established facts.

Figurative artSurrealismPaintingDark narrative imageryEsoteric symbolism

Common works and media

The collected sources identify Booth as a painter and connect his work with figurative imagery, dark narrative content, and esoteric symbolism. Paintings are therefore the only confidently supported common work type in this profile. The evidence pack does not establish recurring named series or document a reliable auction presence for prints, drawings, sculpture, ceramics, posters, or editioned works.

Market and appraisal context

An appraisal of a work attributed to Peter Booth should begin by confirming that the artist matches the Australian painter born in 1940, using established authority identifiers to avoid namesake errors. The available sources support painting as his principal documented work type and associate his practice with figurative and surrealist contexts. Public auction records can then be compared by work type, sale date, realized price, and the relevance of matched lots. This source pack does not provide individual catalog entries, dimensions, provenance, condition, or detailed price results, so it does not support a price trend or prediction. Object-specific evidence remains necessary for a defensible valuation.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

  • Paintings

Value drivers

  1. Correct identification of the artist against established authority records
  2. Whether a work's medium and visual context are consistent with Booth's documented practice as a figurative and surrealist painter
  3. Comparable public auction records, sale dates, realized prices, and correctly matched lots when available

Appraisal caveats

  • The collected evidence does not include major auction-house catalog essays, individual lot descriptions, condition reports, provenance histories, dimensions, or realized-price details.
  • The source pack does not provide an auction-category breakdown, so paintings are the only work type classified here.
  • No price trend, investment conclusion, or future-value prediction is asserted.

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 Peter Booth

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Artist value FAQ

How much is Peter Booth 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 Peter Booth artwork?

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