Peter Ewart Auction Prices and Value Guide

Peter Ewart auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 816 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

Peter Ewart auction prices: quick answer

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

Artist
Peter Ewart
Source records
816
Market update
2026-02-06

Peter Ewart market snapshot

Peter Ewart shows solid auction liquidity with 74 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $960. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 6 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-08-21.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (50.9% · 27 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (49.1% · 26 sales)
  • $10,000+ (0.0% · 0 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$640
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
6
Median shift vs prior year
+82.9%
Latest recorded sale
2025-08-21

Artist context

About Peter Ewart

Peter Ewart portrait
D. Gordon E. Robertson · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Born

1918

Died

2001

Nationality

Canadian

Also known as

Peter Maxwell Ewart, Peter M. Ewart

Peter Ewart (1918–2001), also catalogued as Peter Maxwell Ewart and Peter M. Ewart, was a Canadian painter associated in available public sources with landscapes of western Canada. He is especially identified with the Cariboo country of British Columbia and the Canadian Rockies. These regional subjects provide useful clues when matching a signature, title, or auction listing to the correct artist, particularly because the shorter name “Peter Ewart” can be ambiguous without life dates or subject context. Auction records may identify him as either Peter Ewart or Peter Maxwell Ewart. Collectors are most likely to encounter paintings and landscape imagery, although broader auction indexing may also place records in works-on-paper, print, mixed-media, sculpture, decorative-art, or edition categories. Those categories should be assessed lot by lot rather than treated as a definitive catalogue of his practice. Wikidata and VIAF support the 1918–2001 identity, but fuller institutional documentation is limited in the supplied sources.

PaintingCariboo country of British ColumbiaCanadian RockiesWestern Canadian landscapes

Common works and media

The strongest supported description of Ewart's work is painting, particularly landscapes connected with the Cariboo region of British Columbia and the Canadian Rockies. Works may be catalogued under either Peter Ewart or Peter Maxwell Ewart. Appraisily's auction indexing also contains broader category labels for works on paper, prints, mixed media, sculpture, decorative art, and editions, but the supplied biographical sources do not establish those categories as equally characteristic of his practice; each listing should be verified individually.

Market and appraisal context

Peter Ewart auction results should be compared with works sharing the same medium, dimensions, date, landscape subject, condition, and level of attribution confidence. Signature form, inscriptions, restoration, provenance, exhibition history, and catalogue references may also affect how a lot is assessed. Appraisily's matched public-auction index reports both priced and unpriced records, but its observed results should be treated as comparable evidence rather than a prediction for another work. Auction reporting may differ in its treatment of buyer's premiums and fees, and private sales or incomplete feeds may not appear. A defensible appraisal therefore requires inspection of the specific object and careful selection of genuinely similar public sales.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

  • Fine art and paintings
  • Works on paper and prints
  • Sculpture and mixed media
  • Decorative art and editions

Value drivers

  1. Medium, dimensions, date, and period within the artist's career
  2. Condition, restoration history, and surface quality
  3. Signature, inscriptions, edition details, and attribution confidence
  4. Provenance, exhibition history, and catalogue references
  5. Recent public auction results for works comparable in medium, size, date, subject, and condition
  6. Subject matter, rarity, and current market demand

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 Ewart

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Artist value FAQ

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