Peter Hayes Auction Prices and Value Guide
Peter Hayes auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 199 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.
Peter Hayes auction prices: quick answer
Peter Hayes auction prices depend on medium, size, date, condition, provenance, edition details, attribution confidence, and recent comparable auction sales.
- Artist
- Peter Hayes
- Source records
- 199
- Market update
- 2026-02-06
Peter Hayes market snapshot
Peter Hayes shows solid auction liquidity with 128 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $280. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 24 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2026-01-20.
Realized price distribution
- Under $1,000 (86.3% · 88 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000 (13.7% · 14 sales)
- $10,000+ (0.0% · 0 sales)
- Median sale (last 12 months)
- $240
- Sales recorded (last 12 months)
- 24
- Median shift vs prior year
- +84.6%
- Latest recorded sale
- 2026-01-20
Artist context
About Peter Hayes
Born
1946
Nationality
British
Peter Hayes is a British contemporary sculptor associated with Bath, England. Public identity records describe him as a sculptor, while the collected biographical source reports that his work appears in public locations in the United Kingdom, United States, Canada, and Belgium. For collectors, careful identity matching is especially important: Peter Hayes is a shared name, and authority-search results can surface an American historian and other public figures alongside the British sculptor. The available authority evidence supports a 1946 birth year, but this source pack does not safely establish a full birth date. No movement, school, material specialization, or named series is assigned here because the collected sources do not substantiate one. Collectors are most likely to encounter this artist through sculpture listings and references to publicly displayed work, with attribution checked against the British, Bath-based sculptor rather than against a namesake.
Sculpture
Common works and media
The collected sources support sculpture as Peter Hayes's principal work type and report examples displayed in public locations. They do not provide enough evidence to specify recurring materials, subjects, editions, named series, or periods, so individual objects should be catalogued from their own physical and documentary evidence.
Market and appraisal context
Appraisal should begin by confirming that a lot is by the British sculptor Peter Hayes, because the name is shared with other public figures and the collected authority data shows possible identity crossover. The current source pack supports sculpture as the relevant auction category, but it does not document particular materials, editions, named series, or an auction-house market narrative. Comparable-sale analysis should therefore use only records securely matched to this sculptor and should avoid combining results for the historian, musician, or other namesakes. No price trend or forecast is inferred from this evidence.
Auction categories and appraisal factors
Common auction categories
- Sculpture
Value drivers
- Secure identification of the British sculptor and exclusion of records belonging to namesakes
Appraisal caveats
- The collected source pack does not establish particular materials, editions, named series, or an auction-house market narrative.
- No price trend or price forecast can be supported by the collected evidence.
- The public Appraisily artist page could not be inspected because the collection request returned a rate-limit response.
Evidence
Sources for artist context
This source-grounded artist context is based on collected public records: medium confidence, adequate source quality.
- Wikidata library authority
- Getty Vocabulary Program library authority
- VIAF library authority
- Wikipedia wikipedia
- Appraisily appraisily artist page
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.
Artist value FAQ
How much is Peter Hayes 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 Hayes artwork?
Yes. Appraisily can review photos, dimensions, signatures, condition, provenance, and comparable market data to prepare a current valuation.