Piero Dorazio Auction Prices and Value Guide
Piero Dorazio auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 3,374 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.
Piero Dorazio auction prices: quick answer
Piero Dorazio auction prices depend on medium, size, date, condition, provenance, edition details, attribution confidence, and recent comparable auction sales.
- Artist
- Piero Dorazio
- Source records
- 3,374
- Market update
- 2026-02-06
Artist context
About Piero Dorazio
Piero Dorazio (1927–2005) was an Italian painter, sculptor, ceramicist, and graphic artist born in Rome and active there and in Belgium and the Netherlands. Recognized by major institutions including the Museum of Modern Art in New York and Tate in London, Dorazio worked across painting, sculpture, lithography, and ceramics. The RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History and the Library of Congress record him as a painter, sculptor, lithographer, art critic, designer, and ceramicist. His subjects included landscape and still life. Dorazio spent his later years in Perugia, where he died in 2005. His work is represented in prominent international museum collections, making him a figure collectors encounter in post-war and contemporary art contexts.
Post-War Italian Abstractionpaintingsculptureceramicslithographylandscapestill life
Common works and media
Dorazio produced oil paintings on canvas and panel, watercolors and works on paper, lithographic prints and graphic works, ceramic pieces, and sculptural objects. Still life and landscape are documented subjects. His graphic output includes lithographs and editions that circulate regularly at auction. Ceramic works, while less common in the secondary market, are recorded by the RKD and VIAF as part of his practice.
Market and appraisal context
Piero Dorazio's secondary market is deep and liquid, with 2,135 recorded lots and 1,467 with realized prices spanning September 2002 through April 2026. Annual throughput is stable at approximately 216–222 lots per year, indicating consistent collector and trade interest. The price distribution is wide: the median lot realizes approximately €600, the 75th percentile sits at €8,400, and the top recorded price is €819,000. This dispersion reflects a sharp tiering by medium—oil paintings from recognized periods such as the 1960s and 1980s regularly achieve tens of thousands of euros at houses like Finarte, Bonhams, Christie's, and Sotheby's, while prints, aquatints, lithographs, ceramics, and small works on paper typically trade between €100 and €1,000 at regional Italian houses and international mid-tier auctioneers. The strongest recent results include Alla lunga II (1984) at €80,000 via Finarte (March 2026), Candidly (1962) at €58,000 via Bonhams (December 2024), Internal (2002) at €22,000 via Finarte (March 2026), and Untitled (1964) at €9,000 via Finarte (March 2026). Finarte is the dominant house by volume, followed by Christie's, Sotheby's, and a broad field of Italian and European salerooms including Felima Art Casa D'Aste, Pananti Casa D'Aste, Colasanti Casa d'Aste, Artcurial, Schuler Auktionen, and Casa d'aste ARCADIA.
Auction categories and appraisal factors
Common auction categories
- Post-War and Contemporary Art
- Prints and Multiples
- Works on Paper
- Ceramics and Decorative Art
Value drivers
- Medium and support: oil on canvas works generally command higher values than works on paper or prints
- Institutional provenance: works with museum exhibition history or established provenance are more sought after
- Date and period: works from key creative periods may differ significantly in market interest
- Authenticity and catalogue raisonné status
- Medium: oil on canvas paintings from the 1960s–1980s command the highest values (€9,000–€80,000+ in recent results); works on paper, watercolors, and prints typically trade between €100 and €2,500; ceramics and small editions fall in the €100–€1,000 range
- Period and date: 1960s works show strong results (Candidly, 1962 at €58,000; Untitled, 1964 at €9,000); 1980s paintings also perform well (Alla lunga II, 1984 at €80,000); later works and prints are more accessible
Appraisal caveats
- Movement affiliation is inferred from institutional holdings (MoMA, Tate) rather than explicitly stated in the collected source excerpts; confirm with additional scholarship.
- No auction records or realized prices are included in the source pack; market context is general and not based on specific comparable sales.
- Price data is drawn from the Appraisily auction-record index derived from public auction feeds; it may not capture every private sale or gallery transaction.
- Approximately 31% of recorded lots (668 of 2,135) have no price-realized value, typically indicating unsold lots or withdrawn estimates; these are excluded from price-distribution calculations.
Evidence
Sources for artist context
This source-grounded artist context passed Appraisily's promotion threshold: high confidence, strong sources.
- Library of Congress library authority
- RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History library authority
- VIAF library authority
- Wikidata library authority
- The Museum of Modern Art museum or university
- Tate museum or university
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
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