Pinchas Litvinovsky Auction Prices and Value Guide

Pinchas Litvinovsky auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 437 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

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Artist
Pinchas Litvinovsky
Source records
437
Market update
2026-02-06

Artist context

About Pinchas Litvinovsky

Pinchas Litvinovsky (1894–1985) was a painter, watercolorist, and gouache artist recognized as one of the significant figures in twentieth-century Israeli art. Born Piotr Vladimirovich Litvinovski in Novogeorgievsk, Ukraine, he was active in Odesa before settling in Palestine, where he worked in Tel Aviv and later Jerusalem. Library of Congress authority records classify his work under Israeli art and Modern art of the twentieth century. Litvinovsky's known subjects include portraits and genre scenes, executed across oil, watercolor, and gouache. His long career spanned the formative decades of Israeli visual culture, and collectors encounter his work today through gallery holdings and public auction. Multiple transliterations of his name appear across international catalogs, including Pinhas, Pinkas, and the original Piotr Vladimirovich.

Israeli art, 20th centuryModern art, 20th centuryoil paintingwatercolorgouacheportraitsgenre scenes

Common works and media

Litvinovsky produced oil paintings, watercolors, and gouaches. His documented subjects include portraits and genre pictures. Works may be found on canvas, paper, or board, and range from smaller watercolor studies to larger painted compositions. Given his career length — spanning roughly seven decades from the 1910s through the early 1980s — collectors may encounter works from distinct periods reflecting shifts in his style and locale.

Market and appraisal context

Pinchas Litvinovsky has a well-established secondary-market footprint spanning more than two decades of auction activity (2002–2025). Appraisily's auction-record index tracks 220 total lots, of which 110 carry a realized price. The price distribution is wide: the observed range runs from $30 to $125,000, with a median of $500 and an interquartile spread of $160–$2,250. This dispersion reflects the breadth of his output — from small charcoal or gouache studies on paper in the low hundreds of dollars to large-scale oil paintings that command five-figure results. The auction market is concentrated among Israeli houses: Tiroche Auction House, Yair Art Gallery, Montefiore Auction House, Pasarel, Ishtar Auctions Ltd, and Kedem Public Auction House Ltd account for the majority of volume. Occasional lots surface at Art-Torg, The Bidder, Chiswick Auctions, Trinity International Auctions, Hill Auction Gallery, Levy Auction House, and Dynasty, indicating modest but real international reach beyond Israel. Liquidity has moderated recently — 4 lots in the trailing 12 months versus 12 in the prior 12 months — which may reflect ordinary cyclical variation rather than structural decline in a market this size.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

  • oil painting
  • watercolor
  • gouache
  • works on paper
  • lithograph

Value drivers

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Appraisal caveats

  • The source pack does not include specific realized auction prices or detailed provenance records; market statements are limited to documented mediums, subjects, and categories.
  • A VIAF entry from the National Library of Israel lists a death date of 1955, conflicting with the widely supported 1985 date. The 1985 date is corroborated by Wikidata, Library of Congress, RKD, and other VIAF sub-authorities and is treated as the strongest version.
  • Auction liquidity has decreased in the trailing 12 months (4 priced lots) compared with the prior 12 months (12 priced lots). This may be cyclical, but it means recent comparable data is thinner than usual.
  • Of 220 tracked lots, only 110 carry a realized price — the remainder may be unsold, withdrawn, or price-unreported lots. Median and percentile figures are computed from the priced subset only.

Evidence

Sources for artist context

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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 Pinchas Litvinovsky

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