Pol Mara Auction Prices and Value Guide

Pol Mara auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 931 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

Pol Mara auction prices: quick answer

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

Artist
Pol Mara
Source records
931
Market update
2026-02-06

Pol Mara market snapshot

Pol Mara shows very deep auction liquidity with 611 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $425. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 64 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2026-01-21.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (78.1% · 371 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (21.7% · 103 sales)
  • $10,000+ (0.2% · 1 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$380
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
64
Median shift vs prior year
+35.7%
Latest recorded sale
2026-01-21

Artist context

About Pol Mara

Pol Mara portrait
Stijn Coppejans · CC BY 3.0 nl · Source

Born

1920

Died

1998

Nationality

Belgian

Also known as

Leopold Leysen

Pol Mara was the working name of Leopold Leysen (1920–1998), a Belgian painter, draughtsman, and lithographer. Authority records from Wikidata, VIAF, and Getty ULAN connect this name with the same twentieth-century artist, helping distinguish his work in catalogues and auction data. The collected biographical sources identify Antwerp as his place of birth and death and give the dates 8 December 1920 and 10 February 1998. They consistently describe a practice spanning painting and drawing, while the Dutch-language biography also identifies lithography. The available source pack does not establish a specific movement, school, signature style, or recurring subject with institution-grade evidence, so those labels should not be inferred. Collectors may encounter his name on paintings, drawings, and lithographs catalogued under either Pol Mara or Leopold Leysen. Appraisal should therefore begin with a sound identity match, confirmation of the work type, and comparison with genuinely similar public sale records.

PaintingDrawingLithography

Common works and media

The collected sources support three principal work types associated with Pol Mara: paintings, drawings, and lithographs. Painting is corroborated by authority and biographical records; drawing appears in both collected biographies; and lithography is identified in the Dutch-language biography. The pack does not provide sufficiently authoritative evidence for recurring subjects, named series, sculpture, ceramics, posters, or specific print editions, so those categories should not be assigned without further documentation.

Market and appraisal context

The collected Appraisily input associates Pol Mara with 931 auction records, but the pack contains no major-auction-house lot descriptions or realized-price examples. That count identifies a possible comparison pool, not a price conclusion. Valuation research should start by matching like with like: paintings to paintings, drawings to drawings, and lithographs to lithographs. Records catalogued under Pol Mara and Leopold Leysen should also be reconciled before comparisons are selected. Beyond those supported distinctions, this source pack does not establish how condition, provenance, edition details, dimensions, date, signature, or subject affect his market. Those facts require object-level examination and original auction documentation. No price prediction, rarity claim, or market-trend conclusion is justified from this pack alone.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

  • Paintings
  • Drawings
  • Lithographs

Value drivers

  1. Match comparable records by supported work type, distinguishing paintings, drawings, and lithographs.
  2. Reconcile cataloguing under the artist name Pol Mara and the name Leopold Leysen before comparing records.
  3. Use comparable public auction records rather than the aggregate record count alone when forming a valuation opinion.

Appraisal caveats

  • The collected pack contains no major-auction-house lot descriptions, realized-price examples, or evidence supporting a directional price trend.
  • No source in the pack establishes artist-specific effects for condition, provenance, edition size, signature, dimensions, or subject matter.
  • The aggregate auction-record signal should not be interpreted as evidence of rarity, liquidity, or market strength.

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 Pol Mara

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Artist value FAQ

How much is Pol Mara 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 Pol Mara artwork?

Yes. Appraisily can review photos, dimensions, signatures, condition, provenance, and comparable market data to prepare a current valuation.