Preben Fabricius Auction Prices and Value Guide

Preben Fabricius auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 451 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

Preben Fabricius auction prices: quick answer

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

Artist
Preben Fabricius
Source records
451
Market update
2026-02-06

Preben Fabricius market snapshot

Preben Fabricius shows deep auction liquidity with 273 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $2,200. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 76 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2026-01-27.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (20.2% · 23 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (68.4% · 78 sales)
  • $10,000+ (11.4% · 13 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$1,600
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
76
Median shift vs prior year
0.0%
Latest recorded sale
2026-01-27

Artist context

About Preben Fabricius

Born

1931

Died

1984

Nationality

Danish

Also known as

Preben Juul Fabricius

Preben Juul Fabricius (1931–1984) was a Danish furniture designer best documented in the available sources through his professional partnership with Jørgen Kastholm. During the 1960s, the pair developed a broad range of furniture for Alfred Kill, whose factory was located in Fellbach near Stuttgart. That collaboration is the principal design context supported by the present source pack. Fabricius may therefore appear in catalogues under his own name, under a joint Fabricius and Kastholm attribution, or in connection with Alfred Kill. The collected evidence identifies him as a furniture designer but does not establish a specific design movement, named series, detailed material vocabulary, or complete production history. For collectors, careful identity matching matters because his full name, Preben Juul Fabricius, coexists with the shorter Preben Fabricius form, while collaborative cataloguing can affect how an object is described and compared.

Furniture design

Common works and media

The collected sources support furniture and furniture design as Fabricius's principal field, especially work created in collaboration with Jørgen Kastholm during the 1960s and designs associated with Alfred Kill. They do not identify particular furniture types, model names, materials, editions, or named series, so those details should be verified from object labels, manufacturer documentation, catalogues, or reliable auction records rather than inferred from the artist name alone.

Market and appraisal context

An appraisal should begin by confirming whether an object is attributed to Preben Fabricius individually or to Fabricius and Jørgen Kastholm together. The available sources also support checking any documented connection to manufacturer Alfred Kill and the object's relationship to the designers' 1960s work. The source pack does not provide model-level documentation, condition criteria, edition information, provenance standards, or realized auction prices. Consequently, valuation should remain item-specific and should consider the precise design, maker attribution, date, materials, dimensions, condition, provenance, and genuinely comparable public sales once those details and records are available. No price direction can be inferred from the collected biographical sources alone.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

  • Designer furniture
  • Furniture jointly attributed to Preben Fabricius and Jørgen Kastholm

Value drivers

  1. Catalogued attribution to Fabricius alone versus a joint Fabricius and Kastholm design
  2. Documented manufacturer association, including attribution to Alfred Kill
  3. The object's documented relationship to the designers' 1960s collaboration

Appraisal caveats

  • The collected source pack contains no accessible major auction-house record, realized-price evidence, or detailed catalogue entry.
  • Materials, model names, dimensions, production dates, condition standards, editions, and provenance requirements could not be established from the collected sources.
  • The Appraisily artist-page request returned a rate-limit response, so its underlying auction records were not available for item-level verification.

Evidence

Sources for artist context

This source-grounded artist context is based on collected public records: medium confidence, thin 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 Preben Fabricius

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Artist value FAQ

How much is Preben Fabricius 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 Preben Fabricius artwork?

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