Red Skelton Auction Prices and Value Guide

Red Skelton auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 351 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

Red Skelton auction prices: quick answer

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

Artist
Red Skelton
Source records
351
Market update
2026-02-16

Red Skelton market snapshot

Red Skelton shows solid auction liquidity with 125 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $110. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 7 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-10-09.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (96.1% · 99 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (3.9% · 4 sales)
  • $10,000+ (0.0% · 0 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$60
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
7
Median shift vs prior year
0.0%
Latest recorded sale
2025-10-09

Artist context

About Red Skelton

Red Skelton portrait
Adam Cuerden · Public domain · Source

Born

1913

Died

1997

Nationality

American

Also known as

Richard Bernard Skelton

Red Skelton (1913–1997), born Richard Bernard Skelton, was an American entertainer and comedian whose identity is anchored by Wikidata and VIAF authority records. He became best known through national radio and television work, particularly The Red Skelton Show, and also appeared in vaudeville, burlesque, films, nightclubs, and casinos. Alongside that entertainment work, he pursued a separate career as a visual artist. This dual identity matters on an artist page: collectors may recognize the performer’s name while encountering objects offered as his artwork. The collected sources firmly establish the person and the existence of his artistic activity, but they do not provide institution-grade detail about artistic training, movements, recurring media, subjects, or named series. Appraisily therefore identifies Skelton as an American entertainer and artist without assigning an unsupported school or movement. Individual works require assessment through their cataloguing, inscriptions, provenance, condition, and supporting documentation.

Common works and media

The collected sources confirm that Red Skelton maintained a visual-art career, but they do not establish recurring media, subjects, editions, or named series. Common work types should therefore be described only after the underlying auction lots have been reviewed, with original works, editions, reproductions, and other objects kept distinct. Until that lot-level classification is available, no painting, print, drawing, sculpture, or other category should be presented as characteristic of his output.

Market and appraisal context

Appraisily’s public artist page indexes auction records under Red Skelton, but the collected source pack does not include a major-auction-house biography or detailed lot excerpts. Market interpretation should begin with identity and attribution: determine whether an object is credibly connected to Richard Bernard “Red” Skelton and whether its cataloguing distinguishes an original work from an edition, reproduction, or other object bearing his name. An appraisal should then consider the stated medium, dimensions, subject, date, signature or inscription, edition information, condition, provenance, and relevant comparable public sales. These considerations do not authenticate a work or imply a price trend; they identify the evidence needed for a responsible comparison.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

  • Auction records catalogued under Red Skelton

Value drivers

  1. Identity and attribution to Richard Bernard “Red” Skelton
  2. Lot-specific medium, dimensions, subject, date, signature or inscription, edition status, condition, provenance, and comparable public sales

Appraisal caveats

  • The collected source pack contains no detailed auction-lot excerpts or major-auction-house artist biography.
  • The sources establish that Skelton pursued visual art but do not document characteristic media, subjects, editions, named series, artistic training, or a recognized movement.
  • An artist-page record or name match does not by itself authenticate an object or establish authorship.

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 Red Skelton

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Artist value FAQ

How much is Red Skelton 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 Red Skelton artwork?

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