Renée Sintenis Auction Prices and Value Guide

Renée Sintenis auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 748 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

Renée Sintenis auction prices: quick answer

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

Artist
Renée Sintenis
Source records
748
Market update
2026-02-16

Renée Sintenis market snapshot

Renée Sintenis shows deep auction liquidity with 266 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $6,000. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 35 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-12-07.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (28.9% · 56 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (43.3% · 84 sales)
  • $10,000+ (27.8% · 54 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$3,302
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
35
Median shift vs prior year
0.0%
Latest recorded sale
2025-12-07

Artist context

About Renée Sintenis

Renée Sintenis portrait
Hugo Erfurth · Public domain · Source

Born

1888

Died

1965

Nationality

German

Also known as

Renate Alice Sintenis, Frau Emil R. Weiss

Renée Sintenis (1888–1965), born Renate Alice Sintenis, was a German sculptor, medallist, and graphic artist whose career was centered in Berlin. She is especially associated with compact sculpture: animals, female nudes, portrait heads, and figures of athletes recur in the available biographical sources. Her practice also included medals and graphic art. Collectors may encounter her name in connection with the Berlin Bear, a motif associated with the design used for the Berlin International Film Festival's Golden Bear award. Authority records and institutional artist pages at Wikidata, Getty ULAN, VIAF, the Library of Congress, MoMA, Tate, and the National Gallery of Art provide stable identifiers for entity matching. In appraisal and auction settings, Sintenis is encountered across several object types rather than through one medium alone. Small sculptures and statuettes are central, while medals and graphic works may also appear. Casting, edition, date, attribution, and authenticity require object-level evidence and should not be inferred from subject or style alone.

Small-format sculptureMedal artGraphic artAnimalsFemale nudesPortraits and portrait headsAthletes and sporting figures

Common works and media

Collectors are most likely to encounter small-format sculptures and statuettes depicting animals, female nudes, portrait subjects, or athletes. Berlin Bear sculptures form a particularly recognizable subject association. Medals and graphic works also fall within Sintenis's documented practice. The collected sources do not establish particular metals, casting workshops, edition sizes, paper techniques, or signature formats, so those details must be verified for each object rather than generalized across her work.

Market and appraisal context

Appraisal should begin by identifying the object type and subject because Sintenis's documented practice spans small sculpture, medals, and graphic art, with animals, portraits, nudes, and sporting figures among the recurring themes. A possible Berlin Bear should be linked to that motif through cataloguing and object-level evidence rather than resemblance alone. For sculpture, the material, dimensions, inscriptions, casting information, date, condition, provenance, and attribution should be documented before selecting comparables. The input indicates a substantial Appraisily auction-record directory, but this source pack provides no individual lot descriptions, realized prices, edition statements, or major-auction-house analysis. Consequently, it does not support a price trend, scarcity claim, authentication conclusion, or forecast. Comparable sales should be matched by work type, subject, date, dimensions, and cataloguing quality when detailed records are available.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

  • Small-format sculpture and statuettes
  • Animal sculpture
  • Portrait, nude, and sporting figures
  • Medals and graphic works

Value drivers

  1. Correct classification of the object as sculpture, medal, or graphic work
  2. Subject classification within the artist's documented practice, including animals, portraits, nudes, and sporting figures
  3. Documented identification of a work with the Berlin Bear motif rather than resemblance alone
  4. Comparison with relevant Appraisily auction records by object type, subject, sale date, and realized price when detailed records are available

Appraisal caveats

  • The source pack does not contain fetched individual auction-lot descriptions, realized prices, edition information, or a major-auction-house market analysis.
  • Material, dimensions, inscriptions, casting or edition details, condition, provenance, attribution, and date must be established from the individual object and its documentation.
  • No price trend, rarity claim, authentication conclusion, or market forecast is supported by the collected evidence alone.

Evidence

Sources for artist context

This source-grounded artist context is based on collected public records: medium confidence, adequate source quality.

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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.

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Artist value FAQ

How much is Renée Sintenis 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.

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