Richard Larter Auction Prices and Value Guide

Richard Larter auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 271 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

Richard Larter auction prices: quick answer

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

Artist
Richard Larter
Source records
271
Market update
2026-02-06

Richard Larter market snapshot

Richard Larter shows deep auction liquidity with 208 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $3,158. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 8 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-10-21.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (24.8% · 31 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (60.0% · 75 sales)
  • $10,000+ (15.2% · 19 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$600
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
8
Median shift vs prior year
0.0%
Latest recorded sale
2025-10-21

Artist context

About Richard Larter

Born

1929

Died

2014

Nationality

Australian

Richard Larter (1929–2014) was an Australian painter closely associated with Australian Pop art. After emigrating to Australia in 1962, he developed a recognizable practice that combined mass-media imagery with vivid color and highly worked surfaces. Sources describe both Pointillist handling and less conventional methods, including the use of paint-filled syringes in early works. Larter drew source material from popular culture, news photographs, film stills, and sexually explicit imagery, sometimes juxtaposing several images within one composition. These features place his work within Pop art while distinguishing it from a simple imitation of British or American examples. Collectors may therefore encounter paintings that vary considerably in subject, density, technique, and visual tone, even when they share his interest in reproduced imagery. His identity is also represented across international authority systems, including Wikidata, Getty ULAN, VIAF, ISNI, and national-library records.

Australian Pop artPointillismPaintingSyringe-applied paint technique in early worksPopular culture imageryNews photographs and film stillsSexually explicit source imagery

Common works and media

The available sources most clearly identify Larter with paintings. Auction and appraisal contexts may include brightly colored Pop-related compositions, works with Pointillist handling, early paintings made with syringe-applied paint, and multi-image compositions derived from mass-media sources. The collected evidence does not establish a recurring market for signed editions, sculpture, ceramics, posters, or other categories, so those work types should be researched individually if encountered.

Market and appraisal context

Richard Larter market comparisons should distinguish between works by medium, technique, date, subject, and stylistic character. A densely handled Pointillist painting may not be directly comparable with an earlier work using syringe-applied paint, even when both are attributed to the same artist. Source imagery can also matter because his practice ranged across popular culture, news photographs, film stills, and sexually explicit material. The collected pack confirms that public auction information exists but does not provide usable lot-level descriptions, condition reports, provenance, dimensions, sale dates, or realized prices. Accordingly, a responsible appraisal should inspect the specific object and compare it with sufficiently similar documented sales rather than infer value from the artist name alone.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

  • Paintings

Value drivers

  1. Work type and painting technique, including pointillist handling and syringe-applied paint in early works
  2. Subject and source imagery, including popular culture, news photographs, film stills, and sexually explicit material
  3. Date and stylistic relationship to Larter's Pop art or Pointillist work
  4. Comparable public auction records when sufficiently detailed matching lots are available

Appraisal caveats

  • The collected source pack does not expose individual auction lots, sale dates, realized prices, dimensions, condition reports, provenance, attribution language, or edition information.
  • No major auction-house source was available in the collected pack, so no price trend, market ranking, or category-specific demand claim is supported.
  • A work-specific appraisal requires examination of the object and documentation; artist-page identity and auction records alone do not authenticate a work.

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 Richard Larter

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Artist value FAQ

How much is Richard Larter 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 Richard Larter artwork?

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