Robert Filliou Auction Prices and Value Guide

Robert Filliou auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 171 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

Robert Filliou auction prices: quick answer

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

Artist
Robert Filliou
Source records
171
Market update
2026-02-06

Robert Filliou market snapshot

Robert Filliou shows solid auction liquidity with 70 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $1,800. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 4 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-11-20.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (34.0% · 18 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (49.1% · 26 sales)
  • $10,000+ (17.0% · 9 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$700
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
4
Median shift vs prior year
+75.0%
Latest recorded sale
2025-11-20

Artist context

About Robert Filliou

Born

1926

Died

1987

Nationality

French

Robert Filliou (1926–1987) was a French artist associated with Fluxus. Public authority records establish his identity and lifespan, while the collected biographical overview describes a deliberately cross-disciplinary practice encompassing film, action poetry, sculpture, and happenings. This range is essential to understanding his work: Filliou cannot be represented accurately by a single conventional medium. Collectors may encounter his name in connection with physical objects, moving-image work, language-based material, or documentation related to actions and events. His Fluxus association provides the clearest available art-historical context in this source pack. Getty ULAN, VIAF, Wikidata, Library of Congress, MoMA, BnF, British Museum, and Art UK profile identifiers offer stable anchors for matching records across collections and databases. Because the supplied evidence does not identify individual works, series, or subjects, those details should be established from object-specific documentation rather than inferred from the artist's general biography.

FluxusFilmSculptureAction poetryHappenings and performance-based work

Common works and media

The available overview identifies film, sculpture, action poetry, and happenings as parts of Filliou's practice. These are documented areas of activity, not a verified ranking of what appears most often at auction. Items submitted for appraisal may therefore require careful distinction between an autonomous physical work, language-based material, moving-image work, and documentation or material connected to a performance or happening.

Market and appraisal context

The collected evidence supports a cautious, work-specific market approach. Filliou's practice spans sculpture, film, action poetry, and happenings, so an appraisal should first determine what kind of object or documentation is being evaluated. The source pack does not provide enough lot-level information to rank these categories, characterize edition patterns, or describe price trends. Appraisily's artist input indicates an auction-record set, but comparable results should be evaluated only after the work type and identifying details are established. No conclusion about value should be drawn solely from the artist name or the overall number of records. Stronger market analysis requires dated, closely comparable public sales and their accompanying auction-house descriptions.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Value drivers

  1. The identified work type and medium, including whether an item relates to sculpture, film, action poetry, or happenings
  2. The availability of comparable public auction records for the same type of work

Appraisal caveats

  • The collected source pack does not contain a major auction-house biography or readable lot-level extracts, so it does not support claims about price levels, trends, scarcity, edition behavior, or the relative frequency of particular categories.
  • The input reports 171 auction-directory records, but their medium, date, condition, attribution, and result distribution are not included in the source pack.
  • Filliou's multidisciplinary practice makes precise identification of the object or documentation especially important before selecting comparable records.

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.

LLM-readable Markdown summary for Robert Filliou

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Artist value FAQ

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