Roy Petley Auction Prices and Value Guide
Roy Petley auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 330 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.
Roy Petley auction prices: quick answer
Roy Petley auction prices depend on medium, size, date, condition, provenance, edition details, attribution confidence, and recent comparable auction sales.
- Artist
- Roy Petley
- Source records
- 330
- Market update
- 2026-02-16
Roy Petley market snapshot
Roy Petley shows deep auction liquidity with 206 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $500. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 4 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-10-08.
Realized price distribution
- Under $1,000 (83.5% · 132 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000 (16.5% · 26 sales)
- $10,000+ (0.0% · 0 sales)
- Median sale (last 12 months)
- $200
- Sales recorded (last 12 months)
- 4
- Median shift vs prior year
- 0.0%
- Latest recorded sale
- 2025-10-08
Artist context
About Roy Petley
Born
1951
Nationality
British
Roy Petley is a British painter born in 1951. His identity is represented across several established authority and cultural-data systems, including Wikidata, Getty ULAN, VIAF, the Library of Congress, RKDartists, and Art UK. These linked records help distinguish him from similarly named people and support reliable entity matching across artist, library, museum, and auction data. The collected material confirms his basic identity and occupation but does not provide enough readable evidence to assign a particular movement, school, recurring subject, or named body of work. Collectors may encounter Petley's name in auction listings for paintings, although attribution and object-level evidence should be reviewed separately. Additional museum, catalogue, or official artist documentation would be needed for a fuller account of his training, career, stylistic development, exhibitions, and artistic contexts.
Painting
Common works and media
The available sources identify Roy Petley as a painter, so paintings are the only work type supported by this source pack. It does not establish particular materials, subjects, print editions, drawings, sculptures, ceramics, posters, named series, or career periods. Those details should be recorded from the object and verified against stronger artist-specific documentation before being used for classification or comparison.
Market and appraisal context
A work offered as by Roy Petley should be assessed using both artist identity evidence and information specific to the object. Appraisily's collected input indicates an auction-record presence, but the available source pack does not expose individual lot descriptions or results. Useful comparison therefore depends on locating genuinely comparable public sales and reviewing their sale dates, realized prices, attribution language, and object characteristics. The present research does not support claims about price direction, scarcity, preferred subjects, or the relative value of particular media. Identity matches in authority records can help establish which Roy Petley is intended, but they do not authenticate a signature or establish authorship of an individual work.
Auction categories and appraisal factors
Common auction categories
- Paintings
Value drivers
- Comparable public auction records, including sale dates and realized prices when available
- Whether the offered work can be reliably attributed to the identified British painter Roy Petley
Appraisal caveats
- The collected source pack does not expose individual auction-lot descriptions, realized prices, dimensions, condition reports, provenance, or attribution notes.
- No movement, school, recurring subject, specific painting medium, period, or named series is established by the readable source excerpts.
- Any appraisal should be based on the specific object's authorship evidence and lot-level characteristics rather than the artist name alone.
Evidence
Sources for artist context
This source-grounded artist context is based on collected public records: medium confidence, adequate source quality.
- Wikidata library authority
- Getty Vocabulary Program library authority
- VIAF library authority
- Library of Congress library authority
- RKD library authority
- Art UK museum or university
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.
Artist value FAQ
How much is Roy Petley 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 Roy Petley artwork?
Yes. Appraisily can review photos, dimensions, signatures, condition, provenance, and comparable market data to prepare a current valuation.