Simkha Simkhovitch Auction Prices and Value Guide

Simkha Simkhovitch auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 266 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

Simkha Simkhovitch auction prices: quick answer

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

Artist
Simkha Simkhovitch
Source records
266
Market update
2026-02-16

Simkha Simkhovitch market snapshot

Simkha Simkhovitch shows deep auction liquidity with 239 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $9,850. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 2 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2026-01-22.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (19.4% · 30 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (31.0% · 48 sales)
  • $10,000+ (49.7% · 77 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$60
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
2
Median shift vs prior year
0.0%
Latest recorded sale
2026-01-22

Artist context

About Simkha Simkhovitch

Simkha Simkhovitch portrait
Simka Simkhovitch · see-source-page · Source

Born

1893

Died

1949

Nationality

Russian-American

Also known as

Simka Simkhovitch, Simkha Simkovitch

Simkha Simkhovitch (1893–1949), also recorded as Simka Simkhovitch and Simkha Simkovitch, was a Russian-American painter whose career connected immigrant experience, commercial theater, New York gallery exhibition, and federally sponsored public art. Authority records preserve several transliterations of his name, making alias-aware research important when matching works, catalogues, and auction listings. Early in his career, Simkhovitch painted theatrical scenery. He later exhibited in New York and, during the 1930s, received Works Progress Administration commissions. Those commissions included post-office murals in Jackson, Mississippi, and Beaufort, North Carolina. Collectors may therefore encounter his name in connection with paintings, scenic work, or material related to public mural projects. The available evidence does not justify assigning him to a specific art movement or presenting a fixed list of characteristic subjects, and his precise birth date remains unresolved in the collected authority records.

PaintingTheatrical sceneryMural painting

Common works and media

The supported work types are paintings, theatrical scenery, and public murals, including post-office commissions from the 1930s. Portable paintings are the clearest general auction category in the available evidence. Scenic designs or mural-related material should be identified by their original function rather than grouped automatically with easel paintings. The source pack does not establish recurring subjects or support additional categories such as editions, prints, sculpture, ceramics, posters, or drawings.

Market and appraisal context

Appraisal should begin with identity matching because Simkhovitch appears under several transliterated spellings. Work type also matters: the source pack documents painting, theatrical scenery, and federally commissioned murals, which should not be treated as interchangeable market categories. The supplied Appraisily input reports 266 auction records, but the collected page did not expose lot-level descriptions or realized prices. A defensible comparison therefore requires verification of each relevant public lot, its sale date, catalogue attribution, and realized result. This source pack does not support a price prediction, market trend, or claim of scarcity, and mural- or theater-related material should be compared separately from portable paintings.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

  • Paintings

Value drivers

  1. Correct identity matching across transliterated and variant spellings of the artist's name
  2. Work type and original context, distinguishing paintings from theatrical scenery or mural-related material
  3. Verified comparable public auction records, including sale date and realized price when those details are available

Appraisal caveats

  • The collected pack contains no successfully fetched major-auction-house biography or lot narrative.
  • No price trend, price range, or scarcity conclusion can be supported from this source pack alone.
  • The reported birth year is not fully settled because the VIAF cluster displays both 1893 and 1885 in associated authority data.
  • The sources do not establish a dependable movement classification or recurring set of subjects.

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 Simkha Simkhovitch

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Artist value FAQ

How much is Simkha Simkhovitch 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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