Thornton Utz Auction Prices and Value Guide

Thornton Utz auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 277 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

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

Artist
Thornton Utz
Source records
277
Market update
2026-02-16

Thornton Utz market snapshot

Thornton Utz shows deep auction liquidity with 220 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $170. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 22 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-10-28.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (90.6% · 87 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (5.2% · 5 sales)
  • $10,000+ (4.2% · 4 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$100
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
22
Median shift vs prior year
0.0%
Latest recorded sale
2025-10-28

Artist context

About Thornton Utz

Thornton Utz is identified in Wikidata as an artist. The strongest additional evidence in the collected source pack concerns individual works rather than biography. Wikimedia Commons records credit Utz with illustrations made for The American Magazine printings of several Nero Wolfe stories by Rex Stout, including “Immune to Murder,” “Bullet for One,” and “Disguise for Murder.” Another Commons record identifies a 1978 sculpture at First Presbyterian Church in Sarasota, Florida as his work. These records document activity in commercial narrative illustration and sculpture, but they do not establish Utz's life dates, nationality, training, or association with an artistic movement. Collectors may encounter his name on publication-related illustrations, reproduced magazine imagery, or sculptural work. Because the available identity evidence is sparse, attribution and biographical details should be checked against stronger institutional, archival, or catalogue records as they become available.

IllustrationSculptureNarrative scenes accompanying Nero Wolfe stories by Rex Stout

Common works and media

The source pack documents narrative magazine illustrations credited to Thornton Utz for Nero Wolfe stories published in The American Magazine. It also documents a sculpture identified as his work at a Sarasota church. These examples support illustration and sculpture as known media, but the evidence does not establish a complete catalogue or show which work type is most commonly offered at auction.

Market and appraisal context

The supplied Appraisily input indicates an auction-record inventory for Thornton Utz, but the collected public page returned a rate-limit response and supplied no accessible lot descriptions, sale dates, realized prices, or major-auction-house analysis. This evidence is insufficient for responsible claims about price ranges, demand, scarcity, or which media appear most frequently at auction. Market conclusions should therefore be based on verified, like-for-like comparable lots when accessible. The documented magazine illustrations and sculpture establish that more than one work type may bear Utz's name, but they do not by themselves establish auction frequency or value relationships.

Evidence

Sources for artist context

This source-grounded artist context is based on collected public records: low confidence, thin 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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