William Butler Yeats Auction Prices and Value Guide

William Butler Yeats auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 180 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

William Butler Yeats auction prices: quick answer

William Butler Yeats auction prices depend on medium, size, date, condition, provenance, edition details, attribution confidence, and recent comparable auction sales.

Artist
William Butler Yeats
Source records
180
Market update
2026-02-16

William Butler Yeats market snapshot

William Butler Yeats shows developing auction liquidity with 19 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $756. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 1 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-12-10.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (61.1% · 11 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (27.8% · 5 sales)
  • $10,000+ (11.1% · 2 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$120
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
1
Median shift vs prior year
0.0%
Latest recorded sale
2025-12-10

Artist context

About William Butler Yeats

William Butler Yeats portrait
George Charles Beresford · Public domain · Source

Born

1865

Died

1939

Nationality

Irish

Also known as

W. B. Yeats, Yeats, William Butler

William Butler Yeats (1865–1939), commonly identified as W. B. Yeats, was an Irish poet and playwright rather than a figure known principally for visual art. Wikidata and VIAF consistently identify him by name, occupation, and life years, while the collected biographical material also describes his work as a writer and literary critic. He was associated with the Irish Literary Revival, helped establish the Abbey Theatre, and received the 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature. His identity requires care in an art and auction setting because his father, John Butler Yeats, was a painter and his brother, Jack Butler Yeats, was a visual artist. Appraisily currently associates 180 records with William Butler Yeats, but the source pack does not establish their media or attribution individually. Collectors should therefore match each catalogue record to his authority identifiers and stated literary identity before drawing conclusions about authorship, object type, or value.

Common works and media

The collected sources establish Yeats primarily as a poet, playwright, writer, and literary critic. They do not document a recurring visual-art corpus or substantiate common auction media, subjects, editions, paintings, prints, sculptures, or other object categories. Common works should be described only after Appraisily reviews the underlying records and separates material reliably attributable to William Butler Yeats from records concerning similarly named or related artists.

Market and appraisal context

Appraisily’s current artist-page input reports 180 auction records associated with this name, but the collected pack provides no lot-level breakdown, realized prices, media distribution, or attribution review. The first appraisal task is therefore entity resolution: confirm that a record concerns William Butler Yeats, the Irish writer born in 1865, rather than another Yeats family member or an object merely associated with him. Once identity is secure, the catalogue description, stated attribution, object type, date, condition, provenance, edition or uniqueness, and genuinely comparable public sales can be evaluated. No price direction or typical value range is supported by this source pack alone.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Value drivers

  1. Reliable entity resolution and attribution to William Butler Yeats rather than another person in the Yeats family
  2. Lot-level catalogue description, stated attribution, object type, date, condition, provenance, edition or uniqueness, and genuinely comparable public auction records

Appraisal caveats

  • Treat the public record count as an inventory signal rather than proof of authorship, authenticity, or a price trend.
  • The collected evidence does not establish recurring auction categories, visual-art media, edition practices, or realized-price patterns.
  • Do not infer a typical value range until the underlying records have been reviewed and disambiguated.

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 William Butler Yeats

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Artist value FAQ

How much is William Butler Yeats 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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