Willy Guhl Auction Prices and Value Guide

Willy Guhl auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 505 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

Willy Guhl auction prices: quick answer

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

Artist
Willy Guhl
Source records
505
Market update
2026-02-06

Willy Guhl market snapshot

Willy Guhl shows deep auction liquidity with 294 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $800. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 20 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-11-15.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (58.7% · 142 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (40.9% · 99 sales)
  • $10,000+ (0.4% · 1 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$800
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
20
Median shift vs prior year
0.0%
Latest recorded sale
2025-11-15

Artist context

About Willy Guhl

Willy Guhl portrait
Locabiotal · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Born

1915

Died

2004

Nationality

Swiss

Willy Guhl (1915–2004) was a Swiss designer, architect, and artist associated with twentieth-century Swiss design. German-language biographical material identifies his practice more specifically with furniture design, product design, and interior architecture. French-language biographical material presents him as a pioneer of Swiss industrial design and associates him with Swiss neo-functionalism, although the collected source pack lacks the museum or scholarly evidence needed to treat that movement label as settled. Collectors are most likely to encounter Guhl’s name attached to furniture and other designed objects rather than conventional fine-art categories. His identity is anchored across Wikidata, Getty ULAN, VIAF, and Library of Congress authority records, helping distinguish his work from objects by similarly named makers. The available Appraisily input reports 505 associated auction records, but the collected sources did not expose record-level details for particular models, manufacturers, dates, or prices.

Furniture designProduct designInterior architecture

Common works and media

Public biographical sources identify Guhl with furniture design, product design, and interior architecture. The most defensible broad auction and appraisal categories are therefore furniture and other designed objects. This source pack does not support a reliable list of named models, manufacturers, materials, editions, or recurring motifs, so those details should be established from object-specific evidence rather than inferred from the designer’s name alone.

Market and appraisal context

An appraisal should begin by confirming that an object is correctly catalogued under Willy Guhl and determining whether it belongs to furniture, product design, or another design category. Relevant public auction records can then provide context when they describe genuinely comparable objects and disclose sale dates and realized prices. The collected Appraisily input indicates 505 associated records, but its public page was rate-limited during collection, preventing review of individual lots or price patterns. This source pack also does not establish particular model names, manufacturers, materials, editions, dimensions, or condition distinctions. Those object-level details require documentation from the item and verification against accessible catalogues and comparable sale records before a valuation conclusion is reached.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

  • Furniture
  • Designed objects

Value drivers

  1. Correct attribution to Willy Guhl and accurate classification of the object as furniture or another product-design work
  2. Comparison with relevant public auction records for the same type of designed object when record-level sale information is available

Appraisal caveats

  • The collected source pack contains no accessible major-auction-house catalogue entry or record-level sale data, so it does not support claims about price trends or particular models.
  • The Appraisily artist page was rate-limited during collection; the input reports 505 associated records, but their individual sale dates, realized prices, descriptions, and comparability could not be reviewed.
  • The source pack does not provide institution-grade support for specific manufacturers, materials, editions, dimensions, named models, or condition-sensitive market distinctions.

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 Willy Guhl

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Artist value FAQ

How much is Willy Guhl 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 Willy Guhl artwork?

Yes. Appraisily can review photos, dimensions, signatures, condition, provenance, and comparable market data to prepare a current valuation.