Ynez Johnston Auction Prices and Value Guide

Ynez Johnston auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 196 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

Ynez Johnston auction prices: quick answer

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

Artist
Ynez Johnston
Source records
196
Market update
2026-02-06

Ynez Johnston market snapshot

Ynez Johnston shows solid auction liquidity with 136 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $850. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 18 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-12-10.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (50.9% · 54 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (44.3% · 47 sales)
  • $10,000+ (4.7% · 5 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$650
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
18
Median shift vs prior year
0.0%
Latest recorded sale
2025-12-10

Artist context

About Ynez Johnston

Ynez Johnston portrait
Ynez Johnston · see-source-page · Source

Born

1920

Died

2019

Nationality

American

Ynez Johnston (1920–2019) was an American painter, sculptor, printmaker, and educator whose career crossed several media. She spent her early life in the San Francisco Bay Area and moved to Los Angeles in 1949. Available biographical material associates her visual imagination with Byzantine art and with Tibetan, Indian, Mexican, and Nepalese art encountered through travel. These references are best understood as documented inspirations rather than evidence of membership in one formal movement. Johnston’s identity is reinforced by a MoMA artist profile and authority records maintained by Wikidata, VIAF, Getty ULAN, and the Library of Congress. Collectors may encounter her name on paintings, original prints and other graphic works, mixed-media pieces, and sculpture. Because her practice was broad, an artist-page match should be checked against the object’s medium, title, date, dimensions, signature or inscriptions, and documented history before an auction record is treated as comparable.

PaintingPrintmaking and graphic artMixed mediaSculpture

Common works and media

Johnston worked in painting, printmaking, mixed media, and sculpture. Auction and appraisal searches may therefore surface paintings, original prints or other graphic works, layered mixed-media compositions, and three-dimensional pieces. Her documented inspirations include Byzantine art and artistic traditions encountered through travel in Tibet, India, Mexico, and Nepal, although the available source pack does not define a reliable list of recurring subjects or named series.

Market and appraisal context

Appraisily’s collected signal lists 196 auction records under Ynez Johnston’s public identity, indicating that collectors may find a useful body of public sales to examine. Comparisons should first be separated by medium: a print, painting, mixed-media work, and sculpture should not be treated as interchangeable. For prints, edition and impression information may require review; across all categories, date, dimensions, condition, provenance, attribution, and inscriptions should be checked against closely comparable lots. The present source pack does not include the underlying lot descriptions or realized-price history, so it cannot support a price trend, typical value range, or claim about which category appears most frequently. Any appraisal conclusion should therefore be based on the specific object and verified public auction records.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

  • Prints and graphic works
  • Paintings
  • Mixed-media works
  • Sculpture

Value drivers

  1. Identify the medium and work type before selecting comparable auction records, because Johnston worked across painting, printmaking, mixed media, and sculpture.
  2. Use public auction results from closely related work categories and sale dates rather than combining unlike media into one comparison set.

Appraisal caveats

  • The collected Appraisily signal reports 196 auction records, but the source pack does not expose individual lot descriptions, realized prices, dimensions, condition reports, provenance, or edition information.
  • The listed auction categories are inferred from Johnston's documented artistic media; the source pack does not establish their relative frequency at auction.
  • No artist-specific price trend or future-value conclusion can be supported from this source pack alone.

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 Ynez Johnston

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Artist value FAQ

How much is Ynez Johnston 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 Ynez Johnston artwork?

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