Zygmunt Menkes Auction Prices and Value Guide

Zygmunt Menkes auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 490 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

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

Artist
Zygmunt Menkes
Source records
490
Market update
2026-02-06

Zygmunt Menkes market snapshot

Zygmunt Menkes shows solid auction liquidity with 98 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $5,500. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 3 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-11-20.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (16.9% · 12 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (50.7% · 36 sales)
  • $10,000+ (32.4% · 23 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$4,000
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
3
Median shift vs prior year
+73.9%
Latest recorded sale
2025-11-20

Artist context

About Zygmunt Menkes

Zygmunt Menkes (1896–1986) was a Polish-Jewish painter and graphic artist recognized for his role in the School of Paris during the interwar period. Born in Lwów (now Lviv, Ukraine), Menkes studied art in Kraków and Berlin before settling in Paris in 1923, where he joined the circle of émigré modernists who shaped the city's vibrant art scene. His work from this period reflects the expressive colorism and figurative intensity characteristic of his peers. In 1935 Menkes emigrated to the United States and established himself in New York, where he continued painting and exhibiting until his death. His later output is associated with colorist painting and expressionism. He worked across landscape, still life, portraiture, genre scenes, and Jewish-themed subjects, and his drawings and graphic works are also documented in institutional collections.

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Common works and media

Menkes worked primarily in oil on canvas and works on paper including drawings and prints. His documented subjects encompass landscapes, still lifes, portraits, genre scenes, figure studies, and Jewish-themed compositions. He was active as a painter and draftsperson throughout a seven-decade career spanning Kraków, Berlin, Paris, and New York. Collectors encountering his work at auction will most commonly find mid-century oil paintings and figurative compositions from his New York period, alongside earlier Paris-period canvases and works on paper.

Market and appraisal context

Zygmunt Menkes's works appear at auction primarily as oil paintings and works on paper. His Paris-period pieces from the 1920s and 1930s — when he was part of the School of Paris — tend to attract the most collector attention, though his substantial New York-period output also circulates. Key factors in appraisal include the work's date and period, medium (painting versus drawing), subject matter, provenance history, condition, and exhibition record. Works with documented gallery or exhibition provenance from his Paris or early New York years may carry stronger attribution confidence. Collectors should verify dates and authenticity against catalogue and institutional records, as his long career and geographic shifts created stylistic variety.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Appraisal caveats

  • The source pack does not include specific auction-house results; realized prices should be verified against current auction records
  • RKD lists 86 works in their images database, suggesting a moderate surviving oeuvre, but total output is not fully catalogued in public sources

Evidence

Sources for artist context

This source-grounded artist context passed Appraisily's promotion threshold: high confidence, strong sources.

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Data basis

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