# Alan Bean artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/alan-bean/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T20:51:18.695Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: American
- Common media: Painting

## Portrait

![Alan Bean](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Alan_Bean_NASA_portrait_%28S69-38859%29.jpg/1280px-Alan_Bean_NASA_portrait_%28S69-38859%29.jpg)
NASA / Johnson Space Center (NASA-JSC) · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alan_Bean_NASA_portrait_(S69-38859).jpg

## About Alan Bean

Alan Bean (1932–2018) was an American astronaut and painter whose public identity spans spaceflight, engineering, military aviation, and visual art. Selected by NASA in 1963 as a member of Astronaut Group 3, he became the fourth person to walk on the Moon. That biography is central to how his name is recognized and why collectors may encounter it in both art and space-history contexts. Authority records identify him as Alan Bean or Alan L. Bean, while the fuller form Alan LaVern Bean appears in biographical reference material. The available source pack confirms painting as an occupation, but it does not establish a named art movement, a complete list of media, or a documented catalogue of subjects and series. Appraisily therefore presents him primarily as an American painter with an exceptional astronaut biography, while keeping more specific artistic classifications conservative until stronger museum, estate, or catalogue sources can be added.

## Common works and media

Painting is the only artistic medium confirmed by the usable identity sources in this pack. The evidence does not support a broader claim about prints, drawings, sculpture, editions, recurring subjects, or named series. Objects offered under Bean's name should therefore be classified from their own physical characteristics and documentation rather than assigned to an unsupported category.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisal of an object associated with Alan Bean begins with identity and attribution. Useful comparison requires determining whether the object is an original painting or a different type of astronaut-associated item, followed by verification of its medium and work type. Comparable lots should be matched by relevant category, sale date, and realized-price evidence rather than by name alone. The current input associates Bean with Appraisily auction records, but the collected excerpts do not describe individual lots, results, dates, editions, condition, provenance, or authentication evidence. Any valuation should therefore rely on verified object-level documentation and appropriately matched public sales when available, not a generalized price prediction.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with auction records and auction-house context, including sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Gaps in the collected evidence are retained rather than filled with unsupported assumptions.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q310924
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/60929989/
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Bean
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/alan-bean/