# Allan Hansen artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/allan-hansen/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T17:11:25.778Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Australian
- Common media: Painting

## About Allan Hansen

Allan Hansen (1911–2000) was an Australian painter identified in both Wikidata and the Virtual International Authority File. VIAF connects the identity to a National Library of Australia authority record and to a 1986 interview conducted by Barbara Blackman, providing useful corroboration that this painter is distinct from other people with the same name. The collected sources do not establish Hansen's exact birth and death dates, artistic training, geographic base, movement, principal subjects, or documented career periods, so those details should not be inferred. Collectors may encounter works indexed under his name through public auction records, particularly within painting and broader fine-art categories. Because Allan Hansen is also the name of unrelated public figures, reliable appraisal research should confirm signatures, inscriptions, dates, provenance, medium, and catalogue or exhibition references before treating an auction lot as a secure work by the Australian painter.

## Common works and media

The collected authority sources securely describe Allan Hansen as a painter, while Appraisily's auction index also groups matched records under works on paper and prints, sculpture and mixed media, and decorative art and editions. Painting is therefore the best-supported work type. Other classifications should be treated as auction-index signals rather than a definitive catalogue of Hansen's practice until individual lots and stronger scholarly sources are reviewed.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisily's matched market index places works associated with Allan Hansen across paintings, works on paper and prints, mixed-media or sculptural material, and decorative art or editions. These broad classifications should be checked against individual lot descriptions because the available identity evidence is limited and the name is shared by unrelated people. For appraisal purposes, the strongest comparisons will match the object's medium, dimensions, date, subject, condition, attribution wording, signature or inscriptions, provenance, and edition information. Public results should also be normalized for currency, sale date, and whether the reported amount includes buyer's premium. Auction records provide useful comparable evidence, but they do not replace direct examination, authentication research, or a condition assessment.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine authority-based artist identity research with matched public auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Shared-name matches and broad category assignments require object-level verification.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20804839
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/295062111/
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/allan-hansen/
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Hansen