# Alun Leach-Jones artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/alun-leach-jones/
Profile generated: 2026-05-06T19:15:05Z
Quality: high confidence, strong sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: British, Australian
- Common media: painting, drawing, sculpture, linocut, screenprint, etching

## About Alun Leach-Jones

Alun Leach-Jones (1937–2017) was a British-born Australian artist whose practice spanned painting, drawing, sculpture, and an extensive body of printmaking including linocuts, screenprints, and etchings. Active across several decades of the post-war period, he built a reputation for technical versatility and a distinctive visual language that moved between abstraction and structured form. His work is represented in major public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney. Leach-Jones's prints in particular circulated widely, introducing collectors and institutions to his work through accessible editions. His cross-disciplinary approach—moving fluidly between painting, sculpture, and print media—places him within a generation of Australian artists who reshaped the relationship between fine art and craft-based processes in the second half of the twentieth century.

## Common works and media

Collectors most frequently encounter Leach-Jones through his screenprints, linocuts, and etchings, many produced as signed limited editions. His paintings range from structured abstraction to more gestural compositions, often on a modest domestic scale. Sculptural works are less common at auction. Subjects vary from geometric and biomorphic forms to landscape-influenced compositions. Works on paper, including preparatory drawings and studies, also appear periodically in auction and gallery contexts.

## Market and appraisal context

Alun Leach-Jones maintains a deep and liquid secondary market anchored in Australian auction houses, with 476 recorded lots and 253 priced results spanning 2002 to May 2026. The market is dominated by prints—particularly screenprints, linocuts, and etchings—which account for the majority of turnover and cluster tightly between AUD 140 and AUD 750. Editioned screenprints from the late 1960s and early 1970s (such as the Disc series, Last Stop, and Affinities) consistently command premiums over later works, with the Orange Disc 1967 screenprint realising AUD 2,800 in April 2026. Unique works and non-print media are far less common but significantly more valuable: a Blue Pacific 1982 tapestry sold for AUD 12,000 at Leonard Joel in February 2022, and the overall record stands at AUD 31,720. Liquidity is stable, with 70 lots in the most recent 12-month window versus 71 in the prior period, indicating sustained and even demand. Leonard Joel is the dominant venue, handling the clear majority of lots, with additional throughput at Lawsons, Shapiro Auctioneers, Theodore Bruce, Menzies, and Raffan Kelaher & Thomas. All prices are denominated in AUD, reflecting the artist's primarily Australian collector base.

## Auction-house-backed market evidence

Alun Leach-Jones maintains a deep and liquid secondary market anchored in Australian auction houses, with 476 recorded lots and 253 priced results spanning 2002 to May 2026. The market is dominated by prints—particularly screenprints, linocuts, and etchings—which account for the majority of turnover and cluster tightly between AUD 140 and AUD 750. Editioned screenprints from the late 1960s and early 1970s (such as the Disc series, Last Stop, and Affinities) consistently command premiums over later works, with the Orange Disc 1967 screenprint realising AUD 2,800 in April 2026. Unique works and non-print media are far less common but significantly more valuable: a Blue Pacific 1982 tapestry sold for AUD 12,000 at Leonard Joel in February 2022, and the overall record stands at AUD 31,720. Liquidity is stable, with 70 lots in the most recent 12-month window versus 71 in the prior period, indicating sustained and even demand. Leonard Joel is the dominant venue, handling the clear majority of lots, with additional throughput at Lawsons, Shapiro Auctioneers, Theodore Bruce, Menzies, and Raffan Kelaher & Thomas. All prices are denominated in AUD, reflecting the artist's primarily Australian collector base.

### Appraisal notes

An Appraisily appraisal for an Alun Leach-Jones work would use these 476 auction records as a comparable-sales baseline, filtered by medium, date of execution, edition size and number (for prints), dimensions, and condition. The dataset supports robust median and quartile benchmarking for prints in the AUD 160–440 range, with identifiable premiums for 1960s–1970s screenprints in small editions and for unique works such as paintings, tapestries, and sculptures. The appraiser would photograph the work, document the medium, measure dimensions, record the signature and any edition numbering, note condition (foxing, fading, frame damage for prints), and establish provenance. For prints, edition size and impression number materially affect value—a Pink Disc screenprint from an edition of 20 sold for AUD 750, while a comparable-period Orange Disc from the same edition size reached AUD 2,800, suggesting subject and colorway also drive differentiation. For unique works, the tapestry at AUD 12,000 and the overall AUD 31,720 ceiling indicate that paintings and large-scale works should be compared against the upper quartile rather than the print-dominated median. The appraiser would also note the AUD denomination and consider exchange-rate implications for non-Australian buyers.

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### Market evidence sources

- Appraisily auction record index: https://appraisily.com/api/scraper-search/artists/alun-leach-jones/seo-profile?recentLimit=24&relatedLimit=0
- Invaluable (Leonard Joel): https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-alun-leach-jones-1937-2017-orange-disc-1967-screenprint-ed-14-20-50-5-x-50-5cm-image-74-x-70-5cm-sheet-79-x-76cm-frame-91-c-d53c4dde99
- Invaluable (Leonard Joel): https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-alun-leach-jones-1937-2017-last-stop-1968-screenprint-ed-11-40-48-5-x-48-5cm-image-70-5-x-70cm-sheet-75-x-75cm-frame-13-c-961cf835b2
- Invaluable (Leonard Joel): https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-alun-leach-jones-1937-2017-pink-disc-1967-screenprint-ed-5-20-50-5-x-50-5cm-image-74-x-70-5cm-sheet-79-x-76cm-frame-58-c-1dab0c2851
- Invaluable (Leonard Joel): https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-alun-leach-jones-1937-2017-blue-pacific-1982-cotton-wool-linen-viscose-and-lurex-tapestry-28-c-eb94209a36
- Invaluable (Leonard Joel): https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-alun-leach-jones-1937-2017-affinities-a-tribute-to-vernon-watkins-1971-screenprint-ed-7-40-52-5-x-85cm-image-71-x-103cm-sh-43-c-02cd5c2717
- Invaluable (Leonard Joel): https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-alun-leach-jones-1937-2017-untitled-screenprint-ed-1-2-80cm-tondo-image-91-x-91cm-sheet-96-x-96cm-frame-93-c-f74b4bf955
- Invaluable (Leonard Joel): https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-alun-leach-jones-1937-2017-black-and-silver-seventy-two-discs-1968-screenprint-ed-15-20-52-5-x-47cm-image-73-x-66cm-sheet-47-c-45a547d2ef
- Invaluable (Leonard Joel): https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-alun-leach-jones-terror-australis-1992-4171-c-ef24e0db6e
- Invaluable (Yarra Valley Auctions): https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-signed-alun-leach-jones-1937-2017-untitled-130-c-8bf4f018ad
- Invaluable (Raffan Kelaher & Thomas): https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-alun-leach-jones-australian-1937-2017-untitled-abstract-screenprint-58-x-74-cm-framed-81-x-97-cm-310-c-6814d818c2
- Invaluable (Leonard Joel): https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-alun-leach-jones-indian-suite-ii-4136-c-4cd4794ab1
- Invaluable (Leonard Joel): https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-alun-leach-jones-affinities-iii-4130-c-2624fc487c
- Invaluable (Leonard Joel): https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-alun-leach-jones-untitled-4151-c-dd42251cb6
- Invaluable (Leonard Joel): https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-alun-leach-jones-revisited-objects-no-1-4163-c-f721bc28d5
- Invaluable (Leonard Joel): https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-alun-leach-jones-the-poet-s-landscape-4165-c-57efc43bca
- Invaluable (Leonard Joel): https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-alun-leach-jones-oceania-1-4187-c-5022b515ad

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist identity research from museum, library authority, and public collection sources with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. This page draws on records from the Museum of Modern Art, Getty ULAN, VIAF, the Library of Congress, and Wikidata.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16104706
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alun_Leach-Jones
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500094990
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/96378928/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79072241
- The Museum of Modern Art: https://www.moma.org/artists/3437
- RKD - Netherlands Institute for Art History: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/251404