# Clifford Dudley Wood artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/clifford-dudley-wood/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T17:27:34.617Z
Quality: medium confidence, thin sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Australian

## About Clifford Dudley Wood

Clifford Dudley Wood (1905–1980) is identified by Wikidata and VIAF as an Australian artist. Library authority records also connect his full name with the abbreviated form C. Dudley Wood, helping distinguish his identity in catalogues and auction records. VIAF links this identity to records maintained by organizations including the Library of Congress, the National Library of Australia, ISNI, and the Getty Union List of Artist Names. The collected sources establish Wood's name, nationality, occupation, and life years, but they do not provide a substantive biography or document his training, exhibitions, artistic affiliations, preferred media, or recurring subjects. Collectors may encounter his name in auction-record databases, but individual works should be assessed from their own cataloguing, inscriptions, provenance, physical characteristics, and supporting documentation rather than from name matching alone.

## Common works and media

The available authority sources identify Clifford Dudley Wood as an Australian artist but do not specify the media, subjects, editions, series, or types of work most commonly associated with him. A submitted object should therefore be described from direct physical evidence and reliable documentation rather than assigned to a presumed body of paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures, or other works.

## Market and appraisal context

The collected evidence does not support a medium-specific or category-specific account of Clifford Dudley Wood's market. An appraisal should first determine whether the work's signature, attribution, and catalogue history correspond to the authority-record identity for the Australian artist who lived from 1905 to 1980. The work can then be evaluated using its medium, dimensions, date, subject, condition, provenance, exhibition or publication history, and relevant comparable public sales. These are general appraisal considerations rather than documented artist-specific market findings. Realized prices should be interpreted in the context of each lot's attribution language, sale date, condition, and supporting evidence, without assuming that records sharing the same artist name are directly comparable.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Source gaps and uncertain attributions should remain explicit.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q43140089
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/6671384/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n97006502
- ISNI: https://isni.org/isni/0000000063838274
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/clifford-dudley-wood/