# David Aspden artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/david-aspden/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T19:17:49.411Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Australian
- Common media: Painting

## About David Aspden

David Aspden (1935–2005) was an Australian painter. Wikidata and VIAF agree on his name, life years, nationality, and profession, while Getty ULAN supplies an additional stable authority identity. The collected public material is sparse on his training, exhibitions, movements, individual works, and artistic chronology. This page therefore identifies Aspden principally as an Australian painter without assigning him to an unsupported school or stylistic movement. Collectors may encounter his name through paintings and auction records indexed under this identity. Careful entity matching is important because a Wikipedia fallback collected during discovery refers to a different David Aspden, a Canadian politician, and is not evidence about the artist. Authority identifiers help distinguish the painter when matching catalog entries and comparable lots. Museum, estate, gallery, or catalogue documentation would be needed to describe his artistic development and body of work more fully.

## Common works and media

The authority evidence supports paintings as the principal broad work type associated with David Aspden. The collected sources do not establish specific subjects, techniques, movements, named series, print editions, sculptures, drawings, or other categories with sufficient confidence. Individual works should therefore be described from their own catalog documentation rather than assigned unsupported characteristics from this limited identity record.

## Market and appraisal context

For appraisal purposes, the strongest current starting point is identity: any cataloged work should be associated with the Australian painter David Aspden (1935–2005), not a similarly named person. The collected Appraisily signal indicates an auction-record presence, but this source pack does not provide accessible lot descriptions, realized-price details, or a major-auction-house biography. No price trend, typical range, or market direction should be inferred from authority records alone. Valuation should rely on documented characteristics of the specific object and genuinely comparable public sales once their catalog descriptions, sale dates, and realized prices can be reviewed.

## 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. For David Aspden, the current source pack provides stronger identity evidence than biographical or lot-level market detail.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20825677
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/96097883/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500061520
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Aspden
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/david-aspden/