# David Larwill artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/david-larwill/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T13:16:56.697Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Australian
- Movements: Figurative expressionism
- Common media: Painting, Drawing and watercolour, Etching, lithography, and screenprinting, Ceramics and sculpture

## Portrait

![David Larwill](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a2/David_Larwill_portrait_by_Michel_Lawrence.jpg)
David Larwill · see-source-page
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Larwill

## About David Larwill

David Larwill (1956–2011) was an Australian artist whose work is most often described through bold colour, simplified forms, and stylised human figures. He is best known as a figurative expressionist painter, while his practice also included drawing, watercolour, printmaking, ceramics, and sculpture. His print output encompassed etchings, lithographs, and screenprints, giving collectors several distinct types of object through which they may encounter his name. Authority records from Wikidata, VIAF, and the Getty Union List of Artist Names align on his identity and Australian association; the detailed account of his media and style in this source pack comes mainly from Wikipedia and should be treated as a concise secondary summary. Larwill’s broad output and presence in Appraisily’s auction-record dataset make careful medium identification important: a painting, a work on paper, a ceramic object, and a print are not interchangeable market examples. The evidence supports recognition of a vivid figurative practice, but not a catalogue-level chronology or authentication framework.

## Common works and media

Collectors may encounter paintings, drawings, watercolours, etchings, lithographs, screenprints, ceramics, and sculptures attributed to David Larwill. Figurative works featuring stylised people, energetic colour, and simplified forms are especially associated with his documented visual language. The source pack does not provide a catalogue of named series or edition sizes, so signatures, inscriptions, print techniques, edition markings, dates, and object histories should be recorded rather than inferred.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisal should begin by identifying whether the object is a painting, work on paper, print, ceramic, or sculpture, since Larwill worked across all of these categories. For prints, the source pack confirms several techniques but does not establish edition structures, so edition size or rarity should not be inferred without inspecting the work and supporting documentation. Subject matter and stylistic correspondence can help organize comparable examples, but they cannot authenticate an object by themselves. Appraisily’s public artist page is an auction-price record surface, although the collected fetch did not expose its individual lots. Relevant sale dates, realized prices, provenance, condition, dimensions, and attribution should therefore be checked work by work before drawing a value conclusion.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine researched artist identity information with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Source gaps are retained as uncertainties rather than converted into unsupported attribution or pricing claims.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20684456
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/7012700/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500199163
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Larwill
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/david-larwill/