# Dolona Roberts artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/dolona-roberts/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T12:51:48.147Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Common media: Painting, Drawing and illustration

## About Dolona Roberts

Dolona Roberts is documented by international authority files as a Cherokee painter born in 1936, while the French IdRef authority also identifies her as an illustrator. IdRef links Roberts to drawings used in a 1979 French edition of Charles Gallenkamp's book on Maya civilization, providing a concrete bibliographic record of her illustration work. Beyond those records, the collected public sources provide little verified biography: they do not establish a full birth date, place of birth, training, exhibition history, named movement, or death date. Collectors may encounter her name on paintings, drawings, illustrations, and works on paper, but those categories should not be treated as authentication by themselves. Appraisily's auction index contains matched records under her name across several broad art categories. Careful identity matching, signatures, provenance, medium, date, and comparison with documented examples are therefore especially important when researching a work attributed to Roberts.

## Common works and media

Authority records document Roberts as both a painter and an illustrator, and IdRef specifically records her contribution of drawings to a published book. Appraisily's matched auction data also uses broad categories that include paintings, works on paper and prints, sculpture and mixed media, and decorative art or editions. The latter categories have weaker biographical support and should be treated as auction-index classifications rather than definitive evidence of Roberts's established practices. For appraisal purposes, each object's medium, construction, signature, date, provenance, and attribution should be checked individually.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisily's matched public-auction index lists 83 records under Dolona Roberts's name, including 69 priced records spanning 2010–2026. The observed results range from $9 to $8,610, but that range is historical evidence rather than a price forecast. A useful appraisal comparison should align the medium, dimensions, date, subject, condition, attribution, and provenance as closely as possible. Signatures, inscriptions, restoration, edition information, exhibition history, and catalogue references may also affect how much weight a comparable sale deserves. Auction totals can be reported differently, including possible buyer's premiums or fees, while private sales and incomplete feeds may remain outside the public record.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with matched auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Identity gaps, incomplete feeds, private sales, and attribution changes can limit the resulting picture.

## Sources

- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/99980053/
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/112391788
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q109270804
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500127419
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/dolona-roberts/