# Dorothy Mary Braund artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T13:46:42.386Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Australian
- Movements: Australian post-war figuration, Australian Modernism, Feminist art
- Common media: Painting, Printmaking

## About Dorothy Mary Braund

Dorothy Mary Braund (1926–2013), also catalogued as Dorothy Braund, was an Australian artist whose career belongs to the post-war period. Wikidata, VIAF and Getty ULAN provide stable identifiers that help distinguish her in collection and auction records. Published biographical material describes a practice spanning painting, printmaking and teaching, and associates her with Australian post-war figuration, the modernist scene and feminist art history. Her first solo exhibition was held at Melbourne’s Peter Bray Gallery in 1952, after which she participated in further solo and group exhibitions. Braund is also represented in the Cruthers Collection of Women’s Art. Collectors may therefore encounter her name across paintings, prints, exhibition records and resources devoted to Australian women artists. Because the available source pack is stronger on identity than detailed chronology, individual works should be matched carefully to the authority-recorded artist rather than attributed from name alone.

## Common works and media

The collected material identifies painting and printmaking as core parts of Braund’s practice. These are the most defensible categories for organizing works associated with her in auction or appraisal contexts. The sources do not establish recurring subjects, named series, sculpture or ceramic production, or whether particular prints appeared in numbered editions. Those details should be documented from the object, signature, inscriptions and accompanying records rather than generalized across her work.

## Market and appraisal context

The available source pack establishes Braund’s identity and confirms painting and printmaking as relevant work categories, but it does not expose usable lot descriptions, realized prices, dimensions, condition reports, provenance histories or edition details. It therefore cannot support a price trend, typical price range or ranked set of valuation drivers. A candidate work should first be matched to Dorothy Mary Braund’s authority identifiers and classified by medium. Any market conclusion should then use comparable public auction records for genuinely similar works, including auction-house context, sale dates and realized prices. The input reports 479 Appraisily records, but the collected public-page response was rate-limited, so those underlying records were not available for verification.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist-identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices and comparable lots when those records are available. This profile’s identity evidence is stronger than its currently collected lot-level market evidence.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21996107
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/93811838/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500124045
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Mary_Braund
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/dorothy-mary-braund/