# Faile artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/faile/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T13:36:22.586Z
Quality: low confidence, thin sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: American
- Common media: Paintings, Works on paper, Prints, Sculpture, Mixed media, Editions

## About Faile

FAILE is identified in the collected public material as an American artistic collaboration. The source pack is unusually limited, however: its only independent identity reference is a Wikipedia disambiguation entry, while the supplied Wikidata record describes the unrelated Faile family name. The current Appraisily auction index also matches records filed under “faile,” “patrick mcneil,” and “patrick miller,” but those personal-name associations are not independently documented by the collected sources. Collectors encounter works attributed to FAILE across paintings, works on paper, prints, sculpture, mixed media, decorative art, and editions. The auction index spans records dated from 2007 through 2026, indicating appearances in several collecting categories rather than one narrowly defined medium. No movement, formal membership history, birth information, or documented series should be asserted from this source pack. Those details require confirmation from an official artist source, museum, gallery archive, or reliable authority record before publication as established biography.

## Common works and media

The current auction index groups FAILE material under paintings, works on paper and prints, sculpture and mixed media, and decorative art or editions. These broad categories indicate that an appraisal should first determine whether the object is unique or editioned, identify its materials and dimensions, and document signatures, inscriptions, numbering, and condition. The source pack does not provide enough authoritative art-historical material to name recurring subjects, individual series, or career periods with confidence.

## Market and appraisal context

The collected Appraisily snapshot reports 357 matched auction records, 166 of them priced, with an observed range of $50 to $81,250 and a median around $850. These figures describe a mixed record set rather than a prediction for any individual work. A useful comparison should align medium, size, date, subject, condition, signature or inscriptions, edition status, provenance, exhibition history, and attribution confidence. Prints and editions should be compared with examples from the same edition whenever possible, while unique paintings or mixed-media works require closer attention to materials and physical condition. Public results may include premiums or fees on inconsistent terms, and private sales or attribution revisions may be absent.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine cautious artist-identity research with matched auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Public results remain evidence inputs rather than a substitute for object-specific inspection, attribution, and condition analysis.

## Sources

- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/faile/
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faile
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q37468657