# George Benjamin Luks artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/george-benjamin-luks/
Profile generated: 2026-08-19T21:13:32.352Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: American
- Movements: Ashcan School
- Common media: Painting, Works on paper and prints

## Portrait

![George Benjamin Luks](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/George_Luks_I.jpg/1280px-George_Luks_I.jpg)
Gertrude Käsebier · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:George_Luks_I.jpg

## About George Benjamin Luks

George Benjamin Luks (1867–1933) was an American artist and painter associated with the Ashcan School, a context in which the collected references place his realistic depictions of urban life. Authority records and museum collection profiles identify him consistently under George Benjamin Luks and the shorter George Luks, supporting reliable entity matching across collections and auction records. Collectors may encounter his name in connection with paintings and with auction records categorized as works on paper and prints. Appraisily's matched data also contains broader categories such as sculpture, mixed media, decorative art, and editions, although those categories describe the auction dataset rather than a complete catalogue of his output. For appraisal purposes, identity should be matched carefully to the work's medium, date, subject, signature or inscriptions, provenance, and available institutional or catalogue references. The selected artist image is a documented public-domain photograph credited to Gertrude Käsebier.

## Common works and media

Matched auction records most clearly place Luks in fine art and paintings and in works on paper and prints. The dataset also assigns some lots to sculpture, mixed media, decorative art, and editions, but these broad categories require object-level verification. When examining a possible work, record its medium, support, dimensions, subject, signature or inscriptions, date, condition, restoration, provenance, and any edition information before selecting comparable lots.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisily's public market page reports 287 matched auction records, including 188 priced records spanning 1992–2026. At the time collected, the reported median realized result was approximately $1,875, with many comparable results grouped between $500 and $5,175; these dataset statistics are not price predictions for an individual work. A useful appraisal comparison should align medium, dimensions, date, subject, condition, restoration history, attribution confidence, provenance, and edition status where relevant. Realized prices may be reported with different treatments of buyer premiums or fees, so like-for-like comparison matters. Private transactions, incomplete auction feeds, cataloguing changes, and later attribution decisions may not appear in the public record.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist-identity research with matched public auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Public records may be incomplete and should be supplemented by object-specific examination.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q337733
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500007311
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/168381702
- The Museum of Modern Art: https://www.moma.org/artists/64789
- National Gallery of Art: https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.1499.html
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Luks
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/george-benjamin-luks/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:George_Luks_I.jpg