# Gladys MacCabe artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/gladys-maccabe/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T22:18:53.445Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: British

## Portrait

![Gladys MacCabe](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7b/Portrait_of_Gladys_Maccabe_by_Max_Maccabe.jpg)
Gladys Maccabe · see-source-page
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladys_Maccabe

## About Gladys MacCabe

Gladys MacCabe (1918–2018) was a British artist associated in biographical sources with Northern Ireland. She also worked as a journalist and founded the Ulster Society of Women Artists, placing her identity within both visual-art practice and the region’s professional cultural life. Authority records distinguish her through dedicated Wikidata, Getty ULAN, VIAF, and Art UK entries; the spelling “Gladys Maccabe” also appears in public references. These linked profiles are useful for separating her work from similarly named artists and reconciling variations in auction catalogues. Collectors may encounter her name through public auction records and institutional artist indexes. The collected evidence establishes her identity and lifespan more securely than it establishes a specific movement, medium, subject specialty, or named series. Appraisily therefore presents those narrower classifications cautiously and does not assign a stylistic school or body of work that the available public source pack does not document.

## Common works and media

The collected sources identify MacCabe as an artist but do not specify the paintings, drawings, prints, sculptures, ceramics, editions, subjects, or named series most commonly associated with her auction market. Work-type and medium classifications should therefore be taken from the object itself and from documented catalogue records rather than inferred from this identity pack.

## Market and appraisal context

An appraisal of a work offered under MacCabe’s name should begin with careful identity and attribution checks, including the documented MacCabe and Maccabe spelling variants. When public auction records are available, the most useful comparisons are closely related lots rather than an artist-wide average. Sale date, realized price, auction-house description, medium, dimensions, condition, provenance, subject, date of creation, and edition information should be compared only when those details are documented for the object and the reference lots. The collected source pack confirms an auction-record context but does not provide enough object-level evidence to support a price forecast, market trend, or valuation range. Those conclusions require examination of the specific work and relevant comparable sales.

## 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. Identity and market evidence are kept distinct when the public record is incomplete.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5566432
- Art UK: https://artuk.org/discover/artists/maccabe-gladys-19182018
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500198475
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/96699691/
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladys_Maccabe
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/gladys-maccabe/