# Gordon House artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/gordon-house/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T17:00:24.529Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: British

## About Gordon House

Gordon House (1932–2004) was a British painter and designer. Authority records from Wikidata, VIAF, Getty ULAN, and the Library of Congress identify the artist, while Tate and the Museum of Modern Art maintain dedicated artist records. The collected evidence does not securely assign House to a named movement, so this profile avoids adding one. Instead, it places him in the documented context of twentieth-century British painting and design and the museum, library, and auction systems through which his work is catalogued. Collectors may encounter his name in institutional collections, bibliographic records, and auction listings. Identity matching is especially important because Gordon House is also the name of several buildings, and a separate VIAF cluster appears connected to performance publications. Dates, professional role, authority identifiers, object details, and provenance should therefore agree before a work is associated with this artist. Appraisily’s current public artist dataset reports 238 auction records, offering a starting point for comparable-lot research rather than a standalone attribution conclusion.

## Common works and media

The collected sources identify House as a painter and designer but do not enumerate representative media, recurring subjects, edition practices, or established series. Auction objects should therefore be described from their own cataloguing rather than assigned to a presumed body of work. Record the stated medium and technique, support, dimensions, date, signature or inscriptions, edition details, provenance, and condition, then compare the object with closely related documented works and public sales.

## Market and appraisal context

An appraisal should begin by confirming that the object is catalogued to the British painter and designer who lived from 1932 to 2004, rather than to a namesake. Comparable auction records are most useful when medium, technique, dimensions, date, subject or series, signature and inscriptions, edition information, provenance, and condition align closely. The collected Appraisily page reports 238 records, but this source pack does not expose individual lot evidence or the distribution of realized prices, so it cannot support a price trend or forecast. Museum and authority identifiers can strengthen identity resolution; any value conclusion should then rely on verified object-level evidence and appropriately matched public sales.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with auction records and auction-house context. When available, sale dates, realized prices, object details, and comparable lots are assessed together; authority and museum records support identity matching but do not replace object-specific attribution or appraisal evidence.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21465039
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/262554075/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500009167
- Tate: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/gordon-house-1312
- The Museum of Modern Art: https://www.moma.org/artists/2737
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86138450
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/gordon-house/