# Henry Hanke artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/henry-hanke/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T15:49:28.985Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1901-06-14
- Nationality: Australian
- Common media: Painting

## Portrait

![Henry Hanke](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/SLNSW_37396_Henry_Hankes_self_portrait_winner_of_the_1934_Archibald_Prize.jpg/1280px-SLNSW_37396_Henry_Hankes_self_portrait_winner_of_the_1934_Archibald_Prize.jpg)
Sam Hood · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SLNSW_37396_Henry_Hankes_self_portrait_winner_of_the_1934_Archibald_Prize.jpg

## About Henry Hanke

Henry Aloysius Hanke (1901–1989) was an Australian painter and teacher whose public profile is closely connected with Australian art prizes of the 1930s. He won the 1934 Archibald Prize with a self-portrait and the inaugural Sulman Prize in 1936 with La Gitana. These documented works make painting and portraiture useful contexts for understanding his identity, although the collected sources do not assign him to a specific artistic movement. Authority records list several forms of his name, including H. A. Hanke, Henry A. Hanke, and Harry Hanke, which can matter when matching catalogues and auction records. Collectors may encounter works attributed to Hanke through Australian painting and portrait categories. Any appraisal should separate a secure identity match from broader stylistic resemblance and should avoid inferring a direct relationship to his prize-winning pictures without supporting documentation.

## Common works and media

The collected sources identify Hanke principally as a painter and document portraiture through his 1934 Archibald Prize self-portrait. They also identify La Gitana as the painting that received the inaugural Sulman Prize in 1936. Paintings, portraits, and self-portraits are therefore the best-supported work categories for this page. The source pack does not provide enough evidence to characterize a regular market in prints, sculpture, ceramics, editions, or other media.

## Market and appraisal context

Market assessment for Henry Hanke should begin with a secure artist identification, especially because library records preserve several abbreviated and alternate name forms. Cataloguing should record the work type, medium and support, dimensions, subject, date or estimated period, inscriptions, condition, and documented ownership history before comparable sales are selected. Evidence connecting a work to Hanke's documented prize history may be relevant, but such a connection should not be assumed from subject or style alone. Appraisily's artist page indicates an auction-record context, yet the collected source pack does not include individual auction-house results. It therefore supports comparison with verified public lots when available, but not a price prediction, market trend, or record-price claim.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine researched artist identity and authority records with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are publicly available and sufficiently documented.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5722550
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/93171775/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2019106933
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Hanke
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Hanke
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SLNSW_37396_Henry_Hankes_self_portrait_winner_of_the_1934_Archibald_Prize.jpg
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/henry-hanke/