# John Passmore artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/john-passmore/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T17:10:56.972Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Australian
- Movements: Abstract art, Abstract Impressionism
- Common media: Painting

## Portrait

![John Passmore](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6d/John_Richard_Passmore%2C_1954.JPG)
Uncredited photographer · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Richard_Passmore,_1954.JPG

## About John Passmore

John Passmore (1904–1984), also identified as John Richard Passmore, was an Australian painter. Public authority data establishes his identity and life years, while the collected biographical material describes Australian training followed by an extended period in England and a later return to Australia, where he taught. The source pack places him within abstract painting, although its terminology is inconsistent: the English biography calls him an abstract impressionist, while the German biography associates him with Abstract Expressionism. Appraisily therefore treats the broader abstract-art context as better established and the narrower movement label as provisional. Collectors may encounter Passmore through paintings attributed to him and through auction records indexed under his name. Because several authority services were rate-limited during collection, this profile emphasizes supported identity facts and avoids adding unverified subjects, named series, or detailed stylistic claims.

## Common works and media

The collected sources identify Passmore as a painter and associate him broadly with abstract art. Paintings are therefore the only well-supported common work type in this profile. The source pack does not establish particular supports, painting techniques, recurring subjects, print editions, drawings, sculptures, ceramics, posters, or named series. Individual auction entries should be evaluated from their own cataloguing rather than assigned to a medium, subject, or series by assumption.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisal of a work catalogued as John Passmore should begin with a secure identity and attribution match to the Australian painter who lived from 1904 to 1984. The Appraisily input associates 233 auction records with this artist page, creating a potential pool of comparable public sales. Useful comparisons should be selected from records with sufficiently detailed cataloguing and should consider the stated work type, sale date, realized price, and the strength of the attribution. The present research pack does not include the underlying lot descriptions or results, so it cannot support a price trend or prediction. The conflicting narrow movement labels should also be treated as contextual information rather than used alone to select comparable works.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with indexed auction records and, when available, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots. Claims are limited here where the collected sources do not provide record-level detail.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17403662
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500025735
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Passmore_(artist)
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Richard_Passmore
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/john-passmore/
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/77195738/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85292213
- Deutsche Nationalbibliothek: https://d-nb.info/gnd/122384210
- ISNI: https://isni.org/isni/0000000066844709
- RKD: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/62030