# Keith Looby artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/keith-looby/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T15:43:45.572Z
Quality: medium confidence, thin sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Australian

## About Keith Looby

Keith Looby is an Australian artist born in 1940. He is particularly associated in the available public record with portraiture: in 1984, he won the Archibald Prize for a portrait of actor and satirist Max Gillies. That distinction provides a useful biographical reference when identifying his name in collection, exhibition, and auction records. The present source set establishes Looby’s identity and nationality but does not provide enough institution-grade detail to assign him confidently to a specific movement, document a full chronology, or summarize the complete range of his media and subjects. Accordingly, works attributed to Keith Looby should be assessed through their own inscriptions, documentation, date, materials, and provenance rather than through broad assumptions about his practice.

## Common works and media

Portraiture is the only subject clearly documented in the collected biographical material, through Looby’s 1984 Archibald Prize-winning portrait of Max Gillies. The available sources do not establish which media, formats, series, editions, or other subjects appear most often in auction or appraisal contexts. A submitted work should therefore be described from direct examination rather than assigned a typical category without supporting evidence.

## Market and appraisal context

An appraisal of a work attributed to Keith Looby should begin with identity, authorship, medium, dimensions, date, inscriptions, provenance, condition, and any exhibition or publication history. Portrait subjects and associated documentation may also help distinguish a particular work, although the collected sources do not establish artist-specific effects on value. Relevant public auction results should be compared by work type, scale, subject, date, condition, and sale context. This source pack does not support price forecasts, market-trend claims, or conclusions about scarcity, so any valuation should rely on verified comparable sales and current evidence for the individual object.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6384666
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Looby
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/keith-looby/