# Kevin Sharkey artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/kevin-sharkey/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T20:43:22.529Z
Quality: medium confidence, thin sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Irish
- Common media: Painting

## Portrait

![Kevin Sharkey](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Kevin_Sharkey_2014.jpg/1280px-Kevin_Sharkey_2014.jpg)
Sinn Féin · CC BY 2.0
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kevin_Sharkey_2014.jpg

## About Kevin Sharkey

Kevin Sharkey is an Irish artist who has also been publicly described as a political activist and former television presenter and actor. The available structured entity record identifies him as an Irish artist, while Wikipedia supplies the broader career description. The collected sources do not establish a birth date, formal training, movement affiliation, or named artistic series, so those details should not be inferred. In appraisal and auction settings, Sharkey's name appears in matched public records classified across fine art and paintings, works on paper and prints, sculpture and mixed media, and decorative art and editions. These classifications indicate the kinds of objects catalogued under his name, but they do not prove that every category is equally representative of his practice. Collectors should therefore match each object by medium, dimensions, date, signature or inscription, provenance, condition, and visual characteristics before treating another sale as a reliable comparable.

## Common works and media

Painting is the only medium directly corroborated by a biographical source in the collected pack. Appraisily's auction classifications also place matched lots in works on paper and prints, sculpture and mixed media, and decorative art and editions. Because the sources do not provide an object-level scholarly catalogue or catalogue raisonné, these broader categories should be treated as auction-index groupings rather than a definitive catalogue of Sharkey's practice. For appraisal, record the exact medium, support, dimensions, signature or inscriptions, edition number where relevant, date, condition, and provenance before selecting comparable lots.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisily's collected market page reports a broad public-auction record for Kevin Sharkey, with results distributed across several categories. A useful appraisal should compare like with like rather than rely on a single median or overall range. Medium, dimensions, date, condition, restoration, signature or inscriptions, edition information, attribution confidence, provenance, exhibition or catalogue references, subject matter, and recent comparable sales can all affect relevance. Reported prices may not be directly comparable when buyer premiums, fees, currencies, lot composition, or incomplete feeds differ, and private transactions may be absent. The strongest approach is to verify authorship and physical condition, identify closely related works, and use public auction results as supporting evidence rather than as a final appraisal.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist identity research with matched public auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Private sales, incomplete feeds, and attribution changes may not be represented.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6397473
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Sharkey
- Wikipedia: https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%8A%DA%A4%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%83%D9%89
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/kevin-sharkey/