# Larry Clark artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/larry-clark/
Profile generated: 2026-08-19T18:53:13.776Z
Quality: medium confidence, strong sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: American
- Common media: Photography and photographic prints, Photobooks, Film

## Portrait

![Larry Clark](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Larry_Clark_Deauville_2013.jpg)
Georges Biard · CC BY-SA 3.0
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Larry_Clark_Deauville_2013.jpg

## About Larry Clark

Larry Clark (born 1943), also identified as Lawrence Donald Clark, is an American photographer and filmmaker whose career crosses still photography, photobooks, and cinema. His 1971 book Tulsa established a central strand of his practice: close, often unsettling attention to young people and their social environments. Later projects continued to examine youth cultures and experiences involving drugs, sexuality, violence, punk, skating, and other subcultural settings. Clark also became widely known as the director of Kids (1995), extending related concerns into film. Collectors are most likely to encounter his work through photographs and photographic prints, as well as published books such as Tulsa and Teenage Lust. Records from MoMA, the National Gallery of Art, Getty ULAN, Wikidata, and IdRef help distinguish this Larry Clark from other people with the same name. That identity control is important when matching auction records, publications, films, and images to the correct artist.

## Common works and media

Works most plausibly encountered in appraisal contexts include photographs and photographic prints connected with Clark's studies of youth and subcultures, along with published photobooks such as Tulsa and Teenage Lust. Film is also central to his career, particularly Kids, although the collected evidence does not establish film-related material as a recurring auction category. The source pack does not provide a reliable basis for describing paintings, sculptures, ceramics, or posters as characteristic Larry Clark works.

## Market and appraisal context

A Larry Clark appraisal should begin with closely comparable objects rather than a single artist-wide price figure. Relevant distinctions include medium, dimensions, date, condition, provenance, attribution, signature or inscriptions, and any edition information. For a published work, the edition and completeness should also be established. Appraisily has matched public auction records under Clark's name, but its broad automated category labels should not be treated as proof that every listed medium is characteristic of his practice. Individual lots should be checked for correct artist identity and compared with works of a similar type and period. Realized prices may include fees on different bases, while private transactions and incomplete feeds can limit the visible market record.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q714496
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500004924
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/033585989
- The Museum of Modern Art: https://www.moma.org/artists/1133
- National Gallery of Art: https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.30421.html
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Clark
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/larry-clark/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Larry_Clark_Deauville_2013.jpg