# Martin Bradley artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-19T14:17:36.123Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: British
- Common media: Painting, Watercolor, Engraving and graphic work, Illustration, Totems, Works on paper and prints, Sculpture and mixed media

## About Martin Bradley

Martin Bradley (1931–2023) was a British painter whose authority records also identify work as an illustrator and engraver. Tate and MoMA maintain artist records for Bradley, while VIAF, Wikidata, Getty ULAN and French library authorities connect his identity across institutional systems. Bibliographic evidence documents a 1970 Paris exhibition of paintings, watercolors and totems, along with illustration credits, engravings and other graphic works. This varied practice helps explain why collectors may encounter Bradley through paintings, works on paper, prints, illustrated material or three-dimensional and mixed-media objects. The collected sources do not establish a single movement or school, so none is assigned here. When identifying a possible Bradley work, the artist's 1931–2023 authority record should be distinguished from unrelated people with the same or similar name, then considered alongside the object's medium, date, inscriptions, provenance and available comparable sales.

## Common works and media

Collectors may encounter Martin Bradley through paintings, watercolors, engravings, illustrated works, prints and other works on paper. A documented 1970 exhibition also included totems, while auction records group some attributed material under sculpture, mixed media, decorative art and editions. Because these categories are broad, the exact medium, construction, signature, inscriptions and edition status should be verified for each object.

## Market and appraisal context

Martin Bradley's auction record spans several broad categories, including paintings, works on paper and prints, sculpture or mixed media, and editions. A useful appraisal comparison should match the object as closely as possible by medium, dimensions, date, condition, subject, signature or inscription, edition details and attribution status. Provenance, exhibition history and catalogue references may also strengthen identification and affect how a lot is assessed. Public results should be compared consistently because reported totals may differ in their treatment of premiums and fees. Auction data is only one part of an appraisal: private transactions, incomplete feeds, restoration, uncertain attribution and changes in cataloguing may produce important differences between an individual work and headline market statistics.

## 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. Authority sources are used to distinguish the artist from similarly named people, while auction evidence remains subject to attribution, condition and coverage limitations.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20757562
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/95836982/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500025203
- The Museum of Modern Art: https://www.moma.org/artists/730
- Tate: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/martin-bradley-798
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/029497035
- Bibliothèque nationale de France: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb121111966
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/martin-bradley/