# Miles Davis artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/miles-davis/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T12:28:00.042Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1926-05-26
- Death date: 1991-09-28
- Nationality: American
- Movements: Bebop, Cool jazz, Hard bop, Third stream, Modal jazz, Avant-garde jazz, Jazz fusion
- Common media: Painting

## Portrait

![Miles Davis](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/94/Miles_Davis_%28Three_Deuces%2C_New_York%2C_N.Y._1947%29.jpg)
William P. Gottlieb · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Miles_Davis_(Three_Deuces,_New_York,_N.Y._1947).jpg

## About Miles Davis

Miles Davis (1926–1991) was an American trumpeter, bandleader, composer, and painter whose public identity spans music and visual art. Best known as a major figure in twentieth-century jazz, he worked across bebop, cool jazz, hard bop, third stream, modal jazz, avant-garde jazz, and jazz fusion. That unusually broad musical context matters on an artist page because collectors may encounter his name in both fine-art and music-related cataloguing. The collected evidence explicitly identifies Davis as a painter, but it does not document individual painting titles, recurring subjects, named visual-art series, or a catalogue of his works. Appraisily therefore treats painting as a supported medium while keeping more specific claims open. Stable identity links, including Wikidata, Getty ULAN, VIAF, the Library of Congress, and the official Miles Davis site, help distinguish this Miles Davis from similarly named creators and connect auction records to the correct person.

## Common works and media

Painting is the only visual-art medium explicitly supported by the collected sources. The pack does not substantiate recurring subjects, print editions, drawings, sculpture, ceramics, posters, or named series by Davis, so those categories should not be presented as typical without additional object-level or institutional evidence.

## Market and appraisal context

The available evidence supports paintings as the only fine-art category explicitly documented for this entity, while Appraisily’s public page indicates that an auction-record dataset is associated with the name. The pack does not include lot descriptions, major-auction-house commentary, or documented visual-art series, so it cannot support claims about typical prices, scarcity, favored subjects, or market direction. A defensible appraisal should match public records to the correct Miles Davis and the same work type. Sale dates and realized prices can provide comparable-lot context when available, but they should not be treated as predictions or guarantees for a different object.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. This profile separates confirmed identity evidence from still-limited visual-art and market documentation.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q93341
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_Davis
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500353255
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/miles-davis/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Miles_Davis_(Three_Deuces,_New_York,_N.Y._1947).jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Miles_Davis_22.jpg