# Peter Hayes artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/peter-hayes/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T18:36:59.070Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: British
- Common media: Sculpture

## About Peter Hayes

Peter Hayes is a British contemporary sculptor associated with Bath, England. Public identity records describe him as a sculptor, while the collected biographical source reports that his work appears in public locations in the United Kingdom, United States, Canada, and Belgium. For collectors, careful identity matching is especially important: Peter Hayes is a shared name, and authority-search results can surface an American historian and other public figures alongside the British sculptor. The available authority evidence supports a 1946 birth year, but this source pack does not safely establish a full birth date. No movement, school, material specialization, or named series is assigned here because the collected sources do not substantiate one. Collectors are most likely to encounter this artist through sculpture listings and references to publicly displayed work, with attribution checked against the British, Bath-based sculptor rather than against a namesake.

## Common works and media

The collected sources support sculpture as Peter Hayes's principal work type and report examples displayed in public locations. They do not provide enough evidence to specify recurring materials, subjects, editions, named series, or periods, so individual objects should be catalogued from their own physical and documentary evidence.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisal should begin by confirming that a lot is by the British sculptor Peter Hayes, because the name is shared with other public figures and the collected authority data shows possible identity crossover. The current source pack supports sculpture as the relevant auction category, but it does not document particular materials, editions, named series, or an auction-house market narrative. Comparable-sale analysis should therefore use only records securely matched to this sculptor and should avoid combining results for the historian, musician, or other namesakes. No price trend or forecast is inferred from this evidence.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine researched artist identity with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. For Peter Hayes, namesake disambiguation is essential before auction records are treated as comparable evidence.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7174593
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500193761
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/41966516/
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Hayes_(sculptor)
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/peter-hayes/