# Tony Berlant artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/tony-berlant/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T12:37:03.071Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1941-08-07
- Nationality: American
- Common media: Painting, Sculpture

## About Tony Berlant

Tony Berlant, born in New York City in 1941, is an American artist whose documented practice includes painting and sculpture. Authority records identify him under Tony Berlant as well as Anthony Berlant, while a published biography gives his fuller name as Anthony Hanna Berlant. He studied at the University of California, Los Angeles, completing degrees in painting before receiving an MFA in sculpture in 1963. He has been associated with Santa Monica, California, as a place of residence and work. Berlant is also documented as a collector of Southwestern Native American art, with particular interests in Mimbres pottery and Navajo rugs. Collectors researching an attributed work should account for his alternate names when consulting catalogues and auction databases. The collected evidence does not establish a specific movement, named series, or detailed chronology of his practice, so those classifications should not be inferred from this profile alone.

## Common works and media

The available sources document Berlant as both a painter and sculptor, so collectors may encounter painting-related and sculpture-related works under his name. The source pack does not provide enough object-level evidence to identify recurring materials, subjects, editions, named series, or characteristic formats without speculation.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisily’s input data associates Tony Berlant with 151 auction records, indicating a useful body of potential comparisons. The collected source pack, however, does not expose the underlying lot descriptions, sale results, estimates, dimensions, provenance, condition, edition information, or attribution wording. A defensible appraisal should therefore begin by matching records filed under Tony Berlant, Anthony Berlant, or Anthony Hanna Berlant and separating painting-related works from sculpture-related works. Comparable lots should only be used when their object type and cataloguing details are sufficiently similar. This evidence supports record-based research, but it does not support a price forecast, market trend, scarcity claim, or current value range.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine researched identity records with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those details are publicly available. For Tony Berlant, identity evidence is stronger than the collected lot-level market evidence, so market conclusions should remain cautious.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12268066
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/59973060/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500014510
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Berlant
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Berlant
- Wikipedia: https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86%D9%89_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/tony-berlant/