# Tony Cragg artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/tony-cragg/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T13:26:59.843Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: British
- Common media: Sculpture, Works on paper

## Portrait

![Tony Cragg](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0b/Tony_Cragg_%28cropped%29.jpg)
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Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tony_Cragg_(cropped).jpg

## About Tony Cragg

Tony Cragg is a British sculptor born in 1949 and also identified by the full name Anthony Douglas Cragg. Museum and authority records consistently associate him with sculpture, while bibliographic records also document works on paper. Public artist profiles maintained by MoMA and Tate, together with identifiers from Wikidata, Getty ULAN, and VIAF, provide a strong basis for matching his name across museum collections, publications, and auction records. Collectors may therefore encounter Cragg through three-dimensional works as well as drawings or other paper-based material. The collected sources establish his identity and principal occupation more clearly than they establish a single movement, subject category, or named series, so those classifications should not be inferred without object-specific evidence. Auction listings should also be checked carefully against his authority records because abbreviated names and variant forms can complicate artist matching.

## Common works and media

The collected records identify sculpture as Cragg's principal field and also document works on paper. These are the best-supported categories for auction and appraisal matching in this source pack. More specific classifications—such as material, technique, subject, named series, or edition—should be taken from the individual object and its documentation rather than inferred from the artist's name alone.

## Market and appraisal context

Tony Cragg market research should begin by identifying the object type and comparing it only with materially relevant records. Sculpture and works on paper appear in the collected documentation, but they should not be treated as interchangeable auction categories. When public records are available, sale date, realized price, work type, and the similarity of comparable lots can provide context; they do not by themselves determine the value of another object. Attribution should be checked against stable museum and authority profiles, while object-specific questions such as condition, provenance, dimensions, fabrication, edition status, and authenticity require separate evidence. The available source pack does not support a price trend, scarcity claim, or forecast.

## 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 records are available. Artist-level data is contextual evidence, not a substitute for examining and authenticating a specific object.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q702163
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500016206
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/110968365/
- The Museum of Modern Art: https://www.moma.org/artists/1286
- Tate: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/tony-cragg-953
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/027379108
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Cragg
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Cragg
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/tony-cragg/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tony_Cragg_(cropped).jpg