# Uri Lifshitz artist context and auction value notes Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/uri-lifshitz/ Profile generated: 2026-05-10T12:26:00.000Z Quality: high confidence, strong sources ## Artist identity - Birth date: 1936-07-07 - Death date: 2011-01-01 - Nationality: Israeli - Common media: painting, printmaking, drawing, graphic art, sculpture ## About Uri Lifshitz Uri Lifshitz (1936–2011) was an Israeli painter, printmaker, graphic artist, and sculptor born at Kibbutz Givat HaShlosha in central Israel. Active across several decades of the second half of the twentieth century and into the 2000s, Lifshitz worked in a range of media that included painting, drawing, printmaking, and graphic art. His practice spanned both figurative and abstract idioms within the broader context of Israeli modern and contemporary art. Multiple authority files — including the Getty Union List of Artist Names, the Library of Congress Name Authority File, VIAF, and the RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History — record consistent biographical details and name variants (Lifschitz, Lifshits). His work circulates regularly at auction, where collectors encounter paintings, works on paper, and prints. ## Common works and media Lifshitz produced paintings in oil and other media, drawings, prints, and graphic works. Works on paper — including preparatory studies and finished compositions — form a significant portion of his recorded auction output. Print editions, if encountered, should be checked for edition size, numbering, and signature. The artist also practiced sculpture, though three-dimensional works appear less frequently in auction contexts than his two-dimensional pieces. ## Market and appraisal context Uri Lifshitz (1936–2011) maintains an active and well-documented secondary market, with 227 total lots tracked in the Appraisily/Invaluable auction database, 130 of which carry realized prices. Auction records span from June 2007 through December 2025, indicating nearly two decades of continuous market presence. The price distribution shows meaningful breadth: the lowest recorded price is $30, the 25th percentile sits at $300, the median is $1,800, the 75th percentile reaches $3,600, and the highest recorded price is $29,900. Recent results reinforce this range — a Tiroche lot in December 2024 achieved $11,000, while another in the same sale reached $9,500, and smaller works on paper and prints trade in the low hundreds. The market is anchored by Israeli auction houses, with Tiroche Auction House handling the largest share of volume, followed by Montefiore Auction House, Yair Art Gallery, Pasarel, and Hammersite. International exposure comes through Sotheby's, Greenwich Auction (US), DuMouchelles (US), and Abell Auction (US). Liquidity is moderate and steady: 10 priced lots in the most recent 12-month window and 13 in the prior 12-month window, suggesting consistent but not high-volume turnover. ## Auction-house-backed market evidence Uri Lifshitz (1936–2011) maintains an active and well-documented secondary market, with 227 total lots tracked in the Appraisily/Invaluable auction database, 130 of which carry realized prices. Auction records span from June 2007 through December 2025, indicating nearly two decades of continuous market presence. The price distribution shows meaningful breadth: the lowest recorded price is $30, the 25th percentile sits at $300, the median is $1,800, the 75th percentile reaches $3,600, and the highest recorded price is $29,900. Recent results reinforce this range — a Tiroche lot in December 2024 achieved $11,000, while another in the same sale reached $9,500, and smaller works on paper and prints trade in the low hundreds. The market is anchored by Israeli auction houses, with Tiroche Auction House handling the largest share of volume, followed by Montefiore Auction House, Yair Art Gallery, Pasarel, and Hammersite. International exposure comes through Sotheby's, Greenwich Auction (US), DuMouchelles (US), and Abell Auction (US). Liquidity is moderate and steady: 10 priced lots in the most recent 12-month window and 13 in the prior 12-month window, suggesting consistent but not high-volume turnover. ### Appraisal notes An Appraisily appraisal for a Uri Lifshitz work would draw on the 130 priced comparable lots in the auction-record database to establish a value range, filtered by medium, dimensions, date, and subject matter. Paintings (oil on canvas) and unique works on paper (watercolor, pastel) tend to cluster above the median, while signed lithographs and other print multiples generally trade below it. The appraiser would compare the submitted work against recent Tiroche and Montefiore results for Israeli-market context, and against US-house results (Greenwich, DuMouchelles, Abell) for American-market context. Critical appraisal inputs beyond the database include: high-resolution photographs showing signature and surface condition; exact dimensions; medium confirmation; any edition numbering for prints; provenance documentation (gallery receipts, exhibition labels, prior auction tags); and condition reports addressing foxing, fading, tears, or restoration. The wide price spread ($30–$29,900) underscores that medium, size, period, and quality are decisive factors — a small late-career watercolor and a large 1960s oil painting are not directly comparable. ### Valuation factors - [object Object] - [object Object] - [object Object] - [object Object] - [object Object] - [object Object] ### Collector notes - [object Object] - [object Object] - [object Object] - [object Object] - [object Object] ### Market caveats - [object Object] - [object Object] - [object Object] - [object Object] - [object Object] ### Market evidence sources - Appraisily auction record index: https://appraisily.com/api/scraper-search/artists/uri-lifshitz/seo-profile?recentLimit=24&relatedLimit=0 ## Appraisily data basis Appraisily artist pages combine artist identity research from authority files and institutional databases with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. For Uri Lifshitz, identity data is grounded in the Getty ULAN, Library of Congress, VIAF, RKD, and Wikidata records cited on this page. ## Sources - RKD — Netherlands Institute for Art History: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/305339 - VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/95883797/ - Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86066821 - Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500032834 - Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6973037 - Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uri_Lifschitz