Sculpture Auctions (Live or Online)
You may have inherited a sculpture, or used to collect sculptures. Your goal may be to liquidate a whole estate, or to downsize, or simply to free up space and make some money along the way. Your sculpture may be human-sized or figurine-sized. Whatever the case, don’t let your sculpture go before you’ve determined its potential worth at auction. Its value may surprise you.
Let’s say you own a small statue of a bunny. It’s cute, but you never imagined it would be worth much. Little do you know that it is a Katherine Lane Weems piece, worth $7000 to $15000. Or perhaps you have an authentic Harriet Frishmuth statue of a woman dancing, worth nearly $20,000. Can you imagine taking a piece like that to Goodwill or unloading it on Craigslist?
Contact Central Mass Auctions today, or keep reading to discover more about auctioning your sculpture.
What makes a sculpture valuable?
Like any collectible, a sculpture is worth whatever someone is willing to pay for it. The works of some sculptors are highly valued by some collectors, but prices vary significantly from piece to piece, even between sculptures by the same maker. Some works are throwaways or misfires, but others are well-known or almost iconic.
Unless you’re deep in the art market yourself, you’re unlikely to be able to make reliably good guesses on your own as to which pieces matter to collectors.
Some clues are fairly reliable. For example, bronze statues often retain value well. Vintage sculpture often can fetch between $1000 and $10,000, depending on the subject matter. Even pop art sculptures often do very well. You won’t know until you ask.
Should you sell your sculptures at auction?
If you try to sell your pieces anywhere else you’ll never get top dollar for them.
When the value of something is so subjective, it’s hard to figure out how to price it on your own. By exposing your piece to lots of interested and savvy buyers at once, you encourage them to compete, and you increase your chances of getting all your sculpture is worth. You can do that at a professional auction house – not so much on a site like eBay. Most people just bargain-hunt on those sites.
People who come to auctions are looking for art. They want to enhance their home, enhance their lives, and experience the joy of finding and winning something special.
Central Mass Auctions can help you determine what your sculpture is worth, and how best to get it in front of interested collectors at auction. We run both live auctions and online auctions. Contact us today to determine the value of your sculpture and the highest-value auction strategy.
