The valuation framework
How do you price art that isn't for sale?
Seven factors decide what any artwork is worth. Every one of them already has evidence in Varga's archive.
Collectors weigh the same things every time: the artist, rarity, authenticity, quality, history, demand, and sales record. Applied to these sixty-one works, each factor turns out to be backed by something real — so each work carries a Value Profile: a scorecard across the seven, and an indicative guide-value range.
- Artist — self-taught, twenty years, subject of a 2025 university study.
- Rarity — every piece a unique original, not an edition; some series hold a single work.
- Authenticity — accession number, signed certificate and a QR check for every work.
- History — dated 2007–2025, catalogued, six works cited by name in the 2025 study.
- Demand — the live public median: real willingness-to-pay, in the open.
The guide value is computed, not decreed: it starts from size, materials and the years a work was built across, lifts for series rarity and for critical attention, then blends in the community's own median. It is shown as a range, always beside the public number, and always labelled the same way.
An indicative appraisal — still not for sale; you decide what it's worth.
The ladder each work climbs is simple to say and hard to fake: catalogued, then verifiable, then studied, then publicly valued, then not for sale. The guide value tells a newcomer, in one honest number, that this is serious work. The last rung makes them want it anyway.