Charles Gesmar Auction Prices and Value Guide

Charles Gesmar auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 307 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

Charles Gesmar auction prices: quick answer

Charles Gesmar auction prices depend on medium, size, date, condition, provenance, edition details, attribution confidence, and recent comparable auction sales.

Artist
Charles Gesmar
Source records
307
Market update
2026-02-06

Charles Gesmar market snapshot

Charles Gesmar shows deep auction liquidity with 171 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $1,000. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 4 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-09-30.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (44.6% · 29 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (55.4% · 36 sales)
  • $10,000+ (0.0% · 0 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$0
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
4
Median shift vs prior year
0.0%
Latest recorded sale
2025-09-30

Artist context

About Charles Gesmar

Charles Gesmar portrait
Mateclo · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Born

1900

Died

1928

Nationality

French

Also known as

Charles Geismar

Charles Gesmar, born Charles Geismar in 1900, was a French poster artist, costume designer, scenographer, and draftsman whose short career unfolded in the early twentieth-century world of graphic and theatrical design. Authority records identify him particularly with posters, drawing, and music-hall costume work. VIAF also links his identity to a documented group of seventy-four costume maquettes, helping explain why collectors may encounter his name on performance-related designs and works on paper as well as printed posters. Gesmar died in Paris in 1928 at the age of twenty-seven, but the surviving record indicates activity across several connected visual fields. Name variation is important for research and attribution: French biographical material identifies Geismar as his birth name and Gesmar as the name by which he became known. For entity matching, his 1900–1928 life dates and linked Wikidata, VIAF, Getty ULAN, Library of Congress, and French national-library records provide the clearest identifiers.

PostersCostume-design drawings and maquettesDrawingsMusic-hall performance and theatrical costume

Common works and media

Collectors are most likely to encounter Gesmar through posters and works connected with costume or theatrical design. Authority records specifically identify poster art, scenography, drawing, and a body of music-hall costume maquettes. A cataloguer should distinguish original drawings and costume studies from printed posters and later reproductions, using the physical object, inscriptions, printing evidence, and provenance rather than the depicted subject alone.

Market and appraisal context

Works associated with Charles Gesmar may enter appraisal contexts as posters, costume designs, theatrical maquettes, or drawings. Classification matters because a printed poster and an original costume study represent different object types and may require different comparable sales. Attribution research should check both Gesmar and Geismar, while also examining signatures, inscriptions, printing information, dimensions, condition, provenance, and any connection to a named performance or music-hall production. The collected identity sources document his fields of activity but do not establish typical editions, scarcity, price levels, or recent market trends. Those questions require examination of the object and comparison with appropriately documented public auction records.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

  • Posters
  • Costume designs and costume maquettes
  • Drawings

Value drivers

  1. Work type and intended function, including whether an object is a poster, costume maquette, or drawing
  2. Attribution under the names Charles Gesmar or Charles Geismar
  3. Relationship to Gesmar's documented music-hall and theatrical-design practice

Appraisal caveats

  • The collected source pack contains no usable major-auction-house description or realized-sale record, so it does not support conclusions about price levels, price trends, rarity, or market demand.
  • Artist-specific norms for printing technique, poster editions, signatures, dimensions, condition, and provenance are not established by the collected sources.
  • The Art Deco association appears in one collected Wikipedia profile but lacks the institutional or scholarly support required for inclusion as a confirmed movement.

Evidence

Sources for artist context

This source-grounded artist context is based on collected public records: medium confidence, adequate source quality.

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Data basis

This page is built from Appraisily's public auction market index. Private transactions, incomplete sale feeds, and attribution changes may not be fully represented.

LLM-readable Markdown summary for Charles Gesmar

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Artist value FAQ

How much is Charles Gesmar worth?

Comparable public auction sales are the best starting point, but final value depends on the specific artwork, condition, size, medium, provenance, and attribution confidence.

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