# Aharon Kahana artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T15:50:41.965Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Israeli
- Common media: Oil painting, Acrylic painting, Gouache, Ceramics

## Portrait

![Aharon Kahana](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/95/0001_FL135724078-1.jpg)
צילום: ישראל צפריר · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:0001_FL135724078-1.jpg

## About Aharon Kahana

Aharon Kahana (1905–1967) was a German-born Israeli painter, also described in collected biographical sources as a ceramicist. Authority records from Wikidata, VIAF, and IdRef align on his name, Israeli association, and life years. Catalog records preserved by IdRef point to a 1970 retrospective at the Tel Aviv Museum featuring oil and acrylic paintings and gouaches, followed by a 1978 Haifa Museum of Modern Art exhibition devoted to the human figure in his work. These records place Kahana within twentieth-century Israeli art while documenting a practice that crossed painting, works on paper, and ceramics. Collectors may therefore encounter his name on varied objects rather than in a single standardized category. The available institutional material does not assign him a specific movement or school, so identification is better grounded in authority records, documented media, exhibition history, inscriptions, and object-level evidence than in a broad stylistic label.

## Common works and media

Documented work types include oil and acrylic paintings, gouaches, and ceramics. Museum catalog metadata also establishes the human figure as a studied subject in Kahana’s work. The collected sources do not establish named series, edition sizes, or a recurring body of prints, sculptures, or posters, so objects in those categories require additional evidence before being associated with his documented practice.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisal should begin by separating Kahana’s documented work types: oil or acrylic painting, gouache, and ceramic work are not directly interchangeable market categories. Comparisons are stronger when the candidate object and reference lots align in medium, format, subject, date, and scale; the 1978 exhibition record also makes human-figure subject matter a documented comparison point. Attribution, signature, provenance, and condition still require object-specific verification and should not be inferred from an artist-name match. The collected material includes an Appraisily auction-price page and a substantial record-count signal, but no major-auction-house biography or lot-level result set. Accordingly, this profile supports category-based research, not a price forecast, scarcity claim, or authentication conclusion.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12403496
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/54420513/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500149083
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/262126583
- Wikipedia: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aharon_Kahana
- Wikipedia: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aharon_Kahana
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/aharon-kahana/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:0001_FL135724078-1.jpg