# Alain Gauthier artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/alain-gauthier/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T17:58:38.834Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1931-08-21
- Death date: 2020-04-03
- Nationality: French
- Common media: Painting, Poster design, Press drawing and illustration

## About Alain Gauthier

Alain Gauthier (1931–2020) was a French artist and designer whose documented practices included painting, poster design, press drawing, and illustration. Authority records identify him as Alain Gauthier, with Alain Emmanuel Gauthier appearing as an expanded form, and connect the identity across Wikidata, VIAF, and national-library catalogs. The available sources place his birth in Paris on August 21, 1931, and his death in Boulogne-Billancourt on April 3, 2020. The exact dates currently depend on a Wikipedia biography, while VIAF independently supports the life years 1931–2020. Collectors may encounter his name in both fine-art and graphic-design contexts, making careful identity matching important. The collected evidence does not establish a particular movement, signature style, named series, or institutional collection history, so those details should remain open until supported by stronger scholarly, museum, or estate documentation.

## Common works and media

Public identity evidence describes Gauthier as a painter, poster designer, press illustrator, illustrator, artist, and designer. Candidate works may therefore include paintings, posters, editorial drawings, and illustrated material. The source pack contains no object-level descriptions establishing how frequently these types appear at auction, which techniques or supports predominate, whether editions were produced, or whether named periods and series exist. Each work type should be researched separately and attributed carefully.

## Market and appraisal context

The collected Appraisily input associates this artist page with 212 auction-directory records, but the fetched public page did not expose readable lot descriptions, realized prices, or auction-house details. This profile therefore cannot support a price trend or a dominant market category. An appraisal should first confirm that a candidate work belongs to the French artist and designer who lived from 1931 to 2020, since other people share the name Alain Gauthier. Once identity is established, object-level evidence and genuinely comparable public sales should determine the relevant market context. Painting and commercial graphic work should not be treated as a single undifferentiated market.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q89356858
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/49250727/
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_Gauthier
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/alain-gauthier/