# Albert Chavaz artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/albert-chavaz/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T16:08:27.637Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1907-12-06
- Death date: 1990-01-17
- Nationality: Swiss
- Movements: École des Pâquis, École de Savièse
- Common media: Painting

## About Albert Chavaz

Albert Chavaz (1907–1990) was a Swiss painter born in Geneva and later associated with Sion, where he died. Public identity records consistently describe him as a Swiss painter, while the available French-language biography connects him with both the École des Pâquis and the École de Savièse. These names provide useful regional and artistic context, although the collected evidence does not establish a detailed chronology of his participation in either school. Collectors may encounter Chavaz through paintings offered under his name in the auction market, as reflected by the substantial body of records indexed for his artist page. The present source pack does not document particular subjects, techniques, series, or stylistic phases, so such characteristics should be established from the individual work and stronger cataloguing evidence. Authority identifiers from Getty ULAN, VIAF, the Library of Congress, RKD, BnF, GND, ISNI, and IdRef help distinguish Chavaz from similarly named artists and support reliable entity matching.

## Common works and media

The available identity sources establish Chavaz as a painter, so paintings are the only work type that can be described confidently from this source pack. It does not provide reliable evidence for recurring subjects, specific paint media, drawings, prints, sculpture, ceramics, posters, editions, or named series. Objects in those categories require separate cataloguing evidence before they are presented as characteristic works by Albert Chavaz.

## Market and appraisal context

Albert Chavaz has an identifiable auction-record presence, but the collected material does not expose enough lot-level evidence to characterize price ranges or market trends responsibly. An appraisal should begin by confirming the artist attribution and documenting the object’s medium, dimensions, date, signature or inscriptions, condition, provenance, and subject. Those observations can then be compared with relevant public sales, giving particular attention to work type, sale date, auction-house cataloguing, and realized price. An indexed result is evidence that a lot was offered or recorded; it is not, by itself, proof of authenticity or a dependable valuation for another work. Conclusions should therefore remain tied to the specific object and the quality of available comparables.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with indexed auction records and, when available, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots. Gaps in the collected evidence are retained rather than filled with unsupported claims.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2831041
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Chavaz
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500130565
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/97730136/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84051059
- RKD: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/125492
- Bibliothèque nationale de France: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb149655452
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/albert-chavaz/