# Albert Raty artist context and auction value notes

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## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1889-08-17
- Death date: 1970-01-01
- Nationality: Belgian
- Common media: watercolor, oil painting

## About Albert Raty

Albert Raty (1889–1970) was a Belgian painter and watercolorist born in Bouillon, a scenic town in the Ardennes. Active through much of the twentieth century, he is recognized for landscapes, townscapes, and Christian religious scenes that reflect the Belgian countryside and small-town life. His full birth name was Albert Victor Louis Raty. Raty's practice spanned both oil and watercolor, and his work is documented in Belgian museum collections including the MHK in Belgium. He lived and worked in Bouillon for most of his life, and his paintings of the surrounding Ardennes landscape remain the works most frequently encountered by collectors. The RKD references his inclusion in standard surveys of modern Belgian art, situating him within the broader current of twentieth-century Belgian painting.

## Common works and media

Raty's auction output consists primarily of landscape paintings in oil and watercolor, often depicting the Ardennes countryside, river valleys, and village scenes around Bouillon. Townscapes showing Belgian street views and architectural subjects also appear. Religious scenes, particularly Christian devotional subjects, form a smaller but documented portion of his oeuvre. Works on paper in watercolor are common; oil paintings on canvas or panel are also encountered. Most works are modest to mid-scale, consistent with early-to-mid-twentieth-century Belgian regional painting traditions.

## Market and appraisal context

Albert Raty's works appear regularly at auction, with over 270 recorded lots. His landscapes and townscapes of the Belgian Ardennes region around Bouillon are the most commonly offered categories. Valuation depends on medium (oil versus watercolor), size, condition, subject matter, and the quality of attribution documentation. No published catalogue raisonné exists, so provenance and signature verification are particularly important for appraisal. Works with clear documentation of Belgian museum provenance or exhibition history may carry added significance. Collectors should be aware that unsigned or poorly documented attributions require careful expert review.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine structured artist identity research from international authority files and art-history databases with publicly available auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. For Albert Raty, identity data is sourced from the Getty ULAN, VIAF, Wikidata, the RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History, and the Library of Congress name authority.

## Sources

- RKD - Netherlands Institute for Art History: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/65686
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2831492
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500346799
- VIAF (OCLC): https://viaf.org/viaf/67267129/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n87141112