# Alexis Matthew Podchernikoff artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T15:26:55.941Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: American
- Common media: Painting, Oil on Masonite

## About Alexis Matthew Podchernikoff

Alexis Matthew Podchernikoff (1886–1933) was a painter identified by Wikidata and VIAF as American, although VIAF also surfaces a conflicting Russian-artist designation inherited from an authority source. The available public source pack is stronger on identity than on biography: Getty ULAN and VIAF establish stable authority records, while detailed training, affiliations, and exhibition history are not documented here. Surviving public-domain images show landscape subjects, including cattle and sheep in a pastoral setting and a wooded winter scene; one example is identified as oil on Masonite. Appraisily's artist index also contains matched public auction records under his name, which is why collectors may encounter Podchernikoff in sale catalogues and appraisal searches. Because the evidence pack does not establish a formal movement or school, he should be described conservatively as an American painter associated in the documented examples with landscape painting, rather than assigned to a specific movement without stronger evidence.

## Common works and media

The documented examples in this source pack are landscape paintings: an oil-on-Masonite pastoral scene with cattle and sheep and a wooded snow scene. Appraisily's market index also groups records under paintings, works on paper and prints, sculpture and mixed media, and decorative art and editions, but the source describes this category concentration as broad or sparse. Medium and authorship should therefore be verified work by work.

## Market and appraisal context

Public auction records provide useful comparison points for works attributed to Alexis Matthew Podchernikoff, but they do not establish a single expected price. A sound comparison should match the medium, dimensions, subject, date, condition, and attribution as closely as possible. Signatures and inscriptions should be examined alongside provenance, restoration history, exhibition records, and catalogue references. Reported auction results may include different fee treatments, while private transactions and incomplete data feeds may be absent. The broad category labels on the current market page should therefore be treated cautiously and not as evidence that the artist worked extensively in every listed medium.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine authority-based artist identity research with matched auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Public results are reference evidence, not a substitute for inspecting attribution, provenance, condition, and the individual object.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q52156536
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500200006
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/124242803/
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_Matthew_Podchernikoff
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/alexis-matthew-podchernikoff/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cows_and_Sheep_in_a_Pastoral_Landscape_by_Alexis_Matthew_Podchernikoff.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wooded_Snow_Scene_by_Alexis_Matthew_Podchernikoff.jpg