# Alfred Pellan artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T20:24:31.229Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Canadian
- Common media: Painting, Murals, Illustration, Costume design

## About Alfred Pellan

Alfred Pellan (1906–1988) was a Canadian artist associated with Quebec and active across several creative disciplines. Public identity sources describe him broadly as an artist, while a French-language biographical profile identifies painting, mural work, illustration, and costume design among his practices. This range helps explain why collectors may encounter his name in more than one type of art or design context. Authority records maintained by Wikidata, IdRef, Getty ULAN, VIAF, the Library of Congress, RKD, and the British Museum provide stable identifiers that help distinguish Pellan from similarly named people and connect collection or catalogue records. The collected source material does not securely establish exact birth and death dates, movement labels, recurring subjects, named series, or a detailed career chronology, so those details should not be inferred from this profile.

## Common works and media

Available biographical material connects Pellan with painting, mural work, illustration, and costume design. These practices describe the breadth of his documented activity, but the source pack does not establish which formats are most common at auction. It also does not support claims about preferred materials, recurring subjects, edition sizes, named series, or signature styles. Individual objects should therefore be described from their own physical and documentary evidence.

## Market and appraisal context

The collected evidence establishes Alfred Pellan’s identity and lifespan but does not include substantive auction-house analysis or published guidance about the characteristics that influence prices for his work. No price trend, rarity claim, or market forecast should therefore be inferred from this profile alone. Appraisal of a particular object requires evidence specific to that object and comparison with relevant public sales. When suitable records are available, Appraisily can organize auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots around the securely matched artist identity. Those records should be assessed as historical market evidence rather than as a guarantee of present value or authenticity.

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2835394
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/098803824
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500024796
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/92360323/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81093684
- RKD: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/62446
- British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG41501
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Pellan
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Pellan
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/alfred-pellan/