# André Cottavoz artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/andre-cottavoz/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T13:27:59.155Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1922-07-29
- Death date: 2012-07-08
- Nationality: French
- Movements: Sanzisme (Nouvelle figuration of the Lyon school), École de Paris
- Common media: Painting, Engraving and printmaking, Lithography, Ceramics

## Portrait

![André Cottavoz](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/Cottavoz_Atelier_Mourlot.jpg/1280px-Cottavoz_Atelier_Mourlot.jpg)
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Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cottavoz_Atelier_Mourlot.jpg

## About André Cottavoz

André Cottavoz (1922–2012) was a French painter, printmaker, lithographer, and ceramicist born in Saint-Marcellin and later associated with Vallauris. French authority data identifies him as a cofounder of the Lyon school’s Nouvelle figuration, also known as Sanzisme. He is additionally connected in published biographical summaries with the wider École de Paris context. These associations help place Cottavoz within postwar French figurative art without reducing his practice to a single medium. Collectors may encounter his name on paintings as well as lithographs, engravings, illustrated publications, and ceramic works. His identity is well established across Getty ULAN, VIAF, Wikidata, and French academic authority records, which helps distinguish his work from similarly named artists and supports consistent cataloguing. Appraisily’s auction directory currently associates hundreds of records with his public artist page, making careful comparison by medium, object type, date, and attribution especially important.

## Common works and media

Works encountered in appraisal and auction contexts may include paintings, lithographs, engravings and other prints, illustrated works, and ceramics. The authority evidence confirms that Cottavoz practiced in each of these areas, but the collected material does not establish a definitive hierarchy of subjects, periods, series, or edition formats. Cataloguing should therefore describe the actual medium and technique visible in the object rather than assigning an unsupported series or subject classification.

## Market and appraisal context

Cottavoz worked across painting, lithography, engraving, and ceramics, so an appraisal should begin by identifying the object type and technique accurately. Comparable records should be restricted to genuinely similar works and reviewed in the context of sale date and realized price. Object-level evidence—including dimensions, condition, signature, date, provenance, edition information, and attribution—still requires separate examination; the collected sources do not establish how much each factor changes value. The available pack supports the artist’s identity and range of media, but it does not contain major-auction-house analysis or evidence for price trends, scarcity, record prices, or predictable premiums.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine authority-based artist identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Identity evidence and object-specific market evidence are evaluated separately.

## Sources

- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/050562533
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2847559
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/50309141/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500010461
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Cottavoz
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/andre-cottavoz/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cottavoz_Atelier_Mourlot.jpg