# André Favory artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/andre-favory/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T12:41:52.262Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Death date: 1937-02-05
- Nationality: French
- Common media: painting, illustration

## Portrait

![André Favory](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/Autoportrait_%C3%A0_la_palette.jpg)
MarekandSons · CC BY-SA 4.0
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Autoportrait_%C3%A0_la_palette.jpg

## About André Favory

André Favory was a French painter and illustrator whose career belongs to the early decades of twentieth-century French art. Wikidata, Getty ULAN, VIAF, and several national-library records establish a durable authority identity for him, although those records disagree about whether he was born in 1888 or 1889. The international authority form commonly gives 1888–1937, while the French authority tradition and French-language biography use 1889. Favory is consistently identified as a painter, and multilingual biographical sources also describe him as an illustrator. Collectors may therefore encounter his name in connection with paintings as well as illustration-related material. A documented self-portrait provides a reliable likeness of the artist. The collected sources do not adequately establish a specific movement, school, recurring series, or broad subject taxonomy, so this profile avoids assigning those labels until stronger museum or scholarly documentation is available.

## Common works and media

Favory is documented primarily as a painter and also as an illustrator. Paintings and illustration-related works are therefore the clearest categories for auction and appraisal research. A surviving self-portrait documents his engagement with portraiture, but the available evidence is too limited to describe portraiture—or any other subject—as a dominant part of his output. The source pack does not establish recurring editions, named series, printmaking practices, sculpture, or ceramics.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisal begins by confirming that a work is correctly connected to André Favory, using his established authority identities and the appropriate spelling of his name. The type of object—particularly whether it is a painting or illustration-related work—also determines which auction records are meaningfully comparable. Relevant public sales should be compared by medium, date, dimensions, subject, attribution, sale date, and realized price, but the collected source pack does not provide enough lot-level evidence to characterize price trends or scarcity. Condition, provenance, signatures, inscriptions, and supporting documentation must be assessed from the individual object and cannot be inferred from the artist biography alone.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine researched artist identities with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Biographical and authority claims here are separated from conclusions that require examination of a specific work.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q518490
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500041028
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/27339242/
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Favory
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Favory
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/andre-favory/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Autoportrait_%C3%A0_la_palette.jpg