# Avraham Naton artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/avraham-naton/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T19:38:37.784Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Israeli
- Movements: New Horizons
- Common media: Painting

## Portrait

![Avraham Naton](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/Tal131001.jpg)
אפרים ארדה, צלם ישראלי, יליד פולין, 1987-1905 · CC BY-SA 3.0
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tal131001.jpg

## About Avraham Naton

Avraham Naton (1906–1959) was an Israeli painter born in Bessarabia. International authority files align the English forms Avraham Naton and Abraham Naton, while Appraisily’s matching data also records Avraham Nathansohn. A collected Hebrew-language biography reports that he immigrated in 1935 and became a prominent member of the New Horizons group, although that association still needs confirmation from a museum or scholarly source in the available source pack. Collectors encounter Naton chiefly through paintings and public auction listings indexed across several broad fine-art categories. His variant names make careful entity matching important: signatures, inscriptions, provenance, exhibition references, and catalogue documentation should be considered together rather than relying on a name match alone. The available public sources provide solid authority support for his identity and lifespan but limited institutional interpretation of his subjects, artistic phases, and individual works.

## Common works and media

Appraisily’s current auction index groups matched Naton lots under fine art and paintings, works on paper and prints, sculpture and mixed media, and decorative art and editions. Painting is the best-supported work type in the identity sources. The remaining labels are broad auction-category signals and should not be treated as a catalogue of authenticated media without examination of the individual object and its documentation.

## Market and appraisal context

The collected Appraisily snapshot covers matched auction records dated 2000–2026 and reports 65 priced records among 85 records, with an observed range of $50 to $24,000. These figures describe the indexed dataset, not a forecast or a complete market. Appraisal comparisons should align medium, dimensions, date or career period, subject, condition and restoration, signature or inscriptions, edition information where relevant, provenance, exhibition or catalogue references, and attribution confidence. Recent sales of genuinely comparable works are more informative than a page-wide median. Private transactions, incomplete feeds, differing treatment of auction fees, and later attribution changes can limit direct comparison. The supplied inputs contain differing record totals, so coverage counts should be reconciled before being presented as definitive.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist identity research with matched public auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Coverage may exclude private transactions, incomplete feeds, and later attribution changes.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7007344
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500478120
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/63106429/
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/223394602
- Wikipedia: https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%91%D7%A8%D7%94%D7%9D_%D7%A0%D7%AA%D7%95%D7%9F
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/avraham-naton/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tal131001.jpg