# Basil Rákóczi artist context and auction value notes

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## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1908-05-31
- Death date: 1979-03-21
- Nationality: British
- Common media: Painting, Illustration, Stage design

## About Basil Rákóczi

Basil Rákóczi (1908–1979), also catalogued as Basil Ivan Rákóczi and Basil Rakoczi, was a British artist whose practice included painting, illustration, stage design and writing. He is chiefly associated with the White Stag Group, which he co-founded with Kenneth Hall. That connection places him within a mid-twentieth-century British and Irish art context, although the collected institutional sources do not assign a single formal movement label to his individual practice. Collectors may encounter his name in accented and unaccented forms across museum, library-authority and auction records. Painting is the clearest documented work type in this source pack, while illustration and stage design indicate a broader creative practice. Careful identity matching is important because records may also concern Hall or the wider White Stag circle. Sources disagree over whether Rákóczi died in 1976 or 1979; Art UK and several library headings support 1979, which is used here pending stronger primary documentation.

## Common works and media

Paintings are the most clearly documented works associated with Rákóczi in the collected sources. Biographical material also identifies him as an illustrator and stage designer, so drawings, illustrations or theatrical-design material may appear under his name. The source pack does not establish how frequently those categories reach auction, identify recurring subjects, or document an editioned print or sculpture practice; each object's medium, authorship and date should therefore be verified individually.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisal should begin by confirming that an object is by Basil Rákóczi rather than merely associated with Kenneth Hall, the White Stag Group or Rákóczi's estate. Name variants in authority records make accurate entity matching especially important. Relevant comparisons should be separated by work type and medium and evaluated with their dates, dimensions, attribution language, condition, provenance, signatures, sale venues and realized results. A documented relationship to Rákóczi's White Stag activity may provide useful historical context, but it does not establish value by itself. The supplied data indicates substantial auction-record coverage, yet this source pack contains no accessible major-auction-house lot evidence from which to infer a price trend or predict a result.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Art UK: https://artuk.org/discover/artists/rakoczi-basil-ivan-19081979
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/150003719/
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2886817
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500191263
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_R%C3%A1k%C3%B3czi
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_R%C3%A1k%C3%B3czi
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/basil-rakoczi/