# Bernard Berthois-Rigal artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/bernard-berthois-rigal/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T16:51:51.820Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1927-10-28
- Death date: 2018-12-05
- Nationality: French
- Common media: Painting, Posters

## About Bernard Berthois-Rigal

Bernard Berthois-Rigal (1927–2018) was a French painter born in Paris and later associated in authority records with both painting and poster material. His identity is established across Wikidata, VIAF, and the Bibliothèque nationale de France authority system, where his name also appears without the hyphen as Bernard Berthois Rigal. VIAF links his authority identity to a BnF collection record for posters, indicating that collectors and researchers may encounter his name in both fine-art and graphic-work contexts. The available public source pack does not establish a named movement, school, signature subject, documented series, or detailed chronology, so those classifications should not be inferred. For entity matching, the most reliable identifiers are his 1927–2018 lifespan and the linked VIAF, Wikidata, and BnF records. These identifiers help distinguish works attributed to him from similarly named artists when reviewing catalog entries or auction records.

## Common works and media

Authority sources consistently identify Bernard Berthois-Rigal as a painter, making paintings the clearest documented work type. VIAF also connects his identity to a BnF collection entry for posters, supporting the possible appearance of posters or related graphic material in catalog and appraisal contexts. The collected evidence does not identify particular painting techniques, recurring subjects, editions, sculptures, ceramics, drawings, or named series.

## Market and appraisal context

Market assessment for Bernard Berthois-Rigal should begin with a firm identity and attribution match against his Wikidata, VIAF, and BnF authority records. The available evidence supports paintings and poster-related graphic works as relevant object types, but it does not establish artist-specific price trends, favored subjects, edition practices, signature conventions, or a documented market hierarchy. Appraisal therefore requires comparison with verified public sales of closely related works rather than broad conclusions based on the artist name alone. When suitable auction records are available, the work type, catalogued attribution, sale date, realized price, and similarity of the comparable lots should be reviewed together.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22009196
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/76588092/
- Bibliothèque nationale de France: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb149696339
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Berthois_Rigal
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/bernard-berthois-rigal/