# Bernard Cohen artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/bernard-cohen/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T17:37:37.810Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1933-07-28
- Nationality: British
- Movements: Abstract art
- Common media: Painting, Printmaking

## About Bernard Cohen

Bernard Cohen, born on 28 July 1933, is identified by international authority records as a British painter and printmaker. Public biographical material associates him with British abstract art, although the collected evidence does not provide enough scholarly detail to assign narrower movements, named series, or recurring subjects confidently. His authority trail includes Wikidata, Getty ULAN, VIAF, the Library of Congress, MoMA, Tate, the British Museum, and Art UK. These identifiers are particularly useful because several other public figures share his name. Collectors may encounter works catalogued as paintings, prints, or graphic works, making careful identity and medium matching important during research. Wikidata reports a death year of 2005, but that detail is not consistently reflected across the collected sources and should be independently confirmed before publication as settled biographical information.

## Common works and media

The collected authority evidence supports paintings, prints, and other graphic works as the principal categories likely to appear in cataloguing and appraisal contexts. It does not provide enough reliable detail to identify recurring subjects, named bodies of work, specific print processes, editions, sculptures, ceramics, drawings, or posters.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisal research should first confirm that a work is attributed to the British painter and printmaker identified by the linked authority records, rather than another Bernard Cohen. The supplied Appraisily inventory indicates 221 associated auction records, providing a potential base for comparison, but this source pack does not expose individual lot descriptions or results. Comparables should therefore be separated by work type and medium, particularly paintings versus prints, and evaluated using documented sale dates and realized prices when those records are available. The evidence supplied here does not support a price forecast or broader claims about market direction, scarcity, condition effects, provenance premiums, or edition behavior.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist-identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Claims are limited when the collected evidence does not provide sufficient detail.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q822353
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/69203181/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500022012
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Cohen_(painter)
- Wikipedia: https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%87%D9%86
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/bernard-cohen/