# Bernard Jean Corneille Pothast artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T17:21:41.913Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Dutch
- Common media: Painting, Works on paper and prints

## About Bernard Jean Corneille Pothast

Bernard Jean Corneille Pothast (1882–1966), also listed as Bernard Pothast, was a Dutch painter. Wikidata, VIAF, Getty ULAN, RKD, and Art UK identifiers provide a useful entity-matching foundation for distinguishing him in collection and auction data. Collectors may encounter either his full name or the shortened form in catalogues and sales records. The collected Dutch- and Spanish-language reference pages associate Pothast with the second generation of the Laren School, but the present source pack does not contain an institution-grade biography that independently confirms that classification or documents his training and career chronology. Appraisily therefore treats the authority-supported name, occupation, nationality, and lifespan as the firm biographical core while keeping more detailed art-historical claims provisional. His auction presence is centered on fine art and paintings, although some records are assigned to broader categories that require object-level review before they are treated as representative of his oeuvre.

## Common works and media

The available auction summary most clearly supports paintings as the principal work type associated with Pothast. It also assigns some matched records to works on paper and prints, sculpture or mixed media, and decorative art or editions, but those categories are broad and weakly documented in the collected source pack. Each object should therefore be checked at lot level for its stated medium, support, dimensions, signature, attribution wording, and edition information rather than classified from the artist-level category alone.

## Market and appraisal context

Pothast's collected Appraisily market record is relatively thin, so an appraisal should begin with the individual object's medium, dimensions, date, subject, condition, signature, inscriptions, and attribution. Provenance, exhibition history, catalogue references, and documented restoration can help establish how closely a work compares with publicly sold examples. Broad database categories such as works on paper, mixed media, decorative art, or editions should not by themselves be taken as proof that a particular object is characteristic or authentic. Realized prices are most useful when the comparable lots closely match the object and when reporting conventions, currencies, buyer's premiums, and sale dates are considered consistently.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine authority-based artist identity research with matched auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Incomplete feeds, private transactions, and attribution revisions may not be represented.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21460077
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/95781414/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500016360
- Art UK: https://artuk.org/discover/artists/pothast-bernard-jean-corneille-18821966
- RKD: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/64495
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/bernard-jean-corneille-pothast/
- Wikipedia: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Pothast
- Wikipedia: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Jean_Corneille_Pothast