# Carel Weight artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/carel-weight/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T13:19:51.048Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1908-09-10
- Death date: 1997-08-13
- Nationality: English
- Common media: Painting

## About Carel Weight

Carel Victor Morlais Weight (1908–1997) was an English painter represented by stable public identity records at Wikidata, Getty ULAN, VIAF and the Library of Congress, as well as artist pages maintained by Tate, the British Museum and Art UK. The collected evidence identifies painting as his principal field but does not provide enough support to assign him to a specific artistic movement. A corroborating biographical source associates his work with genre scenes placed in abstracted urban settings, sometimes using humor. This combination of recognizable human situations and transformed city space offers a useful context for works presented under his name. Collectors may encounter Weight through paintings, museum collection records and auction listings. Because this source pack is stronger on identity than on a detailed catalogue of works, individual objects should be assessed through documented object information and comparison with securely attributed examples and relevant public auction records.

## Common works and media

The available evidence supports paintings as the principal type of work associated with Carel Weight. Genre scenes, human situations and abstracted urban settings may appear in works attributed to him, although the subject evidence is based on a tertiary biographical source and should be treated cautiously. The source pack does not establish a reliable inventory of prints, drawings, editions, sculpture, ceramics or named series.

## Market and appraisal context

Carel Weight’s market context is best approached through object-level comparison. The collected evidence establishes him as a painter and tentatively identifies genre scenes and abstracted urban environments as recurring subjects, which may help determine relevant comparables. Appraisily’s artist page provides an auction-record signal, but this source pack includes no fetched major-auction-house biography, catalogue raisonné evidence or detailed sale-result set from which to infer price levels or trends. Attribution should be checked against stable authority identities, and any valuation should use public records that closely match the object being assessed. No forecast, scarcity claim or blanket price conclusion is supported by the available research.

## 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. This profile distinguishes well-supported identity information from thinner subject and market evidence.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5038986
- Tate: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/carel-weight-2128
- British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG50633
- Art UK: https://artuk.org/discover/artists/weight-carel-victor-morlais-19081997
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500028099
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/302608/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83036417
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carel_Weight
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carel_Weight
- Wikipedia: https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carel_Weight