# Cecil Skotnes artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T22:11:38.138Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: South African
- Movements: Modern South African art
- Common media: Woodcut, Painting, Sculpture, Graphic art

## About Cecil Skotnes

Cecil Skotnes (1926–2009) was a South African artist represented in public museum and authority systems, including MoMA, Wikidata and IdRef. Available biographical material identifies him as a painter, sculptor and graphic artist and associates him particularly with woodcuts. His work is situated within modern South African art and is described as engaging African motifs and themes connected with the country’s history and cultural life. These overlapping formats are important for identification: a work encountered under his name may be a painting, a sculpture or a graphic work, and each category requires its own comparison set. Skotnes is therefore encountered both in accounts of South African modernism and in varied secondary-market categories. The collected sources establish his basic identity and principal media more securely than they establish a detailed chronology, exhibition history or list of named series, so narrower claims should be checked against further institutional or catalogue documentation.

## Common works and media

Works encountered under Cecil Skotnes’s name may include woodcuts and other graphic works, paintings and sculptures. Available biographical material particularly emphasizes his woodcuts and identifies African motifs and South African historical or cultural themes as recurring contexts. The exact technique and object type should be confirmed before selecting auction comparables.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisily’s input inventory associates 805 auction records with Cecil Skotnes, providing a potentially substantial pool of public-market comparisons, although record count alone does not establish value. Comparisons should first distinguish paintings, sculptures and graphic works, especially woodcuts, because results from different categories are not directly interchangeable. Subject matter can also help determine relevance when comparing works connected with African motifs or South African historical themes. Sale date and the availability of genuinely similar lots should be considered alongside work category. The collected source pack does not contain individual realized prices, lot-level condition information or a catalogue raisonné, so it does not support a price trend, scarcity claim or forecast.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with auction records and, when available, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices and comparable lots. For Cecil Skotnes, the current source pack establishes identity and broad working contexts more clearly than detailed lot-level market results.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5056312
- The Museum of Modern Art: https://www.moma.org/artists/73283
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/050508369
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil_Skotnes
- Wikipedia: https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil_Skotnes
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil_Skotnes
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/cecil-skotnes/