# Charles Delporte artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/charles-delporte/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T15:28:07.203Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1928-12-04
- Death date: 2012-11-06
- Nationality: Belgian
- Common media: Painting, Sculpture

## About Charles Delporte

Charles Delporte (1928–2012) was a Belgian painter and sculptor born in Marcinelle and deceased in Charleroi. A French biographical profile also identifies him as a poet and composer, placing his visual practice within a broader creative output. The available sources do not securely connect him to a conventional art-historical movement. Instead, a Dutch-language profile describes four internal strands in his work: realistic, genetic, geophysical and nuclear. Because that classification is not corroborated by an institutional essay in the collected source pack, it is best treated as descriptive rather than a settled scholarly taxonomy. Collectors are most likely to encounter Delporte through paintings and sculpture, the two media consistently attached to his public identity. Authority records at Wikidata, Getty ULAN, VIAF, the Library of Congress and the BnF help distinguish him from similarly named people and support entity matching across catalogues.

## Common works and media

Public identity sources consistently describe Delporte as both a painter and sculptor, making paintings and three-dimensional works the best-supported categories for cataloguing and appraisal. A Dutch-language profile applies the labels realistic, genetic, geophysical and nuclear to strands within his work, although their precise status as periods, series or thematic categories remains uncertain. The collected evidence does not support adding prints, drawings, ceramics or editions as characteristic auction categories.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisily’s artist page aggregates auction records associated with Charles Delporte, but the collected source pack does not include detailed major-auction-house cataloguing or enough lot-level evidence to establish a price trend. For appraisal, paintings should be compared with paintings and sculptures with sculptures, using records that are as similar as possible in medium, scale, date, attribution and condition. Sale date, currency, realized price and catalogue description also matter when interpreting a comparable result. Any conclusion should be checked against the object and its documentation. Current evidence does not establish artist-specific premiums for a particular subject, period, provenance type or one of the four descriptive strands attributed to his work.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices and comparable lots when those records are available. Conclusions should remain proportional to the quality and specificity of the available evidence.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2556697
- Bibliothèque nationale de France: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb149727097
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500008935
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/95735678/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50039017
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Delporte_(artist)
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Delporte
- Wikipedia: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Delporte_(kunstenaar)
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/charles-delporte/