# Charles Gesmar artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/charles-gesmar/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T15:20:17.988Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1900-05-21
- Death date: 1928-02-27
- Nationality: French
- Common media: Posters, Costume-design drawings and maquettes, Drawings

## Portrait

![Charles Gesmar](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/Charles_GEISMAR_2.JPG/1280px-Charles_GEISMAR_2.JPG)
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Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charles_GEISMAR_2.JPG

## About Charles Gesmar

Charles Gesmar, born Charles Geismar in 1900, was a French poster artist, costume designer, scenographer, and draftsman whose short career unfolded in the early twentieth-century world of graphic and theatrical design. Authority records identify him particularly with posters, drawing, and music-hall costume work. VIAF also links his identity to a documented group of seventy-four costume maquettes, helping explain why collectors may encounter his name on performance-related designs and works on paper as well as printed posters. Gesmar died in Paris in 1928 at the age of twenty-seven, but the surviving record indicates activity across several connected visual fields. Name variation is important for research and attribution: French biographical material identifies Geismar as his birth name and Gesmar as the name by which he became known. For entity matching, his 1900–1928 life dates and linked Wikidata, VIAF, Getty ULAN, Library of Congress, and French national-library records provide the clearest identifiers.

## Common works and media

Collectors are most likely to encounter Gesmar through posters and works connected with costume or theatrical design. Authority records specifically identify poster art, scenography, drawing, and a body of music-hall costume maquettes. A cataloguer should distinguish original drawings and costume studies from printed posters and later reproductions, using the physical object, inscriptions, printing evidence, and provenance rather than the depicted subject alone.

## Market and appraisal context

Works associated with Charles Gesmar may enter appraisal contexts as posters, costume designs, theatrical maquettes, or drawings. Classification matters because a printed poster and an original costume study represent different object types and may require different comparable sales. Attribution research should check both Gesmar and Geismar, while also examining signatures, inscriptions, printing information, dimensions, condition, provenance, and any connection to a named performance or music-hall production. The collected identity sources document his fields of activity but do not establish typical editions, scarcity, price levels, or recent market trends. Those questions require examination of the object and comparison with appropriately documented public auction records.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/103660455/
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2959199
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500109669
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Gesmar
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Gesmar