# Charles Hubert Eyck artist context and auction value notes

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## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1897-03-24
- Death date: 1983-08-02
- Nationality: Dutch
- Movements: Limburg School
- Common media: oil painting, sculpture, lithography, watercolor, gouache, pastel, stained glass, ceramics, mural painting, printmaking

## About Charles Hubert Eyck

Charles Hubert Eyck (1897–1983) was a Dutch visual artist born in Meerssen, Limburg, who worked prolifically across painting, sculpture, printmaking, stained glass, ceramics, and monumental decoration. He is recognized as a pioneer of the Limburg School, alongside contemporaries Henri Jonas and Joep Nicolas, a regional movement centered in the southern Netherlands. Eyck trained and worked in a broad figurative tradition, producing easel paintings, lithographs, watercolors, pastels, and large-scale architectural commissions. His versatility extended to graphic design, illustration, and interior decoration. He married the Swedish painter Karin Meyer, and the couple collaborated within the Dutch art community. Eyck signed his work simply as "Eyck," and his output spans much of the twentieth century, reflecting evolving Dutch figurative and decorative art currents rather than a single avant-garde affiliation. His work appears regularly in European auction markets.

## Common works and media

Oil paintings on canvas and panel, watercolors, gouaches, and pastels on paper form the bulk of Eyck's auction offerings. Lithographic prints and pen drawings also appear regularly. Less frequently encountered are sculptures, ceramic pieces, and designs for stained glass or murals, which were typically site-specific commissions. Subjects often reflect Limburg's regional landscape and figurative traditions. Edition sizes for prints are not well documented in the collected sources.

## Market and appraisal context

Charles Eyck's work appears at auction primarily as paintings, works on paper (watercolors, gouaches, pastels, and drawings), lithographic prints, ceramics, and occasional sculptures. With over four hundred recorded lots, he has a moderate but steady auction presence. Condition, medium, subject matter, provenance, and whether a work can be securely dated are the main factors affecting valuation. Monumental and architectural commissions such as stained-glass windows and murals rarely come to market but are documented in RKD records. Collectors should verify signatures against the known "Eyck" signing convention and consult RKD provenance data, as no single published catalogue raisonné was identified in available sources.

## Appraisily data basis

This Appraisily artist page combines identity research from the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie (RKD), Wikidata, VIAF, the Getty Union List of Artist Names, and the Library of Congress authority file with Invaluable auction records, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available.

## Sources

- RKD — Netherlands Institute for Art History: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/26953
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1865834
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/25409192/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500029847
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79132392
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Eyck