# Charles Lapicque artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T13:08:40.956Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1898-10-06
- Death date: 1988-07-15
- Nationality: French
- Movements: École de Paris / Nouvelle École de Paris
- Common media: Painting, Lithography, Engraving and prints, Watercolor, Drawing, Posters and graphic material

## Portrait

![Charles Lapicque](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7b/Charles_Lapicque_avec_casquette.png)
Anonymous Unknown author , no author disclosure · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charles_Lapicque_avec_casquette.png

## About Charles Lapicque

Charles Lapicque (1898–1988) was a French painter, lithographer, engraver, and engineer. Collected reference sources associate him with the École de Paris and, more specifically, the Nouvelle École de Paris, although that movement label is not confirmed by an institution-grade biography in the available source pack. Authority and library records document a varied body of work encompassing paintings, lithographs and other prints, watercolors, drawings, posters, and exhibition material. They also identify maritime imagery as a documented thematic strand. This breadth helps explain why collectors may encounter Lapicque's name across both unique works and graphic media rather than within a single object category. His identity is supported by stable records from Wikidata, Getty ULAN, VIAF, IdRef, the Bibliothèque nationale de France, and the National Gallery of Art. Individual objects still require careful classification because an original painting, drawing, print, poster, and reproduction represent materially different appraisal contexts.

## Common works and media

Works associated with Lapicque in the collected authority and library records include paintings, lithographs and other prints, watercolors, drawings, posters, and related graphic material. Maritime imagery is a documented thematic strand. In an appraisal setting, it is important to distinguish a unique painting or work on paper from a print impression, poster, or reproduction and to document any edition or inscription information visible on the object.

## Market and appraisal context

Lapicque's market record should be evaluated by matching an object with genuinely comparable works in the same medium and category. Paintings, works on paper, lithographs or other prints, and posters should not be treated as interchangeable. Relevant public auction records can provide sale dates and realized prices when available, but the collected source pack does not contain enough lot-level major-auction-house evidence to support a price trend or scarcity claim. An appraisal should therefore begin with the object's technique, dimensions, date, signature or inscriptions, edition information where applicable, condition, provenance, and attribution, then compare it with appropriately similar public sales rather than relying on the artist name alone.

## 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. Identity and market evidence are assessed separately so that authority data does not substitute for object-specific appraisal research.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1065281
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500000059
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/4943033/
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/02732818X
- Bibliothèque nationale de France: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12020417p
- National Gallery of Art: https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.4580.html
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Lapicque
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Lapicque
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/charles-lapicque/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charles_Lapicque_avec_casquette.png