# Cheri Cherin artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/cheri-cherin/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T12:54:09.731Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1955-02-16
- Death date: 2025-10-19
- Nationality: Congolese
- Movements: Sapeur cultural movement (reported association)
- Common media: Painting, Figurative painting combining symbolic and detailed realist elements

## About Cheri Cherin

Chéri Chérin was the professional name of Congolese painter Joseph Kinkonda, born in Léopoldville in 1955. Authority records index him under several accented and unaccented forms of the name, making those variants important for entity matching. Accounts of his work describe a blend of highly legible figurative painting, symbolic or naïve elements, and passages of detailed realism. His pictures are especially associated with Kinshasa and use crowded scenes, recognizable social types, and satire to address urban life, public institutions, inequality, and changing aspirations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. A German-language biographical account also connects him with the cultural world of the Sapeurs. Collectors are therefore most likely to encounter Chérin through narrative paintings whose visual immediacy carries social commentary. The present source pack supports his identity and broad artistic context more strongly than a complete chronology or catalogue of works.

## Common works and media

Collectors are most likely to encounter paintings, particularly figurative narrative compositions concerned with Kinshasa, Congolese urban society, and social satire. Available descriptions associate his pictures with symbolic or naïve elements alongside detailed realist rendering. The collected sources do not provide a reliable basis for naming specific supports, dimensions, editions, print series, sculptures, or other recurring formats.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisily’s input set contains 115 auction-record entries under this artist’s public page, but the collected pack does not expose lot-level descriptions, realized prices, dimensions, dates, or auction-house attributions. Market analysis should therefore begin by matching records across Chéri Chérin, Cheri Cherin, and Joseph Kinkonda, then separating works by type and subject. The closeness of a work to documented Kinshasa-centered social satire may help organize comparables, but it does not establish authorship or value. An appraisal should rely on inspectable object evidence and genuinely comparable public sales. The current evidence supports a recurring auction presence, not a price trend, scarcity claim, or forecast.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist-identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Claims remain qualified when the collected public evidence is incomplete.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3676169
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/78904062/
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A9ri_Ch%C3%A9rin
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A9ri_Ch%C3%A9rin
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A9ri_Cherin
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/cheri-cherin/