# Claude Garache artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T12:26:13.111Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1929-01-20
- Death date: 2023-08-29
- Nationality: French
- Common media: Painting, Sculpture, Illustration, Engraving, Lithography

## About Claude Garache

Claude Garache (1929–2023) was a French artist whose practice encompassed painting, sculpture, illustration, engraving, and lithography. His most consistently documented subject is the female nude. Across many works, he reduced the image to a concentrated, often single-color figure set against a monochrome ground; red, particularly a blood-red against white, is especially associated with this approach. This economy of palette places emphasis on contour, bodily presence, and the relationship between figure and open ground. Collectors may therefore encounter Garache through paintings, prints and other graphic work, sculpture, and illustrated projects. Public authority records gathered for this page connect the artist with identifiers maintained by Wikidata, Getty ULAN, VIAF, the Library of Congress, MoMA, and other institutions. The collected excerpts are substantially stronger on his media and recurring subject than on exhibitions, chronology, or named series, so those areas require further institutional documentation.

## Common works and media

Works associated with Garache may include paintings, sculptures, engravings, lithographs, and illustrated projects. The female nude is the best-documented recurring subject. Collectors may also encounter compositions built around a single concentrated color on a restrained ground, particularly red figures against white. The available sources do not identify named series or establish how frequently each medium appears at auction.

## Market and appraisal context

Garache's market should be approached by separating paintings, sculpture, engravings, and lithographs, since medium and object type determine which public sales are meaningfully comparable. Subject and palette also help with comparison: the female nude and a reduced red-on-white treatment are recurring documented characteristics, although neither establishes authorship. Appraisily's artist input identifies 173 auction records, offering a starting pool for comparisons by work type, sale date, realized price, and visual similarity. The present source pack does not establish a reliable price trend or document edition structures, condition effects, provenance histories, or catalogue raisonné status. Conclusions should therefore remain tied to the evidence available for the specific object and the closest verifiable public auction records.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with auction records and, when available, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots. The present profile distinguishes documented facts from areas where stronger institutional or lot-level evidence is still needed.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19755324
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Garache
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Garache
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500466398
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/93146721/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82122401
- The Museum of Modern Art: https://www.moma.org/artists/2073
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/claude-garache/