# Claude Langevin artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/claude-langevin/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T18:59:46.546Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1942-05-02
- Death date: 2024-09-06
- Nationality: Canadian
- Common media: Painting

## About Claude Langevin

Claude Langevin, born Paul Viens in Montreal in 1942, was a Canadian painter associated with Quebec. Public authority records consistently identify him as a painter and provide a 1942 birth year; the collected French-language biography supplies the fuller life dates and reports his death in 2024. Collectors may encounter Langevin through paintings and through auction listings indexed under his professional name. The available source pack establishes his identity more securely than it documents his artistic development: it contains no substantive museum biography, catalogue raisonné, or scholarly account defining a movement, school, recurring series, or complete chronology. For that reason, this profile does not assign him to a specific art movement or infer subjects from auction images. Individual works should instead be considered through their physical characteristics, inscriptions, documented history, and relationship to verified examples carrying the same artist identity.

## Common works and media

Painting is the only medium directly established by the collected identity authorities. Appraisily's auction index additionally groups matched listings under works on paper and prints, sculpture and mixed media, and decorative art and editions, but the source itself describes category concentration as broad or sparse. Those secondary labels should therefore be verified against the individual lot before being presented as characteristic parts of Langevin's oeuvre. For appraisal purposes, record the support, dimensions, technique, signature and inscriptions, date, condition, provenance, and any edition notation visible on the specific object.

## Market and appraisal context

Claude Langevin's public auction record provides useful comparison points, but an appraisal should match like with like. Medium, dimensions, date, subject, condition, restoration, signature or inscriptions, provenance, exhibition history, and attribution confidence can all affect how relevant a prior result is. Edition information also matters when evaluating a print or another multiple. Appraisily's current index contains both priced and unpriced matched records across a long sale-date range, while its category labels remain broad. Realized prices may also be reported under different buyer-premium or fee conventions. Consequently, an index median or observed range is context rather than a prediction for a particular work, and authentication and condition review may materially change the conclusion.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q104751301
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/38579409/
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Langevin
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/claude-langevin/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n93003122
- ISNI: https://isni.org/isni/0000000074010894