# Claude Viallat artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-19T14:01:03.669Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1936-05-18
- Nationality: French
- Movements: Supports/Surfaces, French contemporary art
- Common media: Painting, Works on paper and prints, Sculpture and mixed media, Decorative art and editions

## About Claude Viallat

Claude Viallat, born in 1936, is a French contemporary painter widely associated with Supports/Surfaces. The collected references place him among the prominent participants in conceptually oriented French painting from the 1960s onward. His identity is established across Wikidata, VIAF, Getty ULAN, IdRef, the Bibliothèque nationale de France, and MoMA, helping separate his records from incomplete or variant cataloguing. Collectors encounter Viallat's name across paintings, works on paper and prints, mixed-media or sculptural objects, decorative works, and editions. Appraisily's index also documents a substantial, long-running auction presence. Because these records cover several categories and price levels, identification should begin with the object's medium, dimensions, date, inscriptions, provenance, and supporting documentation rather than the artist name alone. The full birth date reported here comes from the French-language biographical source; multiple authority records independently confirm the 1936 birth year.

## Common works and media

Auction records place Viallat's work in several broad categories: fine art and paintings; works on paper and prints; sculpture and mixed media; and decorative art and editions. These classifications are useful for initial filtering, but the object's actual materials, construction, dimensions, inscriptions, edition status, and date should be documented before selecting comparable lots.

## Market and appraisal context

Claude Viallat's auction record covers paintings as well as works on paper, prints, mixed-media or sculptural objects, decorative works, and editions. A useful appraisal comparison should match the object as closely as possible by medium, dimensions, date, condition, and format. Signature or inscription details, edition information, provenance, exhibition history, catalogue references, and confidence in attribution can also affect the relevance of a comparable sale. Public results may differ in whether buyer's premiums or fees are included, while private transactions and incomplete feeds remain outside the visible record. Auction data should therefore support, but not replace, physical inspection, authentication research, and condition assessment.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2978246
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/3275803/
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/027183319
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500059148
- The Museum of Modern Art: https://www.moma.org/artists/6145
- Bibliothèque nationale de France: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb11928146s
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Viallat
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Viallat
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Viallat
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/claude-viallat/