# Constant Permeke artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-19T20:39:00.392Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Belgian
- Movements: Flemish Expressionism, School of Latem
- Common media: Painting, Sculpture, Drawing, Works on paper and prints

## Portrait

![Constant Permeke](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d2/Portrait_of_Constant_Permeke_%281950%29.jpg)
Constant Permeke · see-source-page
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constant_Permeke

## About Constant Permeke

Constant Permeke (1886–1952) was a Belgian painter and sculptor and a central figure in Flemish Expressionism. He is also associated with the School of Latem, alongside artists including Gustave De Smet and Frits Van den Berghe. Available accounts connect this circle with selective influences from Fauvism, Cubism, and folk or non-academic traditions while emphasizing its distinct Flemish direction. Permeke's imagery is closely tied to the North Sea and Flanders. Fishermen, sailors, their families, farmers, and rural life recur across the sources, often rendered with earthy color and a forceful, solemn presence. Collectors may encounter paintings, drawings, works on paper, prints, and sculpture under his name. Because those formats differ substantially in scale, materials, production, and market behavior, identification should begin with the work type, date, dimensions, markings, and documented history rather than with the artist name alone.

## Common works and media

Common auction appearances include paintings, drawings and other works on paper, prints, sculpture, mixed-media objects, and some decorative-art or editioned material. Subject matter may include fishermen, sailors and their families, farmers, coastal life around the North Sea, and the landscape or people of Flanders. Paintings are associated with earthy colors, while works on paper and editions require separate attention to technique, paper, impression quality, signatures, inscriptions, and edition information. An auction category or artist-name match alone is not sufficient to establish authorship or comparability.

## Market and appraisal context

Constant Permeke's public auction record covers materially different categories, including paintings, works on paper, prints, sculpture, mixed media, and editioned material. A useful appraisal compares the object with lots sharing its medium, dimensions, date, subject, condition, and attribution status. Provenance, exhibition history, catalogue references, signatures, inscriptions, restoration, and edition information may also affect comparability. Reported realized prices do not always treat buyer premiums and fees consistently, so like-for-like price definitions matter. Public auction results should be considered alongside physical inspection and documentary research, especially when authorship, condition, or edition status remains uncertain.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q381911
- Tate: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/constant-permeke-1759
- Art UK: https://artuk.org/discover/artists/permeke-constant-18861952
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/02924840X
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500013033
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constant_Permeke
- Wikipedia: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constant_Permeke
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constant_Permeke
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/constant-permeke/