# Dimitrios Galanis artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/dimitrios-galanis/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T19:19:26.863Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1879-05-17
- Death date: 1966-03-20
- Nationality: Greek, French
- Movements: Early twentieth-century modern art
- Common media: Painting, Engraving

## Portrait

![Dimitrios Galanis](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d0/Dimitrios_Galanis_-_Kohlestift.JPG)
Georgios Roilos [ de ] [ el ] (1867 - 1928) · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dimitrios_Galanis_-_Kohlestift.JPG

## About Dimitrios Galanis

Dimitrios Galanis (1879–1966), also catalogued as Demetrios or Démétrios Galanis, was a Greek painter and engraver who became a French citizen. Authority records identify him across Greek, French, and transliterated name forms, although one contributor record aggregated by VIAF gives an inconsistent 1882 birth year. He belongs to the early twentieth-century modern-art context. A biographical summary places him in exhibitions with Matisse and Braque in 1920 and later with Juan Gris, Dufy, Chagall, and Picasso. His documented Seated Nude, completed in 1920, provides one clear subject and date reference. Collectors may encounter his name on paintings and engraved prints, often under French spellings that differ from this page title. Reliable matching therefore depends on dates, name variants, medium, and authority identifiers rather than spelling alone. The collected institutional profiles support entity matching, but the source pack provides limited detailed catalogue text.

## Common works and media

Works likely to appear under Galanis's name include paintings and engraved prints, reflecting his documented roles as painter and engraver. The source pack specifically identifies Seated Nude, completed in 1920, as a dated figurative work. Name forms can vary substantially across catalogues, so searches should include Demetrios, Démétrios, Démétrius Emmanuel, and the Greek form Δημήτριος Γαλάνης. The available evidence does not support a broader claim about recurring subjects, named series, edition sizes, or favored print processes.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisal should begin by distinguishing paintings from engravings and identifying the object's technique, subject, date, and dimensions. The collected Appraisily page indicates an auction-record footprint for Galanis, but this source pack contains no extracted lot-level examples from a major auction house. Comparables should therefore be matched carefully by work type and sale date after the object and attribution have been established. A dated nude painting should not be compared indiscriminately with an undated print. Condition, provenance, signature, and edition or impression details should be documented through object-specific examination rather than inferred from the artist record. Public realized prices provide historical evidence and do not guarantee a future sale result.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q330976
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/5203500/
- The Museum of Modern Art: https://www.moma.org/artists/2053
- British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG28222
- National Gallery of Art: https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.4156.html
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9m%C3%A9trios_Galanis
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimitrios_Galanis
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demetrios_Galanis
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/dimitrios-galanis/