# Dullah artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/dullah/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T18:47:49.627Z
Quality: medium confidence, thin sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Indonesian
- Movements: Realism
- Common media: Painting

## About Dullah

Dullah (1919–1996) was an Indonesian artist and painter associated with realism. The available Indonesian biographical source also identifies him as a palace painter and fine-arts curator during President Sukarno's leadership, placing part of his career within Indonesia's presidential cultural environment. His identity is linked across Wikidata and several international authority systems, including VIAF, the Library of Congress, ISNI, and RKDartists. These identifiers are especially useful because the artist is known by the single name Dullah and therefore requires careful entity matching. Collectors encounter his name through auction records and discussions of Indonesian painting, but the collected sources do not establish recurring subjects, detailed chronology, preferred materials, or named series. Those aspects should be documented from stronger museum, scholarly, catalogue, or object-level evidence rather than inferred from the artist's general association with realism.

## Common works and media

The collected sources support describing Dullah as a painter associated with realism. They do not document specific painting media, recurring subjects, named series, prints, editions, drawings, sculpture, ceramics, or posters. Objects offered under his name should therefore be described from direct examination and reliable cataloguing evidence rather than assigned a medium, subject, or period from the artist name alone.

## Market and appraisal context

The available evidence establishes Dullah's identity and broad context but does not expose enough lot-level information for a price conclusion. A defensible appraisal should first confirm that the object is correctly attributed to this Dullah, particularly because the artist is represented by a single-name identity. The work can then be compared with documented public sales using its observed medium, date, dimensions, subject, condition, inscriptions, provenance, and any attribution qualifications. This profile does not claim that any one category or period commands a premium, because the collected sources provide no supported category breakdown, realized-price history, edition information, or condition analysis.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist-identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. For Dullah, the collected pack supports identity and broad artistic context but not a lot-level market conclusion.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q43129771
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/28195938/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84152701
- ISNI: https://isni.org/isni/0000000403588321
- RKD: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/230655
- Wikipedia: https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dullah
- Wikipedia: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D1%83%D0%BB%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%85
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/dullah/