# Edouard Chimot artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/edouard-chimot/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T20:09:32.287Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1880-11-26
- Death date: 1959-06-07
- Nationality: French
- Common media: Painting, Engraving and prints, Book illustration, Soft-ground printmaking (vernis mou)

## About Edouard Chimot

Édouard Chimot (1880–1959) was a French painter, engraver, illustrator, art director, and editor whose best-documented context is the Parisian culture of finely produced illustrated books. The collected sources place the high point of his career in the 1920s, when his own graphic work and his editorial activity intersected. His importance therefore rests not only on works made under his name but also on his role in organizing illustrated-book production. Collectors may encounter Chimot through prints and other works on paper, book illustrations and illustrated volumes, as well as paintings. A museum-credited record in the source pack documents a signed, numbered soft-ground print, showing how technique, edition information, and inscriptions can become important object-level evidence. Multiple international authority records identify Chimot, helping distinguish him across catalogues. The available sources do not securely establish a formal movement label, so this profile describes his documented professional and publishing context without assigning one.

## Common works and media

Documented work types include paintings, engravings, prints, and book illustration. The strongest object-level example in the collected pack is a signed, numbered soft-ground print portraying a young woman. That single museum-credited record supports portrait imagery as a documented subject but does not establish that it dominates Chimot's output. Collectors may also encounter illustrated volumes or related material associated with Parisian art-book production of the 1920s.

## Market and appraisal context

Chimot's market should be considered by object type rather than as a single undifferentiated category. Prints can be examined for technique, edition numbering, signature, inscriptions, and marks. Book-related material should first be identified as an illustration, print, or illustrated volume, while paintings should be compared with other paintings of similar format. Appraisily's public artist page indicates that auction-price records are associated with Chimot, but the collected research pack does not expose the lot-level realized prices, sale dates, dimensions, condition reports, or provenance needed for a price conclusion. An appraisal should therefore use comparable public sales matched by medium and format and verify the individual object's characteristics instead of extrapolating a broad market trend.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3579777
- RKD: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/16682
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89douard_Chimot
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89douard_Chimot
- Wikipedia: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89douard_Chimot
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jonge_vrouw,_RP-P-1948-176.jpg
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/edouard-chimot/