# Edouard Pignon artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/edouard-pignon/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T22:13:06.569Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1905-02-12
- Death date: 1993-05-14
- Nationality: French
- Common media: Painting, Lithography, Printmaking, Ceramics

## Portrait

![Edouard Pignon](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a9/Shoshana_at_exhibition_with_Picasso.jpg)
Fritz Schueller (photographer) Amos.schueller · CC BY-SA 3.0
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shoshana_at_exhibition_with_Picasso.jpg

## About Edouard Pignon

Édouard Pignon (1905–1993) was a French painter whose authority records also identify him as a lithographer, printmaker, and ceramicist. Wikidata, VIAF, and the Getty Union List of Artist Names connect the accented and unaccented forms of his name to the same artist. The supplied French reference places his birth in Bully-les-Mines and his death in La Couture-Boussey, although the exact dates and locations await independent confirmation from an accessible institutional biography. Collectors may encounter Pignon's name across several kinds of objects, particularly paintings, lithographs and other prints, as well as ceramics. That range is important when researching or appraising a work: technique and object type should be established from the work and its documentation rather than inferred from the artist's name alone. The supplied Appraisily input associates him with 778 auction records, indicating a meaningful body of potential comparison data once individual lots are reviewed.

## Common works and media

Authority records support Pignon's activity in painting, lithography, printmaking, and ceramics. Objects presented for appraisal may therefore include paintings, individual lithographs or other prints, and ceramic works. The collected material does not establish recurring subjects, named series, standard edition formats, or which category appears most often at auction. Those details should be taken from the object itself, its documentation, and matching public catalogues rather than assumed from the artist-level profile.

## Market and appraisal context

Pignon's authority records document several distinct practices, so an appraisal should first determine whether the object is a painting, lithograph or other print, or a ceramic work. Comparisons drawn from another medium may not provide an appropriate market context. Appraisily's supplied input associates the artist with 778 auction records, but the collected excerpts do not include individual cataloguing, sale dates, realized prices, or category totals. No reliable price trend, scarcity conclusion, or ranking among work types can therefore be stated from this source pack alone. A useful comparison set should rely on documented public lots that match the object's category and cataloguing context and should keep uncertain attribution separate from firmly identified works.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist-identity research with auction records and auction-house context. When records are available, sale dates, realized prices, cataloguing details, and comparable lots are evaluated at the object level rather than treated as proof of a general price trend.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q274424
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/19682774/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500022718
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89douard_Pignon
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89douard_Pignon
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/edouard-pignon/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shoshana_at_exhibition_with_Picasso.jpg