# Edward Wolfe artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T14:53:47.385Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: South African
- Common media: Painting

## About Edward Wolfe

Edward Wolfe (1897–1982) was a South African painter whose identity is recorded by Tate and multiple international authority systems. Records also use the fuller name Edward L. G. Wolfe. Authority data connects him with titles such as Aisha of the Kasba, The Doorway, Fruit and Flowers, Norfolk Landscape, Laugharne Castle, Marbella, and several named figure subjects. Together, these records indicate a practice encompassing portraits or figure studies, still life, and landscape, although the collected material does not securely assign him to a named movement. Collectors may encounter Wolfe's work catalogued under abbreviated or variant names, making authority matching particularly important. Public sources disagree over whether he died in 1981 or 1982; Tate and a Library of Congress-linked VIAF cluster support 1982, which is used here provisionally. His broader biography, training, chronology, and exhibition history require fuller institutional or estate documentation before being treated as settled fact.

## Common works and media

Authority-linked titles indicate paintings that include portraits or figure subjects, flower and fruit still lifes, architectural scenes, and landscapes. Examples recorded in the authority data include Fruit and Flowers, Norfolk Landscape, Laugharne Castle, The Doorway, Aisha of the Kasba, Hassan, and The Model. Medium and subject should be confirmed from the catalogue record for each individual work.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisal of a work attributed to Edward Wolfe should begin with identity matching, especially because authority systems split the painter across records that disagree on his death year and preserve variant naming. Comparable analysis should separate figure subjects, still lifes, landscapes, and other paintings, then examine closely related public auction records by work type and sale date. The supplied Appraisily signal indicates auction coverage exists, but this source pack contains no lot-level descriptions, realized prices, condition reports, provenance, dimensions, or major-auction-house commentary. Those elements should be verified from the underlying catalogues before drawing a valuation conclusion. No price trend, scarcity claim, or prediction is supported by the collected material.

## 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. This source pack establishes Wolfe's identity more strongly than it documents individual market results.

## Sources

- Tate: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/edward-wolfe-2160
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/95763242/
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/14116979/
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21288804
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500013455
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Wolfe_(artist)
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/edward-wolfe/