# Ferdinand Desnos artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/ferdinand-desnos/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T17:26:09.204Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1901-07-29
- Death date: 1958-11-16
- Nationality: French
- Movements: Naïve art
- Common media: Painting

## About Ferdinand Desnos

Ferdinand Desnos (1901–1958) was a French painter born in Pontlevoy and active in Paris. Authority data identifies him as a French painter, while French and German biographical summaries describe him as self-taught and place his work in a naïve-art context. The French record gives the dates 29 July 1901 and 16 November 1958; those precise dates currently rest on a secondary source, although the years are corroborated by Wikidata. Desnos was also identified as a cousin and friend of the surrealist poet Robert Desnos. Collectors encounter his name primarily in connection with paintings and auction listings, but the supplied sources do not document specific series, recurring subjects, or a catalogue raisonné. Identity matching should therefore use the linked authority records, especially Wikidata and Getty ULAN, while avoiding unsupported stylistic, subject, and market claims.

## Common works and media

The available records identify Desnos as a painter and describe him in naïve-art terms, making paintings the only securely supported common work type in this dataset. The source pack does not establish recurring subjects, named series, favored painting materials, drawings, prints, sculptures, ceramics, posters, or editioned works, so those categories should be added only after stronger catalogue or auction evidence is obtained.

## Market and appraisal context

The available sources establish Ferdinand Desnos's identity but provide little lot-level market documentation. Appraisily records auction-price coverage for the artist, yet the collected material contains no individual sale, medium statement, dimensions, attribution wording, condition, provenance, edition information, sale date, or realized price. Accordingly, no price trend or market ranking can be supported from this pack. A defensible appraisal should first match the object and its attribution to the authority-linked artist, then consider verifiable catalogue information and genuinely comparable public sales when available. The present evidence supports paintings as a broad auction category, but it does not support a value prediction.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist-identity research with auction records and, when available, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots. For Ferdinand Desnos, the present identity evidence is stronger than the collected lot-level market evidence, so unsupported market conclusions have been withheld.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20240985
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500075047
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Desnos
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Desnos
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/ferdinand-desnos/