# Ferdinand Parpan artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/ferdinand-parpan/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T18:03:09.645Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1902-07-08
- Death date: 2004-04-06
- Nationality: French
- Common media: Sculpture

## About Ferdinand Parpan

Ferdinand Parpan (1902–2004) was a French sculptor born in Alfortville. Library and authority records consistently identify him as a sculptor and connect his work with animal and religious subjects. The published literature recorded by IdRef includes a monograph on Parpan, a later study titled Ferdinand Parpan: l’intuition des formes, and a museum catalog devoted to his animal sculptures. This evidence supports describing his practice through sculpture and subject matter, although the available source pack does not justify assigning him to a particular art movement. Collectors may encounter his name in connection with animal or devotional sculpture and in publications devoted to his sculptural work. Because the institutional evidence collected here is primarily authority and bibliographic data rather than a full museum biography or catalogue raisonné, individual objects should be matched carefully to documented works and object-specific evidence.

## Common works and media

Available authority records support sculpture as Parpan’s principal work type, with animal and religious subjects specifically documented. IdRef also lists a museum catalog devoted to his animal sculptures. The collected evidence does not establish recurring materials, edition practices, paintings, prints, drawings, ceramics, posters, or named series, so those categories should not be associated with Parpan without object-specific documentation.

## Market and appraisal context

The available evidence establishes a public auction-record presence for Ferdinand Parpan but does not include accessible major-auction-house lot descriptions, realized prices, or price-trend data. Appraisal should therefore begin by determining whether an object is consistent with his documented sculptural practice and whether its subject belongs to the animal or religious categories identified by authority records. Materials, dimensions, date, authorship evidence, condition, provenance, and any edition information must be established from the object and reliable documentation rather than assumed from the artist’s name. Comparable public sales are most useful when the works share the same object type, subject, material, scale, attribution level, and relevant sale conditions.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine researched artist identity data with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. For Ferdinand Parpan, the current identity evidence is stronger than the collected object-level market evidence.

## Sources

- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/030280737
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/112368996/
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q43135068
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Parpan
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/ferdinand-parpan/