# Fima artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/fima/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T19:43:13.673Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Israeli
- Common media: Painting

## About Fima

Fima was the professional name associated with Efraim Reuytenberg, an Israeli painter whose authority records also carry the variant Ephraim Roeytenberg. Public biographical material describes him as born in China and says that he spent much of his career in France, giving his identity a Chinese-born, Israeli, and French-working context. Library authority data consistently places his death in 2005, but disagrees on whether he was born in 1914 or 1916; the year should therefore be treated as unresolved. The collected sources identify painting as his principal field, and one authority label also calls him a designer, but they do not establish a specific movement, school, subject specialty, or named series. Collectors may encounter his works under the single name Fima as well as under transliterated forms of his personal name, so careful entity matching is important when reviewing auction listings and comparables.

## Common works and media

The available identity sources support paintings as the clearest work type associated with Fima. They do not provide enough evidence to name recurring subjects, specific paint media, print editions, drawings, sculpture, ceramics, posters, or documented series. Auction objects should therefore be described from their individual catalog records rather than assigned a broader category from the artist name alone.

## Market and appraisal context

Market review should begin by confirming that a lot catalogued simply as Fima refers to Efraim Reuytenberg rather than another person or use of the name. Variant spellings and the unresolved 1914/1916 birth year can complicate matching across auction and library records. The source pack confirms that Appraisily indexes public auction material for this artist, but it does not provide lot-level evidence about medium, dimensions, condition, provenance, signature, date, subject, or realized prices. Those details should be checked in the underlying catalog entry before choosing comparables. No price trend or prediction is supported here; comparable works should be selected only after identity and object characteristics are aligned.

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1296482
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/191775785/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500082401
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fima_(artist)
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efraim_Reuytenberg
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/fima/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no00042756