# Gaston Balande artist context and auction value notes

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## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1880-05-31
- Death date: 1971-04-08
- Nationality: French
- Common media: oil painting, watercolor, gouache, drawing, printmaking

## About Gaston Balande

Gaston Balande (1880–1971) was a French painter, illustrator, and graphic artist born in Saujon, a small town in southwestern France. He trained and worked in Paris from around 1905 and remained professionally active there until his death in 1971, exhibiting regularly at the Salon des Artistes Français. Balande worked across oil, watercolor, gouache, drawing, and printmaking, with landscape and still life as his principal subjects. His long career bridges the late Belle Époque, the interwar years, and the postwar period, making his body of work stylistically varied. He is represented in the authority files of the Getty Union List of Artist Names, the RKD (Netherlands Institute for Art History), and VIAF. Collectors most often encounter his work through French and European auction houses, where his landscapes and still-life paintings appear with some regularity.

## Common works and media

Balande's auction record includes oil-on-canvas landscapes, often depicting rural French scenery, alongside still-life paintings of flowers and everyday objects. He also produced watercolors, gouaches, drawings, and graphic works. Prints and illustrations appear less frequently at auction but are part of his documented output. Works are typically signed and range from small cabinet-scale panels to larger canvases. Collectors may encounter both framed and unframed examples, and provenance documentation varies.

## Market and appraisal context

With over 200 auction records attributed to Gaston Balande, his work has a established but modest presence on the secondary market. Values depend primarily on medium (oil paintings tend to outperform works on paper and prints), subject, composition complexity, condition, and documented provenance. The absence of a published catalogue raisonné means attribution should be supported by expert opinion or documented exhibition history. Works from his interwar Paris period are among the most frequently traded. Collectors should verify signatures, compare compositions against known RKD and Salon records, and consider condition reports before purchase.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine structured artist-identity research from authority files and museum databases with auction records, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. For Gaston Balande, identity data is sourced from the Getty ULAN, RKD, VIAF, and Wikidata, while market context draws on the Invaluable auction-lot database and published auction-house results.

## Sources

- RKD — Netherlands Institute for Art History: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/3953
- VIAF (OCLC): https://viaf.org/viaf/19821396/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500046959
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3098907
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaston_Balande