# Gaston Bertrand artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/gaston-bertrand/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T15:42:59.349Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1910-09-02
- Death date: 1994-02-21
- Nationality: Belgian
- Common media: Painting, Drawing, Engraving

## About Gaston Bertrand

Gaston Bertrand (1910–1994) was a Belgian painter, draughtsman and engraver, born in Wonck and deceased in Uccle. The collected authority links identify a single artist across Wikidata, Getty ULAN and several national-library systems, helping distinguish him from unrelated people and places that share parts of his name. The supplied biography documents activity across painting, drawing and engraving, but it does not establish a particular movement, school, recurring subject or named series. That distinction matters for cataloguing: Bertrand's identity can be stated with reasonable confidence, while stylistic labels should remain object-specific unless stronger institutional or scholarly evidence is added. Collectors may encounter his name in connection with paintings, works on paper, prints and engravings. Appraisal should begin by identifying the object's work type and comparing it with appropriately similar public sales rather than relying on a broad artist-level assumption.

## Common works and media

The documented roles support three broad work types that may appear in auction and appraisal settings: paintings, drawings and engravings or other prints. The supplied sources do not identify favored subjects, named series, recurring techniques or edition sizes, so those details should be established from the individual object and its catalogue documentation rather than generalized across Bertrand's work.

## Market and appraisal context

The supplied Appraisily signal associates Gaston Bertrand with 288 auction records, but the collected pack does not include individual lot descriptions, sale dates, realized prices or auction-house commentary. Market interpretation should therefore remain comparative and object-specific. Paintings, drawings and engravings should be separated because the biography documents each practice and they are not interchangeable auction categories. Public records should be selected for a genuinely comparable work type and available sale context. The record count indicates that auction data exists; it does not establish a typical price, trend, scarcity level or authentication conclusion. A defensible appraisal requires review of the underlying comparable lots before a value range is proposed.

## 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 profile separates established identity facts from market details that still require lot-level verification.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1495551
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500004939
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/69992003/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr93018061
- RKD: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/7674
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaston_Bertrand
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaston_Bertrand
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/gaston-bertrand/