# Gaston Sebire artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/gaston-sebire/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T22:26:19.494Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1920-08-18
- Death date: 2001-12-13
- Nationality: French
- Common media: Painting, Lithography

## Portrait

![Gaston Sebire](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Gastonsebire.jpg/1280px-Gastonsebire.jpg)
Elsasebire · CC BY-SA 4.0
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gastonsebire.jpg

## About Gaston Sebire

Gaston Sebire, also catalogued as Gaston Sébire, was a French painter and lithographer born in Saint-Samson, Calvados, in 1920. He died in Rouen in 2001. Public reference sources associate his work principally with seascapes, landscapes, still lifes, and flower subjects. These recurring themes place observation of the natural and domestic world at the center of the identity currently documented for him. Collectors may encounter his name on paintings as well as lithographic works, so the medium and object type should be established before comparisons are made. The collected authority links connect Sebire with Getty ULAN, VIAF, the Bibliothèque nationale de France, RKD, ISNI, IdRef, GND, Art UK, and Wikidata, helping distinguish him from similarly named artists. The present source pack does not establish a specific movement or school, so such a label should not be assumed without stronger scholarly evidence.

## Common works and media

Works encountered under Gaston Sebire's name may include paintings and lithographs. Documented subjects include seascapes, landscapes, still lifes, and flowers. For appraisal purposes, the medium and subject should be recorded precisely so that a painting is not compared indiscriminately with a lithograph or with a work from a substantially different subject category.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisal research for a work attributed to Gaston Sebire should begin by identifying whether it is a painting or a lithograph and then comparing it with records for the same medium. Subject also matters when selecting comparables: landscapes and seascapes should be considered separately from still lifes and flower compositions. Appraisily's collected input indicates a substantial directory of records under this artist, but the present source pack does not expose individual auction-house descriptions, realized prices, dimensions, or sale dates. Those lot-level facts should therefore be reviewed before drawing conclusions. The available identity evidence supports careful cataloguing and comparison, but it does not support a price prediction or a claim that Sebire's market is rising or falling.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Source gaps and unresolved attributions should be reviewed before appraisal conclusions are made.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3099161
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500008398
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/95732289/
- Bibliothèque nationale de France: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb14932269w
- RKD: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/71711
- Art UK: https://artuk.org/discover/artists/sebire-gaston-19202001
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaston_S%C3%A9bire
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaston_S%C3%A9bire
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/gaston-sebire/