# Geneviève Asse artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/genevieve-asse/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T20:32:06.000Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1923-01-24
- Death date: 2021-08-11
- Nationality: French
- Movements: Color-field painting
- Common media: Painting, Drawing, Printmaking and graphic art

## Portrait

![Geneviève Asse](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/11/Genevi%C3%A8ve_Asse_%281995%29.png)
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Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Genevi%C3%A8ve_Asse_(1995).png

## About Geneviève Asse

Geneviève Asse (1923–2021) was a French painter and printmaker whose practice also encompassed drawing and graphic art. Born Geneviève Anne Marie Bodin in Vannes, she became associated with color-field painting and is particularly recognized for a distinctive color vocabulary often called “Asse Blue.” Her identity is documented across museum and authority resources, including records maintained by the Museum of Modern Art, Wikidata, IdRef, Getty ULAN, VIAF, and the Library of Congress. These identifiers help distinguish her work across collection catalogues, bibliographic records, and auction listings. Collectors may encounter Asse through several formats rather than a single medium: paintings, works on paper, drawings, prints, and other graphic works all belong to her documented practice. Auction records connected with her Appraisily page can provide a starting point for object-level comparison, provided that works are grouped by appropriate medium and type.

## Common works and media

Geneviève Asse is documented as a painter, draftsperson, printmaker, and graphic artist. Works encountered in auction and appraisal settings may therefore include paintings, drawings, works on paper, prints, and other graphic works. Her name is also associated with color-field painting and the distinctive blue vocabulary commonly called “Asse Blue.” The collected sources do not establish sculpture, ceramics, or posters as characteristic categories.

## Market and appraisal context

The most defensible first step in assessing a work attributed to Geneviève Asse is to identify its format: painting, drawing, print, or another graphic work. Comparisons should then remain within the same medium and work type. Appraisily’s public artist page provides an auction-record signal, but the collected source pack does not expose individual lot descriptions, realized prices, dimensions, condition, provenance, edition information, or attribution language. Those details require verification before any market conclusion. Public auction results can inform an appraisal when closely comparable lots are available, but this research does not support a price forecast, scarcity claim, or general market trend.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1978192
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/027295818
- The Museum of Modern Art: https://www.moma.org/artists/28
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genevi%C3%A8ve_Asse
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genevi%C3%A8ve_Asse
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genevi%C3%A8ve_Asse
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/genevieve-asse/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Genevi%C3%A8ve_Asse_(1995).png