# Georges Dola artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T18:18:53.798Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1872-11-02
- Death date: 1950-07-09
- Nationality: French
- Movements: Art Nouveau-influenced commercial illustration
- Common media: painting, illustration, lithography, poster design, sheet-music cover design, graphic design

## About Georges Dola

Georges Dola was the professional name used by Edmond Vernier, a French painter and illustrator born in 1872 and deceased in 1950. Public authority records consistently identify Dola as an artist with those life years, while biographical summaries associate him with painting, lithography, graphic design, and commercial illustration. He is particularly connected with posters and decorative covers created for French sheet-music publishers. These designs often feature women, performers, or imagery shaped by the flowing decorative vocabulary associated with Art Nouveau and Jugendstil. Collectors may therefore encounter his name on objects that sit between fine art, printed ephemera, music publishing, and theatrical advertising. His output should not be treated as one uniform category: an original painting, a lithographic poster, and a printed music cover have different physical and commercial contexts. The alternate name Edmond Vernier is important when researching signatures, credits, catalog records, and historical documentation.

## Common works and media

Works associated with Georges Dola include paintings, illustrations, lithographs, posters, graphic designs, and decorative sheet-music covers. Public summaries particularly emphasize poster and music-publishing work, often involving women's portraits, performers, and Art Nouveau or Jugendstil-influenced imagery. Printed commercial designs should be distinguished from original paintings and drawings when cataloguing an object or selecting auction comparables.

## Market and appraisal context

Market assessment should begin by identifying the object precisely as a painting, poster, lithograph, graphic design, or illustrated sheet-music cover. The Georges Dola credit should also be checked against his legal name, Edmond Vernier. Subject matter and a design's connection with women's portraiture, entertainment, or Art Nouveau-influenced commercial imagery can help define an appropriate comparison set. The collected sources do not provide detailed auction-house cataloguing, realized prices, or evidence for a market trend, so they do not support price predictions. Condition, dimensions, printing process, edition, publisher or printer, inscriptions, and provenance should be recorded during appraisal, although their artist-specific market effects require relevant public comparable sales.

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4864439
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/22411674/
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/230407994
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Dola
- Wikipedia: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Dola
- Bibliothèque nationale de France: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb149634261
- ISNI: https://isni.org/isni/0000000003062232