# Georges Omerth artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/georges-omerth/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T13:46:17.932Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: French
- Common media: Sculpture

## Portrait

![Georges Omerth](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Georges_Olmerth_in_seinem_Atelier.JPG/1280px-Georges_Olmerth_in_seinem_Atelier.JPG)
Unattributed · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Georges_Olmerth_in_seinem_Atelier.JPG

## About Georges Omerth

Georges Omerth is identified by Wikidata, Getty ULAN, and VIAF as a French sculptor. Art UK places his documented period of activity between 1895 and 1925, situating the known work around the turn of the twentieth century and the early decades that followed. The collected institutional sources do not establish precise birth or death dates, formal training, or a named artistic movement, so those details should remain open rather than be inferred. Collectors encounter Omerth chiefly through sculpture and decorative-art auction listings, although matched market records also appear under broader categories such as mixed media, editions, paintings, prints, and works on paper. These category labels may reflect auction-house cataloguing practices rather than a settled classification of his complete oeuvre. Identification should therefore begin with the object's medium, construction, inscriptions, signature, date, and documented provenance.

## Common works and media

Omerth is institutionally identified as a sculptor, and sculpture is the most securely supported work type. Appraisily's matched auction data also includes sculpture and mixed media, decorative art and editions, fine art and paintings, and works on paper and prints. Because the available identity sources do not document a complete catalogue of media or subjects, these broad market categories should be treated as auction-record groupings rather than a definitive oeuvre list.

## Market and appraisal context

A Georges Omerth appraisal should be anchored to comparable public sales involving closely related objects, not to the artist-wide range alone. Medium, dimensions, date, subject, condition, restoration, surface quality, signature, inscriptions, and any edition information can affect comparability. Provenance, exhibition history, catalogue references, and the confidence of the attribution also deserve separate review. Appraisily's matched records cover several broad auction categories, but those labels do not prove that every listed work belongs to a documented body of work. Reported results may include differing fee treatments, while private sales, incomplete feeds, and later attribution changes may be absent. These limitations make object-level inspection and consistent like-for-like comparisons especially important.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with matched auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Private sales, incomplete feeds, inconsistent fee reporting, and attribution changes may not be fully represented.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23870619
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500195117
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/154677398/
- Art UK: https://artuk.org/discover/artists/omerth-georges-active-18951925
- RKD: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/214076
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/georges-omerth/