# Georges Redon artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/georges-redon/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T18:53:19.480Z
Quality: medium confidence, thin sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1869-11-16
- Death date: 1943-01-22
- Nationality: French
- Common media: Painting, Illustration, Engraving, Lithography, Poster design, Caricature

## About Georges Redon

Georges Redon, also identified as Jules Georges Redon, was a French painter and graphic artist born in Paris in 1869 and active across the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Public authority and biographical records describe him as a painter, illustrator, engraver, lithographer, caricaturist, and poster artist. That range places his work at the intersection of fine art and the expanding illustrated culture of his period. Collectors may therefore encounter his name on paintings as well as printed or commercially oriented graphic material. His documented practices include illustration, engraving, lithography, poster design, and caricature, although the collected sources do not establish a specific movement or school strongly enough to assign one here. Redon died in Paris in 1943. Because his output spans several forms, accurate identification should consider the object’s medium, intended use, signature or inscription, and relationship to his documented graphic and painting practices.

## Common works and media

Collectors may encounter paintings, illustrations, engravings, lithographs, posters, and caricatures associated with Georges Redon. Graphic objects should be examined for printing technique, inscriptions, publication details, edition evidence, and condition. These distinctions help separate an original work, a period impression, and a later reproduction, and they determine which auction comparisons are appropriate.

## Market and appraisal context

Works associated with Georges Redon may enter the market under several categories, including paintings, prints, posters, illustrations, and other graphic material. Appraisal should begin by identifying the exact work type and determining whether it is an original, a printed impression, or another form of reproduction. Medium, dimensions, condition, attribution, provenance, publication context, and edition information can affect which auction records are genuinely comparable. Sale date, realized price, lot description, and the quality of the attribution should also be reviewed when records are available. The present source pack confirms a public auction-record footprint but does not provide enough lot-level evidence to support price forecasts, market-trend claims, or conclusions about rarity.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with indexed auction records and, when available, auction-house descriptions, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots. Source gaps and unresolved attribution questions are retained rather than converted into unsupported conclusions.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19360829
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Redon
- Wikipedia: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Redon
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500077271
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/22410591/
- Deutsche Nationalbibliothek: https://d-nb.info/gnd/1294110349
- ISNI: https://isni.org/isni/0000000098317102
- RKD: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/65886
- Bibliothèque nationale de France: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb14957574x
- British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG43257