# Gérard de Palézieux artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/gerard-de-palezieux/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T16:31:08.912Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1919-07-02
- Death date: 2012-07-21
- Nationality: Swiss
- Common media: Painting, Engraving, Drawing

## About Gérard de Palézieux

Gérard de Palézieux (1919–2012) was a Swiss painter, engraver, and draughtsman, born in Lausanne and deceased in Sierre. International authority records identify him consistently across Wikidata, Getty ULAN, VIAF, the Library of Congress, and the National Gallery of Art. His documented professional roles indicate a practice spanning painting, engraved work, and drawing, the principal forms in which collectors may encounter his work. The available evidence is strongest for identity, nationality, life dates, and these broad areas of practice. It does not provide enough museum or catalogue documentation to assign Palézieux confidently to a particular movement, school, named series, or recurring subject category. This profile therefore keeps those classifications open rather than extending limited biographical evidence into unsupported stylistic claims. His presence in several international authority systems helps distinguish his work from similarly named artists and supports consistent cataloguing across collection and auction records.

## Common works and media

The collected identity sources support three broad types of work associated with Palézieux: paintings, engravings, and drawings. These categories may appear at auction as paintings, prints, or other works on paper. The source pack does not establish particular engraving techniques, edition practices, materials, subjects, named series, or favored formats, so those details should be verified from the object, catalogue entry, or collection record rather than inferred from the artist’s occupation alone.

## Market and appraisal context

An appraisal of a work attributed to Gérard de Palézieux should begin by identifying its category: painting, engraving or print, or drawing. Comparisons are most useful when they concern the same kind of object and rely on documented public sales with clear sale dates and realized prices. Creator identity should also be checked against established authority records. The collected source pack does not provide lot-level evidence about dimensions, technique, edition, condition, provenance, signatures, subjects, or price history, so no artist-specific premium or market trend is asserted here. Those characteristics should be established from the individual object and its documentation before selecting comparable lots or drawing a value conclusion.

## 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. Each object still requires individual examination and evidence-based comparison.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3124423
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/46902869/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500099127
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A9rard_de_Pal%C3%A9zieux
- Wikipedia: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A9rard_de_Pal%C3%A9zieux
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/gerard-de-palezieux/