# Giannis Gaïtis artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/giannis-gaitis/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T13:42:15.432Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1923-03-04
- Death date: 1984-07-22
- Nationality: Greek
- Common media: Painting, Sculpture, Engraving and printmaking

## Portrait

![Giannis Gaïtis](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7f/%22Autoportrait%22_-_1_GA%C3%8FTIS.jpg)
Yannis GAÏTIS · CC BY-SA 4.0
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%22Autoportrait%22_-_1_GA%C3%8FTIS.jpg

## About Giannis Gaïtis

Giannis Gaïtis (1923–1984), also catalogued as Yannis Gaïtis and Γιάννης Γαΐτης, was a Greek painter, sculptor, and engraver. The collected records consistently identify the same twentieth-century artist, while the French-language biography gives Athens as both his birthplace and place of death and supplies the dates 4 March 1923 and 22 July 1984. These identifiers matter because transliteration, diacritics, and name order vary among catalogues. The available source pack does not establish a specific movement, school, signature style, or named series at institution-grade confidence, so this profile does not assign one. Collectors may encounter his name in connection with paintings, sculpture, and engraved or printed works, although every object should be classified according to its actual medium and documentation. Authority links from Wikidata, Getty ULAN, VIAF, IdRef, and national-library catalogues help distinguish the artist from similarly named people and support consistent matching across appraisal and auction data.

## Common works and media

Public records identify Gaïtis as a painter, sculptor, and engraver. Accordingly, objects catalogued under his name may include paintings, sculpture, and engraved or printed works. The source pack does not show how the 500 auction records divide among those formats and does not substantiate recurring subjects, named series, editions, or poster production. A catalogue description should therefore identify the actual medium and technique rather than infer them from the artist's name alone.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisily associates this artist page with 500 auction records, but the collected source pack does not provide a category breakdown or an auction-house market analysis. Treat that record count as a pool for case-by-case research, not as evidence of price direction. Start by resolving variant names to the same artist, then compare like object types: painting with painting, sculpture with sculpture, and engraved or printed work with similar work. The pack does not support claims about market momentum, scarcity, signature reliability, edition practices, or typical condition. Those questions require inspection of individual catalogue entries and supporting documentation before a valuation conclusion is formed.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3571822
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500112428
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/078525659
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yannis_Ga%C3%AFtis
- Wikipedia: https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%93%CE%B9%CE%AC%CE%BD%CE%BD%CE%B7%CF%82_%CE%93%CE%B1%CE%90%CF%84%CE%B7%CF%82
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/giannis-gaitis/