# Gustave Buchet artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-05-23T13:29:00.000Z
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## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1888-06-05
- Nationality: Swiss
- Common media: painting, sculpture, printmaking (woodcut), mosaic, graphic arts

## About Gustave Buchet

Gustave Louis Buchet (1888–1963) was a Swiss painter, sculptor, graphic artist, woodcutter, and mosaicist born in Etoy, Switzerland, who spent much of his career in the Lake Geneva region and died in Lausanne. Active across several media, Buchet produced paintings, prints, sculptural works, and mosaics over a career spanning the first half of the twentieth century. He is represented in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and is documented in the Bénézit Dictionnaire des Peintres, the Künstler Lexikon der Schweiz, and the RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History. Buchet's multidisciplinary output places him within the broader context of Swiss modern art, and collectors most frequently encounter his work through prints, paintings, and graphic works at auction.

## Common works and media

Buchet's auction and appraisal profile includes oil paintings, works on paper, woodcut prints, graphic works, sculptural pieces, and mosaics. He is documented as a painter, sculptor, graphic artist, woodcutter, and mosaicist. Prints and graphic works are likely the most frequently encountered category at auction, followed by paintings.

## Market and appraisal context

Gustave Buchet's work appears at auction primarily in Modern & Contemporary Art, Swiss Art, and Prints & Multiples sales. Because he worked across painting, sculpture, woodcut, mosaic, and graphic arts, the medium, condition, provenance, and date of execution all influence appraisal. Works with documented exhibition history or institutional provenance may carry additional weight. The absence of a published catalogue raisonné means attribution should be carefully confirmed. Collectors should review comparable public auction results and, where possible, consult the RKD or Bénézit entries that document his biography and output.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist identity research from authority files and institutional databases with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realised prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. For Gustave Buchet, identity data is sourced from the Getty ULAN, VIAF, Wikidata, and the RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History.

## Sources

- RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/13771
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3121130
- VIAF (OCLC): https://viaf.org/viaf/59357627/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500000762
- The Museum of Modern Art: https://www.moma.org/artists/842
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78068793