# Henry Martin Gasser artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T11:52:10.418Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: American
- Common media: Painting, Works on paper and prints, Sculpture and mixed media, Decorative art and editions

## About Henry Martin Gasser

Henry Martin Gasser (1909–1981) was an American painter whose identity is consistently recorded across Wikidata, VIAF, Getty ULAN, Library of Congress, and IdRef authority systems. Those records also connect the fuller name Henry Martin Gasser with the shorter forms Henry Gasser and Henry M. Gasser, helping distinguish his works in catalogues and auction data. The available source pack does not provide a museum biography, documented movement affiliation, or a reliable account of his training, exhibitions, preferred subjects, or career periods, so those details should not be inferred. Collectors encounter Gasser primarily through paintings and other works attributed to him in public auction records. Because abbreviated names can appear in catalogues, identity matching should consider the artist's full name, life years, medium, signature or inscriptions, provenance, and the details supplied by the selling auction house.

## Common works and media

Appraisily's matched auction data places Henry Martin Gasser most clearly in fine art and paintings. Records may also be grouped under works on paper and prints, with some matches assigned to sculpture, mixed media, decorative art, or editions. The latter categories have weaker identity-specific support in the collected sources and should be checked against photographs, catalogue descriptions, signatures, materials, and attribution language before being treated as characteristic of the artist. No reliable subject taxonomy or documented series is established by this source pack.

## Market and appraisal context

Henry Martin Gasser has an established public-auction record, but individual results should be compared with genuinely similar works rather than treated as a universal price guide. Relevant appraisal factors include medium, dimensions, date, subject, condition, restoration, signature or inscriptions, provenance, exhibition or catalogue history, and attribution confidence. Edition information matters for any print or other multiple. Recent public sales can provide useful comparables when their work type, size, condition, and reporting basis align. Private transactions and incomplete feeds may be absent, while auction totals may differ in their treatment of buyer's premiums or fees. Authentication and a direct physical condition assessment remain separate from statistical market comparison.

## Appraisily data basis

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

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21481756
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500053652
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/96037366/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85225269
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/068908032
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/henry-martin-gasser/