# Henryk Glicenstein artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T17:31:00.125Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Polish, Italian
- Common media: Sculpture, Etching, Painting

## Portrait

![Henryk Glicenstein](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Glicenstein_in_1940.jpg/1280px-Glicenstein_in_1940.jpg)
Unknown author Unknown author · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Glicenstein_in_1940.jpg

## About Henryk Glicenstein

Henryk Glicenstein (1870–1942), also recorded as Enrico and Enoch Glicenstein, was a Polish-born sculptor whose career connected Poland, Italy, and the United States. Authority records identify Turek as his birthplace and New York as his place of death. He lived in Rome, became a naturalized Italian, and emigrated to the United States in 1928, settling in New York. Sculpture is his clearest institutional designation, while reference sources also describe activity as an etcher and painter. In 1911 he served as a professor of sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Collectors may therefore encounter his name under several forms and across sculpture, graphic work, and painting. The overlap of Polish, Italian, and American career contexts is important for entity matching because catalogues may favor Henryk, Enrico, or Enoch. This profile treats those names as one artist while leaving unsupported movement and subject labels unstated.

## Common works and media

Institutional authority records identify sculpture as Glicenstein’s principal field. Reference material also describes him as an etcher and painter, so collectors may encounter sculptures, graphic works, or paintings under his different recorded names. The collected evidence does not establish recurring subjects, named series, specific sculptural materials, or edition practices.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisal should begin by confirming that a work is associated with the same artist recorded as Henryk, Enrico, or Enoch Glicenstein. The available evidence establishes a varied practice but does not provide major auction-house analysis, edition details, or defensible price trends. Sculpture, etching, and painting should therefore be evaluated as distinct work types rather than as a single market category. Useful comparisons should match the medium and general type of object and should draw on documented public sales where available. Appraisily auction records can contribute auction-house attribution, sale date, realized price, and comparable-lot context, but identity research alone cannot establish the value of an individual object.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/130074519
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5379559
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500048113
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/15718117/
- National Gallery of Art: https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.4209.html
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrico_Glicenstein
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henryk_Glicenstein
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/henryk-glicenstein/