# Igael Tumarkin artist context and auction value notes

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## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1933-10-23
- Death date: 2021-08-12
- Nationality: Israeli
- Common media: sculpture, painting, engraving and printmaking, drawing, scenography

## Portrait

![Igael Tumarkin](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9c/YigalTumarkin.jpg)
Etan J. Tal · CC BY 3.0
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:YigalTumarkin.jpg

## About Igael Tumarkin

Igael Tumarkin, also known as Yigal or Yigael Tumarkin, was a German-born Israeli artist whose practice extended across sculpture, painting, engraving, drawing, and scenography. Born in Dresden in 1933, he emigrated to Palestine in 1935 and became an important figure in Israeli art. His work appears in museum and research collections, including records maintained by The Museum of Modern Art and the National Gallery of Art. Tumarkin's bibliography includes sculptural and graphic projects, as well as works addressing monuments, memorials, earth, and landscape. Collectors may encounter his name on paintings, prints, works on paper, sculptures, mixed-media objects, and editions. Because the artist used several romanized forms of his name, matching the spelling, medium, date, and provenance of a specific work is important when comparing records.

## Common works and media

Auction and appraisal records for Igael Tumarkin may include paintings, sculptures, mixed-media works, drawings, engravings, prints, decorative works, and editions. His bibliographic record also identifies projects connected with monuments, memorial subjects, earth, and landscape. For a specific object, record the medium, support or construction materials, dimensions, date, signature, inscriptions, edition details, condition, and provenance before selecting comparable sales. Tumarkin's name may appear in several romanized forms, including Igaël, Yigal, and Yigael, so spelling variants should be included when searching catalogues and auction records.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisily's public records show substantial auction coverage for Igael Tumarkin, spanning paintings, works on paper and prints, sculpture, mixed media, decorative art, and editions. A meaningful appraisal depends on comparing genuinely similar works: medium, dimensions, date or career period, condition, restoration, signature and inscriptions, edition information, provenance, exhibition history, and catalogue references. Subject matter and rarity may also affect comparability. Public auction results provide useful evidence, but they do not establish a guaranteed value for a particular object. Private transactions, incomplete records, attribution revisions, and differences in whether reported totals include buyer premiums should be considered when interpreting results.

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## Sources

- Bibliothèque nationale de France: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12187077j
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/32041490/
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q777441
- The Museum of Modern Art: https://www.moma.org/artists/5968
- National Gallery of Art: https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.27442.html
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500041730
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/185758614
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/igael-tumarkin/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:YigalTumarkin.jpg