# Ira Moskowitz artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-19T16:54:06.521Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: American
- Common media: Painting, Printmaking, Engraving, Lithography, Illustration

## About Ira Moskowitz

Ira Moskowitz (1912–2001) was an American artist documented by international authority files as a painter and printmaker. Bibliographic records also identify him as an engraver, lithographer, and illustrator, reflecting a practice that included both unique works and reproducible works on paper. The National Gallery of Art maintains an artist record for Moskowitz, while Getty ULAN, VIAF, Wikidata, IdRef, and the Bibliothèque nationale de France provide linked identity data useful for distinguishing him from other people with the same name. The collected sources do not securely assign Moskowitz to a named movement or establish a consistent subject specialty, so this profile avoids imposing either. Collectors may encounter his name in connection with paintings, prints, engravings, lithographs, illustrations, and other works on paper. Appraisily’s matched index also records public-auction activity, although identity matching and object-level attribution should be checked carefully for each work.

## Common works and media

Authority records identify Moskowitz chiefly with painting and printmaking, with engraver, lithographer, and illustrator roles also documented. In appraisal contexts, relevant work types may therefore include paintings, prints, engravings, lithographs, illustrations, and other works on paper. No source in the collected pack establishes a signature subject, named series, or artistic movement, so an object-specific description should take precedence over generalized labels.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisily’s public index groups Moskowitz results across fine art and paintings, works on paper and prints, sculpture and mixed media, and decorative art and editions. These labels are broad, and the current index reports a potentially unrelated matched name, so category and artist attribution require lot-level review. Useful comparisons align medium, dimensions, date, condition, restoration, signature or inscriptions, edition details, provenance, exhibition or catalogue references, and confidence in attribution. Recent sales of genuinely comparable works are more informative than an overall median. Reported prices may differ in fee treatment, while private sales and incomplete feeds may not appear. A formal valuation should therefore confirm authorship and condition before interpreting public records.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist-identity research with matched auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Each attribution and comparison should be checked against the individual object.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12130236
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500071094
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/73981818/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50007973
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/192386190
- Bibliothèque nationale de France: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12899447m
- National Gallery of Art: https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.5747.html
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/ira-moskowitz/