# Irma Stern artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/irma-stern/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T21:54:35.028Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1894-10-02
- Death date: 1966-08-23
- Nationality: South African
- Common media: Painting, Sculpture

## Portrait

![Irma Stern](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7c/Photo_of_Irma_Stern.jpg)
Irma Stern · see-source-page
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irma_Stern

## About Irma Stern

Irma Analize Stern (1894–1966) was a South African artist known through public identity records as Irma Stern. The available biographical sources describe her as a painter and sculptor, while a German-language record characterizes her more broadly as German-South African. She was born in Schweizer-Reneke and died in Cape Town, and contemporary summaries report that she gained recognition both within South Africa and internationally during her lifetime. Stable authority identifiers from Wikidata, Getty ULAN, VIAF, and the Library of Congress help distinguish her from similarly named people and connect records across collections and databases. The collected source material does not securely establish a particular movement, recurring subject group, or named series, so those classifications should not be inferred here. Collectors are nevertheless likely to encounter Stern through paintings and, potentially, sculpture offered or documented in auction contexts. Each object still requires work-specific examination and attribution rather than reliance on the artist name alone.

## Common works and media

The work types supported by the collected sources are paintings and sculpture. The pack does not establish which of these appears most often at auction, nor does it document recurring subjects, named series, editions, prints, drawings, ceramics, or posters. A collector-facing record should therefore describe the actual object and its stated medium without assigning it to an unsupported body of work.

## Market and appraisal context

Irma Stern’s market context should be assessed from the specific object and from relevant public sales, not from the artist name by itself. This source pack supports painting and sculpture as documented areas of activity, but it does not contain enough auction-house detail to rank categories or identify reliable subject, period, provenance, or condition premiums. Appraisal should first confirm that the attribution refers to the documented South African artist and accurately identify the object’s medium. When suitable auction records are available, sale dates, realized prices, and genuinely comparable lots can provide market context. The present evidence does not support a price forecast, trend claim, or statement about scarcity.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Gaps in the collected evidence are retained rather than filled with unsupported classifications or market claims.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q281203
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500089669
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/50029855/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no91007891
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irma_Stern
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irma_Stern
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irma_Stern
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/irma-stern/