# Irwin D. Hoffman artist context and auction value notes Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/irwin-d-hoffman/ Profile generated: 2026-08-24T19:40:57.547Z Quality: low confidence, thin sources ## Artist identity ## About Irwin D. Hoffman Irwin D. Hoffman (1901–1989) was an artist born in Boston who died in New York City. His identity is connected to records maintained by Wikidata, the Getty Vocabulary Program, VIAF, the Library of Congress, the British Museum, the National Gallery of Art, and Art UK. These authority and collection links are useful for distinguishing Hoffman from people with similar names and for aligning auction records with the correct artist. Collectors may encounter his name in public auction data tracked by Appraisily, but the currently collected sources do not provide enough readable detail to characterize a particular movement, dominant medium, recurring subject, or period of production. Those aspects should remain object-specific until supported by museum catalogue entries, scholarly references, or adequately described auction lots. ## Common works and media The available source pack does not establish which media, subjects, or formats are most commonly associated with Irwin D. Hoffman at auction. Paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures, or other categories should not be presented as characteristic without object-level or catalogue evidence. Each submitted work should instead be classified from its physical characteristics and checked against documented institutional and auction records. ## Market and appraisal context The collected evidence confirms that auction records are associated with Irwin D. Hoffman, but it does not provide readable lot-level descriptions or results. It therefore cannot support a claim about typical prices, market direction, scarcity, or the work types that trade most often. A defensible appraisal should first confirm that the object is correctly attributed to this Hoffman and then compare it with sufficiently documented public sales under the same identity. Auction house, sale date, realized price, lot description, and the degree of similarity to the object should be reviewed whenever those records are available. Conclusions should remain provisional when attribution or comparable-lot documentation is incomplete. ## Appraisily data basis Appraisily artist pages combine artist-identity research with auction records and, when available, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots. Missing or unreadable evidence is kept separate from confirmed facts. ## Sources - Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q61579426 - National Gallery of Art: https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.33567.html - British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG31748 - Art UK: https://artuk.org/discover/artists/hoffman-irwin-d-19011989 - Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500000367 - VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/55486702/ - Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82028070 - ISNI: https://isni.org/isni/0000000114920340 - Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/irwin-d-hoffman/