# Jacques Chapiro artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/jacques-chapiro/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T16:02:20.605Z
Quality: medium confidence, thin sources

## Artist identity

- Death date: 1972-12-11
- Nationality: French
- Movements: School of Paris
- Common media: Painting

## About Jacques Chapiro

Jacques Chapiro was a French painter associated in the collected references with the School of Paris. Records place his birth in Dinaburg—also called Dvinsk or Dunebourg—when the city belonged to the Russian Empire, and identify Paris as the place of his death in 1972. His name also appears in transliterated forms including Ya'akov Chapiro and Jakow Szapiro. The supplied sources disagree about his birth year: Wikidata, English Wikipedia, and the Art UK profile identifier use 1887, while French Wikipedia gives 19 June 1897. That conflict should remain visible until an accessible institutional record resolves it. Collectors encounter Chapiro primarily through works catalogued as paintings and through the substantial group of auction entries indexed on Appraisily. The available source pack does not establish recurring subjects, named series, or a fuller chronology, so individual works should be described from their own cataloguing rather than assigned unsupported themes or periods.

## Common works and media

The public identity sources consistently describe Jacques Chapiro as a painter, making paintings the best-supported general work type for this profile. The collected evidence does not reliably establish preferred supports, recurring subjects, print editions, drawings, sculpture, ceramics, posters, or named series. Those classifications should be added only from individual auction catalogues or stronger scholarly sources.

## Market and appraisal context

The collected source pack records 274 Appraisily auction entries for Jacques Chapiro, indicating meaningful auction-database coverage. It does not, however, include readable lot descriptions, realized prices, sale dates, or major-auction-house commentary. This profile therefore cannot establish a supported price trend, a normal value range, or verified recurring auction categories. A defensible appraisal requires examination of the individual object and comparison with genuinely comparable public sale records. Identity matching also deserves care because the supplied references disagree about Chapiro's birth year. Any market conclusion should remain provisional until the relevant cataloguing and sale evidence can be reviewed.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with indexed auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. For Jacques Chapiro, the present source pack supports basic identity and painting context, while detailed market evidence remains incomplete.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3158500
- Art UK: https://artuk.org/discover/artists/chapiro-jacques-18871972
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500020786
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2018051082
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/95809139/
- Bibliothèque nationale de France: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb149714827
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Chapiro
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Chapiro
- Wikipedia: https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Chapiro
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/jacques-chapiro/