# Jacques Lagrange artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/jacques-lagrange/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T12:05:43.179Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1917-07-28
- Death date: 1995-07-20
- Nationality: French
- Common media: Painting, Engraving, Printmaking, Watercolor, Lithography

## About Jacques Lagrange

Jacques Lagrange (1917–1995) was a French artist born in Paris and deceased in Châteauroux. Getty ULAN identifies him primarily as a painter and engraver, while also recording activity as a printmaker, watercolorist, lithographer, and designer. The collected French biographical source additionally identifies him as a screenwriter. These overlapping practices place Lagrange within twentieth-century French visual culture, although the available evidence does not justify assigning him to a specific artistic movement. Collectors may encounter his name on paintings, watercolors, engravings, lithographs, and other prints, making accurate identification of medium and technique important when comparing works. Appraisily’s supplied directory data associates 366 auction entries with this artist name, but that count is an inventory signal rather than proof that every record has been correctly attributed. Biographical dates and stable authority identifiers therefore provide useful checks for entity matching.

## Common works and media

Works plausibly encountered in auction and appraisal contexts include paintings and works on paper, particularly watercolors, engravings, lithographs, and other prints. Getty also identifies design activity, but the collected sources do not describe specific design objects. No recurring subject repertory, named series, edition history, or artistic movement is documented well enough in this source pack to characterize it confidently.

## Market and appraisal context

The available evidence supports auction comparison by work type rather than by a broad stylistic label. Getty records painting, engraving, printmaking, watercolor, and lithography among Lagrange’s practices, so comparable lots should first be matched by medium and technique. Appraisily’s supplied count indicates a substantial auction-record inventory, but this source pack provides no lot-level dimensions, dates, realized prices, provenance, edition statements, or condition reports. Those fields should be checked in the underlying records before reaching an appraisal conclusion. Prints should not be compared directly with unique paintings or watercolors, and each record should be verified against the identity of the French artist who lived from 1917 to 1995. The collected evidence does not support a price trend or forecast.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500042870
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2365337
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Lagrange_(peintre)
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/jacques-lagrange/