# Jean-Claude Farhi artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/jean-claude-farhi/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T17:46:19.788Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1940-02-11
- Death date: 2012-09-07
- Nationality: French
- Common media: Sculpture, Painting

## Portrait

![Jean-Claude Farhi](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Jean-Claude_Farhi.jpg/1280px-Jean-Claude_Farhi.jpg)
Roger Farhi · CC BY-SA 4.0
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jean-Claude_Farhi.jpg

## About Jean-Claude Farhi

Jean-Claude Farhi (1940–2012) was a French sculptor and painter. The available authority and encyclopedia records identify him consistently by name and profession, while the French-language biographical record gives Paris as his birthplace and Monaco as his place of death. The collected source pack does not establish a specific movement or school, so this profile avoids assigning one. Farhi is most securely presented through his two documented fields: sculpture and painting. Collectors may encounter auction listings catalogued under his name in either category, and those categories should be kept distinct when researching comparable works. Multiple international authority identifiers—including Wikidata, Getty ULAN, VIAF, the Library of Congress, and the Bibliothèque nationale de France—help disambiguate him from similarly named people. Because several authority endpoints were unavailable during collection, detailed claims about training, exhibitions, techniques, subjects, and named series remain open for stronger institutional documentation.

## Common works and media

The grounded identity record supports two broad kinds of work: sculpture and painting. The source pack does not substantiate particular sculptural materials, painting techniques, recurring subjects, editions, named series, drawings, prints, ceramics, or posters. Objects offered under Farhi's name should therefore be described from their own physical and catalogue evidence rather than assigned undocumented characteristics.

## Market and appraisal context

The available market signal indicates that auction records are associated with Jean-Claude Farhi, but the collected pack does not include enough lot-level evidence to characterize prices, trends, scarcity, or typical dimensions. Appraisal research should distinguish sculptures from paintings and compare an object only with records that genuinely match its work type and catalogued attribution. When underlying records are available, sale date, realized price, auction-house description, and the suitability of each comparable should be reviewed directly. The number of records attached to an artist page should not, by itself, be treated as evidence of authenticity, market strength, or a likely value for a particular object.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16266675
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Claude_Farhi
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Claude_Farhi
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500330240
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/40185613/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96014022
- Bibliothèque nationale de France: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb14019840j
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/jean-claude-farhi/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jean-Claude_Farhi.jpg