# Jean-Pierre Yvaral artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T21:54:35.035Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1934-01-25
- Death date: 2002-08-02
- Nationality: French
- Movements: Op Art, Kinetic art
- Common media: Painting, Computer-based art

## About Jean-Pierre Yvaral

Jean-Pierre Yvaral (1934–2002) was a French artist born Jean-Pierre Vasarely and professionally known as Yvaral. Public authority and reference records identify him as a painter, while reference biographies place his practice in Op Art and kinetic art. He worked in those fields from 1954 onward and, in 1960, co-founded the Groupe de Recherche d’Art Visuel (GRAV) alongside Julio Le Parc, François Morellet, Horacio Garcia Rossi, Francisco Sobrino, and Joël Stein. The affiliation is a useful identity clue when distinguishing his career from that of his father, Victor Vasarely, a pioneer of Op Art. Yvaral maintained his own professional name and artistic profile. Collectors may encounter his name through paintings and works described in optical, kinetic, or computer-art contexts. Exact medium, date, authorship, and object-specific documentation should be checked for every work, particularly when a listing uses only the name Yvaral.

## Common works and media

The supplied references document painting and also describe Yvaral as a kinetic and computer artist associated with Op Art. They do not provide a dependable breakdown of the formats, subjects, editions, or series most frequently encountered at auction. Objects should therefore be described from direct evidence rather than assigned to a presumed typical category; optical, kinetic, and computer-art associations provide context but do not authenticate an individual work.

## Market and appraisal context

The collected sources establish Yvaral’s identity and broad artistic context, but they do not provide auction-house lot descriptions, realized prices, condition reports, provenance, or edition data. This profile therefore makes no claim about price levels, trends, scarcity, or a dominant auction category. Appraisily’s input indicates 1,014 associated auction records, but the underlying lots were not included in the research pack. Any appraisal should match the object to the correct artist identity and use relevant public sales only after the work’s actual characteristics and documentation have been established. Attribution and entity matching remain separate from a valuation conclusion.

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q328460
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500013701
- The Museum of Modern Art: https://www.moma.org/artists/6527
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Pierre_Yvaral
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yvaral
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yvaral
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/jean-pierre-yvaral/