# Jehan Frison artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T19:19:01.004Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1882-01-27
- Death date: 1961-10-22
- Nationality: Belgian
- Common media: Painting, Etching and engraving, Drawing, Wood sculpture

## Portrait

![Jehan Frison](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Auguste_oleffe%2C_ritratto_del_pittore_jehan_frison%2C_1910%2C_01.jpg/1280px-Auguste_oleffe%2C_ritratto_del_pittore_jehan_frison%2C_1910%2C_01.jpg)
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Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Auguste_oleffe,_ritratto_del_pittore_jehan_frison,_1910,_01.jpg

## About Jehan Frison

Jehan Frison (1882–1961) was a Belgian painter and printmaker active during the first half of the twentieth century. International authority records identify him as a Belgian artist and consistently associate his name with painting and engraving. The collected French-language biography expands that practice to include etching, drawing, and wood sculpture. It also describes an early avant-garde phase connected with Brabant Fauvism, followed by a turn toward more intimate painting; that movement association remains provisional here because the source pack contains no museum or scholarly confirmation. Collectors may therefore encounter Frison’s name across more than one medium, including unique paintings and drawings as well as graphic works. Reliable identification should distinguish him from similarly named artists by using his established 1882–1961 life dates and authority identifiers. His varied practice makes medium, date, technique, and attribution especially important when researching an individual work.

## Common works and media

The documented practice includes paintings, drawings, etchings, other engraved works, and wood sculpture. Paintings and graphic works are the best-supported categories in the collected sources. The pack does not establish recurring subjects, named series, edition sizes, preferred supports, or signature formats, so those details should be recorded from the object and verified through appropriate catalogues or comparable examples.

## Market and appraisal context

An appraisal of a work attributed to Jehan Frison should begin by identifying its medium and object type: a painting, drawing, etching, other engraving, or wood sculpture may belong to a different market category. The reported stylistic transition from early avant-garde work to more intimate painting may make dating and visual context relevant, although that chronology still needs stronger institutional documentation. Authority records can help confirm identity, but they do not authenticate a particular object. This source pack does not provide usable lot-level results, realized prices, condition reports, dimensions, provenance, or major auction-house comparables. Any value conclusion should therefore be based on the specific work and matched against verified public sales rather than inferred from the artist’s biography alone.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. For Jehan Frison, identity evidence is stronger than the collected lot-level market evidence, so individual appraisal conclusions require additional object and sales research.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2332893
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/316748487/
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/111879264
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500140108
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jehan_Frison
- Wikipedia: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jehan_Frison
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/jehan-frison/