# Joseph Lacasse artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T19:02:29.932Z
Quality: medium confidence, thin sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1894-08-05
- Death date: 1975-10-26
- Nationality: Belgian, French
- Common media: Painting, Sculpture

## About Joseph Lacasse

Joseph Lacasse (1894–1975) was a Belgian painter born in Tournai. A French-language biographical summary also identifies him as a sculptor, states that he became a naturalized French citizen, and records his death in Paris. Available summaries associate Lacasse with abstract painting and describe a career extending across much of the twentieth century. The collected evidence does not, however, provide enough accessible museum or scholarly text to assign him confidently to a narrower movement, school, named period, or series. Collectors encounter his name through public auction records for attributed works, making precise entity matching important. Stable identifiers from Wikidata, Getty ULAN, VIAF, the Library of Congress, MoMA, and other authority systems help distinguish this artist from unrelated people who share the Lacasse surname. Detailed biographical claims on this page should remain conservative until stronger institutional sources can be retrieved.

## Common works and media

Painting is the clearest documented work type because multiple identity summaries describe Lacasse as a painter, including an abstract painter. The French-language biography additionally identifies sculpture. The collected evidence does not establish common subjects, materials, dimensions, print editions, named series, or the relative auction frequency of paintings and sculptures.

## Market and appraisal context

The supplied Appraisily artist input associates Joseph Lacasse with 190 auction records, indicating a body of public-sale material that may support comparable-lot research. The collected source pack does not expose the individual lot descriptions, sale dates, realized prices, or work characteristics needed for a defensible market summary. An appraisal should therefore begin by confirming that the object is correctly attributed to this Joseph Lacasse and then examine the closest documented auction records. No price direction, scarcity claim, or ranking of valuation factors is supported by the present evidence. Conclusions should be based on the specific object and verifiable comparable sales rather than on the artist name or aggregate record count alone.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist-identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available and sufficiently documented.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3185190
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500024036
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/42109533/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr97034561
- The Museum of Modern Art: https://www.moma.org/artists/3331
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Lacasse
- Wikipedia: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Lacasse
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Lacasse
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/joseph-lacasse/