# Joseph Pressmane artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T16:41:58.409Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: French
- Movements: School of Paris
- Common media: Painting, Engraving and printmaking

## Portrait

![Joseph Pressmane](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/66/Joseph_Zaritsky_at_kandinof_yard%2C.jpg)
Talmoryair · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Joseph_Zaritsky_at_kandinof_yard,.jpg

## About Joseph Pressmane

Joseph Pressmane (1904–1967) was a French painter and engraver associated in French- and Ukrainian-language references with the School of Paris. Those references also describe his Ukrainian origins, placing him within the international community of artists connected with Paris during the twentieth century. Public authority networks consistently identify him as a French painter: Wikidata, VIAF, Getty ULAN, ISNI, and the Bibliothèque nationale de France provide stable identifiers that help distinguish his record from similarly named artists. Collectors may encounter his name on paintings as well as engraved or printed works. The surviving source pack is stronger on identity than on detailed artistic development: it does not establish a reliable chronology of styles, recurring subjects, exhibitions, or named series. Accordingly, individual works should be described from direct visual and documentary evidence rather than assigned a subject or period from biography alone.

## Common works and media

Authority and biographical sources identify Pressmane primarily as a painter, while the French biographical reference also records his work as an engraver. Paintings and engraved or printed works are therefore the most defensible categories for identification and auction research. The collected sources do not provide enough evidence to name recurring subjects, preferred supports, print editions, specific series, or a chronological sequence of styles.

## Market and appraisal context

Public auction records make Joseph Pressmane relevant to appraisal research, but the collected source material does not expose enough lot-level evidence to support a price trend or a generalized value range. A useful comparison should separate paintings from engravings or other prints and should rely on works securely attributed to the same artist. Sale date, realized price, dimensions, condition, provenance, and the auction house’s cataloguing can then be considered when those details are available in the underlying records. Because the present source pack establishes Pressmane’s identity more securely than his market patterns, broad claims about rarity, favored subjects, or periods would be premature. Any appraisal should compare the specific object with documented, genuinely similar public sales.

## 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 Joseph Pressmane, authority-file identity evidence is stronger than the currently accessible lot-level market detail.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3185516
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/96326393/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500088784
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Pressmane
- Wikipedia: https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%96%D0%BE%D0%B7%D0%B5%D1%84_%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%81%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/joseph-pressmane/