# Jules Alexandre Grün artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/jules-alexandre-grun/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T22:19:53.696Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: French
- Movements: Post-Impressionism
- Common media: Painting, Printmaking, Illustration, Poster art, Pastel, Drawing, Caricature

## Portrait

![Jules Alexandre Grün](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/12/Jules_Alexandre_Gr%C3%BCn.jpg)
Unknown author Unknown author · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jules_Alexandre_Gr%C3%BCn.jpg

## About Jules Alexandre Grün

Jules Alexandre Grün (1868–1934) was a French artist identified by Getty ULAN and VIAF as a painter, printmaker, illustrator, poster artist, caricaturist, pastelist, and draftsman. Wikidata and Wikipedia place him in a French Post-Impressionist context, although the available institutional records emphasize his range of practices more than a detailed movement history. His name appears in accented, unaccented, hyphenated, and inverted forms, including Jules-Alexandre Grün, Grün, Jules-Alexandre, and Jules Alexandre Grun; these variants are useful when matching catalogues and auction records. Collectors may therefore encounter Grün under several spellings and across multiple work types. Appraisily’s input associates the artist with 612 auction records, indicating a substantial record-matching surface, but the collected pack does not include individual lot descriptions. The death year is not fully settled across authorities: Getty and one VIAF cluster give 1934, while Wikidata and another VIAF cluster give 1938. This profile adopts 1934 provisionally.

## Common works and media

Works attributed to Grün may appear as paintings, prints, illustrated material, posters, pastels, drawings, or caricatures. Getty’s authority record supports this broad range of practices. Because those categories can differ materially in format and production method, cataloguing should identify the work type before selecting comparable auction records. The supplied evidence does not establish particular recurring subjects, named series, edition sizes, or a hierarchy of demand among these categories.

## Market and appraisal context

Market comparison for Grün should begin by identifying the object’s category: painting, print, poster, illustration, pastel, drawing, or caricature. Authority records document him across all of these practices, so works from different categories should not be compared indiscriminately. Appraisily’s input associates the artist with 612 auction records, but the collected source pack contains no fetched lot descriptions, dimensions, condition reports, provenance, sale dates, or realized prices. The record count therefore establishes auction-data availability rather than a price level or trend. A defensible appraisal should examine the individual object and select public comparable sales from the same work type when detailed records are available.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine authority-based artist identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. This profile limits its claims where the collected source pack lacks lot-level evidence.

## Sources

- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500021283
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/32131071/
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1698761
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/61633681/
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules-Alexandre_Gr%C3%BCn
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/jules-alexandre-grun/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jules_Alexandre_Gr%C3%BCn.jpg