# Karel van Belle artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T18:08:43.478Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1884-04-30
- Death date: 1959-10-05
- Nationality: Belgian
- Common media: Painting

## About Karel van Belle

Karel van Belle (1884–1959) was a Belgian painter also represented in authority records under the name Charles van Belle. He was born in Ghent on April 30, 1884, and died there on October 5, 1959. Wikidata, VIAF, Getty ULAN, and other library identifiers connect his principal and alternate names, although the available source pack documents his identity more fully than his artistic development. Collectors may encounter works catalogued as Karel van Belle, Karel Van Belle, Charles van Belle, or under inverted authority forms such as Belle, Karel van. Those variations make careful identity matching important when reviewing auction records. The collected sources do not securely establish a movement, school, recurring subject, or named series, so such classifications should not be inferred from a signature or seller description alone. Appraisily consequently presents his market record with conservative biographical framing while preserving unresolved authority-file discrepancies for further research.

## Common works and media

Public authority sources identify Karel van Belle as a painter, making paintings the best-supported type of work for identity and auction matching. The collected evidence does not establish particular subjects, techniques, series, print editions, drawings, sculptures, ceramics, or posters as characteristic parts of his output. Works in those categories should not be assigned to this artist without object-specific attribution evidence.

## Market and appraisal context

The available evidence supports treating paintings as the clearest category associated with Karel van Belle, while leaving movement, subject, series, and price-trend claims open. Market matching should account for the Karel and Charles name forms recorded by authority services and the conflicting death year attached to one VIAF record. Such identity differences can incorrectly separate or combine auction results. An appraisal should therefore use the catalogued details of the individual object and genuinely comparable public sales rather than a generalized artist average. Appraisily can combine sale dates, realized prices, auction-house descriptions, and comparable-lot context when records are available, but this research pack did not expose enough lot-level evidence to characterize market performance or preferred work types beyond painting.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21644777
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500160896
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/83482978/
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/139462508/
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_Van_Belle
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/karel-van-belle/