# Kurt Ostervig artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/kurt-ostervig/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T17:16:32.261Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Danish
- Common media: Furniture design

## About Kurt Ostervig

Kurt Ostervig (1912–1986), whose name also appears as Kurt Østervig, is identified by the collected public entity sources as a Danish furniture designer. The available source pack does not contain a museum biography, estate archive, or scholarly catalogue, so it does not support a detailed account of his training, workshop history, collaborators, design movements, or named models. The most defensible entity description is therefore centered on Danish furniture design and the distinction between the ASCII spelling “Ostervig” used by this page and the Danish spelling “Østervig” used by the public authority record. Collectors may encounter auction records under either form, making alias-aware matching important. Appraisily’s market index contains public auction records matched to the Ostervig name, but an individual object’s authorship, date, condition, and provenance should be checked before the record is accepted as a reliable comparable.

## Common works and media

The collected identity sources support a broad association with furniture design, but they do not document particular furniture types, materials, named designs, editions, or production periods. Auction and appraisal records should therefore describe each object individually and avoid assigning a specific model or manufacturer without supporting labels, documentation, provenance, or a reliable catalogue reference. Dimensions, condition, restoration, inscriptions, attribution wording, and sale date are especially useful when selecting comparable records.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisily’s collected artist page reports 95 matched auction records, including 62 priced records, with sale dates spanning 2008–2026 and an observed price range of $110 to $16,900. These figures describe the available dataset rather than a predicted value for another object. Useful comparisons should align as closely as possible on object type, dimensions, date, condition, restoration, attribution confidence, provenance, and relevant catalogue information. Reporting conventions may also differ over whether buyer premiums or other fees are included. Because the source pack contains no major-auction-house biography or specialist market overview, conclusions about demand, rarity, or the relative importance of particular designs should remain provisional until stronger object-level evidence is available.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with matched auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those materials are available. Record matching and source coverage may be incomplete, so object-level appraisal evidence remains essential.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6447168
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_%C3%98stervig
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/kurt-ostervig/