# Léopold Plomteux artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/leopold-plomteux/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T22:09:21.683Z
Quality: medium confidence, thin sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1920-01-22
- Death date: 2008-06-22
- Nationality: Belgian
- Common media: Painting

## About Léopold Plomteux

Léopold Plomteux (1920-2008) was a Belgian painter associated with Flémalle, where the available biographical record places both his birth and death. Library and entity authorities consistently identify him as a Belgian painter and distinguish his record through identifiers maintained by Wikidata, VIAF, the German National Library, ISNI, IdRef, and RKD. The present source set does not establish a particular movement, school, subject specialty, or documented series, so those classifications should not be inferred from his nationality or dates alone. Collectors may encounter Plomteux through paintings listed under accented and unaccented forms of his name. When matching a work or auction record to the artist, the authority-supported lifespan of 1920-2008 provides a useful identity check. More detailed conclusions about his training, exhibitions, stylistic development, and place in Belgian art require stronger museum, archival, or scholarly documentation than is currently available.

## Common works and media

The available identity sources consistently describe Plomteux as a painter, making paintings the only work type presently supported for this page. The source pack does not provide sufficient evidence to name recurring subjects, specific painting media, drawings, prints, sculptures, editions, ceramics, posters, or established series. Those details should be taken from the individual work and corroborated through reliable catalog or institutional documentation.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisal of a work attributed to Léopold Plomteux should begin with a secure identity match and a complete reading of the individual object and its catalog history. Useful comparison normally depends on medium, dimensions, date, subject, condition, provenance, signatures or inscriptions, attribution wording, and the quality of available photographs. Public sale records can provide context when genuinely comparable lots are available, but the collected source pack does not include lot-level descriptions or realized-price evidence. It therefore does not support a price forecast, market trend, scarcity statement, or claim that one period or subject commands a premium. Any valuation should distinguish documented works by Plomteux from uncertain, workshop, school, or merely attributed examples.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with auction records and, when available, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots. For Léopold Plomteux, identity evidence is stronger than the currently collected art-historical and lot-level market evidence.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22236202
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/196368469/
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9opold_Plomteux
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/leopold-plomteux/