# Louis Sognot artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T20:39:31.220Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: French
- Movements: Cubism, Modern Movement, Functionalism, from whose more radical expression he later distanced his practice

## Portrait

![Louis Sognot](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Portrait_Louis_Sognot_par_PG.jpg/1280px-Portrait_Louis_Sognot_par_PG.jpg)
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Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portrait_Louis_Sognot_par_PG.jpg

## About Louis Sognot

Louis Sognot (1892–1970) was a French architect, decorative artist, and designer whose career crossed several currents in twentieth-century design. A French biographical source places his early activity alongside Cubism and the Modern Movement, while also describing his later distance from the strictest forms of Functionalism. His position emphasized comfort and quality as well as modern design. Sognot was involved with both the Union des artistes décorateurs, créateurs, ensembliers and the Union des artistes modernes, and later with the Institut d’Esthétique industrielle. That combination makes him relevant to collectors studying the overlap between modernist experimentation, decorative arts, and industrial design in France. In auction settings, matching records may appear under broad classifications including fine art, works on paper, sculpture or mixed media, decorative art, and editions. Because the available source pack offers only a limited institutional biography, object-level attribution should be tied to the individual work’s documentation rather than inferred from name matching alone.

## Common works and media

The available auction page groups matched Louis Sognot records into fine art and paintings, works on paper and prints, sculpture and mixed media, and decorative art and editions. These are broad auction classifications rather than a source-verified catalogue of his customary media. A prospective attribution should therefore be assessed from the individual object's materials, construction, marks or inscriptions, date, provenance, and supporting documentation.

## Market and appraisal context

Louis Sognot auction results should be compared at the object level rather than against a single headline figure. Relevant considerations include the work’s medium, dimensions, date, condition, restoration history, provenance, inscriptions, edition information, and strength of attribution. Exhibition history, catalogue references, subject matter, rarity, and recent public results for genuinely similar objects may also affect interpretation. Reported auction totals can differ in their treatment of buyer premiums and fees, while private transactions and incomplete feeds may not appear at all. The collected market page also presents inconsistent record totals, so its inventory count should be reconciled before use in a formal appraisal.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3263124
- RKD: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/328622
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Sognot
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/louis-sognot/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portrait_Louis_Sognot_par_PG.jpg