# Louis Wolchonok artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T18:01:06.408Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: American
- Common media: Painting, Etching

## About Louis Wolchonok

Louis Wolchonok (1898–1973) was an American artist identified across international library, museum, and art-authority records. VIAF describes him more specifically as an American painter and etcher, providing the clearest source-backed account of his artistic roles in the available material. The National Gallery of Art also maintains an artist record for Wolchonok, while Wikidata, Getty ULAN, VIAF, and IdRef provide stable identifiers that help connect historical catalogues and auction listings to the same person. The collected sources do not establish a particular movement, school, recurring subject, or named series, so those classifications should not be inferred. Collectors are most securely guided toward paintings and etchings, although matched auction listings may appear under broader works-on-paper, print, mixed-media, or decorative-art categories. Those market labels organize sale records and should not be treated as a complete catalogue of Wolchonok's practice.

## Common works and media

The strongest authority evidence identifies Wolchonok as a painter and etcher, making paintings and etched works the best-supported types to examine. Appraisily's matched auction records also place attributed lots within broader categories such as works on paper and prints, fine art and paintings, mixed media, and decorative art or editions. Because the collected sources do not document recurring subjects, named series, edition sizes, or a complete catalogue of media, individual works should be assessed from their physical characteristics, inscriptions, documentation, and attribution rather than from category labels alone.

## Market and appraisal context

Public auction records for Louis Wolchonok should be compared at the individual-object level. Relevant considerations include medium, dimensions, date, condition, restoration, signature or inscriptions, edition information, provenance, exhibition history, catalogue references, and confidence in the attribution. Subject matter and recent results for genuinely similar works can also affect how a lot is interpreted. Appraisily's matched records cover several broad auction categories, but the available source pack does not establish which categories dominate his market. Public results are therefore evidence for comparison rather than a price prediction. Private transactions, incomplete auction feeds, reporting differences, and later attribution changes may not be reflected, while authentication or condition findings can materially alter an appraisal conclusion.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist-identity research with matched public auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, reported realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Coverage may exclude private sales, incomplete feeds, and later attribution changes.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q43140051
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500052080
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/284230826/
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/230495052
- National Gallery of Art: https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.34146.html
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/louis-wolchonok/