# Lucien Coutaud artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/lucien-coutaud/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T13:29:18.134Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1904-12-13
- Death date: 1977-06-21
- Nationality: French
- Common media: Painting, Engraving and printmaking

## About Lucien Coutaud

Lucien Coutaud (1904–1977) was a French painter and engraver born in Meynes in the Gard department. He died in Paris in 1977. Public authority and institutional records identify him consistently, including entries maintained by Wikidata, Getty ULAN, VIAF, the Library of Congress, the Bibliothèque nationale de France, and The Museum of Modern Art. These identifiers help distinguish Coutaud from similarly named artists and connect references to his work across collections and catalogues. Collectors may encounter both paintings and graphic works associated with his name, reflecting the two occupations documented in the available biographical sources. The collected material does not establish a movement, recurring subject, or named series with sufficient authority, so those classifications should not be inferred. Object-level research should instead begin with the work's medium, inscriptions, documented history, and relationship to securely identified examples.

## Common works and media

Available identity sources describe Coutaud as both a painter and an engraver. Accordingly, works encountered in auction or appraisal contexts may include paintings, engravings, and related prints. The source pack does not support a more specific list of subjects, techniques, named periods, editions, or series.

## Market and appraisal context

Lucien Coutaud's auction market may include paintings as well as engravings and other graphic works. Appraisal should begin by identifying the work type and then comparing it with relevant public auction results for the same artist and medium. Broad artist-level result counts are useful for discovery but do not determine the value of an individual object. The collected source pack does not provide enough major-auction-house evidence to characterize price direction, scarcity, favored subjects, or edition behavior. Attribution, physical condition, provenance, dimensions, date, and edition information may require separate object-level verification before comparable lots can be treated as meaningfully similar.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with auction records and auction-house context. When available, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots are used to support object-level research rather than automatic price predictions.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3265442
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucien_Coutaud
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500026830
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/29548133/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n91041436
- The Museum of Modern Art: https://www.moma.org/artists/1276
- Bibliothèque nationale de France: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12027524x
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/lucien-coutaud/