# Lucien Frank artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T16:18:21.508Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Belgian
- Movements: Impressionism
- Common media: Oil on canvas

## About Lucien Frank

Lucien Frank (1857–1920) was a Belgian painter whose public authority records distinguish him as an artist active around the turn of the twentieth century. Biographical references associate him with Impressionism and describe him more specifically as a landscape painter. The surviving examples represented in the collected source material show a varied but coherent range of subjects: wooded paths, coastal or marine views, flowers, animals, and figures moving through rural settings. One documented landscape depicts the Wolvenweg in Tervueren, while other examples include poppies, chickens in a yard, and a nocturnal homecoming scene. These records suggest why collectors most often encounter Frank through atmospheric easel paintings rather than through prints, sculpture, or decorative art. His identity and lifespan are supported by Wikidata and VIAF authority records, although the available source pack provides less institution-grade detail about his training, exhibitions, and artistic development.

## Common works and media

The collected examples are predominantly paintings, especially oils on canvas. Subjects include wooded landscapes, marine views, poppies and other floral imagery, chickens and rural yards, and figures in outdoor or nocturnal settings. No reliable evidence in the source pack establishes a significant market for Lucien Frank prints, editions, sculpture, ceramics, or posters, so such objects should not be treated as typical without further documentation.

## Market and appraisal context

Works attributed to Lucien Frank should be assessed individually rather than from the artist’s name alone. The collected examples include oils on canvas in landscape, marine, floral, and rural subjects, with some records noting dimensions and a signature. Those details help identify relevant comparisons, but they do not by themselves establish authenticity or value. Appraisal should consider the medium and support, size, subject, execution date when known, signature, condition, provenance, and strength of attribution. Comparable public sales are most useful when the works closely match in type, scale, subject, and documentation. The source pack includes one captioned 2022 auction result for a marine painting, but that isolated record is insufficient for a general price prediction or market trend.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Source depth varies, so object-specific attribution, condition, provenance, and comparable-sale evidence remain essential.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18744574
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/96142531/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500066834
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/186350872
- Wikipedia: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucien_Frank
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucien_Frank
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucien_Frank
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lucien_Frank_-_The_poppies.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lucien_Frank--shaded_path.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lucien_Frank--marine.webp