# Malik Sidibe artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/malik-sidibe/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T16:26:49.642Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Death date: 2016-04-14
- Nationality: Malian
- Common media: Black-and-white photography, Portrait photography

## Portrait

![Malik Sidibe](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/67/Photo_of_Malick_Sidib%C3%A9.jpg)
Malick Sidibé · see-source-page
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malick_Sidib%C3%A9

## About Malik Sidibe

Malick Sidibé, listed here under the input spelling Malik Sidibe, was a Malian photographer based in Bamako. Authority records generally identify him as living from 1936 to 2016, although one collected Wikidata excerpt gives 1935 as his birth year. He is especially associated with black-and-white photographs of Bamako’s popular culture during the 1960s and with carefully arranged portraits made across a long local career. The public biographical record describes his first exhibition outside Mali in 1994, followed by wider exposure in Europe and the United States. Collectors encounter Sidibé chiefly through photographs connected with this Bamako portrait and social-documentary practice. His canonical accented name, Malick Sidibé, and stable authority identifiers are important for matching museum, library, and auction records that may use unaccented or differently spelled forms.

## Common works and media

Works most clearly supported by the collected sources are black-and-white photographs, especially portraits and studies of popular culture in Bamako during the 1960s. The pack does not establish specific photographic processes, editions, print dates, paper types, or named series, so those details should not be inferred from the artist’s name alone. Auction and appraisal records should distinguish the depicted image from the physical print being examined.

## Market and appraisal context

The collected Appraisily signal indicates auction activity for Sidibé, but this source pack does not expose individual catalogue entries or enough evidence for a price trend. A defensible appraisal should identify the exact photograph and compare it with genuinely similar public lots, particularly works aligned with his documented black-and-white portraits and 1960s Bamako popular-culture images. Sale date, realized price, dimensions, print date, edition information, condition, inscriptions, and provenance should be verified from the object and the relevant auction catalogue before use. The evidence here supports category-level context, not a forecast, authentication conclusion, or assumption that every photograph attributed to Sidibé has the same market profile.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist-identity research with auction records and, when available, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots. Object-level evidence should be checked before drawing attribution or valuation conclusions.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q781717
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/96605628/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500125335
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malick_Sidib%C3%A9
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malick_Sidib%C3%A9
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/malik-sidibe/