# Marc Sterling artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/marc-sterling/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T15:54:04.918Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1895-07-15
- Death date: 1976-09-07
- Nationality: French
- Common media: Painting

## About Marc Sterling

Marc Sterling (born Mordkha Sterling, 1895–1976) was a French painter born in Minsk. The collected authority record identifies him as a French painter, while the French biographical entry supplies his full birth and death dates and records his death in Neuilly-sur-Seine. Russian- and Ukrainian-language entries also describe him as a painter connected with France, but differ in how they characterize his national or cultural origin. For that reason, the clearest page-level identification is French painter, with the origin question left qualified. The available source pack does not establish a documented movement, school, recurring subject, named series, or medium beyond painting, so those details should not be inferred. Collectors may encounter works catalogued under Marc Sterling or his birth name, Mordkha Sterling. Because the Appraisily input groups many auction-directory records under this name, signatures, inscriptions, dates, provenance, and catalogue attributions should be checked carefully to avoid merging unrelated makers or unsupported claims.

## Common works and media

Painting is the only work type supported by the collected identity sources. The pack does not establish particular painting media, subjects, series, drawings, prints, sculptures, ceramics, posters, or editions, so objects in those categories require separate documentary and catalogue evidence before being associated with Marc Sterling.

## Market and appraisal context

The source pack supports identifying Sterling primarily as a painter, but it does not provide accessible major-auction-house catalogues, realized prices, or object-level descriptions. It therefore cannot support a price trend, preferred subject, premium period, edition hierarchy, or artist-specific condition adjustment. For an appraisal, the first task is secure identity matching: compare the catalogued name and any signature or inscription with the Marc Sterling authority records, while treating Mordkha Sterling as a documented alternate name. Object-level conclusions about date, medium, condition, provenance, attribution, and comparable sales should be based on the work itself and on public auction records reviewed separately; none should be presumed from this identity profile.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine researched artist identity with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. This profile’s biographical basis is stronger than its object-level market evidence, which remains to be verified.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q676617
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500041692
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/95952086/
- Deutsche Nationalbibliothek: https://d-nb.info/gnd/1245016954
- RKD: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/75103
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Sterling
- Wikipedia: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B3%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BA
- Wikipedia: https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BA_%D0%A1%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BB%D1%96%D0%BD%D0%B3
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/marc-sterling/