# Maria Lassnig artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T20:49:45.452Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Austrian
- Common media: Painting, Graphic art, Media art

## Portrait

![Maria Lassnig](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/1974_Avenue_B_Foto_ML_4.tif/lossy-page1-1280px-1974_Avenue_B_Foto_ML_4.tif.jpg)
Maria Lassnig · CC BY-SA 4.0
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1974_Avenue_B_Foto_ML_4.tif

## About Maria Lassnig

Maria Lassnig (1919–2014) was an Austrian artist whose documented practice encompassed painting, graphic art, and media art. She is especially known for painted self-portraits and for developing an artistic theory of body awareness. Rather than treating the figure only as an observed exterior, this context centers attention on bodily sensation and the internally perceived self. That concern provides an important framework for understanding the recurring human figure in her work without assigning her to a movement not established by the collected sources. Lassnig also held a significant teaching role: beginning in 1980, she served as professor of painting at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Her recognition included the Grand Austrian State Prize in 1988 and the Austrian Decoration for Science and Art in 2005. Collectors may encounter her name in connection with paintings, graphic works, self-portrait imagery, and media-based practice.

## Common works and media

Maria Lassnig’s documented practice includes paintings, graphic works, and media art. Painted self-portraits and works concerned with bodily awareness are especially relevant identity and subject signals. An appraisal should identify the object’s medium and work type before comparing it with public auction records.

## Market and appraisal context

A Maria Lassnig appraisal should first distinguish among paintings, graphic works, and media-related material, because records from one work type may not provide suitable comparisons for another. Her documented emphasis on self-portraiture and body awareness also gives subject matter a meaningful role when selecting comparable works. Where lot-level evidence is available, comparisons should examine relevant public auction records together with their sale dates and realized prices. The collected research pack establishes an auction-record presence but does not provide individual lot descriptions or prices, so it cannot support a prediction for a particular object. Historical results should be treated as context rather than as guaranteed future value.

## 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. Each object still requires work-specific examination before those records can inform an appraisal.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q538534
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500033165
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/263560765/
- RKD: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/48195
- The Museum of Modern Art: https://www.moma.org/artists/3402
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Lassnig
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Lassnig
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/maria-lassnig/