# Maris Bishofs artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T18:04:12.419Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Latvian
- Common media: Illustration, Drawing and cartooning

## About Maris Bishofs

Maris Bishofs, also recorded as Māris Bišofs, is a Latvian artist, illustrator, cartoonist, and author born in 1939. International authority files connect several spellings of his name and identify him with illustration, humorous drawing, and published work. IdRef records both artist and author roles and links Bishofs to the 1988 Paris publication Rire avec Virginia Woolf. These records help explain why collectors may encounter his work not only as standalone drawings or cartoons but also through books and other printed contexts. The available source pack does not establish a named art movement, a detailed exhibition history, or a securely documented chronology of stylistic periods. Attribution therefore begins with careful name matching, especially where Latvian diacritics have been removed or names have been inverted in catalogues. Bishofs's documented relationship to illustration and humorous draftsmanship provides the clearest institutional basis for describing his practice.

## Common works and media

Public authority records most clearly associate Bishofs with illustration, humorous drawing, cartooning, and authored or illustrated books. Collectors may therefore encounter original works on paper, cartoons, standalone illustrations, or printed material carrying an artist or author credit. The collected evidence does not establish a reliable basis for presenting paintings, sculpture, ceramics, or editioned fine-art prints as common categories.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisal should begin by resolving identity across the documented forms Maris Bishofs and Māris Bišofs. The object should then be classified as an original drawing or cartoon, a standalone illustration, or material connected to a published book. IdRef records Bishofs in both artist and author roles and supplies bibliographic context for a 1988 publication. The collected sources do not include accessible auction-house results or comparable realized prices, so they do not support a price trend or forecast. When public auction records are available, comparisons should remain within the same work type and should consider the catalogue attribution, publication context, sale date, realized price, and the degree of similarity between lots.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24038402
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/73884750/
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/029512042
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500486103
- Wikipedia: https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C4%81ris_Bi%C5%A1ofs
- Bibliothèque nationale de France: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12112419t