# Martin Szekely artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/martin-szekely/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T16:15:26.064Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1956-04-22
- Nationality: French
- Common media: Furniture and functional-object design

## About Martin Szekely

Martin Szekely, born in Paris in 1956, is a French designer whose identity is established across museum and international library-authority records. Collectors most often encounter his name in connection with furniture and functional objects, including seating such as the Pi chaise longue of 1982–1983. Bibliographic records also document publications and exhibitions concerning his interiors from the 1980s and 1990s, the project titled Concrete, and works or groupings named Artefact Map, Manière Noire, and Far. His practice is represented not only through objects but also through exhibition catalogues, interviews, and authored or illustrated publications. MoMA maintains an institutional artist record for him, while Getty ULAN, VIAF, IdRef, and national-library identifiers help distinguish him from similarly named people. The collected evidence does not assign him to a specific artistic movement, so his page is best framed through French design, furniture, interiors, and documented project history.

## Common works and media

Auction and appraisal searches for Martin Szekely may surface design furniture and functional objects, particularly seating and chaise longues. Published documentation also points to interior projects from the 1980s and 1990s and named bodies or publications including Concrete, Artefact Map, Manière Noire, and Far. A title found in a publication should not automatically be treated as the title of an individual auction object; model-level documentation remains important.

## Market and appraisal context

Martin Szekely auction results should be compared at the level of the specific object or model. The work type, documented date, and connection to published projects or exhibitions can help establish whether two records are meaningfully comparable. Authority records support identity matching, while catalogues and specialist publications may clarify titles, chronology, and project context. Appraisily's artist page supplies an auction-record signal, but this source pack does not contain fetched major-auction-house lot details. A responsible appraisal should therefore examine the available sale dates, realized prices, catalogue descriptions, and comparable objects directly. The present research does not support a price forecast, a scarcity claim, or a general conclusion about market direction.

## 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. Authority and museum profiles are used to improve entity matching and distinguish the artist from similarly named people.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3295641
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/14952001/
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/076340910
- The Museum of Modern Art: https://www.moma.org/artists/28435
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500079026
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Szekely