# Maud Sumner artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/maud-sumner/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T13:28:08.911Z
Quality: medium confidence, thin sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: South African
- Common media: Painting

## About Maud Sumner

Maud Frances Eyston Sumner (1902–1985) was a South African painter. The collected source pack connects her identity with established public authority systems, including Wikidata, Getty ULAN, VIAF, the Library of Congress, ISNI, RKD, and Art UK. Usable biographical detail is limited, however: the available text does not reliably establish a movement, school, named series, recurring subject, or detailed medium. Appraisily therefore presents Sumner first as an identified South African painter without assigning a narrower stylistic category. Collectors may encounter her name in connection with paintings and grouped auction records, but individual objects still require object-level research. Her complete birth and death dates, training, exhibition history, institutional holdings, and relationship to particular artistic circles should be confirmed through accessible museum or scholarly records before being used as firm cataloguing claims.

## Common works and media

Painting is the only work type supported by the collected identity sources. The available material does not substantiate particular painting media, recurring subjects, print editions, sculpture, ceramics, drawings, posters, or named series. More specific classifications should be added only when supported by object-level auction records or stronger institutional research.

## Market and appraisal context

The collected material identifies Sumner as a painter and links her identity with an Appraisily auction-price page, but it does not provide usable lot descriptions, sale dates, realized prices, condition reports, provenance, edition information, or attribution language. This profile can therefore support identity matching and the broad category of paintings, not a price conclusion. Any appraisal should consider the specific object and verified comparable sales when those records are available, while preserving the auction house’s stated attribution. No artist-specific market trend, premium, scarcity claim, or price forecast is supported by the present source pack.

## 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. This profile distinguishes verified identity facts from details that remain unsupported.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20982000
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maud_Sumner
- Wikipedia: https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maud_Sumner
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500005818
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/23824808/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n94026816
- ISNI: https://isni.org/isni/0000000114396374
- RKD: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/76058
- Art UK: https://artuk.org/discover/artists/sumner-maud-19021985
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/maud-sumner/