# Michael Knigin artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/michael-knigin/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T11:56:37.702Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: American
- Common media: Lithography, Printmaking

## About Michael Knigin

Michael Knigin is an American artist and printmaker born in 1942. Library authority records identify him more specifically as a lithographer, while Getty ULAN and the National Gallery of Art maintain public entity or collection records for him. These institutional identifiers help distinguish his work from similarly named artists and connect auction records to a consistent person entity. Collectors are most likely to encounter Knigin through prints and lithographic works, although the available source pack does not document particular movements, subjects, series, or a complete career chronology. Appraisily currently associates a substantial body of auction-price records with his public artist page, making careful identity matching especially important. Because the collected institutional sources are strongest on his name, birth year, nationality, and professional role, broader stylistic or biographical claims remain unresolved until supported by museum, archival, or catalogue documentation.

## Common works and media

Public authority records describe Knigin as a printmaker and lithographer, so lithographic prints are the best-supported common-work type for this page. The source pack does not establish recurring subjects, named series, paintings, sculptures, ceramics, posters, or edition practices. Objects in those categories should be assessed from their own documentation rather than inferred from this profile.

## Market and appraisal context

An appraisal should begin by confirming that the object is correctly attributed to Michael Knigin and identifying whether it is a lithograph or another type of print. The source pack establishes his association with printmaking and lithography, and Appraisily's artist page supplies an auction-record signal, but it does not provide edition details, condition reports, signatures, dimensions, dates, subjects, or individual realized prices. Those object-specific facts should be documented directly and compared with genuinely similar public auction lots when records are available. No price trend or forecast is supported by this research pack.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. This profile's biographical basis is limited to the public authority and institutional sources listed here.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107664276
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/239524432/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500483400
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/308269822/
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/233737677
- National Gallery of Art: https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.46592.html
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/michael-knigin/