# Michail Grobman artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-05-30T20:37:47.837Z
Quality: high confidence, strong sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Israeli, Russian
- Common media: Painting, Installations, Performance art, Literature and poetry

## About Michail Grobman

Michail Grobman (1939–2025) was a Russian-born Israeli painter and poet whose career spanned more than six decades. Active from the 1950s through the 2010s, Grobman produced a substantial body of work across painting, installations, performance art, and literature. He maintained an official catalog organizing his visual art and literary output by decade, reflecting a sustained and evolving practice. Grobman is represented in major library authority files including the Getty Union List of Artist Names, the Virtual International Authority File, and the Library of Congress name authority file, confirming his standing as a documented international artist. He was the father of Hollywood producer Lati Grobman and Israeli architect Yasha Jacob Grobman. With 196 recorded lots in the Appraisily database, Grobman's work appears with regularity in auction and appraisal contexts.

## Common works and media

Grobman's documented practice includes painting across multiple decades, installations and performance works (particularly from the 1970s onward), and literary publications. Collectors and appraisers may encounter oil and acrylic paintings, works on paper, mixed-media pieces, installation documentation, and published books of poetry or prose. Works are catalogued chronologically on the artist's official site from the 1950s through the 2010s.

## Market and appraisal context

Michail Grobman's work crosses both visual art and literary disciplines, and collectors may encounter paintings, works on paper, installation documentation, and published literary works. The diversity of his output means that medium, dimensions, date of execution, provenance, condition, and exhibition history are all relevant factors in appraisal. No specific realized auction prices were available in the collected sources, so appraisal should incorporate current comparable sales records and market database consultation. Works from his earlier periods (1950s–1970s) may carry different market context than later output.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist identity research from library authority files, museum records, and official artist sources with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. For Michail Grobman, identity data is sourced from the Getty ULAN, VIAF, Wikidata, the Library of Congress authority file, the artist's official website, and Wikipedia.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2896982
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michail_Grobman
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500155678
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/96659845/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85322561
- Michail Grobman: http://grobman.info