# Mordechai Avniel artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T17:07:55.632Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Israeli
- Common media: Painting, Sculpture

## About Mordechai Avniel

Mordechai Avniel (1900–1989), also recorded as Mordecai Avniel, was an Israeli painter, sculptor, and lawyer. His identity is represented across international authority systems, including Wikidata, VIAF, the Getty Union List of Artist Names, the Library of Congress, and the Bibliothèque nationale de France. These records help distinguish his work across English, Hebrew, and catalog-style name forms. The available source pack establishes his activity in painting and sculpture but does not provide enough scholarly detail to assign him confidently to a specific movement, school, period, or recurring group of subjects. Collectors may encounter his name in connection with works described as paintings or sculptures, although any appraisal should confirm that the object and its attribution correspond to the same Mordechai Avniel documented by the authority records. The variant spelling “Mordecai Avniel” is especially relevant when searching catalogues and historical sale records.

## Common works and media

The collected identity sources describe Avniel as both a painter and sculptor, making paintings and sculptures the supported work types for initial cataloguing and auction-record searches. The source pack does not establish specific materials, techniques, subjects, editions, print production, or named series. Objects outside the supported categories require additional evidence before they should be associated with the artist.

## Market and appraisal context

Public auction records can help establish context for works attributed to Mordechai Avniel, but the collected source pack does not expose enough lot-level evidence to support a price forecast or market-trend claim. An appraisal should first reconcile the artist’s identity across Mordechai and Mordecai name forms, then compare the object with records for the appropriate work type. When available, useful comparisons include clearly attributed works with documented sale dates, realized prices, dimensions, media, condition, provenance, and similar subject matter. The present research confirms painting and sculpture as relevant practices but does not establish a particular movement, series, edition history, or recurring subject as a valuation benchmark.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4055969
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/49554638/
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordechai_Avniel
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500465568
- The Museum of Modern Art: https://www.moma.org/artists/252
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/mordechai-avniel/