# Nicolas Sternberg artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T13:46:19.687Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Common media: Book illustration, Drawing

## About Nicolas Sternberg

Nicolas Sternberg was a twentieth-century illustrator and visual artist recorded in European library authority files. IdRef dates his birth to 1901 and identifies him as an illustrator associated with France. VIAF describes an artist of Hungarian origin who worked chiefly in Germany and France, while linked authority forms also use a 1901 birth year. A documented bibliographic example is the 1933 Flammarion edition of Paul Reboux's Madame de Pompadour, reine... et martyre, credited with drawings by Sternberg. IdRef also links a 2003 Paris auction catalogue for the Atelier Nicolas Sternberg, although that catalogue title gives the uncertain span “Budapest 1902–Paris 1960?”. Collectors may therefore encounter Sternberg through drawings, book illustration, and works dispersed from studio holdings. Because the available records disagree on his birth year and do not firmly establish a death date, identification should be checked against signatures, inscriptions, publication context, and provenance rather than name alone.

## Common works and media

The clearest institutionally documented work type is illustration: IdRef records Sternberg as an illustrator and cites a 1933 book containing his drawings. Works on paper, drawings, and publication-related material are therefore the best-supported categories to examine. Appraisily's auction index also assigns matched records to paintings, prints, mixed media, sculpture, decorative art, and editions, but the collected identity sources do not confirm that every category represents a characteristic part of Sternberg's output. Each object should be evaluated individually for signature, inscriptions, technique, publication history, provenance, and possible confusion with another artist.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisal of a work offered as Nicolas Sternberg should begin with medium, dimensions, date, condition, inscriptions, and attribution. Provenance or a connection to a documented publication or studio source may help distinguish his work from similarly named creators. Appraisily's matched auction data includes works on paper and prints alongside broader category labels, but the source itself describes category concentration as sparse or broad. Comparable sales are most useful when they concern the same work type and have similar size, condition, date, provenance, and attribution status. Public results may omit private transactions, and reported totals may not always treat buyer fees consistently, so they should inform rather than determine a final valuation.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q112436116
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/265696407/
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/286482339
- Bibliothèque nationale de France: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb135306581
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/nicolas-sternberg/