# Paul Blanca artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/paul-blanca/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T15:54:26.587Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1958-11-11
- Nationality: Dutch
- Common media: Photography

## Portrait

![Paul Blanca](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5b/Paul_blanca_2010.jpg)
Guus Helms · CC BY-SA 4.0
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Paul_blanca_2010.jpg

## About Paul Blanca

Paul Blanca (born Paul Vlaswinkel; 1958–2021) was a Dutch photographer known especially for confrontational portrait and self-portrait imagery. Authority records identify him as a photographer and distinguish him through stable identifiers maintained by Wikidata, VIAF, and Getty ULAN. Public biographical material describes a strand of self-portraiture in which Blanca subjected his own body to staged acts involving blades, wire, arrows, nails, and stitching. One widely noted photograph shows a crying Mickey Mouse figure cut into his back. These works place physical vulnerability, performance, and the photographed body at the center of his practice, although the available source pack does not support assigning him to a formal art movement. Collectors are most likely to encounter Blanca through photographs offered under his name, particularly portraits and self-portraits. Because the evidence is weighted toward authority records and Wikipedia rather than a museum, estate, or catalogue raisonné, detailed chronology, series titles, and institutional context should be treated cautiously.

## Common works and media

Public sources identify Blanca as a photographer and particularly document his portraits and body-centered self-portraits. Auction or appraisal objects may therefore include photographic prints credited to him, but the source pack does not establish particular print processes, edition sizes, dimensions, publication formats, or named series. Those object-level details should be verified directly from the work and its documentation.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisal should begin by confirming that the object is a photographic work by Paul Blanca and matching the credited name to established authority identifiers. The image matters: a documented self-portrait or portrait connected to his known body-centered practice may require different comparables from an unidentified photograph. When available, compare the same image or closely related examples by sale date, format, and realized price; the collected Appraisily signal indicates auction coverage, but the source pack does not expose individual lot records. Edition information, print date, process, dimensions, signature or inscription, provenance, and condition should be documented before choosing comparables. This research does not support a price forecast, market-trend claim, or assertion that any subject or format is scarce.

## 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. For Paul Blanca, the present identity evidence is stronger than the collected lot-level market evidence.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7149408
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/285863923/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500383799
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Blanca
- Wikipedia: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Blanca
- Wikipedia: https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%A8%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%83%D8%A7
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n97843037
- RKD: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/8843
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/paul-blanca/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Paul_blanca_2010.jpg