# Paul Guiragossian artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/paul-guiragossian/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T17:47:51.394Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Lebanese
- Common media: Painting, Oil on canvas

## Portrait

![Paul Guiragossian](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b2/Paul_Guiragossian_-photographed_by_his_son_Jean_Paul_Guiragossian_%28circa_1990%29.jpg)
Paul Guiragossian · see-source-page
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Guiragossian

## About Paul Guiragossian

Paul Guiragossian (1926–1993) was a painter associated with Lebanese art and Armenian cultural identity. Authority records identify him as a Lebanese painter, while Wikidata describes him as Armenian; the collected sources therefore support a layered identity rather than a single uncomplicated national label. Born in Jerusalem, he became known for expressive, figure-centered painting. Public summaries emphasize human figures, forceful color, and abstract brushwork, with recurring attention to identity and conflict. The artist’s official site foregrounds a substantial body of painting and documents oil-on-canvas compositions, exhibitions, publications, and a foundation dedicated to his legacy. Collectors most often encounter his name in connection with twentieth-century figurative painting from the Middle East and its diaspora contexts. Because the available source pack contains stronger identity evidence than detailed scholarly interpretation, descriptions should stay close to documented media and visual themes and avoid assigning a formal movement without further museum or catalogue evidence.

## Common works and media

The collected material supports paintings, including oil on canvas, as the clearest common work type. Figure-based compositions marked by bold color and abstracted brushwork are the most defensible subject and form description. This source pack does not substantiate editioned prints, sculpture, ceramics, posters, or other categories, so examples in those media should be researched individually rather than presented as typical.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisal should begin by establishing the work’s medium, support, subject, and relationship to Guiragossian’s documented practice. Oil-on-canvas paintings provide the clearest category supported by the collected material, while figure-centered subject matter, bold color, and abstract brushwork help define relevant comparisons. Public auction records can supply sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when sufficiently similar records are available, but they should not be treated as automatic evidence of authenticity or future value. The present source pack includes an Appraisily auction-record signal but no detailed major-auction-house cataloguing, so it does not establish a price trend, complete market hierarchy, or artist-specific authentication standard.

## 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.

## Sources

- Paul Guiragossian: http://www.paulguiragossian.com/
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/68499702/
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7151036
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Guiragossian
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Guiragossian
- Wikipedia: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%8F%D0%BD%2C_%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/paul-guiragossian/