# Paul Insect artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/paul-insect/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T14:59:31.268Z
Quality: medium confidence, thin sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: British
- Movements: Graffiti art

## About Paul Insect

Paul Insect is a British graffiti artist born in 1971. His public identity is established through Wikidata and VIAF, with VIAF connecting the name to authority records maintained by the Library of Congress, German National Library, and ISNI. These identifiers help distinguish the artist from unrelated people, artworks, and biological references that can appear in searches for the word “insect.” Collectors may encounter the Paul Insect name in graffiti-art and broader contemporary-art contexts, as well as in auction records indexed under the artist. The available institutional sources provide a dependable identity foundation but only limited information about his artistic development and body of work. This profile therefore avoids assigning particular media, subjects, collaborations, or series that are not independently documented by the collected high-quality sources.

## Common works and media

The available authority sources associate Paul Insect with graffiti art but do not provide a reliable catalog of his common media, subjects, editions, prints, paintings, sculptures, or named series. A work submitted for appraisal should therefore be classified from its physical medium, dimensions, inscriptions, edition markings, date, provenance, and supporting documentation before it is compared with auction records.

## Market and appraisal context

An appraisal should begin by confirming that the object and its attribution correspond to the Paul Insect represented by the linked authority records. Relevant public auction comparables can then be reviewed by sale date, realized price, medium, dimensions, edition information, subject, and other lot details when those fields are available. The collected source pack identifies an Appraisily auction-price page for the artist but does not include readable individual lots or a major auction-house source. It therefore cannot support conclusions about current price direction, record results, scarcity, or the relative performance of particular work types. Object-specific condition, provenance, edition status, date, and attribution still require separate evidence.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist-identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7151464
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/1509154198349820230003/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2018151738
- Deutsche Nationalbibliothek: https://d-nb.info/gnd/1191727416
- ISNI: https://isni.org/isni/0000000499802969
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Insect
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/paul-insect/