# Paul Kiss artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/paul-kiss/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T16:29:45.704Z
Quality: medium confidence, thin sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1886-03-05
- Nationality: Hungarian
- Movements: Art Nouveau, Art Deco
- Common media: Artistic ironwork and decorative metalwork, Fireplace and interior grilles

## About Paul Kiss

Paul Kiss (1886–1962), also recorded as Kiss Pál and Paul Kis, was a Hungarian-born decorative metalworker who lived in France. Public identity records describe him as a locksmith and industrial artist, while French and Hungarian reference pages identify his specialty as artistic ironwork. He is associated with Art Nouveau and Art Deco, placing his work in the transition between craft-led turn-of-the-century decoration and interwar design. A documented example is The Pheasants, a two-wing Art Deco fireplace or interior grille dated 1925 and shown at the Paris decorative-arts exposition. Its source record places it in the Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris. Collectors are therefore most likely to encounter Kiss through decorative ironwork, furnishings, and architectural or interior elements rather than conventional painting and print categories. Because the available research is dominated by authority and encyclopedia-style records rather than museum catalogues or a catalogue raisonné, each object still requires careful maker identification and attribution.

## Common works and media

Available sources point to artistic ironwork and decorative metalwork, including architectural and interior elements. The clearest documented example is The Pheasants, a two-wing Art Deco fireplace grille from 1925. The source pack does not establish paintings, prints, ceramics, posters, or editioned sculpture as recurring categories, so those media should not be assigned to Paul Kiss without object-specific evidence.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisal of a work attributed to Paul Kiss should begin with its object type, metalworking character, maker-name evidence, date, and stylistic fit. The collected sources support Art Nouveau and Art Deco contexts and document a 1925 grille associated with the Paris decorative-arts exposition, making securely documented dates and exhibition histories useful points of comparison. The variants Paul Kiss, Kiss Pál, and Paul Kis should all be considered when reviewing marks and historical records. This source pack contains no accessible major-auction-house results or realized-price evidence, and the collected Appraisily page response was rate-limited. A valuation should therefore be based on verified comparable lots when available and should not infer a price trend from this identity profile alone.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q106959609
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Kiss
- Wikipedia: https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiss_P%C3%A1l_(iparm%C5%B1v%C3%A9sz)
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Art_Deco_fireplace_grill.jpg
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/paul-kiss/