# Paul Kron artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/paul-kron/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T17:20:41.196Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1869-03-18
- Death date: 1936-01-17
- Nationality: French
- Common media: Painting

## Portrait

![Paul Kron](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Paul_Kr%C3%B4n_%C3%A0_son_chevalet.jpg/1280px-Paul_Kr%C3%B4n_%C3%A0_son_chevalet.jpg)
Unknown author Unknown author · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Paul_Kr%C3%B4n_%C3%A0_son_chevalet.jpg

## About Paul Kron

Paul Kron is the unaccented form used on this page for Paul Krôn (1869-1936), a French painter born in Besançon and deceased in Paris. Wikidata, VIAF, and the French IdRef authority file independently connect the accented name with the same painter and lifespan, making Paul Krôn an important alias for catalog and auction-record matching. IdRef documents a Paris exhibition of his recent work at Galerie Blot in 1934 and a sale titled “Atelier Paul Krôn (1869-1936)” at Drouot-Richelieu in 2013. These records help explain why collectors may encounter his name in exhibition references, studio-sale material, and later auction documentation. The available sources identify him securely as a painter but do not establish a particular movement, school, recurring subject, or broader range of media. Those classifications should therefore remain open until supported by museum holdings, scholarly catalogues, or sufficiently detailed auction records.

## Common works and media

The collected authority sources identify Paul Krôn as a painter, so paintings are the only securely supported work type for this profile. The source pack does not establish preferred supports, techniques, subjects, print editions, sculptures, ceramics, or other categories. Individual works should be classified from their own catalog entries, physical evidence, and documented provenance rather than from unsupported assumptions about the artist's usual production.

## Market and appraisal context

For appraisal research, the first task is to match works catalogued as Paul Kron with authority records filed under Paul Krôn. A documented studio association, exhibition reference, sale-catalog entry, and a proposed date consistent with the painter's 1869-1936 lifespan can help organize comparison research, but none independently proves authorship. Relevant public auction lots should be compared by work type, dimensions, date, attribution wording, provenance, condition, and sale context whenever those details are available. The present source pack confirms a historical studio sale and the existence of Appraisily auction records, but it does not contain lot-level realized prices or enough descriptive data to support price forecasts or claims about market trends.

## 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 Kron, the current identity evidence is stronger than the collected lot-level market evidence.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3371586
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/300069322/
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/16852872X
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500458060
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Kr%C3%B4n
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/paul-kron/