# Philippe Cognée artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/philippe-cognee/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T18:43:12.885Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1957-03-22
- Nationality: French
- Common media: Painting, Photography, Printmaking, Drawing

## Portrait

![Philippe Cognée](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Philippe_Cogn%C3%A9e.jpg/1280px-Philippe_Cogn%C3%A9e.jpg)
Cognée · CC BY-SA 3.0
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Philippe_Cogn%C3%A9e.jpg

## About Philippe Cognée

Philippe Cognée, born on 22 March 1957 in Sautron, Loire-Atlantique, is a French artist identified by Wikidata as a painter and photographer and by the collected French-language profile as a painter, printmaker, and draughtsman. Together, these records place his practice across painting, photography, printmaking, and drawing, although the available source pack does not securely assign him to a named movement, school, or series. Collectors may therefore encounter Cognée through several work types rather than a single category, making accurate identity and medium matching important. Appraisily’s public artist page associates his name with 197 auction records, indicating a useful body of potential comparison data without establishing authenticity or value for any particular object. Stable authority profiles at Wikidata, Getty ULAN, VIAF, the Library of Congress, GND, ISNI, IdRef, RKD, and the BnF help distinguish Cognée from similarly named people across catalogues and collection databases.

## Common works and media

The collected identity sources document Cognée as a painter, photographer, printmaker, and draughtsman. Paintings, photographs, prints, drawings, and other works on paper are therefore relevant categories for cataloguing and auction-record matching. This source pack does not establish which category appears most often, nor does it support adding sculpture, ceramics, posters, named subjects, editions, or particular series to the artist profile.

## Market and appraisal context

An appraisal should begin by identifying whether the object is a painting, photograph, print, or drawing, since Cognée is documented across those practices and comparable lots should match the same work type. Appraisily’s artist page reports 197 associated auction records, but that count is only a starting point. When detailed records are available, comparison can consider the sale date, realized price, auction-house description, and similarity of medium and format. The collected source pack does not support claims about price trends, rare series, edition premiums, condition effects, provenance premiums, or authentication. Any valuation should therefore rely on the specific object and verified comparable sales rather than the artist’s name or aggregate record count alone.

## 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. Identity and market evidence are evaluated separately so that an artist-name match is not presented as authentication or a guaranteed valuation.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3379595
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Cogn%C3%A9e
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/philippe-cognee/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Philippe_Cogn%C3%A9e.jpg