# Rafal Olbinski artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/rafal-olbinski/
Profile generated: 2026-08-19T09:06:13.924Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Polish
- Movements: Polish School of Posters
- Common media: Painting, Illustration, Posters

## Portrait

![Rafal Olbinski](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Rafa%C5%82_Olbi%C5%84ski.JPG)
Archiwum Regionalnego Instytutu Kultury w Katowicach · CC BY-SA 4.0
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rafa%C5%82_Olbi%C5%84ski.JPG

## About Rafal Olbinski

Rafał Olbiński is a Polish painter, illustrator, poster artist, designer, typographer, and educator born in 1945. His public identity is represented in international authority records and in the collection and artist records of The Museum of Modern Art. Olbiński is commonly associated with the Polish School of Posters, a context that helps explain why his work appears across fine-art, illustration, and poster-related searches. Collectors may encounter paintings, illustrations, posters, works on paper, prints, editions, and mixed-media works attributed to him. For appraisal and entity matching, the spelling Rafał Olbiński and the anglicized form Rafal Olbinski should be treated as references to the same artist, subject to work-level verification.

## Common works and media

Auction and appraisal records may include paintings, illustrations, posters, works on paper, prints, decorative art, editions, sculpture, and mixed-media works. The artist’s documented professional roles include painter, illustrator, designer, and typographer, while auction categories in the available Appraisily data also include fine art, prints, sculpture, mixed media, decorative art, and editions. For any individual work, medium, support, dimensions, edition information, signature, condition, provenance, and attribution should be confirmed from the object and its documentation.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisals of Rafal Olbinski works should begin with comparisons that match the medium, dimensions, date or career period, condition, restoration history, signature and edition details, provenance, exhibition or catalogue references, and attribution confidence. Appraisily’s public index reports 112 matched records, including 83 priced records, across 2010-2026, with a broad observed range from $10 to $2,600,000. These figures describe available public records rather than a guaranteed value. Private transactions, incomplete auction feeds, authentication questions, condition issues, and differences between paintings, works on paper, prints, editions, and mixed media can materially change the result.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1185708
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/70645512/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500469284
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/092738613
- The Museum of Modern Art: https://www.moma.org/artists/4393
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafa%C5%82_Olbi%C5%84ski
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/rafal-olbinski/