# Raymond Subès artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/raymond-subes/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T16:00:10.234Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1891-04-13
- Death date: 1970-01-31
- Nationality: French
- Movements: Art Deco
- Common media: Artistic ironwork, Decorative metalwork

## About Raymond Subès

Raymond Subès was a French decorative artist whose specialty was artistic ironwork. Public authority and reference records identify him as a twentieth-century French artist, while biographical sources associate his practice with Art Deco. His work is therefore best understood at the intersection of design, metal craftsmanship, and the decorative arts rather than solely through conventional painting categories. Collectors may encounter his name on decorative metalwork or in records classified more broadly as decorative art, sculpture, and mixed media. The source pack also records the fuller name Raymond Henri Subes. Published birth information requires caution: the French-language biography gives 13 April 1891, while Wikidata describes him as born in 1893. Both report his death in 1970, with the French biography specifying 31 January. This discrepancy should be resolved against a fully accessible institutional authority record before the birth date is treated as definitive. Auction attribution should also distinguish documented Subès work from objects carrying qualified or uncertain attributions.

## Common works and media

Decorative ironwork and related metalwork are the clearest work types supported by the available identity sources. Auction databases may place matched records under decorative art and editions, sculpture and mixed media, fine art and paintings, or works on paper and prints. These broad classifications should be verified against each object's catalogue description, photographs, dimensions, materials, inscriptions, and attribution. A database category or name match alone does not establish that a particular object is an authentic work by Raymond Subès.

## Market and appraisal context

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3421157
- Bibliothèque nationale de France: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb14499082m
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Subes
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Subes
- Wikipedia: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%8E%D0%B1%D0%B5%D1%81%2C_%D0%A0%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%BD
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/raymond-subes/
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/51920223/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr2004022925
- RKD: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/301082