# Reimond Kimpe artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/reimond-kimpe/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T18:36:26.319Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Dutch
- Common media: Painting

## About Reimond Kimpe

Reimond Kimpe (1885–1970) was a painter and writer whose public authority records place him across Belgian, Flemish, and Dutch cultural contexts. Wikidata describes him as Dutch and also identifies political activity; VIAF consolidates national-library and Getty headings that identify him as a Belgian painter and writer; the Dutch Wikipedia entry uses a Flemish-Dutch formulation. The safest presentation is therefore to emphasize his cross-border identity rather than force a single unqualified national label. Collectors are most likely to encounter Kimpe through paintings, the one work category directly supported by the supplied identity sources and Appraisily’s auction index. His authority records also preserve useful name variants, including Reimund Kimpe and the fuller Raymundus Josephus Petrus Kimpe. The source pack does not establish a specific movement, preferred painting medium, recurring subject, or named series, so those details should remain open until museum, catalogue, or scholarly evidence is added.

## Common works and media

The supplied authority sources consistently identify Kimpe as a painter, making paintings the primary supported category for auction and appraisal contexts. The source pack does not establish whether oils, watercolors, drawings, prints, or another specific medium commonly dominate his market, and it provides no reliable evidence for recurring subjects, editions, sculptures, ceramics, posters, or named series.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisal of a work attributed to Kimpe should begin with a careful identity match because authority records preserve several forms of his name and differ in their national description. The collected Appraisily index associates 199 auction entries with the artist, but the supplied public-page response did not expose individual lot details. Record count alone should therefore not be interpreted as evidence of price level, trend, or liquidity. A defensible comparison should use only public records that can be checked for the correct artist identity, relevant work category, sale date, and realized price. The work itself and its attribution should be examined before selecting comparable lots.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist-identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are publicly available and can be matched reliably to the artist.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1947913
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/8193672/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500056891
- Wikipedia: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reimond_Kimpe
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/reimond-kimpe/