# Reyn Dirksen artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/reyn-dirksen/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T17:35:49.283Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Dutch
- Common media: Posters and graphic design

## About Reyn Dirksen

Reyn Dirksen (1924–1999) was a Dutch artist whose surviving authority and catalogue records connect him particularly with poster and graphic work. VIAF associates Dirksen with Europa-Canada Linie, while Wikimedia Commons records credit him with a 1947 Marshall Plan poster and a KLM travel poster promoting Holland. These documented examples place his work within postwar European visual communication, including public information, international cooperation, transport, and tourism. Collectors may therefore encounter his name on vintage posters and works on paper, although auction databases also place matched records in broader fine-art and decorative categories. The available public sources do not establish a formal artistic movement, detailed training history, complete career chronology, or catalogue raisonné. Identification should consequently compare the Reyn Dirksen name, the 1924–1999 date span, Dutch association, subject, printing details, and provenance rather than relying on a signature or auction attribution alone.

## Common works and media

The clearest documented works in the collected sources are graphic posters, including a 1947 Marshall Plan design, a KLM travel advertisement for Holland, and the VIAF-listed Europa-Canada Linie. Works on paper, prints, and editions are therefore especially relevant identification contexts. Appraisily's matched auction data also uses broader categories such as paintings, sculpture, mixed media, and decorative art, but the limited source pack does not demonstrate that all of those categories are central to Dirksen's oeuvre. Medium, printing method, publisher, dimensions, date, inscriptions, and edition details should be recorded whenever available.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisily's current artist index reports 15 matched auction records, including 10 priced records, across sales dated from 1995 through 2024. The observed results range from $300 to $1,560, with a reported median near $600, but this is a small public sample rather than a price forecast. A useful comparison should match the work's medium, dimensions, date, subject, condition, edition or printing information, and attribution confidence. Signature and inscriptions, provenance, exhibition or catalogue references, restoration, and surface quality may also affect relevance and value. Reported prices should be compared on a consistent basis because auction feeds can differ in whether premiums or fees are included.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with matched auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Public results are evidence for comparison, not a substitute for authentication, condition review, or a complete appraisal.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q43129606
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/85147602639257641866/
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/195303512
- RKD: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/23276
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/reyn-dirksen/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Europe_Plan_Marshall._Poster_1947.JPG
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Holland_for_business_and_pleasure_fly_there_by_royal_dutch_Airlines_KLM_(anglais)_-_affiche_-_btv1b101069298.jpg