# Rineke Dijkstra artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T16:39:38.834Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1959-06-02
- Nationality: Dutch
- Common media: Photography

## Portrait

![Rineke Dijkstra](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/58/DaphneChannaHorn-Rinekedijkstra-fotograaf.png)
Daphne Channa Horn · CC BY 3.0
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:DaphneChannaHorn-Rinekedijkstra-fotograaf.png

## About Rineke Dijkstra

Rineke Dijkstra (born 1959) is a Dutch photographer whose work belongs to the context of contemporary portrait photography. Based in Amsterdam, she became internationally known through the Beach Portraits made from 1992 to 1994. Museum records show a practice organized around individual sitters, precise locations, and dates: MoMA holdings include portraits made in Odessa, Amsterdam, The Hague, Harderwijk, and Leiden. This descriptive titling helps distinguish particular images and situates each subject at a specific moment. Dijkstra’s photographs are encountered in museum collections, exhibition publications, and the secondary market, where collectors may see individual portraits or works associated with a recognized series. Her public identity is well established across Wikidata, VIAF, Getty ULAN, IdRef, and MoMA. The available source pack supports her nationality, profession, birth year, and major Beach Portraits series, but it does not document a formal movement label; presenting her through portrait photography is therefore more precise than assigning an unsupported school.

## Common works and media

The best-supported work type in this source pack is photography centered on individual people. MoMA’s online holdings include works titled with a sitter’s name, location, and date, including portraits made in Odessa, Amsterdam, The Hague, Harderwijk, and Leiden. The separately documented Beach Portraits series identifies a 1992–1994 body of portrait photography. The pack does not establish paintings, sculpture, ceramics, posters, or specific editioned-print formats as common categories, so those should not be inferred here. For identification, begin with named portrait photographs and series-related images.

## Market and appraisal context

For appraisal, begin by matching the exact photograph to institutional cataloging. MoMA records often identify Dijkstra works by sitter, place, and date, while the Dutch-language biographical source identifies Beach Portraits as a 1992–1994 series. Those details can separate related images and help locate genuinely comparable records. The collected Appraisily page indicates that auction-price records are associated with this artist, but the pack contains no individual lots or realized prices. It therefore supports neither a price forecast nor a market-trend claim. Once sale-level evidence is available, the strongest comparison set would begin with photographs bearing the same title or sitter, location, date, or documented series relationship. Any final appraisal requires examination of the actual object and its documentation because the entity pack alone cannot establish a particular work’s identity or market relevance.

## 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. Missing sale-level evidence is not treated as a market conclusion.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q269828
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/89825558/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500116127
- The Museum of Modern Art: https://www.moma.org/artists/8139
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/063049155
- Wikipedia: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rineke_Dijkstra
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rineke_Dijkstra
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/rineke-dijkstra/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:DaphneChannaHorn-Rinekedijkstra-fotograaf.png