# Robert Picault artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/robert-picault/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T17:46:26.094Z
Quality: medium confidence, thin sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1919-10-16
- Death date: 2000-10-30
- Nationality: French
- Common media: Ceramics, Photography, Film

## About Robert Picault

Robert Picault (1919–2000) was a French ceramist, designer, photographer, and filmmaker, born in Paris and later dying in Cannes. The available identity records are strongest on his dates, nationality, and range of practices: Wikidata identifies him as a French designer, while the French-language Wikipedia entry supplies his full life dates and broader occupational description. No museum or scholarly biography was successfully retrieved in this source pack, so a specific movement, workshop history, or artistic school should not be assigned here. Collectors are most likely to investigate Picault through ceramics and design, with photography and film forming part of his wider creative identity. Appraisily's input associates his name with 217 auction records, but the present evidence does not expose the lot descriptions needed to characterize recurring forms, motifs, or production periods. Authority links from MoMA and major library systems help distinguish this twentieth-century French maker from similarly named historical figures.

## Common works and media

Picault is documented as a ceramist and designer, making ceramic objects and ceramic design the best-supported starting points for identification and appraisal research. He also worked in photography and filmmaking, although the collected material does not show whether those works regularly reach auction. The source pack does not support claims about particular vessel forms, decorative motifs, marks, editions, series, or production dates, so those characteristics should be established from the object and comparable documented examples.

## Market and appraisal context

The available Appraisily input associates Robert Picault with 217 auction records, indicating sufficient public sale activity to investigate comparisons when detailed lots are available. This source pack, however, contains no individual descriptions, sale dates, dimensions, condition reports, provenance, estimates, or realized prices. It therefore supports only a cautious category-level view: ceramics and ceramic design are the clearest work types to investigate, based on Picault's documented activity as a ceramist and designer. An appraisal should use verified, like-for-like auction records rather than infer value from the artist name or record count alone. Photography and film belong to his documented practice, but the collected evidence does not establish that they form recurring auction categories. Market conclusions should remain provisional until object-specific and lot-level evidence is reviewed.

## 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. For Robert Picault, the present identity evidence is more complete than the collected lot-level market evidence.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q77353916
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Picault
- The Museum of Modern Art: https://www.moma.org/artists/69793
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/75148449834015692240/
- Deutsche Nationalbibliothek: https://d-nb.info/gnd/1127015281
- ISNI: https://isni.org/isni/0000000497855565
- Bibliothèque nationale de France: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb171333741
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/robert-picault/