# Robert Rafailovic Fal'k artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T19:57:42.422Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Russian
- Movements: Russian avant-garde, Cubism (influence), Primitivism (influence)
- Common media: Painting

## Portrait

![Robert Rafailovic Fal'k](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6b/Robert_Falk_-_Self_Portrait_Against_a_Window_%281916%29.jpg)
Robert Falk · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Robert_Falk_-_Self_Portrait_Against_a_Window_(1916).jpg

## About Robert Rafailovic Fal'k

Robert Rafailovich Falk (1886–1958) was a Russian painter associated in collected reference material with the Russian and Soviet avant-garde. Authority records also identify him as Robert Falk and preserve several transliterations of his patronymic and surname, including Falʹk, Robert Rafailovič and the Russian form Фальк, Роберт Рафаилович. Discovery sources describe Cubism and Primitivism as influences on his work, while another notes the importance of Cézanne to his artistic development. Collectors most clearly encounter Falk through paintings and public auction records. Because his name appears in multiple Latin and Cyrillic forms, careful entity matching is important when comparing catalogue entries, inscriptions, publications, and sale records. The authority links assembled here help distinguish the documented artist from similarly named people, while the auction record should be evaluated at the level of the individual work rather than treated as evidence that an unsigned or uncertain object is authentic.

## Common works and media

Paintings are the clearest work type supported by the collected identity and auction sources. A documented 1916 self-portrait also confirms self-portraiture within Falk's output, but the present source pack is not broad enough to characterize the frequency of particular subjects or to establish drawings, prints, sculptures, ceramics, or editions as common auction categories. Each object should be classified from its own physical and documentary evidence.

## Market and appraisal context

For appraisal purposes, the most useful starting point is a secure match between the object and the documented Robert Falk identity, including reconciliation of Latin and Cyrillic name variants. The collected pack supports paintings as the principal auction category but does not provide detailed major auction-house catalogue essays for individual lots. Relevant public auction records should therefore be compared by work type and medium, sale date, realized price, and the closeness of the selected lots. An artist-page match or comparable result does not by itself prove authorship. Attribution, signatures, inscriptions, and supporting documentation should be assessed for the specific object before auction results are used to form a value conclusion.

## 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. This source pack is stronger for identity than for object-level market analysis.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q662323
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500023523
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/18016362/
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/126500509
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Falk
- Wikipedia: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Falk
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Rafailowitsch_Falk
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/robert-rafailovic-fal-k/