# Roland Oudot artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-19T14:42:17.566Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: French
- Common media: Painting, Drawing, Engraving, Lithography, Book and print illustration

## About Roland Oudot

Roland Oudot (1897–1981) was a French painter, draftsman, engraver, lithographer, and illustrator whose career belongs to the twentieth-century French art world. Library authority records connect his name not only with painting and drawing but also with original lithographs, engravings, and illustrated publications. These multiple roles help explain why collectors may encounter his work in several forms: unique paintings and drawings, impression-based graphic works, and images made for books or other printed contexts. The National Gallery of Art and Art UK maintain institutional artist records for Oudot, while Getty ULAN, VIAF, and IdRef provide authority links that distinguish him from similarly named people and consolidate catalog records. The collected sources do not establish a specific movement or school strongly enough to state one here. For appraisal and identification, medium, date, signature or inscriptions, and edition information should therefore be assessed at the object level rather than inferred from the artist's name alone.

## Common works and media

The best-supported work types associated with Roland Oudot are paintings, drawings, engravings, lithographs, and book or print illustrations. Auction listings may also appear under broad categories such as editions, mixed media, sculpture, or decorative art, but those labels require object-level verification. For prints, record the technique, sheet and image dimensions, signature, inscriptions, edition number, paper, and condition. For paintings and drawings, document the support, dimensions, date, surface condition, restoration, and provenance.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisily's matched public-auction data indicates an established record across fine art and paintings, works on paper and prints, and broader categories that may include editions, mixed media, or decorative objects. Category labels are useful for discovery but can be broad, so valuation should begin with comparables matching the actual object type. Medium, dimensions, date, condition, restoration, signature and inscriptions, edition details, provenance, exhibition history, catalogue references, subject matter, and attribution confidence can affect how a lot compares with other Oudot results. Realized prices should be compared on a like-for-like basis, with attention to currencies, sale dates, reporting conventions, and whether buyer's premium is included. Public auction records support appraisal analysis but do not guarantee a future sale price.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3440199
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/71399823/
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/027697282
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500014018
- National Gallery of Art: https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.1763.html
- Art UK: https://artuk.org/discover/artists/oudot-roland-18971981
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/roland-oudot/
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_Oudot
- Wikipedia: https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_Oudot