# Rolland Harve Golden artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/rolland-harve-golden/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T19:25:57.177Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1931-11-08
- Nationality: American
- Movements: Realism, Abstract realism, Borderline-Surrealism (the artist's term for a style)
- Common media: Painting

## Portrait

![Rolland Harve Golden](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bb/Rgolden2011prpic.jpg)
Nolady · CC BY-SA 4.0
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rgolden2011prpic.jpg

## About Rolland Harve Golden

Rolland Harve Golden (1931–2019) was an American visual artist and painter born in New Orleans. Public identity records also use the shorter name Rolland Golden. Available biographical material associates his work mainly with realism and abstract realism. It also reports his own label, “Borderline-Surrealism,” for compositions based on situations that remain conceivable while feeling improbable. These labels are useful for entity matching, although the collected sources do not include a readable museum or scholarly biography independently defining his artistic development. Collectors may encounter Golden through auction listings and price records indexed by Appraisily, as well as through authority profiles maintained by Getty ULAN, VIAF, and the Library of Congress. Because the evidence is stronger on identity than on chronology, exhibitions, individual media, or named bodies of work, object-level research should distinguish documented facts from seller descriptions and avoid treating a stylistic label alone as proof of date, medium, or authenticity.

## Common works and media

The collected biographical sources identify Golden as a visual artist and painter, making paintings the only common work type supported by this source pack. The sources associate his practice with realist, abstract-realist, and self-described Borderline-Surrealist approaches. They do not substantiate recurring subjects, named series, print editions, sculpture, ceramics, posters, or particular painting media. Those details should be established from the individual object and documented auction records rather than inferred from this profile.

## Market and appraisal context

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7360964
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolland_Golden
- Wikipedia: https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%BA%D9%88%D9%84%D8%AF%D9%86
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500343489
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/56885203/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no98102495
- Deutsche Nationalbibliothek: https://d-nb.info/gnd/131641077
- ISNI: https://isni.org/isni/0000000078463065
- Bibliothèque nationale de France: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb14975777f
- Rolland Harve Golden: http://www.rollandgolden.com/