# Shimon Okshteyn artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T14:46:30.355Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: American
- Common media: Painting, Sculpture, Installation art

## About Shimon Okshteyn

Shimon Okshteyn (1951–2020) was a Ukrainian-born American artist whose practice encompassed painting, sculpture, and installation art. Library authority records place his birth in Chernivtsi, Ukraine, and document that he later lived and worked in New York. His work therefore belongs to a cross-cultural biography shaped by Ukrainian origins and an American professional base, although the collected sources do not assign him to a specific movement or school. A substantial institutional reference point is the 2007 exhibition “Shimon Okshteyn: Dialogue with Objects” at the State Russian Museum, documented through its published exhibition catalogue. Collectors may encounter his name on works classified across several media rather than within a single narrowly defined category. Authority records also preserve the transliterated form “Shimon Okshteĭn,” which is useful when matching catalogues, bibliographic records, and auction listings to the same artist.

## Common works and media

Public authority records describe Okshteyn as a painter, sculptor, and creator of installations. Accordingly, works encountered in cataloguing or appraisal contexts may include paintings, sculptural objects, and installation-related material. The supplied evidence does not establish characteristic subjects, named series, print editions, preferred supports, or a reliable distribution of these work types in the auction market.

## Market and appraisal context

Okshteyn's documented work in painting, sculpture, and installation makes accurate medium classification an important first step in appraisal research. Name matching also matters because authority records preserve more than one English transliteration. Relevant public auction records should be compared by work type, sale date, and the information supplied in individual lot descriptions; realized prices can provide context when genuinely comparable records are available. The present source pack does not include lot-level condition, provenance, attribution, dimensions, edition details, or category distributions, so it cannot support a price trend or prediction. Those object-specific facts should be established before drawing conclusions from auction results.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/137200412
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/57795170/
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4333394
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/shimon-okshteyn/
- Wikipedia: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D0%BA%D1%88%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BD%2C_%D0%A8%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%BD
- Wikipedia: https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%BD_%D0%9E%D0%BA%D1%88%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BD