# Shlomo Katz artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/shlomo-katz/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T12:12:15.163Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Polish, Israeli
- Common media: Painting, Works on paper and prints, Sculpture and mixed media, Decorative art and editions

## Portrait

![Shlomo Katz](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/22/%D7%A6%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%9D_%D7%A9%D7%9C%D7%99.jpg)
שלמה כץ צייר · CC BY-SA 4.0
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%D7%A6%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%9D_%D7%A9%D7%9C%D7%99.jpg

## About Shlomo Katz

Shlomo Katz (1937–1992) was a Polish-Israeli painter whose identity is documented in Wikidata and international library authority records. VIAF links his name to Library of Congress, ISNI, and National Library of Israel authority data, including Hebrew and romanized forms. Public auction records associated with Katz place his name across paintings, works on paper and prints, sculpture, mixed media, and some decorative or editioned material. These categories explain why collectors may encounter his name on objects that require careful comparison rather than a single medium-based valuation approach. The available source pack does not establish a specific movement, school, recurring subject, or career chronology, so such labels should not be inferred from auction listings alone. Identification should instead begin with the object's medium, dimensions, date, signature or inscriptions, provenance, and consistency with securely attributed examples.

## Common works and media

Auction records matched to Shlomo Katz are grouped primarily under fine art and paintings, works on paper and prints, sculpture and mixed media, and decorative art or editions. Because these are broad market categories rather than a scholarly catalogue of the artist's work, each object should be evaluated through its materials, construction, dimensions, signature, inscriptions, edition status, condition, provenance, and relationship to documented examples.

## Market and appraisal context

Shlomo Katz auction results should be compared with genuinely similar works rather than interpreted through an artist-wide average. Medium, dimensions, date, condition, restoration, signature, inscriptions, edition details, provenance, exhibition history, and attribution confidence can all affect whether a sale is a useful comparable. Appraisily's matched records include several broad auction categories, but those classifications do not by themselves establish the artist's complete body of work. Collectors should review lot photographs and descriptions and confirm whether reported prices include buyer premiums or other fees. Public results are a starting point; private transactions, incomplete feeds, and later attribution changes may remain outside the available record.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist identity research with matched public auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Coverage may be incomplete and should be supplemented by object-specific research.

## Sources

- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/297343656/
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16600836
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/shlomo-katz/
- Wikipedia: https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shlomo_Katz
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%D7%A6%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%9D_%D7%A9%D7%9C%D7%99.jpg