# Simkha Simkhovitch artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/simkha-simkhovitch/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T16:14:18.782Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Russian-American
- Common media: Painting, Theatrical scenery, Mural painting

## Portrait

![Simkha Simkhovitch](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/84/Simka_Simkhovitch.jpg)
Simka Simkhovitch · see-source-page
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simka_Simkhovitch

## About Simkha Simkhovitch

Simkha Simkhovitch (1893–1949), also recorded as Simka Simkhovitch and Simkha Simkovitch, was a Russian-American painter whose career connected immigrant experience, commercial theater, New York gallery exhibition, and federally sponsored public art. Authority records preserve several transliterations of his name, making alias-aware research important when matching works, catalogues, and auction listings. Early in his career, Simkhovitch painted theatrical scenery. He later exhibited in New York and, during the 1930s, received Works Progress Administration commissions. Those commissions included post-office murals in Jackson, Mississippi, and Beaufort, North Carolina. Collectors may therefore encounter his name in connection with paintings, scenic work, or material related to public mural projects. The available evidence does not justify assigning him to a specific art movement or presenting a fixed list of characteristic subjects, and his precise birth date remains unresolved in the collected authority records.

## Common works and media

The supported work types are paintings, theatrical scenery, and public murals, including post-office commissions from the 1930s. Portable paintings are the clearest general auction category in the available evidence. Scenic designs or mural-related material should be identified by their original function rather than grouped automatically with easel paintings. The source pack does not establish recurring subjects or support additional categories such as editions, prints, sculpture, ceramics, posters, or drawings.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisal should begin with identity matching because Simkhovitch appears under several transliterated spellings. Work type also matters: the source pack documents painting, theatrical scenery, and federally commissioned murals, which should not be treated as interchangeable market categories. The supplied Appraisily input reports 266 auction records, but the collected page did not expose lot-level descriptions or realized prices. A defensible comparison therefore requires verification of each relevant public lot, its sale date, catalogue attribution, and realized result. This source pack does not support a price prediction, market trend, or claim of scarcity, and mural- or theater-related material should be compared separately from portable paintings.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist identity and authority research with available auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots. Market conclusions should be based on verified lot-level records when those records are available.

## Sources

- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/96053126/
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22086728
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500055629
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simka_Simkhovitch
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/simkha-simkhovitch/