# Simon-Albert Bussy artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T20:07:48.952Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1870-06-30
- Death date: 1954-05-22
- Nationality: French
- Common media: Painting, Pastel

## About Simon-Albert Bussy

Simon-Albert Bussy (1870–1954), also recorded as Simon Bussy and Albert Simon Aimé Bussy, was a French painter and pastellist. Authority and museum profiles identify the artist across Wikidata, Getty ULAN, Tate, the British Museum, the National Gallery of Art, and several international library systems. He is especially relevant to British collecting contexts because he married the English novelist Dorothy Bussy, née Strachey, and knew and painted members of the Bloomsbury circle. That association helps explain why portraits connected with early-twentieth-century Anglo-French cultural networks may appear under his name. Collectors can encounter records catalogued under the shorter Simon Bussy form as well as Simon-Albert Bussy or his fuller name. Reliable research therefore begins by reconciling these name variants before comparing an object's medium, subject, date, and documented auction history. The available sources establish his identity and broad practice more securely than they establish a formal movement affiliation or distinct named series.

## Common works and media

The collected sources identify Bussy as a painter and pastellist and note that he painted members of the Bloomsbury circle. Collectors and appraisers may therefore encounter paintings, pastel works, and portraits catalogued under Simon Bussy, Simon-Albert Bussy, or Albert Simon Aimé Bussy. The source pack does not provide enough evidence to characterize prints, editions, sculpture, ceramics, or named series as common parts of his body of work.

## Market and appraisal context

The supplied Appraisily input associates Simon-Albert Bussy with 176 auction records, but the research pack does not include lot-level results. A useful appraisal comparison should first separate paintings from pastels and determine whether the subject is a portrait. For portraits, a securely identified sitter and documented relationship to Bussy's Bloomsbury circle context may improve the relevance of selected comparables. Sale date, realized price, medium, dimensions, condition, provenance, and attribution should be checked in the underlying auction records before drawing conclusions. The present evidence does not support a price forecast, market trend, scarcity statement, or claim that every work associated with Bloomsbury subjects commands similar interest.

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16855051
- Tate: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/simon-bussy-843
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500000813
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Bussy
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Bussy
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/95685567/
- National Gallery of Art: https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.17813.html
- British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG21526
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/simon-albert-bussy/