# Stanislaus Rapotec artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T18:41:39.175Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1911-10-04
- Death date: 1997-11-18
- Nationality: Slovene, Australian
- Common media: Painting

## About Stanislaus Rapotec

Stanislaus Rapotec, also catalogued as Stanislav Rapotec and Stanislav Ivan Rapotec, was a Slovene-Australian artist and painter born in Trieste in 1911 who died in Sydney in 1997. Public authority files connect the English and Slovene forms of his name, an important consideration when matching collections and auction records. The available source pack does not establish a movement or school with sufficiently strong institutional evidence, so a firm movement label would be premature. Authority-linked work titles include Abstract, Approaching Wilcannia, Attending high mass, St. Mark's Venice, and Easter Sunday at Notre Dame. These records indicate that collectors may encounter works described through abstraction, Australian place imagery, travel, or religious observation. An appraisal should begin by confirming the artist identity and the particular work record rather than assuming that every Rapotec attribution shares the same context.

## Common works and media

Rapotec is identified as a painter, while authority-linked titles document abstract, place-based, and religious subject matter. Collectors may therefore encounter paintings described as abstractions, Australian scenes, travel observations, or church-related compositions. Named examples in authority data include Abstract, Approaching Wilcannia, Attending high mass, St. Mark's Venice, and Easter Sunday at Notre Dame. These titles establish useful subject context but do not prove that any one category dominates his output. The precise medium and date of an offered work should be verified from its catalogue entry or physical examination.

## Market and appraisal context

Rapotec's market record should be considered work by work. The collected sources confirm a public Appraisily auction-price page and several authority-file name forms, but they do not provide enough lot-level detail to support a price trend or universal range. Appraisal should first reconcile Stanislaus, Stanislav, and Stanislav Ivan Rapotec against authority records. The object can then be compared with genuinely similar public lots using documented titles, subjects, sale dates, and realized prices. Medium, dimensions, date, attribution, provenance, and condition should come from the individual object and its auction documentation rather than being inferred from the artist's name alone.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12803401
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500105461
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/96467156/
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Rapotec
- Wikipedia: https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Rapotec
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/stanislaus-rapotec/