# Vera Rockline artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T12:22:26.275Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: French
- Common media: Painting

## Portrait

![Vera Rockline](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3e/Vera_Rockline_%281896-1934%29.jpg)
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Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vera_Rockline_(1896-1934).jpg

## About Vera Rockline

Vera Rockline (1896–1934) was a painter identified as French in library authority records. Those records preserve several forms of her name, including Véra Rockline and Vera N. Rocklina, which is important when matching catalogues and auction results. The supplied English-language reference describes her as a Post-Impressionist artist of Russian-Jewish descent who worked in Paris during the interwar period; however, the institutional records in this source pack primarily establish her identity, dates, occupation, and French association rather than a detailed movement history. Collectors encounter Rockline through paintings and through public auction records filed under multiple spellings of her name. Careful entity matching is therefore necessary before treating a lot as part of her market. Her short life and cross-language identity also make authoritative names, provenance, inscriptions, exhibition references, and catalogue documentation especially useful when researching a possible work.

## Common works and media

Rockline is consistently identified in the authority sources as a painter. The supplied auction taxonomy places matched records chiefly within fine art and paintings, while also listing works on paper and prints, sculpture and mixed media, and decorative art and editions. Because that taxonomy is described as broad or sparse, the latter categories should not be treated as a definitive account of her oeuvre without checking the individual lot, medium, signature, provenance, and attribution. Name variants should also be searched when locating paintings or works catalogued under older French, Russian, or transliterated forms.

## Market and appraisal context

Vera Rockline auction results should be compared with works that are genuinely similar in medium, dimensions, date, subject, condition, and attribution. Signature and inscription details, restoration history, provenance, exhibition records, and catalogue references can materially affect how relevant a comparable sale is. The supplied Appraisily index contains matched public auction records, but its categories are broad and some records lack reported prices. Public results may also differ in whether buyer's premiums or fees are included. They should therefore support, rather than replace, object-specific examination, provenance research, condition assessment, and authentication work. Private sales, incomplete feeds, and later attribution changes may not appear in the public record.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3555721
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/96507397/
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/098323326
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500110210
- Bibliothèque nationale de France: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb17133256t
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Rockline
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Rockline
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/vera-rockline/