# Victor Demanet artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/victor-demanet/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T20:09:02.321Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1895-02-03
- Death date: 1964-02-07
- Nationality: Belgian
- Common media: Sculpture, Medallic art, Relief sculpture, Portrait busts

## About Victor Demanet

Victor Joseph Ghislain Demanet (1895–1964) was a Belgian sculptor and medalist. International authority records align the shorter name Victor Demanet with his full name and identify sculpture and medallic art as his principal fields. Publicly documented examples include a monument to King Albert I in Namur, a Victor Hugo monument in Waterloo, a 1937 bust of Queen Astrid in Charleroi, and a portrait relief of Dr. G. Dryepondt in Bruges. His work also appeared in the art competitions connected with the 1924, 1932, and 1936 Summer Olympics, although that detail currently rests on a secondary source in the collected pack. Collectors may encounter Demanet through freestanding sculpture, portrait busts, reliefs, commemorative monuments, medals, and related small-format works. These formats reflect a practice centered on modeled likenesses, civic commemoration, and identifiable public subjects rather than a movement designation established by the available sources.

## Common works and media

Works associated with Demanet include freestanding sculpture, civic monuments, portrait busts, relief portraits, medals, and medallions. The collected public-image references document commemorative representations of King Albert I, Victor Hugo, Queen Astrid, and Dr. G. Dryepondt. These examples support portraiture and public commemoration as recurring contexts, while the authority records independently identify him as both a sculptor and medalist.

## Market and appraisal context

The collected Appraisily input associates 176 records with Victor Demanet, indicating an auction footprint but not establishing a price level or trend. The strongest supported comparison points are the object's format—such as sculpture, bust, relief, or medallic work—the depicted subject, its date, and any documented connection to a known monument or commemorative commission. A Queen Astrid bust dated 1937 and several publicly installed portraits provide useful identity context, but they do not by themselves authenticate another object. Lot-level descriptions, realized prices, condition information, casting or edition details, provenance, and attribution evidence were not available in this source pack, so value conclusions require separate object and comparable-sale research.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Identity evidence and market evidence are evaluated separately to avoid treating a name match as authentication.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q51024552
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/47653792/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500058414
- British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG106591
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Demanet
- Wikipedia: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Demanet
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Demanet
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Namur_2007_09.JPG
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Monument_Hugo_Waterloo.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charleroi_-_parc_Astrid_-_buste_de_la_reine_Astrid_-_Victor_Demanet_1937_-_01.jpg