# Victor Olson artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/victor-olson/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T18:48:52.306Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1924-08-04
- Death date: 2007-06-22
- Nationality: American
- Common media: Painting, Illustration

## About Victor Olson

Victor Olson, identified in library authority records as Ivan Victor Olson (1924–2007), was an American painter and illustrator. Wikidata, VIAF, and the available biographical record agree on his nationality, occupations, and life years, while the biographical source supplies the full birth and death dates. Collectors may encounter either “Victor Olson” or “Ivan Victor Olson” in cataloguing and reference material, making the authority-record identifiers useful for entity matching. The collected evidence supports painting and illustration as his principal creative contexts, but it does not establish a named artistic movement, a characteristic subject range, or a complete chronology of his career. It also provides no museum biography, estate record, or catalogue raisonné. Accordingly, works bearing this name should be assessed with attention to identity and attribution rather than assigned a broader school, period, or body of work without further documentation.

## Common works and media

The available authority sources support two broad types of work: paintings and illustrations. They do not establish specific painting media, recurring subjects, print editions, sculpture, ceramics, or a definitive series. Objects outside the documented painting and illustration contexts require additional evidence before being associated with this artist.

## Market and appraisal context

Auction material catalogued under Victor Olson should first be matched to the authority-record identity of Ivan Victor Olson, the American painter and illustrator who lived from 1924 to 2007. The distinction between a painting and an illustration-related work may affect which comparable lots are relevant. The collected sources do not provide enough evidence to characterize price levels, market direction, scarcity, preferred subjects, editions, or a hierarchy of media. They also contain no reviewable lot descriptions, realized prices, provenance records, or condition reports. An appraisal should therefore use the individual work’s documented authorship and work type together with verified public sales of genuinely comparable objects, rather than relying on the shared artist name alone.

## 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. For Victor Olson, the present identity profile is stronger than the collected market evidence, so unsupported price or attribution conclusions have been omitted.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20127421
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/51520271/
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Olson
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2008180396