# Yona Lotan artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/yona-lotan/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T18:04:12.396Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Common media: Painting

## About Yona Lotan

Yona Lotan (1926–1998) is documented in Wikidata, VIAF, IdRef, and Getty ULAN-linked authority data. Wikidata and VIAF describe Lotan as a Lithuanian painter, while multiple library records agree on the artist’s life years. These linked identifiers help distinguish Lotan from people with similar names and connect museum, library, bibliography, and market records that may use different cataloguing conventions. The collected sources establish painting as the broad documented field, but they do not identify a particular movement, school, training history, geographic career, preferred subject, or named series. Exact birth and death dates also remain unverified. Collectors encountering a work attributed to Yona Lotan should therefore treat the authority-record identity as a starting point and assess the object against signed, dated, documented, and comparable examples when such evidence is available.

## Common works and media

Painting is the only broad work type supported by the collected authority records, which identify Yona Lotan as a painter. The source pack does not verify particular paint media, supports, subjects, print editions, drawings, sculptures, ceramics, posters, named works, or recurring series. Those characteristics should be recorded from the object and corroborated through reliable catalogues or comparable auction entries rather than assumed from the artist identity.

## Market and appraisal context

The present source pack establishes Yona Lotan’s identity and occupation but does not expose individual auction results or object-level evidence. It therefore cannot support a price trend, typical price range, scarcity claim, or artist-specific ranking of valuation factors. Appraisal should begin by confirming that the work belongs to the same Yona Lotan represented by the linked authority records. Available Appraisily auction records can then be reviewed for relevant sale dates, realized prices, catalogue descriptions, and comparable lots. Any conclusion should remain tied to the evidence for the particular object rather than inferred from the 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. Gaps in the collected evidence are retained rather than replaced with unsupported biographical or market claims.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q29051685
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/98017530/
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/061054720
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500071677
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/yona-lotan/