# Yuri Kuper artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/yuri-kuper/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T14:47:59.237Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Soviet, Russian, American
- Common media: Painting

## About Yuri Kuper

Yuri Kuper, born in 1940, is identified by Wikidata as a Soviet painter, while the collected Russian-language biography describes him in Soviet, Russian, and American contexts. His identity is connected to records at Getty ULAN, VIAF, the Library of Congress, the British Museum, Art UK, and an official website, giving collectors several stable references for matching names and catalogue entries. The Russian form Юрий Леонидович Купер is also associated with him. The collected evidence does not securely establish a named movement, recurring subject, or complete list of media, so this profile does not assign those details. Collectors may encounter Kuper through paintings and auction records indexed under his name, but an individual object still requires confirmation of attribution, date, medium, dimensions, and provenance. Several authority pages were rate-limited or not fetched by the collection harness, so they support entity matching rather than detailed biographical claims here.

## Common works and media

Painting is the only medium directly supported by the collected identity sources. The source pack does not substantiate specific recurring subjects, series, print editions, sculpture, ceramics, drawings, or posters. Auction and appraisal records should therefore be classified from the individual object and its catalogue description rather than from an assumed body of work.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisal should begin by confirming that the artist named on an object is the same Yuri Kuper represented by the linked authority records. Appraisily maintains an auction-price page for the artist, but the collected pack does not include the underlying lot descriptions or realized-price details. Comparable public sales are most useful when attribution, work type, medium, dimensions, date, subject, condition, provenance, and any edition information align. Painting is the clearest work type supported by the available identity sources. Because the evidence supplied here is primarily biographical and authority-based, this profile makes no prediction about price direction, demand, rarity, or the value of a particular object.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist-identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. This profile distinguishes authority-supported identity facts from details that require review of individual auction records.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4247437
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500194336
- British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG143729
- Art UK: https://artuk.org/discover/artists/kuper-yuri-b-1940
- Yuri Kuper: https://www.yurikuper.com/
- Wikipedia: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%83%D0%BF%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%AE%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%9B%D0%B5%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/yuri-kuper/