# Yvon Taillandier artist context and auction value notes

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## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1926-03-28
- Death date: 2018-03-03
- Nationality: French
- Movements: Figuration libératrice
- Common media: painting, sculpture, graphic art, drawing

## About Yvon Taillandier

Yvon Taillandier (1926–2018) was a French painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and art critic who spent his career in Paris. Largely self-taught, he became active as an artist from 1945 onward and developed a personal visual language he called 'figuration libératrice et altruiste'—liberating and altruistic figuration. Alongside his studio practice, Taillandier built a parallel career as an art historian and critic, contributing to the French critical discourse on post-war and contemporary art. His painted and sculpted works inhabit an imaginary realm he named 'Taillandier-land,' populated by brightly colored, optimistic figures he described as joyful hymns. With over two hundred lots recorded in Appraisily's auction database, Taillandier's work appears regularly on the secondary market, where collectors encounter paintings, drawings, graphic prints, and sculptures spanning several decades of production.

## Common works and media

Collectors are most likely to encounter Taillandier's oil paintings on canvas, ink or graphite drawings, color lithographs and other graphic prints, and occasional small-scale sculptures. His subjects tend toward imaginative, figurative compositions set in his invented 'Taillandier-land,' featuring vibrant palettes and celebratory themes. Works on paper and prints appear with some regularity at European auction houses, while paintings and sculptures are less frequently offered.

## Market and appraisal context

Yvon Taillandier's work circulates on the secondary market primarily as paintings, works on paper, graphic prints, and sculpture. The Appraisily database records 208 lots attributed to the artist, indicating consistent but moderate auction presence. Key factors that may affect appraisal include the specific medium (oil on canvas generally commands higher interest than graphic prints), the work's date and period, provenance, condition, and whether the piece belongs to his signature 'Taillandier-land' series. RKD records confirm at least one auction through Ader (Paris, 2006). Collectors should verify attribution carefully, as Taillandier worked across multiple mediums throughout a long career, and should rely on comparable public auction records when assessing value.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine structured identity research from library-authority and institutional sources with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. For Yvon Taillandier, identity data is grounded in RKD (Netherlands Institute for Art History), VIAF, Wikidata, and the artist's official site. Market observations draw on the Appraisily lot database and the documented auction activity noted in authority records.

## Sources

- RKD — Netherlands Institute for Art History: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/315145
- VIAF (OCLC): https://viaf.org/viaf/24644808/
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3574157
- Yvon Taillandier (official site): https://www.yvon-taillandier.com/
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yvon_Taillandier
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85025961