# ZEVS artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/zevs/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T19:01:16.572Z
Quality: medium confidence, thin sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: French
- Movements: Street art, Contemporary art

## Portrait

![ZEVS](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/34/Zevs_%28cropped%29.jpg)
Robertgaston · CC BY-SA 4.0
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Zevs_(cropped).jpg

## About ZEVS

ZEVS is a French street artist born in 1977 and associated with the street-art context in which his practice became visible during the 1990s. Public biographical sources identify him as Aguirre Schwarz and report that he lives and works between Paris and Berlin, although those details are not corroborated in this source pack by a museum or an accessible official biography. He is best known for a liquidation approach, a recurring artistic device that has become the clearest public identifier of his work. Collectors encounter ZEVS through contemporary- and street-art channels, where the artist name, the reported identity behind it, and the connection to this recognizable practice help distinguish relevant records. Because the available evidence is narrow, this profile keeps claims about specific media, subjects, exhibitions, and career chronology deliberately limited. The strongest identity evidence establishes a French street artist born in 1977; the reported full name, exact birth date, birthplace, and work locations still require stronger independent confirmation.

## Common works and media

The public sources in this pack most clearly describe street-art and contemporary works associated with ZEVS's liquidation technique. They do not reliably establish which specific media, formats, subjects, editions, prints, paintings, sculptures, or other object types most commonly reach auction. Individual works should therefore be classified from their own cataloguing and physical evidence rather than from an assumed standard format.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisal of a work offered as ZEVS should begin with documented attribution and consistency with the artist's established street-art identity. A credible connection to the liquidation technique may help organize comparisons, but it does not authenticate a work by itself. Relevant public auction records should be compared by work type, sale date, realized price, and the degree to which cataloguing identifies the artist and recurring technique. The supplied source pack does not document specific media, edition practices, dimensions, provenance patterns, or condition issues, so no price trend or medium-specific hierarchy is asserted. Comparisons should favor genuinely similar lots and preserve the distinction between auction-house attribution, an artist identity record, and independent authentication.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with auction records and auction-house context. When available, sale dates, realized prices, and genuinely comparable lots provide market context; they do not replace attribution, authentication, provenance, or condition review.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3575336
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zevs_(artist)
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zevs
- Wikipedia: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zevs
- Deutsche Nationalbibliothek: https://d-nb.info/gnd/137340400
- ZEVS: http://aguirreschwarz.com
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/zevs/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Zevs_(cropped).jpg