# Zinovy Shersher artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/zinovy-shersher/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T13:01:18.540Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: American, Soviet
- Common media: Painting, Mural painting

## About Zinovy Shersher

Zinovy Shersher is identified by international authority records as a Soviet- and American-associated multidisciplinary figure. VIAF, linked to Getty's Union List of Artist Names, describes Shersher as a Russian painter and muralist active in the United States during the twentieth century. Wikidata identifies him as a composer, while the available Russian-language biographical source also describes work as a singer, visual artist, composer, and producer. Collectors may therefore encounter the name in both visual-art and music-related references. For an art-market identification, the strongest collected evidence supports painting and mural activity, but the source pack does not establish particular movements, recurring subjects, named series, or a dated chronology. It also does not provide dependable birth or death dates. Those gaps make signatures, inscriptions, provenance, exhibition documentation, and work-specific records especially important when determining whether an object is correctly attributed to this artist.

## Common works and media

The collected authority evidence most clearly associates Zinovy Shersher with painting and mural work. It does not establish recurring subjects, named series, print editions, sculpture, ceramics, or other specific object types. A work offered under this name should therefore be classified from its physical medium and documentation rather than from broad category assumptions. Signatures, inscriptions, dates, provenance, and exhibition or catalogue references can help distinguish a documented work from a name-only attribution.

## Market and appraisal context

Public auction evidence for Zinovy Shersher is presently very limited. Appraisily's collected index contains one matched lot dated October 26, 2019, but no priced record or usable observed price range. That is not enough to establish a representative median, trend, or level of market liquidity. An appraisal should instead begin with the object's medium, dimensions, date, condition, restoration history, signature or inscriptions, provenance, and attribution confidence. Any public comparable should be checked for genuine similarity in work type, period, subject, and documentation. The artist's multidisciplinary identity also raises a matching risk: records should be reviewed to ensure that a visual-art object belongs to the painter and muralist represented by the authority profiles.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with matched auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. For Zinovy Shersher, identity evidence is stronger than the currently available priced-auction evidence.

## Sources

- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/96426261/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500100605
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4523252
- Wikipedia: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%88%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%97%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%98%D0%B7%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/zinovy-shersher/