# Zoma Baitler artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/zoma-baitler/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T17:20:05.294Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Uruguayan
- Common media: Painting, Drawing

## About Zoma Baitler

Zoma Baitler (1908–1994) was a Lithuanian-born Uruguayan painter whose public identity records also connect him with drawing, journalism, and diplomacy. Wikidata and VIAF consistently identify him as a Uruguayan painter, while multilingual biographical summaries describe his Jewish Lithuanian origins and his wider public roles. These authority records provide a stable basis for distinguishing Baitler from similarly named artists and for matching auction attributions to the correct person. The available source pack documents painting as his principal artistic occupation and also identifies him as a draughtsman, but it does not provide sufficiently authoritative evidence for a specific movement, school, recurring subject, or named series. Collectors may encounter Baitler through paintings and works on paper appearing in auction databases. Individual objects should therefore be assessed from their own cataloguing and documentation rather than from broad stylistic or market assumptions not established by the collected sources.

## Common works and media

The source pack most clearly supports paintings and drawings as work types associated with Zoma Baitler. It does not establish recurring subjects, named series, print editions, sculpture, ceramics, posters, or other categories, so objects in those forms require additional evidence before being represented as characteristic examples of his work.

## Market and appraisal context

The collected data indicates that Baitler has an auction-record presence, but the source pack does not include accessible, lot-level auction-house catalogues. His documented practices support paintings and drawings as the clearest categories for initial classification. Correct identity matching is important because the authority records consistently define him as the Uruguayan painter who lived from 1908 to 1994. The available evidence does not support conclusions about favored subjects, important periods, signature patterns, scarcity, or price direction. Any appraisal or comparison should therefore rely on the details of actual public sale records when available, rather than treating the aggregate record count as evidence of value or demand.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist-identity research with auction records and, when available, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots. For Zoma Baitler, the present identity basis is stronger than the collected lot-level market evidence, so auction conclusions should remain provisional until individual records are reviewed.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6171479
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/41686809/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500144565
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoma_Baitler
- Wikipedia: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoma_Baitler
- Wikipedia: https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoma_Baitler