Rating and value of works, drawings, paintings by Alfred Aberdam

If you own a work by or based on the work of artist Alfred Aberdam and would like to know its value, our state-approved experts and auctioneers will guide you. Our specialists will carry out a free appraisal of your work, and provide you with a precise estimate of its value on the current market. Thereafter, if you wish to sell your work, we will direct you to the best possible arrangement to obtain the optimum price.

Rating and value of the artist

A painter of the Paris School, Alfred Aberdam does not enjoy a very high rating on the art market today. Nevertheless appreciated by collectors, some of his canvases can sell for tens of thousands of euros at auction, as evidenced by his oil on canvas Nature morte à l'éventail adjudicated €13,000 in 2007.

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Artist's style and technique

Alfred Aberdam's paintings are characterized by a relatively abstract, jerky workmanship, with unusual color mixtures.

His style evolves from the intimate to existential angst, and he is considered an artist with great sensitivity who was able to integrate modern painting techniques while remaining true to his Jewish cultural roots. Alfred Aberdam also devoted many of his works to the sensitive subject of deportation.

Alfred Aberdam's life

Alfred Aberdam was born in 1894 in Hungary into a well-to-do Jewish family, and quickly demonstrated a keen interest in painting. After graduating from high school, he organized lectures on the Italian and Flemish masters and early Jewish artists before leaving to study painting in Munich.

Mobilized in the Austrian army during the First World War, Alfred Aberdam was captured and interned by the Russians. In 1917, he became People's Commissar for Fine Arts and met Maiakovsky in Moscow.

After the First World War, Aberdam continued his apprenticeship at the Krakow Beaux-Arts and won first prize in painting in 1922 before moving to Paris. Settling in Montparnasse, Alfred Aberdam founded the "Groupe des Quatre" with Sigmund Menkès, Joachim Weingart and Léon Weissberg. He specialized in portraiture, depicting in particular the Jewish community during the war, depicting on canvas grieving yet touching faces. 

During the Second World War, Aberdam was forced into hiding and temporarily put his artistic career on hold.

Alfred Aberdam's imprint on his time

Considered an illustrious representative of the Paris School, Alfred Aberdam (1894-1963) conveys through his works the suffering and hardships endured by the Jewish people.

His paintings are now part of the permanent collections of many museums around the world, but private collectors play a major role in preserving his work.

 His signature

Not all Alfred Aberdam's works are signed.

Although there are variations, here is a first example of his signature.

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