Afro Auction Prices and Value Guide

Afro auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 687 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

Afro auction prices: quick answer

Afro auction prices depend on medium, size, date, condition, provenance, edition details, attribution confidence, and recent comparable auction sales.

Artist
Afro
Source records
687
Market update
2026-02-06

Afro market snapshot

Afro shows deep auction liquidity with 414 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $3,800. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 23 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-12-16.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (28.4% · 88 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (33.5% · 104 sales)
  • $10,000+ (38.1% · 118 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$3,000
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
23
Median shift vs prior year
0.0%
Latest recorded sale
2025-12-16

Artist context

About Afro

Afro portrait
Sapiensman2025 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source

Born

1912

Died

1976

Nationality

Italian

Also known as

Afro Basaldella, Afro Libio Basaldella

Afro was the professional name used by Afro Basaldella, an Italian painter who lived from 1912 to 1976. MoMA catalogs him as “Afro (Afro Basaldella),” while Wikidata, VIAF, and Getty provide stable authority records that distinguish the artist from unrelated uses of the single word Afro. This name normalization is especially important for collectors because auction and collection records may appear under either Afro or Afro Basaldella. The supplied evidence securely establishes his identity, nationality, occupation, and lifespan, placing his career within twentieth-century Italian painting. It does not, however, provide enough institution-grade descriptive text to assign detailed movement affiliations, subjects, or named series with confidence. This page therefore emphasizes the well-supported identity record and avoids treating broader stylistic labels as settled facts. Collectors researching a work should compare its catalogued artist name with these authority identifiers before relying on associated auction records.

Painting

Common works and media

Paintings are the best-supported common work type because multiple authority records identify Afro as a painter. The current source pack does not establish a dependable breakdown of supports, techniques, subjects, editions, prints, drawings, sculptures, or named series, so those categories should be added only after examination of museum object records or well-documented auction lots.

Market and appraisal context

An appraisal should begin by resolving the artist name: Afro and Afro Basaldella refer to the same Italian painter in the collected authority records. Painting is the only work category directly supported by the institutional and authority evidence in this source pack. Appraisily’s artist page supplies an auction-record signal, but the pack contains no lot-level titles, catalogue descriptions, or realized-price examples. Useful comparisons should therefore be limited to records whose artist identity and work type can be matched and then checked against the complete sale record. No price trend, scarcity claim, subject premium, or preferred-period hierarchy can be concluded from this evidence alone.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

  • Paintings catalogued under Afro or Afro Basaldella

Value drivers

  1. Correct identity matching between the names Afro and Afro Basaldella
  2. Verified classification of the object as a painting or another work type
  3. Comparison with relevant public auction records indexed for the artist

Appraisal caveats

  • The collected source pack contains no major auction-house catalogue entry, lot-level description, realized-price example, or category breakdown.
  • The available evidence does not support claims about price trends, scarcity, preferred subjects, premium periods, or the relative market performance of particular formats.
  • Object-specific authorship, medium, date, and comparable-sale relevance require evidence beyond this identity profile.

Evidence

Sources for artist context

This source-grounded artist context is based on collected public records: medium confidence, adequate source quality.

Source-grounded artist Markdown

Data basis

This page is built from Appraisily's public auction market index. Private transactions, incomplete sale feeds, and attribution changes may not be fully represented.

LLM-readable Markdown summary for Afro

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Artist value FAQ

How much is Afro worth?

Comparable public auction sales are the best starting point, but final value depends on the specific artwork, condition, size, medium, provenance, and attribution confidence.

Can Appraisily value my Afro artwork?

Yes. Appraisily can review photos, dimensions, signatures, condition, provenance, and comparable market data to prepare a current valuation.