Filippo de Pisis Auction Prices and Value Guide
Filippo de Pisis auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 916 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.
Filippo de Pisis auction prices: quick answer
Filippo de Pisis auction prices depend on medium, size, date, condition, provenance, edition details, attribution confidence, and recent comparable auction sales.
- Artist
- Filippo de Pisis
- Source records
- 916
- Market update
- 2026-02-06
Artist context
About Filippo de Pisis
Filippo de Pisis (born Luigi Filippo Tibertelli de Pisis, 1896–1956) was an Italian painter, poet, and draftsman whose work spans painting, sculpture, printmaking, and art criticism. Born in Ferrara, he was active from 1916 until his death in Milan. De Pisis worked across a remarkably broad range of media—including oil painting, drawing, lithography, and engraving—and also published poetry and critical writing under his own name and the pseudonym Maurice Barthelou. His work is held in major public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York. With over nine hundred documented auction appearances, de Pisis remains a recurrent figure in the European modern art market. His paintings and works on paper are sought by collectors of twentieth-century Italian art.
oil paintingworks on paper / drawinglithographyengraving
Common works and media
De Pisis produced oil paintings, watercolors, and drawings on paper, along with lithographs and engravings in edition. Still lifes, city views, marine scenes, and figure studies are among the subjects collectors encounter most often. Sculptural works are less common at auction. Prints and works on paper make up a significant portion of his documented market presence.
Market and appraisal context
Filippo de Pisis maintains a deep and liquid auction market spanning over two decades, with 539 recorded lots and 354 priced results dating from April 2003 through December 2025. The price distribution shows meaningful dispersion: realized prices range from €15 at the low end to €151,400 at the high end, with a median of €9,000 and an interquartile range of €2,042–€20,800. The top end of the market is anchored by major international houses—Christie's and Sotheby's—while Italian specialist firms (Finarte, Cambi Casa d'Aste, Il Ponte, Pananti, Aste Bolaffi) handle the bulk of mid-market turnover. European houses such as Dorotheum and Bertolami Fine Art also appear regularly. Recent 12-month activity registered 36 lots versus 46 in the prior 12-month window, indicating a modest contraction in volume but continued steady liquidity. Subject matter in recent sales is dominated by still lifes (oysters, flowers, game), Paris and Italian city views, reclining figures and nudes, and marine subjects—consistent with de Pisis's established oeuvre. Oil paintings from the 1930s–1950s form the price ceiling, while works on paper, drawings, and prints trade at the lower end of the range.
Auction categories and appraisal factors
Common auction categories
- Post-War and Contemporary Art
- Impressionist and Modern Art
- Works on Paper
- Old Master / 19th–20th Century European Paintings
- Prints and Multiples
Value drivers
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Appraisal caveats
- No major auction-house biographical sources were available in this source pack; auction category assignments are inferred from the artist's period and mediums.
- Movement associations (e.g., Metaphysical painting, Novecento Italiano) are widely documented for de Pisis but were not captured in the excerpted source texts; this page should be enriched with museum or scholarly sources that explicitly name movements.
- Auction prices are denominated in both EUR and USD across the record set; all distribution statistics (median, quartiles) reflect mixed-currency lots without normalization, which introduces rounding variance.
- Category labels (e.g., 'Post-War and Contemporary Art') are inferred from the artist's period, medium, and house specialization rather than sourced from individual lot cataloguing.
Evidence
Sources for artist context
This source-grounded artist context passed Appraisily's promotion threshold: high confidence, strong sources.
- RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History library authority
- Library of Congress library authority
- Wikidata library authority
- VIAF / OCLC library authority
- VIAF / OCLC library authority
- The Museum of Modern Art museum or university
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.
Artist value FAQ
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