Hugo Pratt Auction Prices and Value Guide

Hugo Pratt auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 816 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

Hugo Pratt auction prices: quick answer

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

Artist
Hugo Pratt
Source records
816
Market update
2026-02-16

Hugo Pratt market snapshot

Hugo Pratt shows deep auction liquidity with 414 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $1,900. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 27 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-12-18.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (27.1% · 70 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (55.4% · 143 sales)
  • $10,000+ (17.4% · 45 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$3,800
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
27
Median shift vs prior year
+100.0%
Latest recorded sale
2025-12-18

Artist context

About Hugo Pratt

Hugo Pratt portrait
Erling Mandelmann · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Born

1927

Died

1995

Nationality

Italian

Also known as

Ugo Eugenio Prat

Hugo Pratt (1927–1995), born Ugo Eugenio Prat, was an Italian comic-book creator best known for Corto Maltese. His identity is represented across Wikidata and several international library authority systems, helping distinguish him in catalogues and search results. Available biographical material describes an approach that combined narrative craft with extensive historical research. In 1946, Pratt became associated with the Group of Venice alongside Fernando Carcupino, Dino Battaglia, and Damiano Damiani, placing his early work within a recognizable Italian comics context. Corto Maltese remains the central series through which readers and collectors encounter Pratt, making the character and series important terms for entity matching and auction-record review. Because the collected sources are stronger on identity than on a detailed catalogue of works, this profile does not assign undocumented techniques or market trends. Pratt is best understood here as a comics creator whose historically informed storytelling provides the principal context for identifying and comparing his work.

Group of VeniceComics and comic-book creationHistorically researched adventure narratives

Common works and media

The available sources support comics and Corto Maltese-related material as the principal recognizable categories associated with Hugo Pratt. They do not establish a reliable breakdown of original drawings, prints, posters, paintings, editions, or other auction formats. A submitted work should therefore be classified from its actual medium, publication context, inscriptions, and accompanying documentation.

Market and appraisal context

For appraisal, the clearest source-supported distinction is whether an item is directly connected to Corto Maltese or belongs to Pratt's broader comic-book work. The collected pack does not provide lot-level descriptions, condition reports, edition statements, provenance, or authenticated signatures, so those points must be established from the object and its documentation rather than inferred from the artist's name. When Appraisily auction records are available, sale date, realized price, work type, and genuinely comparable lots can help frame the market context. Comparisons should remain like-for-like and should not be treated as price predictions. This research supports artist identity and broad collecting categories, but it does not establish a price trend, scarcity claim, or authenticity conclusion.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

  • Comic art and comic-related works
  • Corto Maltese-related material

Value drivers

  1. Documented relationship to the Corto Maltese series
  2. Work type and medium within Pratt's comic-book production
  3. Sale date, realized price, and genuinely comparable lots when present in Appraisily auction records

Appraisal caveats

  • The collected pack contains no accessible major-auction-house catalogue entry or individual lot description.
  • The evidence does not support price predictions, market-trend claims, scarcity claims, or authenticity conclusions.
  • Condition, provenance, attribution, edition status, and publication context must be established from the specific object and its documentation.

Evidence

Sources for artist context

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

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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 Hugo Pratt

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Artist value FAQ

How much is Hugo Pratt 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.

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