Luigi Lucioni Auction Prices and Value Guide

Luigi Lucioni auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 1,110 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

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

Artist
Luigi Lucioni
Source records
1,110
Market update
2026-02-06

Artist context

About Luigi Lucioni

Luigi Lucioni (1900–1988) was an Italian American painter and etcher celebrated for meticulously rendered still lifes, luminous landscapes, and incisive portraits. Born in Italy, Lucioni immigrated to the United States, where he developed a distinctive realist style rooted in close observation and precise draftsmanship. His landscapes—particularly views of Vermont birch groves and rural New England—capture seasonal light with photographic clarity, while his floral and botanical still lifes reveal an exacting attention to texture and form. Lucioni also maintained an active practice in etching, producing printed editions that broadened the reach of his imagery. His work is held in major public collections including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and his paintings and prints continue to appear regularly at auction.

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Common works and media

Lucioni's output spans oil-on-canvas or oil-on-panel landscapes and still lifes, portrait paintings, and intaglio etchings printed in editions. Recurring subjects include birch and pine trees, apple orchards, cloud-filled skies, floral arrangements, and seated or standing portrait sitters. Etchings such as Birch Processional and Apple Trees are widely held examples of his printed work.

Market and appraisal context

Luigi Lucioni's auction market is deep and liquid, with 914 recorded lots and 742 priced results spanning from February 1991 to April 2026. The market shows a pronounced bifurcation between original paintings and works on paper. Unique oil paintings command the strongest prices: a 1941 portrait titled Mili Monti realized $150,000 at Bonhams in November 2025, and another painting brought $80,000 at Doyle in April 2024. In contrast, etchings and engravings—issued in editions—cluster in the $120–$650 range (P25–P75), with a median of $200 and a floor near $24. The market is geographically concentrated in the American Northeast, with Merrill's Auctioneers & Appraisers, Rachel Davis Fine Arts, RoGallery, Eldred's, and Doyle New York as frequent regional venues, while Sotheby's, Christie's, Bonhams, and Doyle handle the higher-value paintings. Volume has been stable, with 48 priced lots in the trailing twelve months versus 51 in the prior period, indicating consistent collector interest without a pronounced trend shift.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

  • oil painting
  • etching
  • engraving
  • lithograph

Value drivers

  1. Medium: oil paintings and etchings are both encountered at auction; etchings more frequently
  2. Subject: still-life compositions and New England landscapes are commonly seen work types
  3. Institutional holdings: MoMA and other museum collections support long-term market recognition
  4. Medium: original oil paintings trade at significantly higher levels than editioned etchings, engravings, or lithographs; the gap can exceed two orders of magnitude
  5. Subject: portraits and large-scale still lifes or Vermont landscapes carry premiums; birch-tree and rural-barn motifs are common but vary in demand
  6. Scale: the top prices are associated with works 30+ inches on their longest dimension; smaller works and works on paper trade lower

Appraisal caveats

  • Source pack does not include auction-house records or realized price data; no price-tier or market-trend claims are made.
  • No catalogue raisonné source was available; attribution and authenticity should be verified through additional scholarship.
  • No public catalogue raisonné was available in the sources reviewed; attribution and authenticity should be verified through qualified scholarship or appraisal
  • Price distribution is heavily right-skewed: the median of $200 reflects the dominance of editioned prints, while the $150,000 maximum represents a single important portrait oil—using the median alone will materially understate painting values

Evidence

Sources for artist context

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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.

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Artist value FAQ

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