Nino Costa Auction Prices and Value Guide
Nino Costa auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 245 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.
Nino Costa auction prices: quick answer
Nino Costa auction prices depend on medium, size, date, condition, provenance, edition details, attribution confidence, and recent comparable auction sales.
- Artist
- Nino Costa
- Source records
- 245
- Market update
- 2026-02-06
Nino Costa market snapshot
Nino Costa shows solid auction liquidity with 61 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $3,500. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 2 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-11-27.
Realized price distribution
- Under $1,000 (32.4% · 11 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000 (47.1% · 16 sales)
- $10,000+ (20.6% · 7 sales)
- Median sale (last 12 months)
- $0
- Sales recorded (last 12 months)
- 2
- Median shift vs prior year
- 0.0%
- Latest recorded sale
- 2025-11-27
Artist context
About Nino Costa
Born
1826
Died
1903
Nationality
Italian
Also known as
Giovanni Costa
Nino Costa is the name commonly used for Giovanni Costa (1826–1903), an Italian painter identified by authority records and biographical sources as a landscape specialist. His identity is represented across Wikidata, IdRef, Getty ULAN, VIAF, the Library of Congress, and museum collection systems, helping distinguish him from similarly named artists. Costa's public profile places him within nineteenth-century Italian landscape painting, with a career that extended to the opening years of the twentieth century. Collectors are therefore most likely to encounter his name in connection with painted landscapes, exhibition histories, museum catalogues, and auction records. The available source pack does not establish a single formal movement label strongly enough to present one as definitive. An exhibition record indexed by IdRef instead places scholarship on Costa within broader discussions involving Corot, the Macchiaioli, and Symbolism. Those associations provide historical context but should not be treated as a firm movement attribution without stronger scholarly evidence.
PaintingLandscape
Common works and media
The collected identity sources consistently describe Costa as a painter and, more specifically, as a landscape painter. Paintings with landscape subjects are therefore the clearest documented work type for auction and appraisal research. The source pack does not establish prints, drawings, sculpture, ceramics, posters, or editioned works as common categories, so those formats should not be attributed to his usual practice without object-specific evidence and stronger cataloguing sources.
Market and appraisal context
Public Appraisily data indicates that works catalogued under Nino Costa appear in auction records, but the collected source pack does not provide lot-level realized prices or a dependable breakdown by medium. For appraisal, the first task is entity matching: confirm whether the attribution refers to Giovanni Costa, also known as Nino Costa, rather than another Costa. Comparisons should prioritize similarly attributed landscape paintings and be organized by sale date, work type, and auction-house description. Any conclusion should be tested against the specific object and complete lot documentation. The available evidence supports careful comparable selection, not a current market trend, price forecast, or generalized value range.
Auction categories and appraisal factors
Common auction categories
- Landscape paintings
Value drivers
- Secure attribution to Giovanni Costa, also known as Nino Costa
- Comparability of the work type and landscape subject to publicly recorded auction lots
- Auction-house attribution wording, sale date, and realized price for comparable public records when available
Appraisal caveats
- The collected source pack provides an Appraisily auction-record signal but no lot-level excerpts, realized-price series, or dependable medium breakdown.
- No current price trend, scarcity claim, or generalized value range can be supported from this source pack.
- Object-specific conclusions require inspection and complete lot documentation; identity research alone does not authenticate a work.
Evidence
Sources for artist context
This source-grounded artist context is based on collected public records: medium confidence, adequate source quality.
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
How much is Nino Costa 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 Nino Costa artwork?
Yes. Appraisily can review photos, dimensions, signatures, condition, provenance, and comparable market data to prepare a current valuation.