# Afro artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/afro/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T22:17:09.157Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Italian
- Common media: Painting

## Portrait

![Afro](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Afro_nel_suo_studio_1963.jpg/1280px-Afro_nel_suo_studio_1963.jpg)
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Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Afro_nel_suo_studio_1963.jpg

## About Afro

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.

## 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.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist-identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. This profile distinguishes authority-backed identity facts from market details not established by the current source pack.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q388090
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/89377463/
- The Museum of Modern Art: https://www.moma.org/artists/77
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500014109
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afro_Basaldella
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/afro/