# Antonio Calderara artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T22:15:14.316Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1903-10-28
- Death date: 1978-06-27
- Nationality: Italian
- Common media: Painting, Drawing, Graphic art

## About Antonio Calderara

Antonio Calderara (1903–1978) was an Italian artist identified by international authority files as a painter, graphic artist, and draftsman. These records provide the firmest basis for distinguishing him from similarly named people and linking catalog or auction references to the correct creator. His documented career belongs to twentieth-century Italian art. A collected encyclopedia entry characterizes his work as modern and non-objective, although that stylistic description is not confirmed by the available museum or scholarly material and should therefore be treated cautiously. Collectors may encounter Calderara through paintings, drawings, and graphic works—the artistic roles consistently reflected in his authority records and represented in Appraisily’s auction index. The page’s strongest current foundation is secure identity matching through his name, lifespan, nationality, and recognized artistic roles. More specific claims about movements, subjects, phases, and individual series require stronger institution-grade documentation.

## Common works and media

The available authority records support paintings, drawings, and graphic works as the principal categories associated with Antonio Calderara. These broad categories are appropriate starting points for auction and appraisal searches. The collected evidence does not establish recurring subjects, named series, print techniques, edition practices, or a documented ranking among work types, so those details should be verified from the individual object and stronger cataloguing sources.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraising a work associated with Antonio Calderara begins with identity and attribution: the name should be matched to the Italian artist born in 1903 and deceased in 1978. The next supported distinction is work type, since authority records identify painting, drawing, and graphic art among his activities. Public auction records can provide useful comparisons when individual lots are available, but relevant comparisons should be checked at lot level rather than inferred from an artist-wide price summary. This source pack does not expose detailed results, provenance, condition, edition data, or auction-house cataloguing, so it cannot support price forecasts or claims that one period or subject is more valuable than another.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Claims are limited when the collected evidence does not provide lot-level support.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q601102
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500010607
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/118533792/
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/050254286
- Bibliothèque nationale de France: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb135078877
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Calderara
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Calderara
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/antonio-calderara/
- British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG195336