# Artur Bual artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/artur-bual/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T15:22:59.091Z
Quality: medium confidence, thin sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Portuguese
- Common media: Painting

## Portrait

![Artur Bual](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/12/Bual.jpg)
Bual · CC BY-SA 3.0
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bual.jpg

## About Artur Bual

Artur Bual is identified by Wikidata as a Portuguese painter, while Getty ULAN supplies a durable authority identifier that helps distinguish his entity across cultural-heritage records. A Portuguese-language biographical overview places his contribution within art in Portugal during the second half of the twentieth century, although the collected evidence does not establish a specific movement or school. Collectors encounter Bual primarily through paintings and auction-result listings; the supplied Appraisily dataset associates 303 records with this artist entity. The present source pack does not provide sufficiently verified birth and death dates, named series, recurring subjects, or a detailed institutional biography, so those details should not be inferred. This profile consequently emphasizes careful identity matching among the public artist name, Wikidata, Getty ULAN, and other authority records while limiting biographical and stylistic statements to claims directly supported by the collected material.

## Common works and media

The collected sources securely identify Artur Bual as a painter, making paintings the best-supported work type for cataloguing and auction searches. They do not establish recurring subjects, named bodies of work, print editions, sculptures, ceramics, drawings, posters, or specific painting techniques. Objects in those categories should therefore be matched through signatures, documentation, authority records, and relevant cataloguing evidence rather than assumed to be characteristic.

## Market and appraisal context

The available evidence supports paintings as the principal category for Artur Bual, but it does not provide enough lot-level detail for price conclusions. An appraisal should first confirm that a work belongs to the same authority-linked artist entity and then compare it with relevant public auction records. The collected Appraisily signal indicates a substantial record set, but the artist page was rate-limited during collection, preventing verification of individual sale dates, realized prices, dimensions, descriptions, or attribution language. Condition, provenance, date, size, subject, and edition status may require separate object-level research; this source pack does not establish how those factors affect Bual's market.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine authority-based artist identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are publicly available and can be matched reliably.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16494317
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500065381
- Wikipedia: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artur_Bual
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/artur-bual/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bual.jpg