# Arturo Tosi artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T15:36:32.896Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1871-07-25
- Death date: 1956-05-31
- Nationality: Italian
- Common media: Painting

## About Arturo Tosi

Arturo Tosi (1871–1956) was an Italian painter whose public authority records consistently identify him with painting, while biographical summaries particularly associate him with landscape. Born in Busto Arsizio, he developed a reputation around views of the natural world rather than a single documented series in the evidence available here. Records from IdRef, Getty ULAN, VIAF, and the Library of Congress help distinguish him from namesakes and connect catalogue, museum, and auction references to the same person. Collectors are therefore most likely to encounter Tosi through landscape paintings offered under his name, as well as through catalogues and retrospective literature devoted to his career. The collected sources do not securely establish a movement label, so this profile avoids assigning one. They also disagree on his exact 1956 death date; the structured record follows IdRef, the stronger authority source, while preserving that conflict for review.

## Common works and media

Collectors and appraisers are most likely to encounter paintings, especially landscapes, catalogued under Arturo Tosi's name. The available sources do not provide sufficient evidence to characterize prints, drawings, sculptures, editions, or named series as common parts of his auction market, so those categories should be assessed from the individual object's documentation rather than assumed.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisal of a work attributed to Arturo Tosi should begin with the exact object and catalog record rather than a broad artist average. The collected evidence supports landscape painting as the clearest recurring category, but it does not include detailed major-auction-house records, price series, condition reports, or provenance histories. Any valuation should therefore compare like with like using documented public sales when available, checking the catalogued medium, dimensions, subject, date, attribution wording, condition, provenance, and sale date. Those details are comparison inputs, not proof of authenticity or a forecast of future price. The present source pack supports artist identification more strongly than detailed market conclusions.

## 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. This profile distinguishes well-supported identity facts from market details that still require object-level and sale-record verification.

## Sources

- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/030871662
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4801807
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500009284
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/30337486/
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arturo_Tosi
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arturo_Tosi
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/arturo-tosi/