# Carlo Jacono artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T12:43:38.803Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Italian
- Common media: Painting, Editorial illustration, Works on paper and prints

## About Carlo Jacono

Carlo Jacono (1929–2000) was an Italian painter and prolific illustrator associated especially with postwar commercial publishing. Often signing simply as “Jacono,” he also became known as the “Uomo del cerchio,” a reference to the circular design device used on many covers. His documented illustration work crossed several popular genres, including romance, detective fiction, and science fiction, and reached publishing markets beyond Italy. This breadth helps explain why collectors may encounter his name in different settings: on original or printed cover imagery, works on paper, paintings, and other material connected with editorial production. The available source pack does not associate Jacono with a formally defined art movement, so he is better described through his professional context as a painter and editorial illustrator. Authority identifiers from Wikidata, VIAF, the Library of Congress, the German National Library, ISNI, and the BnF help distinguish him from similarly named people and support consistent entity matching.

## Common works and media

Collectors are most likely to associate Jacono with paintings and editorial illustration, particularly cover imagery created for popular publishing genres such as romance, crime, and science fiction. Works on paper and prints also appear within the collected auction context. Appraisily’s present market taxonomy additionally lists sculpture, mixed media, decorative art, and editions, but the supplied evidence does not establish how frequently those categories contain characteristic Jacono works. Medium, production purpose, originality, signature, inscriptions, and any edition information should therefore be checked directly on the object rather than inferred from the artist name alone.

## Market and appraisal context

Jacono’s auction evidence should be assessed through closely comparable objects rather than a single headline result. Relevant comparisons should align in medium, dimensions, date, subject, condition, signature or inscriptions, edition status, attribution confidence, and provenance. Editorial illustrations, paintings, prints, and other works on paper can represent materially different markets even when catalogued under the same artist name. Appraisily’s current page reports matched public-auction activity, but its summary exposes differing record totals that should be reconciled before using the dataset statistically. Reported prices may also differ in their treatment of buyer premiums, fees, and currencies. A defensible appraisal therefore combines verified object details with recent, genuinely comparable public sales and treats incomplete feeds or later attribution changes as limitations.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3659505
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/9967931/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr99012386
- Deutsche Nationalbibliothek: https://d-nb.info/gnd/132126168
- ISNI: https://isni.org/isni/0000000017963613
- Bibliothèque nationale de France: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12614348g
- Wikipedia: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_Jacono
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/carlo-jacono/