# Corneliu Baba artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/corneliu-baba/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T19:46:13.197Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Romanian
- Common media: Painting, Book illustration

## Portrait

![Corneliu Baba](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/82/Corneliu_Baba.jpg)
Unknown author Unknown author · Attribution
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Corneliu_Baba.jpg

## About Corneliu Baba

Corneliu Baba (1906–1997) was a Romanian painter best known as a portraitist, while public reference sources also identify him with genre painting and book illustration. Authority records from Wikidata, Getty ULAN, and VIAF establish a stable identity for the artist, helping distinguish his works and records across collections and catalogues. Collectors are most likely to encounter his name in connection with painted portraits and figurative genre subjects, as well as illustration-related material. His practice is described by role and subject rather than by a clearly documented movement in the available source pack, so this page does not assign him to one. Baba’s established authority identifiers are particularly useful for entity matching, catalogue research, and separating records that use surname-first forms. Appraisily’s auction page indicates an indexed body of market records, but individual objects should be evaluated through their specific medium, subject, attribution, and genuinely comparable sales rather than through biography alone.

## Common works and media

Works associated with Corneliu Baba most commonly include paintings, particularly portraits and figurative genre scenes. Public biographical sources also identify him as a book illustrator, so drawings or other illustration-related material may appear in catalogues. The available source pack does not establish named series, edition practices, or a broader range of media with enough confidence to list them here.

## Market and appraisal context

The available sources support painted portraits, genre paintings, and illustration-related works as relevant categories. Appraisal should begin by confirming that the artist attribution matches established authority records, then identifying the work type, medium, and subject. For comparison, use public auction records that are genuinely similar and consider their sale dates and realized prices where Appraisily records provide them. The collected pack does not include detailed major-auction-house lot pages, condition reports, provenance histories, or edition data, so it cannot support a price trend or a work-specific valuation. Those object-level details require separate examination before any estimate is formed.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist identity research and stable authority identifiers with available auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots. Coverage varies by artist and object, so record-level evidence should be reviewed before drawing valuation conclusions.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q983262
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500019555
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/24731474/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83214385
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corneliu_Baba
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corneliu_Baba
- Wikipedia: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corneliu_Baba
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/corneliu-baba/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Corneliu_Baba.jpg