# Enrico Caruso artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/enrico-caruso/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T20:40:37.055Z
Quality: medium confidence, thin sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Italian
- Common media: Operatic vocal performance, Commercial sound recordings

## Portrait

![Enrico Caruso](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b0/Enrico_Caruso_tenor.jpg)
Copyright by Laveccha Studio, Chicago (no. 3). · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Enrico_Caruso_tenor.jpg

## About Enrico Caruso

Enrico Caruso (1873–1921) was an Italian operatic tenor whose career reached major opera houses in Europe and the Americas. His repertory extended from lyric to dramatic roles, giving him an unusually broad public identity within early twentieth-century opera. Caruso also became closely associated with the growth of commercial recorded sound. The collected biographical source reports approximately 250 commercially released recordings made between 1902 and 1920, helping explain why his name remains prominent beyond live-performance history. Collectors may encounter Caruso through auction records connected with his recorded career or other historically associated material. Because the available evidence identifies him principally as a singer and recording figure, objects listed under his name should not automatically be treated as works by a conventional visual artist. Appraisal requires identifying the object itself and establishing the nature of its connection to Caruso.

## Common works and media

The gathered evidence securely supports Caruso's operatic performances and commercially released sound recordings, including a substantial recording career from 1902 to 1920. It does not provide a dependable taxonomy of the objects represented in the associated auction records. Recordings are therefore the only specific material category identified here; photographs, documents, memorabilia, drawings, or other objects would require confirmation from item-level cataloguing before being described as common auction works.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisily records indicate an auction market associated with Enrico Caruso, but this source pack does not expose the underlying lot descriptions or realized prices. A sound appraisal should begin by identifying the exact object type and documenting how it relates to Caruso. Relevant comparisons should involve genuinely similar material rather than relying on the famous name alone. Provenance, attribution, condition, date, edition or issue, and the quality of supporting documentation may matter when those facts are available, but the collected evidence is not detailed enough to rank their effects or predict a price. Aggregate record volume should not be interpreted as a market trend.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine researched identity information with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. This profile separates confirmed biographical evidence from market details that still require lot-level review.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q170726
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrico_Caruso
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50034771
- The Museum of Modern Art: https://www.moma.org/artists/87913
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/enrico-caruso/