# Fabrizio Plessi artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T15:50:29.847Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1940-04-03
- Death date: 2026-08-23
- Nationality: Italian
- Common media: Installation art, Video art, Media art, Painting

## Portrait

![Fabrizio Plessi](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Fabrizio_Plessi.jpg/1280px-Fabrizio_Plessi.jpg)
Franz Johann Morgenbesser from Vienna, Austria · CC BY-SA 2.0
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fabrizio_Plessi.jpg

## About Fabrizio Plessi

Fabrizio Plessi (1940–2026) was an Italian artist whose interdisciplinary practice encompassed installation, media art, video, and painting. He was born in Reggio nell'Emilia, and recently updated public records report that he died in Dolo, Veneto. VIAF identifies Plessi as an Italian installation artist, painter, and video artist, while German- and French-language reference pages likewise associate him with installation, media, and video art. His identity is represented across major authority systems, including Wikidata, Getty ULAN, VIAF, and the Library of Congress, as well as a Museum of Modern Art artist profile. Collectors may therefore encounter his name across more than one object category, from paintings to works connected with video or installation practice. The collected evidence does not establish a single movement, recurring subject, or named series strongly enough to present one as definitive, so his documented media provide the clearest basis for describing and matching his work.

## Common works and media

Public authority records describe Plessi as a painter, installation artist, and video artist, while reference sources also classify his practice as media art. Auction and appraisal searches may consequently surface paintings as well as video- or installation-related works. The collected evidence does not identify specific recurring subjects, named series, editions, sculptures, ceramics, prints, or posters, so those categories should not be attributed without object-level evidence.

## Market and appraisal context

Plessi's range of media makes correct object classification especially important in appraisal. A painting should normally be compared with paintings of similar format, while a video-based work or installation component may require a different set of public auction comparables. Appraisily's input dataset associates 283 auction records with the artist, but this source pack does not include fetched major-auction-house catalogue details or individual realized prices. It therefore cannot support a price trend, scarcity claim, or category-specific premium. Before selecting comparable lots, establish what type of work is being offered and whether it represents a complete work or an element associated with a larger installation or time-based presentation.

## 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. For Fabrizio Plessi, the present identity evidence is stronger than the collected market-detail evidence, so unsupported price conclusions are intentionally omitted.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1390874
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/25397666/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500082141
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabrizio_Plessi
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabrizio_Plessi
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/fabrizio-plessi/