# Giuseppe Penone artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T20:49:53.978Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Italian
- Movements: Arte Povera association, particularly in early work
- Common media: Sculpture

## Portrait

![Giuseppe Penone](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Giuseppe_Penone_2010.jpg/1280px-Giuseppe_Penone_2010.jpg)
Hafenbar 16:06, 22. Jun. 2010 (CEST) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Giuseppe_Penone_2010.jpg

## About Giuseppe Penone

Giuseppe Penone (born 1947) is an Italian artist and sculptor best known in the collected reference material for large-scale sculptures centered on trees. His practice is presented as an inquiry into connections between human beings and the natural world. Reference summaries frequently place his early work in relation to Arte Povera, although the accessible institution-grade excerpts in this source pack do not independently establish that classification. Penone’s public identity is anchored by Wikidata and stable Getty, MoMA, Tate, and National Gallery of Art profiles, helping distinguish him from similarly named makers and supporting reliable entity matching. Collectors are most likely to encounter his name in connection with sculpture, nature-focused work, and auction records grouped under his artist identity. The available pack is stronger on identification and broad artistic context than on chronology, materials, individual series, or a complete catalogue of works, so those details should be checked against object-specific documentation.

## Common works and media

The source pack most clearly supports sculpture, particularly large-scale works involving the form or subject of trees and a broader human-nature theme. It does not provide enough verified detail to list specific materials, editions, prints, drawings, named series, or recurring auction subtypes. For an object submitted as a Penone work, its medium and format should be established from the object and its documentation before comparable lots are selected.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisal should begin by confirming that an object is correctly identified and described. For Penone, comparison should remain within genuinely comparable sculpture records and should account for sale date and realized price when those fields are available. The supplied Appraisily signal contains 169 artist-linked records, but this source pack does not expose the individual lots, materials, dimensions, edition information, condition reports, provenance, or attribution wording. Those gaps prevent a defensible price forecast here. A qualified appraisal should reconcile the object’s documentation and physical characteristics with appropriate public auction records rather than treating the artist-level record count as a valuation.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Identity and broad context are better supported in this source pack than object-level market details.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q568924
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500053944
- The Museum of Modern Art: https://www.moma.org/artists/4550
- Tate: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/giuseppe-penone-1754
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Penone
- Wikipedia: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Penone
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/giuseppe-penone/