# Giuseppe Santomaso artist context and auction value notes

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Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1907-09-26
- Death date: 1990-05-23
- Nationality: Italian
- Movements: Abstract art, 20th-century Italian painting
- Common media: Painting

## About Giuseppe Santomaso

Giuseppe Santomaso (1907–1990), also known as Bepi, was an Italian painter and educator associated with Venice, where he was born and died. Public authority records identify him as an Italian painter, while biographical summaries describe his work as abstract and place him among notable figures in 20th-century Italian painting. He also taught art at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia for 20 years. Collectors encounter Santomaso primarily through paintings attributed to him and through the substantial body of auction records indexed under his name. His identity is represented across several international museum and library systems, including Getty ULAN, VIAF, the Library of Congress, MoMA, the British Museum, and the National Gallery of Art. These identifiers help distinguish the documented Venetian artist from similarly named people and provide a stable foundation for cataloguing, attribution research, and comparison of auction records.

## Common works and media

Painting is the only medium directly established by the collected identity sources. Accordingly, paintings are the clearest common work type for cataloguing and auction comparison. The source pack does not provide enough evidence to characterize recurring subjects, named series, print editions, drawings, sculptures, ceramics, or other categories, so those classifications should be made only from the individual object and additional documented records.

## Market and appraisal context

Giuseppe Santomaso has a substantial presence in the collected auction-directory data, but the source pack does not expose the individual lot evidence needed to infer price levels or trends. An appraisal should begin by confirming that the object is correctly attributed to the documented Italian painter. It should then compare the work with relevant public auction results, taking account of the specific medium, dimensions, date, condition, provenance, inscriptions, and any supporting documentation whenever those details are available. Results for superficially similar works should not be treated as interchangeable. Realized prices also need to be read in the context of their sale dates, auction houses, currencies, and lot descriptions.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with auction records and, when available, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots. Identity records establish the artist; object-specific and auction evidence supports appraisal analysis.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q470405
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500011427
- The Museum of Modern Art: https://www.moma.org/artists/5160
- British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG185791
- National Gallery of Art: https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.5445.html
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/5724316/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79115380
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Santomaso
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Santomaso
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Santomaso