# Giuseppe Spagnulo artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/giuseppe-spagnulo/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T20:01:09.351Z
Quality: medium confidence, thin sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Italian
- Common media: sculpture, drawing

## About Giuseppe Spagnulo

Giuseppe Spagnulo (1936–2016) was an Italian sculptor, and library authority data also describes him as a draftsman. These roles provide the clearest supported framework for understanding his practice in the available source pack. His identity is represented in Wikidata, VIAF, Getty ULAN, the Library of Congress authority system, and the Museum of Modern Art artist index, helping distinguish him from similarly named people and connect records across collections and catalogues. The supplied evidence does not establish a specific movement, school, recurring subject, named series, or preferred sculptural material, so those associations should not be added without stronger documentation. Collectors may encounter his name in connection with sculpture and drawing-related material, although each object still requires individual identification. Appraisily uses these authority links to normalize the artist’s identity before relating it to auction records and potentially comparable works.

## Common works and media

Authority data supports sculpture and drawing as Spagnulo’s documented work types. Sculpture is the stronger identification because both Wikidata and VIAF describe him as a sculptor; VIAF additionally records him as a draftsman. The source pack does not safely support narrower claims about metals, ceramics, prints, editions, recurring subjects, named series, or particular formats. Auction and appraisal records should therefore classify an object from its own cataloguing evidence rather than assume a medium or series from the artist’s name alone.

## Market and appraisal context

Available evidence supports separating Spagnulo’s market material at the broad work-type level: sculpture versus drawing or other works on paper. That distinction matters when selecting comparable public auction records because unlike object categories should not be compared indiscriminately. The collected Appraisily page indicates an auction-record presence, but this source pack does not provide lot-level descriptions, realized prices, materials, dimensions, condition, provenance, dates, editions, or casting details. Accordingly, the evidence does not support a price trend or a single value range. A defensible appraisal should rely on verified facts about the individual object and closely comparable dated sales when suitable records are available.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine normalized artist-identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1528650
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/96524344/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500112236
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82032938
- The Museum of Modern Art: https://www.moma.org/artists/5551
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/giuseppe-spagnulo/