# Giuseppe Uncini artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T15:42:17.568Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Italian
- Common media: Sculpture in iron, Sculpture in concrete, Painting

## About Giuseppe Uncini

Giuseppe Uncini (1929–2008) was an Italian sculptor and painter whose public identity is documented by Wikidata and multiple international authority records, including Getty ULAN, VIAF, the Library of Congress, BnF, and RKD. Available biographical material particularly associates his work with iron and concrete, materials that give many of his sculptures a pronounced structural and architectural character. Collectors may therefore encounter his name in connection with freestanding or installed sculpture as well as paintings. These distinctions matter when matching an object to the artist: a concrete-and-iron construction presents different descriptive, condition, and handling questions from a painted work. The collected sources establish Uncini's identity and broad fields of practice, but they do not provide enough scholarly detail to assign a specific movement, catalogue-defined period, or named series with confidence.

## Common works and media

Works encountered under Giuseppe Uncini's name may include sculpture, particularly constructions associated with iron and concrete, as well as paintings. The available source pack does not establish a reliable list of recurring subjects, editions, prints, drawings, ceramics, posters, or catalogue-defined series, so those classifications should be confirmed from the individual object and stronger scholarly documentation.

## Market and appraisal context

Giuseppe Uncini's auction context includes sculpture and painting, with iron and concrete especially relevant to the description of sculptural works. An appraisal should distinguish the work type and materials before selecting comparable sales. For a specific object, dimensions, date, condition, provenance, attribution, inscriptions, exhibition history, and any edition information may also require direct examination, although the collected source pack does not document those details at lot level. Public auction records are most useful when the compared works share the same medium, format, period, and authorship status. Recorded sale dates and realized prices provide historical evidence rather than a guarantee of present value or a forecast of future performance.

## 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. Source coverage varies, so object-specific conclusions require direct evidence.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3771564
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500096949
- Bibliothèque nationale de France: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12269004k
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/96395573/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n89642144
- RKD: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/244387
- Wikipedia: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Uncini
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/giuseppe-uncini/