# Gottardo Segantini artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/gottardo-segantini/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T17:11:00.073Z
Quality: medium confidence, thin sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Italian, Swiss
- Common media: Painting, Etching, Graphic art

## Portrait

![Gottardo Segantini](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Segantini_Familie.jpg/1280px-Segantini_Familie.jpg)
upload by Adrian Michael · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Segantini_Familie.jpg

## About Gottardo Segantini

Gottardo Guido Segantini (1882–1974) was a painter also documented as an etcher, graphic artist, and art writer. Public identity sources agree on his name, life years, and association with painting, although they characterize his nationality differently: Wikidata identifies him as Italian, while the available German-language biography describes him as Swiss. Both descriptions are retained here because the collected evidence does not resolve whether nationality, citizenship, or cultural affiliation accounts for the difference. Collectors may encounter his name on paintings, etchings, and other graphic works, as well as in auction-record databases. The available source pack does not establish a particular movement, recurring subject, named series, or complete chronology, so those details should not be inferred from surname or market listings alone. Multiple authority identifiers—including Getty ULAN, VIAF, the Library of Congress, GND, ISNI, IdRef, RKD, and the National Gallery of Art—provide useful anchors for distinguishing his entity across catalogs.

## Common works and media

The collected identity sources associate Segantini with painting, etching, and graphic art. Those are the defensible work types to describe on the present evidence. The source pack does not establish specific preferred subjects, print editions, named series, sculpture, ceramics, posters, or other categories, so such classifications should be added only when supported by an individual object or a stronger catalog source.

## Market and appraisal context

The present evidence supports evaluating Gottardo Segantini works by clearly identifying their work type and medium, particularly the distinction among paintings, etchings, and other graphic works. Appraisily’s artist page provides an auction-record signal that can support comparison by sale date and recorded auction price when relevant lot records are available. This source pack, however, contains no accessible auction-house catalog descriptions or lot-level evidence from which to infer price trends, favored subjects, rarity, or market direction. Any appraisal should therefore rely on closely comparable documented sales rather than a generalized estimate based only on the artist’s name. The differing Italian and Swiss identity descriptions should also remain visible during catalog and authority matching.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine researched identity records with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those materials are available. For Gottardo Segantini, the current identity evidence is stronger than the supplied lot-level market evidence.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21465149
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottardo_Segantini
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500171185
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/96671605/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2010077428
- Deutsche Nationalbibliothek: https://d-nb.info/gnd/118760572
- ISNI: https://isni.org/isni/0000000109276677
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/184870461
- RKD: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/259628
- National Gallery of Art: https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.36793.html