# Isidro Nonell artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/isidro-nonell/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T20:43:27.948Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1872-11-30
- Death date: 1911-02-21
- Nationality: Spanish
- Movements: Post-Modernisme, Late Modernisme, Post-Impressionism
- Common media: Painting, Drawing, Caricature

## Portrait

![Isidro Nonell](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/75/Isidre_Nonell_i_Monturiol.jpg)
Pisaca · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Isidre_Nonell_i_Monturiol.jpg

## About Isidro Nonell

Isidro Nonell, also known by the Catalan form Isidre Nonell i Monturiol, was a Spanish artist born in Barcelona in 1872 and active there around the turn of the twentieth century. Sources describe him as a painter, draughtsman, and caricaturist associated with late Modernisme, Post-Modernisme, and Post-Impressionism. His work is especially identified with expressive representations of people living at the social margins of Barcelona. This focus, combined with a darker tonal character than that of many contemporaries, gives his figures a distinctive place within Catalan art of the period. Collectors may encounter his name in either its Isidro or Isidre form, making authority records and careful identity matching useful when researching an object. Paintings, drawings, and caricatures can all appear in collection, auction, and appraisal contexts. Nonell died in Barcelona in 1911, leaving a relatively short career that bridges nineteenth-century Catalan modernity and early twentieth-century figurative art.

## Common works and media

Works encountered under Nonell's name include paintings, drawings, and caricatures. Figurative subjects are particularly relevant, especially expressive depictions of socially marginalized or underprivileged people in Barcelona. Medium, support, dimensions, inscriptions, date, and attribution should be recorded precisely so that a work can be compared with genuinely similar examples.

## Market and appraisal context

An appraisal of a work associated with Nonell should begin by establishing the object type and the strength of its attribution. Paintings, drawings, and caricatures should be compared with records for the same medium rather than treated as interchangeable. Subject, date, dimensions, condition, provenance, inscriptions, and supporting documentation can materially affect how an object is assessed, while the documented variation between the names Isidre and Isidro makes identity matching important. Relevant public auction records are most useful when their cataloguing, sale dates, realized prices, and physical characteristics can be compared directly. The collected source pack does not provide a major-auction-house biography or enough item-level evidence to support a price forecast or market-trend claim.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine structured artist-identity research with auction records and, when available, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots. Identity evidence and market evidence are assessed separately so that biographical matching does not substitute for object-specific appraisal research.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1393742
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500115716
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/42716913/
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isidre_Nonell
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isidre_Nonell
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isidre_Nonell
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/isidro-nonell/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Isidre_Nonell_i_Monturiol.jpg