# Libico Maraja artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/libico-maraja/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T15:46:57.934Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Common media: Painting, Book illustration

## About Libico Maraja

Libico Maraja (1912–1983) is identified in authority and reference records as a painter and illustrator. The available sources do not resolve his nationality cleanly: Wikidata describes him as Italian, while the Italian-language Wikipedia entry calls him Swiss, so a definitive nationality is not assigned here. Bibliographic authority data connects Maraja with records for familiar story subjects including Pinocchio, Jack the Giant Killer, Chinese fairy tales, and Puss in Boots. These records, together with multilingual reference entries, identify book illustration—especially children's and fairy-tale material—as an important context for his name, alongside painting. Collectors may consequently encounter works presented as paintings, illustration material, or objects connected with published books. The collected pack contains no readable museum biography, catalogue raisonné, or official-site biography, leaving his training, detailed chronology, stylistic affiliations, and specific techniques unresolved. Those limitations should be considered when matching an object or auction record to the artist.

## Common works and media

The collected evidence supports two broad work contexts: painting and book illustration, particularly material connected with children's literature and fairy tales. VIAF links Maraja's authority identity to Pinocchio, Jack the Giant Killer, Chinese fairy tales, and Puss in Boots. The sources do not establish recurring painting subjects, exact techniques, edition structures, or a reliable division between original and reproductive formats. Objects should therefore be described only as specifically as their physical and documentary evidence permits.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisal should first distinguish paintings from illustration-related material and establish whether an object has a documented connection to a publication or story title. VIAF associates Maraja with Pinocchio and several fairy-tale books, while one reference source reports that he sometimes signed with his surname alone. That signature detail may assist comparison, but it is not authentication by itself. The supplied Appraisily input signals substantial auction-directory coverage, although the public artist page was rate-limited and no major-auction-house results were collected. Valuation should therefore depend on verified comparable lots that genuinely match the object's work type and documented context, rather than an unsupported general estimate for the artist.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3831760
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/40564500/
- Wikipedia: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libico_Maraja
- Wikipedia: https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%91%D7%99%D7%A7%D7%95_%D7%9E%D7%A8%D7%92'%D7%94
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/libico-maraja/