# Louis Toffoli artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T22:17:29.064Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1907-10-16
- Death date: 1999-02-18
- Nationality: French
- Movements: Post-Cubism
- Common media: Painting, Lithography, Graphic art and prints

## Portrait

![Louis Toffoli](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4e/Louis_Toffoli.JPG)
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Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Louis_Toffoli.JPG

## About Louis Toffoli

Louis Toffoli (1907–1999) was a French painter, lithographer, and graphic artist born in Trieste. Authority records also connect him with the name Luigi Toffoli. Public biographical sources associate his paintings with a post-Cubist approach and describe a visual language built around strong color and translucent, overlapping forms. That stylistic label should be treated cautiously because the collected source pack does not include a museum or scholarly movement classification. Toffoli worked in both painting and printmaking, and library records identify individual prints as well as exhibition material connected with his career. Collectors may therefore encounter his name on unique painted works, lithographs, and other graphic material. His long working life and activity across multiple media make accurate object classification important: a painting and a print carrying the same artist name belong to different comparison groups and should not be evaluated interchangeably.

## Common works and media

Sources in the collected pack identify Toffoli primarily with paintings, lithographs, prints, and other graphic work. His paintings are described as colorful and post-Cubist, with translucent or overlapping forms. The source pack does not provide a dependable subject taxonomy, catalogue raisonné, edition inventory, or chronology of named series, so individual works should be described from direct examination rather than assigned to an unsupported subject or series.

## Market and appraisal context

The available sources establish an auction context for Toffoli but do not expose enough individual lot evidence to support a price trend or forecast. Appraisal should begin by determining whether the object is a painting, lithograph, or another type of print or graphic work. Comparisons should then use genuinely similar public auction records, with attention to sale date and realized price when those records are available. Attribution, dimensions, condition, provenance, and edition information must be established from the individual object and its documentation. These case-specific checks are necessary before drawing conclusions from the artist name alone.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3263200
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/79040726/
- Bibliothèque nationale de France: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb120114318
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Toffoli
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Toffoli
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/louis-toffoli/