# Luigi Boccasile artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/luigi-boccasile/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T18:31:49.935Z
Quality: medium confidence, thin sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1901-07-14
- Death date: 1952-05-10
- Nationality: Italian
- Common media: Illustration, Graphic design, Advertising art and poster design, Painting and drawing

## About Luigi Boccasile

Luigi Boccasile (1901–1952), widely catalogued as Gino Boccasile, was an Italian illustrator, graphic designer, advertising artist, and poster designer. Born in Bari and reported to have died in Milan, he belongs to the history of twentieth-century Italian commercial graphics rather than to a clearly established fine-art movement. His public identity is closely connected with advertising imagery and the poster culture of the Fascist era, a politically charged context that should be stated directly when relevant works are catalogued. Collectors may encounter his name on vintage posters, advertising designs, illustrations, drawings, paintings, and related graphic material. Because Luigi and Gino both appear in authority and biographical records, searches and attribution checks should use both names. An appraisal should also distinguish original design material from printed objects and later reproductions rather than assuming that every image bearing his name has the same production history or market relevance.

## Common works and media

Boccasile is most consistently documented as an illustrator, graphic designer, advertising artist, and poster designer. Works entering appraisal contexts may therefore include printed advertising posters, Fascist-era political graphics, illustrations, drawings, paintings, and original design material related to those formats. The source pack does not establish particular printing processes, edition sizes, publishers, authenticated series, or recurring subjects, so those details should be determined from the object and its documented cataloguing rather than assumed from the artist's name.

## Market and appraisal context

The collected Appraisily input associates this artist page with 201 auction records, but the source pack does not expose individual lot descriptions, estimates, realized prices, or sale dates. That count is therefore a research lead, not a price conclusion. For appraisal, first classify the object as an illustration, advertising design, poster, drawing, painting, or reproduction. Comparable-lot research should separate commercial advertising from politically themed Fascist-era material and examine the object's date, dimensions, printing method, publisher or printer, condition, restoration, inscriptions, provenance, and attribution. Because no major auction-house catalogue source was captured in this pack, claims about price ranges, rarity, demand, or market direction would be premature.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. This profile currently has stronger identity evidence than lot-level market evidence.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3106800
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/103891505/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82079063
- Deutsche Nationalbibliothek: https://d-nb.info/gnd/140368663
- ISNI: https://isni.org/isni/000000007570584X
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/166703087
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gino_Boccasile
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gino_Boccasile
- Wikipedia: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gino_Boccasile
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/luigi-boccasile/