# Mário Cesariny de Vasconcelos artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/mario-cesariny-de-vasconcelos/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T17:30:27.411Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1923-08-09
- Death date: 2006-11-26
- Nationality: Portuguese
- Movements: Portuguese Surrealism
- Common media: Painting, Poetry and literary works

## Portrait

![Mário Cesariny de Vasconcelos](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3f/M%C3%A1rio_Cesariny.jpg)
José Rafael Botelho · CC BY-SA 3.0
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:M%C3%A1rio_Cesariny.jpg

## About Mário Cesariny de Vasconcelos

Mário Cesariny de Vasconcelos (1923–2006), commonly known as Mário Cesariny, was a Portuguese poet, writer, and painter closely associated with Portuguese Surrealism. Public authority data identifies him as a Portuguese writer, while the collected biographical sources describe a creative career joining visual art and poetry. He published poetry across a career of roughly five decades and reportedly placed increasing emphasis on poetry during the 1950s, although painting remained part of his practice. Cesariny is widely presented as a leading representative of Surrealism in Portugal, an important context for interpreting his visual work without treating every object attributed to him as authenticated. In appraisal and auction settings, collectors may encounter his name in connection with both paintings and literary material. Reliable entity matching should consider his full name, the shorter Mário Cesariny form, diacritics, and stable authority identifiers, since abbreviated cataloguing can otherwise fragment records for the same person.

## Common works and media

The collected sources directly support painting and poetry as central parts of Cesariny’s output. Paintings are therefore the clearest supported visual-art work type, while books and other literary material may also carry his name. The evidence supplied here does not establish recurring subjects, named visual series, print editions, sculptures, ceramics, drawings, or posters as common auction categories, so those classifications require lot-level documentation.

## Market and appraisal context

Market research should begin by separating paintings from books, manuscripts, and other literary material because each work type requires a different comparison set. Date may also be relevant when relating an object to Cesariny’s long career and the reported shift of emphasis toward poetry during the 1950s. Attribution should be reconciled with stable artist-authority records, but this profile is not authentication. The collected source pack confirms that Appraisily maintains auction-price records under his public artist page, yet it does not provide the lot-level evidence needed to assess category mix, condition, provenance, edition details, subject frequency, or price trends. When detailed records are available, comparable sales should be selected conservatively and interpreted in their original sale context.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1360242
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A1rio_Cesariny_de_Vasconcelos
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A1rio_Cesariny
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A1rio_Cesariny
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500124972
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/4924955/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84121453
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/mario-cesariny-de-vasconcelos/