# Milo Manara artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T22:16:41.865Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Italian
- Common media: Comics and comic-book art, Drawing

## Portrait

![Milo Manara](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Milo_Manara_-_Lucca_Comics_%26_Games_2015.JPG/1280px-Milo_Manara_-_Lucca_Comics_%26_Games_2015.JPG)
Niccolò Caranti · CC BY-SA 4.0
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Milo_Manara_-_Lucca_Comics_%26_Games_2015.JPG

## About Milo Manara

Milo Manara is the professional name of Maurilio Manara, an Italian comic-book writer and artist born in 1945. Library authority records consistently identify him as Manara, Milo, while Wikidata describes him as an Italian comic creator. Public biographical sources particularly associate his work with erotic comics, realistic drawing, and a precise line. The collected sources place him in the context of comics and illustration but do not document a specific fine-art movement. Collectors may encounter his name in connection with comics, drawings, and illustrated material attributed to him, although this source pack does not provide a reliable series-by-series catalogue or item-level authentication guidance. Appraisily therefore treats Manara’s identity as well established while keeping medium, subject, and market classifications appropriately narrow. That distinction matters because a recognized creator’s name can appear across original art, published material, reproductions, and other formats that require separate examination.

## Common works and media

The source pack most clearly supports comics, comic-book art, and drawing. Biographical summaries particularly associate Manara with erotic comics and describe a realistic, precise drawing style. The collected material does not establish a complete list of series, print editions, posters, paintings, or other market formats, so those classifications should be applied only when the specific object and its catalogue documentation support them.

## Market and appraisal context

The collected material confirms an auction-record footprint for Milo Manara but does not include item-level cataloguing, realized prices, condition reports, provenance, dates, or edition statements. A defensible appraisal should compare the object with records for the same type of material and establish whether it is an original drawing, a publication, an edition, or another reproduced format before interpreting price evidence. Attribution, authorship markings, medium, dimensions, subject, date, physical condition, provenance, publication history, and edition status should be documented from the object and its records rather than assumed from the artist’s name alone. No price trend or value range is asserted from this source pack.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist-identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. This profile separates well-supported identity facts from market details that still require item-level evidence.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q505666
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/64008842/
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/027005232
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Manara
- Wikipedia: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Manara
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Manara
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/milo-manara/