# Mimmo Paladino artist context and auction value notes

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## Artist identity

- Nationality: Italian
- Movements: Transavanguardia
- Common media: Painting, Sculpture, Printmaking and graphic work

## Portrait

![Mimmo Paladino](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4a/Paldinogbg.jpg)
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Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Paldinogbg.jpg

## About Mimmo Paladino

Mimmo Paladino is an Italian artist born in 1948 whose practice includes painting, sculpture, and printmaking. Institutional and authority records identify him under both Mimmo Paladino and Domenico Paladino. He is commonly associated with Transavanguardia, an Italian artistic movement linked to the revival of expressive and historically resonant imagery in late twentieth-century art. Collectors and researchers may encounter Paladino through paintings, sculptural works, graphic editions, and works on paper recorded in museum collections, bibliographic resources, and auction archives. His varied practice makes the identification of each individual work important: medium, date, scale, edition status, signature, and documentation can all affect how a piece is classified and compared. Museum and library records provide useful identity anchors, while public sale records help place particular works within a broader market context.

## Common works and media

Auction and appraisal contexts may include paintings, sculptures, mixed-media works, prints, graphic editions, and other works on paper. Printmaking and graphic work are documented parts of Paladino’s practice, while museum records also identify him as a painter and sculptor. For editions, record the medium, dimensions, edition number, signature, publisher or printer when known, provenance, and condition. For unique works, documentation of materials, date, exhibition history, and attribution is particularly important.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraising Mimmo Paladino requires comparisons between works with similar characteristics. Public records indicate activity across paintings, works on paper and prints, sculptures, mixed-media works, and editions. Medium, dimensions, date, condition, restoration, surface quality, signature or inscriptions, edition details, provenance, exhibition history, catalogue references, subject matter, rarity, and attribution confidence may affect comparability. Appraisily’s public auction data can provide a starting point through recorded sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots, but it does not replace examination of the individual object. Private transactions, incomplete feeds, attribution changes, and differences in reported buyer-premium treatment can limit direct comparisons.

## 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.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q701592
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/95811646/
- British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG40963
- The Museum of Modern Art: https://www.moma.org/artists/4472
- Tate: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/mimmo-paladino-1734
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/mimmo-paladino/
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimmo_Paladino
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500021173