# Modest Urgell Inglada artist context and auction value notes

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## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1839-06-13
- Death date: 1919-04-03
- Nationality: Spanish, Catalan
- Movements: 19th-century Spanish landscape painting
- Common media: oil painting, drawing, illustration and cartoons

## About Modest Urgell Inglada

Modest Urgell i Inglada (1839–1919) was a Catalan painter and playwright, widely recognized for his atmospheric landscape compositions. Born in Barcelona, he became one of the notable Spanish landscape painters of the nineteenth century, capturing coastal scenes, waterfronts, and rural environments with a distinctive sensitivity to light and mood. Beyond his gallery work, Urgell was also known by the pseudonym Katúfol, which he used for cartoons, illustrations, and satirical drawings. He was active as a comic playwright as well, reflecting a versatile creative output that bridged fine art and popular illustration. His dual identity as both a serious landscape painter and a humorous illustrator makes his body of work unusually broad for the period. Collectors most often encounter his oil landscapes at auction, where his beach scenes and boats are recurring subjects.

## Common works and media

Urgell's most frequently seen works at auction are oil paintings depicting coastal landscapes, beach scenes with boats, and quiet waterfront views. He also produced drawings and illustrated albums. His illustrations and cartoons, signed under the name Katúfol, represent a distinct body of work from his fine-art landscapes. Collectors may also encounter theatrical manuscripts connected to his career as a comic playwright, though these are less common in the art market.

## Market and appraisal context

Modest Urgell's works appear regularly in the European painting auction market, with over three hundred recorded lots. His oil-on-canvas landscapes, especially coastal and beach subjects, are the most commonly encountered work type at sale. Several factors can influence appraisal value: the specificity of the depicted location, canvas size, condition of the paint layer, and whether the work carries a clear signature or documented provenance. Works attributed to his Katúfol pseudonym in illustration or cartoon format are a separate collecting category. Comparable auction results for Catalan landscape painters of the same era can help contextualize individual lots, but realized prices vary substantially by subject, quality, and condition.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine structured artist identity research from library authority files and biographical databases with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. For Modest Urgell i Inglada, identity data is drawn from Getty ULAN, VIAF, the RKD, the Library of Congress authority file, and Wikidata.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1625926
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modest_Urgell
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500036155
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/917473/
- RKD: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/78816
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n92065266