# Oscar Ricciardi artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/oscar-ricciardi/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T16:07:01.593Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Italian
- Common media: Painting

## Portrait

![Oscar Ricciardi](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/56/Oscar_Ricciardi_%28page_425_crop%29.jpg)
Enrico Giannelli · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oscar_Ricciardi_(page_425_crop).jpg

## About Oscar Ricciardi

Oscar Ricciardi (1864–1935) was an Italian painter whose identity is documented in Wikidata, Getty ULAN, VIAF, and RKD authority records. These linked records help distinguish him from similarly named people and establish the core biographical outline used on this page. The available institutional evidence firmly supports his profession and nationality, but it does not provide enough detail to assign a specific movement, school, subject specialization, or career period with confidence. Collectors are most likely to encounter Ricciardi through paintings offered at auction, while matched market records also place some entries in broader categories such as works on paper and prints. Those category labels should be read as search and market classifications rather than as a catalogue of authenticated works. Individual objects therefore require close review of their medium, inscriptions, attribution wording, provenance, condition, and relationship to documented examples.

## Common works and media

The strongest identity sources describe Ricciardi as a painter, making paintings the best-supported work type. Appraisily's matched auction records also include works classified as works on paper and prints, with some entries in broader sculpture, mixed-media, decorative-art, and edition categories. Because the source pack does not contain a catalogue raisonné or museum-level survey of his oeuvre, those secondary categories should be confirmed from each lot's description and images rather than assumed to be characteristic.

## Market and appraisal context

Oscar Ricciardi's auction record should be evaluated through genuinely comparable lots rather than a single artist-wide price statistic. Useful comparisons align the object's medium, dimensions, date or period, subject, condition, restoration history, signature or inscriptions, provenance, and attribution status. Catalogue references and exhibition history may add context when independently documented. Edition information is also important for prints or other multiples. Public results can establish a market range, but reporting practices vary, including whether buyer's premiums or other fees are included. Private transactions, incomplete feeds, withdrawn lots, and later attribution changes may be absent, so auction data is best treated as one component of a broader appraisal.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with matched auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Records remain subject to attribution, condition, provenance, and data-coverage limitations.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3886443
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500112360
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/96525291/
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/1194151433025856420003/
- RKD: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/66590
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/oscar-ricciardi/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oscar_Ricciardi_(page_425_crop).jpg