# Ottone Rosai artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T22:02:00.629Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Italian
- Common media: Painting, Printmaking, Drawing and graphic art, Illustration

## Portrait

![Ottone Rosai](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/32/Ottone_Rosai_1918.jpg)
Ottone Rosai · see-source-page
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottone_Rosai

## About Ottone Rosai

Ottone Rosai (1895–1957) was an Italian artist identified by major authority records primarily as a painter and also as a printmaker, draftsman, graphic artist, illustrator, and author. Those documented roles explain why collectors may encounter his name across several categories, including paintings, prints, drawings, illustrations, and other graphic works. Rosai belonged to the generation of Italian artists active during the first half of the twentieth century. Secondary summaries classify his work differently, using labels that include Futurism, Novecento, and Expressionism, so this profile does not impose a single movement without stronger institutional evidence. Careful identification begins with Rosai’s established authority records and then turns to the individual object: its stated medium, catalogued attribution, date, and relationship to documented works. Appraisily’s auction coverage supplies the practical context in which works bearing his name can be encountered and compared.

## Common works and media

Collectors may encounter paintings, prints, drawings, illustrations, and other graphic works associated with Ottone Rosai. Getty and VIAF authority records support his activity as a painter and printmaker, while Getty also identifies him as a graphic artist, illustrator, and draftsman. The medium and catalogued attribution should therefore be established before comparing one work with another.

## Market and appraisal context

Market assessment should begin by separating paintings from prints, drawings, illustrations, and other graphic works, since Rosai’s authority records document activity across these fields. Attribution also requires care: a work catalogued as by Rosai should not automatically be treated as equivalent to an object carrying a qualified or uncertain attribution. Within the supplied evidence, the most defensible comparison inputs are work type, medium, catalogued attribution, and like-for-like public auction records. Appraisily’s auction page can provide sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when records are available, but each result still requires lot-level review. The source pack contains no usable major-auction-house market essay, catalogue raisonné, or authentication guidance, so this profile makes no price forecast or market-trend claim.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine researched artist identity records with auction data, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Individual objects and auction entries should always be reviewed at the source.

## Sources

- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500030656
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/76345389/
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q719109
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottone_Rosai
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottone_Rosai
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottone_Rosai
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/ottone-rosai/