# Paolo Masi artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T15:00:16.812Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Italian
- Common media: Works on paper and prints, Paintings, Sculpture and mixed media, Editions and decorative art, Pencil frottage on paper

## About Paolo Masi

Paolo Masi is an Italian artist born in 1933. International authority files identify him as a visual artist and describe his practice in terms of painting and installation. Library records also connect his name with artist publications including Rilevamenti esterni - conferme interne and La geometria del posto, documenting a publishing context alongside the objects that circulate at auction. Appraisily's matched records place his market across paintings, works on paper and prints, sculpture and mixed media, and editions or decorative-art categories. A listed 1978 frottage in pencil on paper illustrates the kind of material-specific description collectors may encounter. The available source pack does not establish a formal movement affiliation, a complete career chronology, or recurring subject matter, so those points should not be inferred. For appraisal and entity matching, the strongest anchors are his 1933 birth year, Italian identity, and stable authority identifiers.

## Common works and media

Appraisily's matched auction records group Paolo Masi material into paintings, works on paper and prints, sculpture and mixed media, and decorative art or editions. One collected listing describes a 1978 frottage executed in pencil on paper. These categories are useful for initial sorting, but they are broad market labels rather than a definitive catalogue of the artist's production. Medium, technique, dimensions, date, inscriptions, edition status, and condition should be recorded before choosing comparable lots.

## Market and appraisal context

A Paolo Masi appraisal should begin with comparable works that closely match the object's medium, dimensions, date, condition, and attribution. Signature and inscription details, edition information, provenance, exhibition history, restoration, and published references can also affect how a lot compares with prior sales. Appraisily's public records cover several broad categories, so a painting should not be compared indiscriminately with a print, work on paper, sculpture, or mixed-media object. Recent comparable auction results are useful evidence, but reporting conventions may differ over buyer's premiums and fees. Public records may also omit private transactions or later attribution revisions. Any valuation should therefore combine documented object characteristics, condition findings, ownership history, and appropriately matched sales rather than treating an overall artist statistic as a price prediction.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine authority-based artist identity research with matched public auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Private sales, incomplete feeds, and attribution changes may not be represented.

## Sources

- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/45148591/
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/194991709
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q94371270
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/paolo-masi/