# Paolo Sala artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T17:44:55.455Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Italian
- Common media: Painting, Watercolor

## About Paolo Sala

Paolo Sala was an Italian painter and teacher active around the turn of the twentieth century. Public biographical summaries associate him principally with vedute, or views of places, as well as genre subjects and rural scenes containing animals. They also describe a practice based on direct observation and painting outdoors. Watercolor forms an important part of his documented professional context: biographical sources credit him with founding a Lombard association of watercolor painters in 1911. The available source pack does not securely assign Sala to a named art movement, so his work is better introduced through its subjects, media, and observational approach. Collectors may encounter his name on paintings and works on paper depicting city views, landscapes, everyday activity, or pastoral settings. Authority records consistently identify him as an Italian painter born in 1859, although they disagree about whether he died in 1924 or 1929.

## Common works and media

Sala is most closely associated in the collected biographical sources with paintings of vedute, genre scenes, and rural subjects, including scenes with animals. Watercolors and other works on paper may also appear, consistent with his documented connection to Lombard watercolor practice. Auction listings should be checked individually because the public market page also uses broad categories that can include prints, sculpture, mixed media, decorative objects, and editions without establishing that every category is characteristic of Sala's documented output.

## Market and appraisal context

A Paolo Sala appraisal should begin by confirming that the object belongs to the historical Italian painter rather than another person with the same name. Useful comparisons match the medium, dimensions, subject, date, and attribution level as closely as possible. Condition, restoration, surface quality, signatures, inscriptions, provenance, exhibition history, and catalogue references may all affect how a work compares with public auction results. Views, genre scenes, rural subjects, paintings, and works on paper should be evaluated within their own comparable groups. Public realized prices provide evidence of past transactions, but they do not capture every private sale and may reflect different fee-reporting practices. A final opinion should therefore combine object-level examination with carefully selected recent comparables.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3894452
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500018525
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/95794739/
- RKD: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/69335
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paolo_Sala
- Wikipedia: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paolo_Sala
- Wikipedia: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paolo_Sala
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/paolo-sala/