# Ugo Attardi artist context and auction value notes

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## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1923-03-12
- Death date: 2006-07-20
- Nationality: Italian
- Common media: painting, sculpture (wood), watercolor, graphic art, illustration, drawing

## About Ugo Attardi

Ugo Attardi (1923–2006) was an Italian painter, sculptor, and graphic artist born in Sori, Liguria, and later active in Rome and North Africa. He trained at the Liceo Artistico in Palermo and built a multidisciplinary practice encompassing oil painting, watercolor, drawing, illustration, and wood sculpture. Attardi's subjects ranged from abstraction to landscape, portraiture, and the human figure, reflecting a versatility across both figurative and non-representational modes. His work is documented in the Bénézit Dictionnaire and the Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon (Saur), confirming his recognized place in twentieth-century Italian art. With 500+ lots catalogued in auction databases, his works appear regularly on the international secondary market, particularly in European Post-War and Modern Italian art sales.

## Common works and media

Collectors most frequently encounter Attardi's oil paintings on canvas or panel, watercolors and works on paper, wood sculptures, and graphic or illustrative prints. Subject matter includes abstract compositions, Italian and North African landscapes, portraits, and figurative studies. Signed works in oil and sculpture tend to appear more often at auction than graphic pieces, though the full range of his output is documented in art-historical references.

## Market and appraisal context

Attardi's works appear across several media—oil paintings, watercolors, wood sculptures, graphic prints, and drawings—each with its own collecting profile and price range. In an appraisal context, the medium, dimensions, subject matter, date of execution, condition, and documented provenance all affect value. Abstract and figurative compositions by this artist have both been offered at auction. Because published realized-price data was not available in this research pass, collectors are encouraged to review recent comparable lots from major auction databases before forming price expectations.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine identity research from library authority files and art-historical references with auction records, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. For Ugo Attardi, this page draws on the Library of Congress Name Authority, Getty ULAN, VIAF, the RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History, and Wikidata.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q327544
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500042414
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/13113277/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82121919
- RKD - Netherlands Institute for Art History: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/131093