# Ugo Celada artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T17:56:16.712Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Italian
- Common media: Painting

## About Ugo Celada

Ugo Celada (1895–1995), also catalogued as Ugo Celada da Virgilio, was an Italian painter associated with a sustained figurative practice. Public authority records align the shorter and expanded names and identify the same twentieth-century artist. Available biographical summaries emphasize portraiture, still life, the female figure, and other figurative compositions. Those recurring subjects help explain why collectors may encounter his work under varied descriptive auction headings rather than under a single named series. Some discovery sources connect Celada with Magic Realism and the Italian Return to Order, but the collected pack does not contain a museum or scholarly source strong enough to present either label as settled here. For entity matching, the key identifiers are his 1895–1995 lifespan, Italian nationality, occupation as a painter, and the name form Ugo Celada da Virgilio. Appraisily therefore treats this as the record of the painter Ugo Celada while preserving the expanded professional name as an alias.

## Common works and media

The available biographical sources most consistently describe paintings centered on portraits, still lifes, female figures, and broader figurative compositions. Auction catalogues may group these works simply as paintings or classify them by subject. The source pack does not establish a reliable body of prints, sculptures, ceramics, editions, posters, or named series, so those categories should not be assumed without object-level evidence.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisal of a work attributed to Ugo Celada should begin by confirming that the attribution refers to the painter also catalogued as Ugo Celada da Virgilio. The available sources support portrait, still-life, and broader figurative subjects, making work type and subject useful starting points when selecting comparable lots. Signatures, inscriptions, materials, dimensions, physical condition, documented ownership, and the proposed date still require object-level examination; this source pack does not establish their artist-specific market effects. When reliable public auction records are available, sale dates, realized prices, attribution wording, and closely comparable subjects can provide additional context. No price trend or prediction is asserted because the collected evidence includes no accessible major-auction-house record set.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine researched identity records with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Source gaps are retained rather than replaced with unsupported market claims.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4002768
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/72223370/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500344191
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ugo_Celada_da_Virgilio
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ugo_Celada_da_Virgilio
- Wikipedia: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ugo_Celada_da_Virgilio
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/ugo-celada/