# Xavier Bueno artist context and auction value notes

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## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1915-01-17
- Death date: 1979-07-17
- Nationality: Spanish, Italian
- Common media: painting, graphic arts

## About Xavier Bueno

Xavier Bueno (1915–1979) was a Spanish-born painter and graphic artist who became an Italian citizen around 1940 and spent most of his career in Fiesole, near Florence. Born in Bera, Spain, he trained at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid before continuing his studies in Paris, Geneva, and Venice during the 1930s. He is recorded as the brother of Antonio Bueno, also a painter. Xavier Bueno's documented subjects include still lifes and figurative compositions. His work bridges Spanish academic training and mid-century Italian artistic life, and his paintings appear regularly at European auction. Collectors most often encounter his oil paintings and graphic works from the post-war decades he spent in Tuscany.

## Common works and media

Xavier Bueno commonly produced oil paintings and graphic works on paper. His recurring subjects are still lifes—often tabletop arrangements of everyday objects—and figurative compositions. Works are typically small to mid-scale and may be signed in Italian or Spanish variants of his name (Xavier, Javier, or Saverio Bueno). Collectors may also encounter prints and drawings from his earlier period in Paris and Geneva.

## Market and appraisal context

Xavier Bueno's works appear with moderate frequency at European auctions, with over 280 recorded lots. Collectors considering an appraisal should note his dual Spanish-Italian identity, his training at the San Fernando academy, and the importance of distinguishing his output from that of his brother Antonio Bueno, a separately traded artist. Key valuation factors include medium (oil on canvas, works on paper, graphic prints), subject matter (still life versus figure composition), provenance to his Fiesole period, condition, and documented exhibition or publication history. No published catalogue raisonné is known, so authentication relies on stylistic comparison and expert opinion.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine structured artist identity research from library authority files, museum records, and published biographical sources with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. For Xavier Bueno, identity data is grounded in the RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History, Getty ULAN, VIAF, and Wikidata.

## Sources

- RKD — Netherlands Institute for Art History: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/13856
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q651100
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500018738
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/74702001/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no99081940