Carlos Almaraz Auction Prices and Value Guide

Carlos Almaraz auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 198 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

Carlos Almaraz auction prices: quick answer

Carlos Almaraz auction prices depend on medium, size, date, condition, provenance, edition details, attribution confidence, and recent comparable auction sales.

Artist
Carlos Almaraz
Source records
198
Market update
2026-02-06

Carlos Almaraz market snapshot

Carlos Almaraz shows solid auction liquidity with 85 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $1,700. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 9 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2026-01-13.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (27.4% · 17 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (69.4% · 43 sales)
  • $10,000+ (3.2% · 2 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$1,800
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
9
Median shift vs prior year
+20.0%
Latest recorded sale
2026-01-13

Artist context

About Carlos Almaraz

Carlos Almaraz portrait
Ellen Jaskol, Los Angeles Times · CC BY 4.0 · Source

Born

1941

Died

1989

Nationality

American

Also known as

Carlos D. Almaraz

Carlos Almaraz (1941–1989) was an American artist whose Mexican-American identity and participation in Chicano art are central to his public record. Authority sources identify him as a painter and muralist, while biographical sources describe him as a pioneer of the Chicano art movement. He also helped establish Centro de Arte Público, a Chicano arts organization active in Highland Park, Los Angeles, from 1977 to 1979. These associations place his practice within the cultural and community-based art history of Los Angeles as well as the broader history of American painting and muralism. Collectors may encounter works attributed to Almaraz through auction catalogues and artist-market databases, where accurate identity matching is especially important. His established authority records—including entries in Wikidata, Getty ULAN, VIAF, and the Library of Congress—help connect variant catalogue descriptions to the same artist.

Chicano art movementPaintingMural painting

Common works and media

The collected authority evidence identifies Carlos Almaraz primarily as a painter and muralist. Paintings are therefore the clearest supported category for auction and appraisal research. Mural-related work belongs to his documented practice, although this source pack does not establish murals as commonly traded objects. It also does not provide enough institution-grade detail to characterize recurring subjects, named series, editions, prints, drawings, or other formats without further research.

Market and appraisal context

An appraisal of a work attributed to Carlos Almaraz should begin by establishing identity, medium, and work type against recognized authority records. Public auction records can then provide comparison points when they describe sufficiently similar works and disclose sale dates and realized prices. The current source pack identifies painting and mural work but does not document market premiums for particular subjects, periods, dimensions, conditions, or provenances. It also contains no accessible major-auction-house lot analysis or reliable price trend. Any valuation should therefore rely on the individual object's physical evidence, documented history, attribution, and genuinely comparable public sales rather than a general artist-level price assumption.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

  • Paintings attributed to Carlos Almaraz

Value drivers

  1. Medium and work type, particularly the distinction between paintings and mural-related work
  2. Comparison with publicly recorded auction lots catalogued under Carlos Almaraz when sale dates, realized prices, and sufficiently similar works are available

Appraisal caveats

  • The collected source pack contains no accessible major-auction-house catalogue entry, individual lot record, realized-price history, or documented price trend.
  • The available sources do not support conclusions about which subjects, dates, sizes, conditions, provenances, or formats command market premiums.
  • Murals are documented as part of the artist's practice, but the source pack does not establish them as a common auction category.

Evidence

Sources for artist context

This source-grounded artist context is based on collected public records: medium confidence, adequate source quality.

Source-grounded artist Markdown

Data basis

This page is built from Appraisily's public auction market index. Private transactions, incomplete sale feeds, and attribution changes may not be fully represented.

LLM-readable Markdown summary for Carlos Almaraz

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Artist value FAQ

How much is Carlos Almaraz worth?

Comparable public auction sales are the best starting point, but final value depends on the specific artwork, condition, size, medium, provenance, and attribution confidence.

Can Appraisily value my Carlos Almaraz artwork?

Yes. Appraisily can review photos, dimensions, signatures, condition, provenance, and comparable market data to prepare a current valuation.