Francisco Mateos Auction Prices and Value Guide
Francisco Mateos auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 227 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.
Francisco Mateos auction prices: quick answer
Francisco Mateos auction prices depend on medium, size, date, condition, provenance, edition details, attribution confidence, and recent comparable auction sales.
- Artist
- Francisco Mateos
- Source records
- 227
- Market update
- 2026-02-06
Francisco Mateos market snapshot
Francisco Mateos shows solid auction liquidity with 71 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $200. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 2 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-12-16.
Realized price distribution
- Under $1,000 (66.7% · 16 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000 (33.3% · 8 sales)
- $10,000+ (0.0% · 0 sales)
- Median sale (last 12 months)
- $0
- Sales recorded (last 12 months)
- 2
- Median shift vs prior year
- 0.0%
- Latest recorded sale
- 2025-12-16
Artist context
About Francisco Mateos
Born
1894
Died
1976
Nationality
Spanish
Also known as
Francisco Mateos González, Francisco Mateos Gonzales
Francisco Mateos (1894–1976), also catalogued as Francisco Mateos González, was a Spanish twentieth-century painter, draughtsman, printmaker, cartoonist, and caricaturist. Library and authority records consistently identify the artist by his shortened name and associate him with painting, engraving, drawing, and caricature. These overlapping practices place his work across fine-art and graphic categories rather than within a single medium. Collectors may therefore encounter his name on paintings, works on paper, prints, or exhibition and bibliographic records devoted to his drawings. An IdRef authority record documents an April 7, 1894 birth date and identifies Spain as his country, while VIAF connects records that consistently give the lifespan 1894–1976. The available institutional sources establish his identity and working practices, but they do not provide enough evidence for a precise movement classification, detailed chronology, or catalogue of subjects and series.
PaintingDrawingPrintmaking and engravingCaricature
Common works and media
Auction and appraisal contexts may include paintings, drawings, caricatures, prints, and engravings associated with Francisco Mateos. The available authority records support these broad work types but do not establish recurring subjects, named series, edition sizes, or a reliable chronology. An object should therefore be classified from its physical medium, inscriptions, signature, and supporting documentation rather than from the artist name alone.
Market and appraisal context
Works attributed to Francisco Mateos should be assessed first by medium and object type, since his documented practice includes painting, drawing, engraving, and caricature. Cataloguing should also reconcile the signature or attribution with authority-recorded forms of his name, including Francisco Mateos González. Meaningful comparison requires public auction results for works of similar type, date, scale, and cataloguing status. Condition, provenance, and direct examination may also matter in an appraisal, but the collected source pack does not document those details for individual objects. It likewise contains no major auction-house records from which to infer price trends or predict a particular result.
Auction categories and appraisal factors
Common auction categories
- Paintings
- Drawings and caricatures
- Prints and engravings
Value drivers
- Work type and medium, including whether an object is a painting, drawing, caricature, print, or engraving
- Consistent attribution across the names Francisco Mateos, Francisco Mateos González, and the recorded variant Francisco Mateos Gonzales
- Comparison with public auction records for works of the same type and medium
Appraisal caveats
- The collected source pack does not provide lot-level descriptions, realized prices, dimensions, condition reports, or provenance histories.
- No major auction-house biography or sale record was collected, so price trends and category-specific market strength should not be inferred from this profile.
- Identity should be checked carefully because Francisco Mateos is not a unique personal name.
Evidence
Sources for artist context
This source-grounded artist context is based on collected public records: medium confidence, adequate source quality.
- IdRef library authority
- VIAF library authority
- Wikidata library authority
- Getty Vocabulary Program library authority
- Wikipedia wikipedia
- Appraisily appraisily artist page
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.
Artist value FAQ
How much is Francisco Mateos 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 Francisco Mateos artwork?
Yes. Appraisily can review photos, dimensions, signatures, condition, provenance, and comparable market data to prepare a current valuation.